African Studies Review Best Africa-Focused Anthology or Edited Collection Prize

Established in 2020, the ASR Best Anthology or Edited Collection Prize was made possible by generous support from Cambridge University Press. This prize 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 prize includes $1,000 and a plaque presented at the ASR Distinguished Lecture annually.

Eligibility

Scholarly edited volumes or anthology works published in any country in the previous year (copyright date) are eligible. 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.

Nominations

Nominations must be made directly by publishers, who may nominate as many separate titles as they desire. Nomination details must be submitted to the ASR Managing Editor including (1) publisher, (2) contact information, (3) title, and (4) editor(s). One electronic copy of each nomination must be sent directly to the ASR Managing Editor at Managingeditor@africanstudiesreview.org.

Nominations open January and close April 30 annually.

2026 Committee

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Past Winners

2025: Myles Osborne, Making Martial Races: Gender, Society and Warfare in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2024).

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).

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