| 2022 |
Joint |
Cooper, Elisabeth |
Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) |
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Joint |
Falola, Toyin |
Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies (Cambridge University Press 2022) |
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Special Commendation |
De Jong, Ferdinand |
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal (Cambridge University Press 2022) |
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Special Commendation |
Wendland, Claire L. |
Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles (University of Chicago Press 2022) |
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| 2021 |
Joint |
Iyam, David Uru |
Shaping tradition: women’s roles in ceremonial rituals of the Agwagune (University of Wisconsin Press 2021) |
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| |
Joint |
Eczet, Jean-Baptiste |
Cattle poetics: how aesthetics shapes politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia (Berghahn Books 2021)
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Special Commendation |
Smith, James H. |
The eyes of the world: mining the digital age in the eastern DR Congo (University of Chicago Press 2021)
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Special Commendation |
Müller-Kosack, Gerhard |
Azaghvana: a fragmentary history of the Dghwede of the Mandara Mountains (Mandaras Publishing 2021)
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| 2020 |
Joint |
Basikoro, Eloho Ese |
Pathologies of Patriarchy: Death, Suffering, Care, and Coping in the Gendered Gaps of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Nigeria (Rowman & Littlefield International 2020)
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Joint |
Köhler, Florian |
Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century (Berghahn Books 2020) |
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| |
Special Commendation |
Lombard, Louisa |
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic (Cambridge University Press 2020)
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Special Commendation |
Spall, John |
Manhood, Morality & the Transformation of Angolan Society (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2020)
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| 2019 |
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Clarke, Kamari Maxine |
Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press 2019) |
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| |
Special Commendation |
Dave, Nomi |
The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea (University of Chicago Press 2019)
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| |
Special Commendation |
Masquelier, Adeline |
Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (University of Chicago Press 2019)
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| 2018 |
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Diggins, Jennifer |
Coastal Sierra Leone: Materiality and the Unseen in Maritime West Africa (Cambridge University Press 2018) |
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| 2017 |
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Hodžić, Sadia |
The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press 2017)
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Special Commendation |
Haynes, Naomi |
Moving By The Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (University oif California Press 2017)
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Special Commendation |
Smith, Daniel Jordan |
To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press 2017)
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| 2016 |
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Covington-Ward, Yolanda |
Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Duke University Press 2016)
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| 2015 |
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Adunbi, Omolade |
Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press 2015) |
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| 2014 |
Joint |
Janson, Marloes |
Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama’at (Cambridge University Press 2014)
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| |
Joint |
Grabska, Katarzyna |
Gender, Home and Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2014)
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| |
Special Commendation |
Brett-Smith, Sarah C. |
The Silence of the Women: Bamana Mud Cloths (Five Continents Editions 2014)
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| 2013 |
Joint |
Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène |
Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal (Berghahn Books 2013) |
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| |
Joint |
McGovern, Mike |
Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern (University of Chicago Press 2013) |
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| 2012 |
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Newell, Sasha |
The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire (University of Chicago Press 2012) |
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| 2011 |
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Fullwiley, Duana |
The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton University Press 2011)
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| 2010 |
Joint |
Hunter, Mark |
Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender and Rights in South Africa (Indiana University Press 2010) |
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| |
Joint |
Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane |
The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya (Berghahn Books 2010) |
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| 2009 |
Joint |
Marchand, Trevor H.J. |
The Masons of Djenné (Indiana University Press 2009) |
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| |
Joint |
Sarró, Ramon |
The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone (Edinburgh University Press 2009) |
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| 2008 |
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Holsey, Bayo |
Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana (University of Chicago Press 2008) |
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| 2007 |
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Pratten, David |
The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (Edinburgh University Press 2007) |
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| 2006 |
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Englund, Harri |
Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (University of California Press 2006) |
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| 2005 |
Joint |
Apter, Andrew |
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
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| |
Joint |
West, Harry G. |
Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
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| 2004 |
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Willet, Frank |
The Art of Ife (University of Glasgow 2004) |
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| 2003 |
Joint |
Little, Peter D. |
Somalia: Economy Without State (James Currey 2003) |
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| |
Joint |
Reed, Daniel P. |
Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire (Indiana UP 2003) |
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| 2002 |
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Bledsoe, Caroline H. |
Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time and Ageing in West Africa (University of Chicago Press 2002) |
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| 2001 |
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Royer, Patrick & Saul, Mahir |
