GSA at ASA 2015

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Akosua Adomako Ampofo delivers the African Studies Review Distinguished Lecture.
  • Abena Osseo-Asare wins the 2015 Herskovitz prize for Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa!
  • Jean Allman wins GSA’s own 2015 Boahen-Wilks Scholarly Article Prize.
  • Carola Lentz has a panel to celebrate her 2014 Herskovitz-winning book, Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa.
  • There are two formally-sponsored and at least 6 ‘unofficial’ GSA panels.
  • And we have a well-attended and productive GSA Business Meeting.

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