The ASR Best Article Prize recognizes the best research article published in African Studies Review during the previous volume year.
The prize includes $250 and a plaque presented at the ASR Distinguished Lecture annually.
Eligibility
All research article authors from the previous calendar year are automatically eligible.
Nomination
Nominations for the ASR Best Article Prize can only be submitted by current ASR Editors (Associate, Deputy, and Chief) via the online form below.
To submit an article for possible publication, visit the ASR Journal Home via Cambridge University Press.
Past Winners
2025: Charles Lwanga, “‘Watch Your Tone!’: Bobi Wine’s ‘Tugambire ku Jennifer’ and the Kampala Street Vendors.” ASR 67.4 (December 2024): 920-940. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.137
2024: Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum, “We Are not into Politics, but Politics Is into Us”: The Politicization of the Ghana Armed Forces Through Patronage Exchanges between Political Elites and Military Leaders.” ASR 66.4 (December 2023): 967-987. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.28
2023: Emanuella Amoh, “The Dilemma of Diasporic Africans: Adger Emerson Player and Anti-Americanism in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana.” African Studies Review, 65.3 (September 2022): 544-567. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.54
2022: Kristien Geenen, “Gnawing Away at the City: Narratives of Domestic Precarity in a Congolese Mining Town. African Studies Review, 64.2 (June 2021): 412-433. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.65