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

The winner of this year’s award is Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (2014, University of Chicago Press).  More information about the book

The two honorable mentions go to Cati Coe for her book The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality (2013, University of Chicago Press) and to Pnina Werbner for her book The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana (2013, Pluto Press).

Congratulations to Dr. Smith, Dr. Coe, and Dr. Werbner!