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)
2023
Best creative book
Fabienne Kanor, Humus
(University of Virginia Press, 2020)
2022
Best scholarly books
Oluwakemi Balogun, Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation
(Stanford University Press, 2020)
and
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
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)
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).
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).