User:Sjrbaier

Hello - I am a software engineer, but this is my second career. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, and returned to work on Nigerien economic history. I taught African history for a while at Boston University. I wrote a PhD on the topic, and it was later published as An Economic History of Central Niger (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). The book is based on French and African archives, as well as interviews with merchants and others in Niger. The interviews were conducted in Hausa.