• Source: ASA Best Book Prize

      • The ASA Best Book Prize, formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States. The prize was named after Melville Herskovits, one of the founders of the ASA. The title of the prize was changed in 2019 in response to efforts to decolonize African studies.


      Winners


      1965 – Ruth S. Morgenthau for Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa
      1966 – Leo Kuper for An African Bourgeoisie
      1967 – Jan Vansina for Kingdoms of the Savanna
      1968 – Herbert Weiss for Political Protest in the Congo
      1969 – Paul J. Bohannan, Laura Bohannan for Tiv economy
      1970 – Stanlake Samkange for Origins of Rhodesia
      1971 – René Lemarchand for Rwanda and Burundi
      1972 – Francis Deng for Tradition and Modernization
      1973 – Allen F. Isaacman for Mozambique The Africanization of a European Institution
      1974 – John N. Paden for Religion and Political Culture in Kano
      1975 – Elliott Skinner for African Urban Life
      1975 – Lansine Kaba for Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa
      1976 – Ivor Wilks for Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order
      1977 – Crawford Young for Politics Cultural Pluralism
      1978 – William Y. Adams for Nubia: Corridor to Africa
      1979 – Hoyt Alverson for Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity among the Tswana of Southern Africa
      1980 – Margaret Strobel for Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975
      1980 – Richard Borshay Lee for The !Kung San
      1981 – Gavin Kitching for Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie
      1981 – Gwyn Prins for The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraisal in African History: The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia
      1982 – Frederick Cooper for From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor & Agriculture in Zanzibar & Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925
      1982 – Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole for The Psychology of Literacy
      1983 – James W. Fernandez for Bwiti: An ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa
      1984 – J. D. Y. Peel for Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s
      1984 – Paulin Hountondji for African Philosophy
      1985 – Claire C. Robertson for Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
      1986 – Sara Berry for Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
      1987 – Paul Lubeck for Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class
      1987 – T.O. Beidelman for Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought
      1988 – John Iliffe for The African Poor: A History
      1989 – Joseph Calder Miller for Way Of Death: Merchant Capitalism And The Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830
      1989 – V. Y. Mudimbe for The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge
      1990 – Edwin N. Wilmsen for Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari
      1991 – Johannes Fabian for Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire
      1991 – Luise White for The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
      1992 – Myron Echenberg for Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960
      1993 – Kwame Anthony Appiah for In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
      1994 – Keletso E. Atkins for The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, atal, South Africa, 1843-1900
      1995 – Megan Vaughan, Henrietta L. Moore for Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990
      1996 – Jonathon Glassman for Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, & Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888
      1997 – Mahmood Mamdani for Citizen and Subject
      1997 – Charles van Onsen for The Seed is Mine
      1998 – Susan Mullin Vogel for Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
      1999 – Peter Uvin for Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda
      2000 – Nancy Rose Hunt for A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
      2001 – J. D. Y. Peel for Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
      2001 – Karin Barber for The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
      2002 – Diana Wylie for Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa
      2002 – Judith A. Carney for Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
      2003 – Joseph E. Inikori for Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
      2004 – Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts, Gassia Armenian, Ousmane Gueye for A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
      2005 – Adam Ashforth for Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
      2005 – Jan Vansina for How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600
      2006 – J. Lorand Matory for Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble
      2007 – Barbara MacGowan Cooper for Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
      2008 - Linda Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
      2008 - Parker Shipton, The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
      2009 - Sylvester Ogbechie, Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist
      2010 - Trevor H.J. Marchand, The Masons of Djenne
      2010 - Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town
      2011 - G. Ugo Nwokeji, The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World
      2011 - Neil Kodesh, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
      2012 - Simon Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste
      2013 - Derek Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972
      2014 - Carola Lentz, Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa
      2014 - Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman, Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007
      2015 - Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
      2016 - Chika Okeke-Agulu, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
      2017 - Fallou Ngom, Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya
      2018 - Lisa A. Lindsay, Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
      2019 - Michael A. Gomez, African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
      2020 - Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
      2021 - Naminata Diabate, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
      2022 - Cajetan Iheka, African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
      2023 – Mariana P. Candido, Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality


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