CAS Faculty Cajetan Iheka Shortlisted for African Studies Association Book Prize

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, 3 October 2022 – The African Studies Association is honored to announce its annual awards heralding some of the most prominent contributions to the field of African Studies. The ASA will announce the honors and winners during the organization’s 65th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA November 17-19.

The ASA will present the Distinguished Africanist Award to honor the life work of Steve Howard, Ohio University and Brenda Randolph, Howard University. Each year, the African Studies Association presents the Distinguished Africanist Award to a member of the association who has made extraordinary contributions to the field. In an unparalleled decision, the ASA Prize Committee has made a one-year expansion of the award to honor and acknowledge two distinguished scholars. This expansion is an effort to correct years of scholarly bias and acknowledge the exceptional value of scholarship often relegated to the margins as ‘service.’ Committee members felt that this extraordinary post-pandemic context presented an opportunity to eliminate these discrepancies and inequalities and to break down the rigid boundaries between disciplines.

Previous honorees include Frederick Cooper, Pearl Robinson, Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, and Iris Berger.