After careful consideration of many exciting contributions, AfAA is pleased to announce the winner and honorable mention for this year’s Elliot Skinner Book Award!

The winner of this year’s book award is Jemima Pierre’s The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (2013, University of Chicago Press).

This year’s honorable mention goes to Wyatt MacGaffey’s book Chiefs, Priests, and Praise Singers (2013, University of Virginia Press).

Congratulations to Dr. Pierre and Dr. MacGaffey!