Economics taught in African universities often relies on models developed elsewhere, with little connection to the realities students see around them — unemployment, informal work, inequality, debt, and ecological crisis.

AHEN is a pan-African network for students who want to question orthodox economics and learn alternative ways of understanding African economies. We promote heterodox approaches — political economy, feminist economics, institutionalist, post-Keynesian, ecological, and decolonial economics — that take African histories and social realities seriously.

AHEN is for students who believe economics should explain the world we live in — and help change it.