The African Heterodox Economics Network (AHEN) is a community of African scholars, students, and practitioners working to rethink economics from the continent outward. We promote economic ideas that reflect Africa’s histories, institutions, and lived realities — rather than relying on imported models that too often fail to deliver inclusive and sustainable outcomes.

AHEN advances heterodox and pluralist approaches to economics, drawing on political economy, feminist, institutional, post-Keynesian, ecological, and decolonial traditions. We believe that addressing Africa’s challenges — inequality, unemployment, financial instability, and ecological risk — requires economic thinking rooted in African contexts and experiences.

Through research, dialogue, teaching, and mentorship, AHEN supports a growing generation of thinkers committed to economic justice, intellectual diversity, and transformative policy across the African continent and its diaspora.