African Studies Association Women's Caucus
Past Winners
Best scholarly book
Judith Byfield, The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria
(Ohio University Press, 2022)
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2023
Best creative book
Fabienne Kanor, Humus
(University of Virginia Press, 2020)
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2022
Best scholarly books
Oluwakemi Balogun, Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation
(Stanford University Press, 2020)
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Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
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2021
Best scholarly book
Suad Musa, Hawks and Doves in Sudan’s Armed Conflict: Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of Darfur
(James Currey, 2018)
2019
2020
Best creative book
Jumoke Verissimo, A Small Silence
(Cassava Republic, 2019)
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Best creative book
Lesley Nneka Arimah, What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
(New York: Riverhead Books, 2017)
2018
2017
Best scholarly book
Carina Ray, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015)
2016
Best creative book
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).
2015
Best scholarly book
Abosede George, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor and Social Development in Colonial Lagos (Ohio University Press, 2014).
Honorable mention
Jennie Burnet, Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda
(University of Wisconsin Press).
2014
Best creative work
Reneilwe Malatji, Love Interrupted (Modjaji Books, 2012).
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Honorable mention
Philo Ikonya, Still Sings the Nightbird (Langaa Publishing CIG, 2013).
2013
Best scholarly book
Nwando Achebe, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2011).
2012
Best scholarly book
Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2009).
2011
Best creative work
Unoma Azuah, Length of Light: A Collection of Short Stories (2008), Sky-High Flames: A Novel (2005), and Edible Bones (December 2011).
2010
Best creative work
Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones (2006)
2009
Best scholarly book
Tuulikki Pietila, Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).
2008
Best creative work
Ama Ata Aidoo, African Love Stories: An Anthology (2007)
2007
Best scholarly book
Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Women, Work, and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006).
2006
Best creative work
Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins (2002).
2005
Best scholarly book
Heidi J. Nast, Concubines and Power: Five hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).