The Bashorun MKO Abiola Lecture was established in 1992 with a generous grant from the late Bashorun M K O Abiola. This award is given to a senior African scholar, to present a lecture at the ASA Annual Meeting. Selections are made by the ASA Board of Directors.
If you wish to support the Abiola Lecture with a donation, you can do so here by selecting the lecture fund.
Abiola Lecture award recipients:
2016
Achille Mbembe, Knowledge Futures and the State of the Humanities
2015
Salikoko S. Mufwene, Africa and Globalization from a Linguistic Perspective
2014
Francis Abiola Irele, African Studies as Discipline and Vocation
2013
Salah Hassan, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Is ‘Afropolitan’ the Answer?
2012
Ama Ata Aidoo, Clapping with one Hand, or a Fundamentally Flawed Management of Post-Colonial African Public Spaces
2011
Sylvia Tamale, Whose Democracy are we Talking About? Non-Conforming Sexualities as a Metaphor for African Dictatorships
2010
Bereket Habte Selassie, Democracy and Peace in the Age of Globalization: Old Problems, New Challenges for Africa
2009
Tade Akin Aina, Beyond Reforms: The Politics of Higher Education Transformation in Africa
2008
Bethwell Ogot, Re-reading the History and Historiography of Epistimic Domination and Resistance in Africa
2007
Makau W. Mutua, Human Rights in Africa: The Limited Promise of Liberalism
2006
Amina Mama, Is it Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom
2005
Abena Busia, What Is Africa To Me? Knowledge Possession, Knowledge Production, and the Health of our Bodies Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora
2004
Kofi Anyidoho, Playing GOD with WORD: LANGUAGE and POWER of SELF-NAMING
2003
Wande Abimbola, Youth and Generational Change in the Ifa Oral Tradition
2002
Jacob F Ade Ajayi, Title Not Available
2001
Atieno Odhiambo, The Cultural Dimensions of Development in Africa
2000
Mamphela Ramphele, Harnessing Africa’s Intellectual Capital for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of the 21st Century
1999
Boubacar Barry, Africans and the New Millennium
1998
Bolanle Awe,Title Not Available
1997
James David Rubadiri, Title Not Available
1996
Thandika Mkandawire, The Social Sciences in Africa: Breaking Local Barriers and Negotiating International Presence
1995
Gertrude Mongella, Title Not Available
1994
Paulin J. Hountondji, Title Not Available
1993
Ali A Mazrui, Global Africa: From Abolitionists to Reparationists
