Bronwen is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance. Her previous books include Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Previously director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge, Bronwen is now on the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program. Her research has been supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, the Economic History Society and Royal Historical Society, and fellowships from the Library Company of Philadelphia, the John Carter Brown Library, the Huntington Library, the Alborada Fund, and the British Academy.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past, in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosh University. Her writing appears in Foreign Policy, the TLS, Smithsonian Magazine, BBC History Magazine.