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The Regional Fragmentation of West Africa and the Integration into the World Economy from the Perspective of Money: the 19th and 20th Centuries(Fostering Joint International Research)

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15KK0080
Research Category

Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Economic history
Research InstitutionKanazawa University

Principal Investigator

Masaki Toyomu  金沢大学, 経済学経営学系, 教授 (30315527)

Project Period (FY) 2016 – 2019
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥14,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,420,000)
Keywordsギネ / 貨幣 / 財政 / 西アフリカ / 商品貨幣 / 植民地貨幣 / 子安貝 / 世界経済 / 通貨 / 宗主国 / 19世紀 / 20世紀 / 植民地主義 / 仏領西アフリカ / ギネ(濃紺色綿布) / 植民地フラン / フランス / 英領西アフリカ / CFAフラン / 植民地銀行 / 操作勘定 / 植民地通貨 / 地域通貨 / ギネ(インド産綿布) / CFAフラン / ECO / 経済通貨同盟
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research attempted to unveil the impacts of the transitions from the monetary spheres with commodity money to those with the colonial currencies on the economic agents and economy in West Africa.
For this purpose, I was appointed as a visiting scholar at the University of Rouen Normandy from September 2017 to February 2018 and at the University of Cambridge from March to September 2018 and from October to December 2019. During my stay abroad, I presented papers seven times at seminars or international conferences, which enabled me to strengthen my relationship with foreign scholars.These would certainly lead to further research collaboration.
As a wrap-up outcome, Professor Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge) and I organized an international workshop, Money in West Africa, at Clare Hall, the University of Cambridge, on 17 December 2019.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現在、西アフリカで行われている通貨統合の試みは、宗主国によって分断された通貨制度を再統合させる作業ともいえる。しかし、計画から20年を経ても実現しておらず、本研究で、その歴史的背景を明らかにした。
CFAフランの制度は植民地主義的といわれるが、その形成過程を紐解くと、政策決定時に最適だと思われるものを選択してきた結果にすぎず、アフリカ側にもその選択を支持してきた人たちがおり、そう単純に批判できるものでもないことが明らかとなった。
商品貨幣から植民地貨幣への移行過程も、21世紀現在の人々が、紙幣と電子マネーを同時並行で使うといった貨幣選択行動とよく似ており、現代社会理解にもつながるはずである。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (27 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (6 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ケンブリッジ大学(英国)2018

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ルーアン・ノルマンディ大学(フランス)2017

    • Year and Date
      2017-09-25
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 国際ワークショップ「西アフリカにおける貨幣:商品から植民地通貨への転換についての経済・社会史」(The International Workshop on Money in West Africa: The Economic and Social History of the Transitions from Commodity to Colonial Currencies)参加報告2020

    • Author(s)
      中尾世治
    • Journal Title

      アフリカ研究

      Volume: 97号

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Monetary Transition in Portuguese West Africa2019

    • Author(s)
      Maria Eugenia Mata
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] French struggles to make payments with cotton cloth in the territories of Upper Senegal in the 1880s2019

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Marginality and Multiple-Currency in the Colonial Situation: Monetary Transition from the Cowry to the Franc in Upper Volta2019

    • Author(s)
      Seiji Nakao
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] From Commodity to Colonial Currencies: A History of Money in the Former Sokoto Province of Nigeria during Pre-colonial and Colonial periods2019

    • Author(s)
      Yasin Abubakar
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Resistance to Monetary Centralisation from the Colony of Lagos to Nigeria (1880-1920)2019

    • Author(s)
      Bamidele Aly
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Trade and Money in British West Africa, 1912-70: Evidence from Seasonal Cycles2019

    • Author(s)
      Leigh Gardner
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Transactions costs, merchants and states: the colonial currency transition in West Africa in long-term perspective.2019

    • Author(s)
      Gareth Austin
    • Organizer
      Money in West Africa:The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Guinee cloth and Western Africa (1815-1929): A history of global stakeholders in the French colonial empire2019

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      Global Economic History Seminar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Credibility, Transaction Costs, and the Number of Monies in an Economic Sphere: A view of difficult transitions from multiple to a single currency in West Africa2019

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      World Economic History Congress Boston 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Central banking and economic development in West Africa (1973-1983)2019

    • Author(s)
      Olivier Feiertag
    • Organizer
      World Economic History Congress Boston 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ‘More and More One Cog in the World Economic Machine’: Globalization, Development, and African Agency in British West Africa2019

    • Author(s)
      Gareth Austin
    • Organizer
      World Economic History Congress Boston 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Let’s talk about money in west Africa considering its relation with Asia2018

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      EHESS Seminar Nouvelles territorialites entre l’Asie et l’Afrique
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] La crebilite du franc CFA: Une histoire du compte d’operation2018

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      Seminaires de la Mission historique, Banque de France
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Compte d’operation and its effects on the economy of the l’Union Monetaire Ouest Africaine (UMOA)2017

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      Money in Africa, Banco de Portugal
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Why is money an issue in West Africa?2017

    • Author(s)
      Toyomu MASAKI
    • Organizer
      早稲田大学産業経営研究所講演会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] International History of the Franc zone in Africa (1939-1994) : Escaping the Mundell Trilemma?2017

    • Author(s)
      Olivier Feiertag
    • Organizer
      早稲田大学産業経営研究所講演会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Modern Global Trade and the Asian Regional Economy (Ch.4 Toyomu MASAKI "The Export of Indian Guinee to Senegal via France: Inter-colonial Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century")2018

    • Author(s)
      Tomoko Shiroyama
    • Total Pages
      145
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • ISBN
      9789811303746
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Money in West Africa

    • URL

      https://sites.google.com/view/moneyinwestafrica/program

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 正木響 Researchmap

    • URL

      https://researchmap.jp/read0063355/

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Researchmap(Japanese)

    • URL

      https://researchmap.jp/read0063355/?lang=japanese

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Researchmap(English)

    • URL

      https://researchmap.jp/read0063355/?lang=english

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 正木響研究室

    • URL

      http://toyomumasaki.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Researchmap

    • URL

      http://researchmap.jp/read0063355/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Money in West Africa :The economic and social history of the transitions from commodity to colonial currencies2019

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-10-04   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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