The African Studies Review invites publishers to nominate titles for the ASR Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press. This award recognizes editors and contributors to an anthology of original scholarship, cohesive in structure and interdisciplinary in nature, that advances African studies in new theoretical and/or methodological directions. The award recognizes the editor(s) and also the contributors as a whole. In making its selection the prize committee will pay particular attention to significance, originality, and quality of writing, and its contribution to advancing debates in African studies. The prize-winning editor(s) will receive a plaque, $1,000 thanks to the generous support of Cambridge University Press, and will be honored at the ASA annual meeting.
Eligibility
Scholarly edited volumes or anthology works published in any country in the previous calendar year (2024 copyright) are eligible. All titles must be nominated by the publisher directly. For the purposes of this prize, scholarly works will be understood broadly to encompass those works informed by an understanding of the scholarship in a given field or fields.
Nomination
Nominations must be sent on or before April 30. You must represent a publisher to nominate a book. To nominate a publication, please fill out the nomination form below and send an e-book directly to managingeditor@africanstudiesreview.org
2025 Committee
TBD
Deadline
April 30 Annually
ASR Best Africa-Focused Anthology or Edited Collection Prize Nomination
Past Winners
2024: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyew̌ùmí and Hewan Girma, Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names (Springer Nature, 2023).
2023: B Camminga and John Marnell, Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum, and Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2022).
2022: Adekeye Adebajo, The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers (Manchester University Press, 2021).
2021: Samantha Kelly, A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea (Brill, 2020).
2020: Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu, Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Ohio University Press, 2019).