West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War (Ohio UP/James Currey 2001) |
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| 2000 |
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Peel, J.D.Y. |
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yorua (Indiana UP 2000) |
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| 1999 |
Joint |
Piot, Charles |
Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (University of Chicago Press 1999) |
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| |
Joint |
Donham, Don |
Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (University of California Press/James Currey 1999) |
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| 1998 |
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Silla, Eric |
People are not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali (James Currey 1998)
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| 1997 |
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Whyte, Susan R. |
The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (CUP 1996) |
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| 1996 |
Joint |
Fairhead, James & Leach, Melissa |
Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savannah Mosaic (CUP 1996) |
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| |
Joint |
Hutchinson, Sharon |
Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State (Berkeley & London: University of California Press 1996) |
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| 1995 |
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Malkki, L. |
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among the Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (University of Chicago Press 1995) |
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| 1994 |
Joint |
Fadiman, J.A. |
When we Began there were Witchmen (University of California Press 1994) |
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| |
Joint |
Johnson, D.H. |
Nuer Prophets (Clarendon Press 1994) |
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| 1993 |
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Steiner, C. |
African Art in Transit (CUP 1993) |
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| 1992 |
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Launay, R. |
Beyond the Stream (Univ. of California Press 1992) |
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| 1991 |
Joint |
Barber, Karin |
I Could Speak about Tomorrow: Oriki Women and the past in a Yoruba Town (Edinburgh University Press 1991)
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| |
Joint |
Werbner, Richard |
Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press 1991)
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| 1990 |
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no award made |
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| 1989 |
|
Jackson M. |
Paths Towards a Clearing: Radical Impiricism and Ethnographic Enquiry (Indiana UP 1989) |
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| 1988 |
Joint |
Schloss, Marc R. |
The Hatchetts Blood (University of Arizona Press 1988) |
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| |
Joint |
James, Wendy |
The Listening Ebony (Oxford University Press 1988)
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| 1987 |
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Callaway, H. |
Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (St Anthony's/MacMillan) |
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| 1986 |
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Barnes, Sandra A. |
Patrons and Power |
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| 1985 |
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Buckley, A. |
Yoruba Medicine |
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| 1984 |
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no award made |
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| 1983 |
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Peel, J.D.Y. |
Ileshas and Nigerians (CUP 1983) |
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| 1982 |
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Goody, E. |
Parenthood and Social Reproduction (CUP 1982) |
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| 1981 |
|
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no award made |
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| 1980 |
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no award made |
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| 1979 |
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no award made |
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| 1978 |
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Shaw, T., |
Nigeria: Its Archaeology and Early History |
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| 1977 |
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Hill, P. |
Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900-1970 |
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| 1976 |
|
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no award made |
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| 1975 |
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Ottenberg, S. |
Masked Rituals of Afikpo |
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| 1974 |
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Lloyd, P.C. |
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| 1973 |
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no award made |
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| 1972 |
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Henderson, R.N. |
The King in Every Man (Yale UP 1972) |
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| 1971 |
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Goody, J.R. |
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (OUP 1971) |
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| 1970 |
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Shaw, T. |
Igbo Ukwa (Faber 1970) |
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| 1969 |
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Cohen, A. |
Custom and Politics in Urban Africa (Routledge & KP 1969) |
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| 1968 |
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Ottenberg, S. |
Double Descent in an African Society (U. Washington Press) |
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| 1967 |
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Lloyd, P.C., |
Africa in Social Change (Penguin 1967) |
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| 1966 |
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Babola, S.A. |
The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala (Clarendon 1966) |
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| 1965 |
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Harris, R. |
The Political Organization of the Mbembe (HMSO 1965) |
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| 1964 |
|
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no award made |
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| 1963 |
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Fagg, W.B. |
Nigerian Images |
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| 1962 |
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Lloyd, P.C. |
Yoruba Land Law |
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| 1961 |
|
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no award made |
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| 1960 |
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Smith, M.G. |
Government in Zazzau: 1880-1950 (OUP 1960) |
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| 1959 |
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no award made |
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