Tuesday, September 28, 2010

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: ANN: Ghanaian PhD student wins African Author prize

>forwarded by kenharrow

from Sara Dorman [sdorman@staffmail.ed.ac.uk]
>Subject: ANN: Ghanaian PhD student wins African Author prize
>Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:57 AM
>
>Sara Dorman
>sdorman@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
>
>African Affairs, the leading journal of African Studies, is delighted
>to announce that Mr George Bob-Milliar has won the inaugural African
>Author Award for his paper "Chieftaincy, Diaspora, and Development:
>The Institution of Nkusuohene in Ghana" which appeared in the October
>2009 issue of the journal. Mr Bob-Milliar is a PhD candidate at the
>Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
>
>The prize is awarded for the best article published in African Affairs
>by an author based in an African institution, or an African PhD
>student based in an overseas university, in recognition of excellent
>African scholarship.
>
>Prof. Ato Quayson, FGA , Director of the Centre for Diaspora and
>Transnational Studies at University of Toronto, expressed his delight
>in the award, saying, "This is a very timely article and the author
>has done a tremendous job …an agenda-setting piece for the field of
>Diaspora Studies." While Prof. Tom McCaskie of the University of
>London noted 'George Bob-Milliar has written a prize-winning article
>for the journal African Affairs. It is a model of its kind. I much
>enjoyed it. I also learned from it.'
>
>The runner-up is Dr Lephophotho Mashike, of South Africa, for his
>article "Age of Despair: the Unintegrated Forces of South Africa" which
>appeared in July 2008.
>
>The editors of African Affairs and the Royal African Society would
>like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr Bob-Milliar and Dr
>Mashike on their achievements. The articles are available for free
>download at
>http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/afrafj/authorprize.html

Kenneth W. Harrow
Distinguished Professor of English
Michigan State University
harrow@msu.edu
517 803-8839
fax 517 353 3755

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