The African Studies Review together with the ASA Board launched a distinguished lecture in 2011 featuring state of the art research in African Studies.
ASR Distinguished Lecturers:
2024 Chika Okeke-Agulu
“Restitution and the Postcolonial Museum”
2023 James Ogude
“Decoloniality and its fissures: Whose decolonial turn?”
2022 Amina Mama
“‘The Point is to Change the World’: Imagining Pan-African Epistemic Community in the Global Neoliberal Era”
2021 Aminatta Forna
“Writing in Englishes”
2020 Robert Edgar
“African Voices Matter: Fifty Years of Historical Research in Southern Africa”
2019 Fallou Ngom
“Beyond Orality: Non-Europhone Sources and African Studies in the 21st Century”
2018 Peter Little
“When ‘green’ equals thorny and mean: The politics and costs of environmental experiments in East Africa”
2017 Alcinda Manuel Honwana
“Youth Struggles: From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter and Beyond”
2016 Peter Geschiere
“Tempting Transgressions – Same Sex Practices as a Challenge in African Studies” published as “A ‘Vortex of Identities’: Freemasonry, Witchcraft, and Postcolonial Homophobia”
2015 Akosua Adomako Ampofo
“Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies”
2014 Léonce Ndikumana
“Integrated Yet Marginalized: Implications of Globalization for African Development”
2013 Iris Berger
“African Women’s Movements in the Twentieth Century: A Hidden History”
2012 Murry Last
“Contradictions in Creating a Jihadi Capital: Sokoto in the Nineteenth Century and Its Legacy.”
2011 Thandika Mkandawire
“The Spread of Economic Doctrines and Policymaking in Postcolonial Africa.” Dr. Mkandawire of the London School of Economics was the Inaugural Distinguished Lecturer at the 2011 African Studies Association Annual Meeting.