Meike de Goede wins French History Article Prize 2018

Meike de Goede, currently working at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and earlier at the History Institute of Leiden University, has won the French History Article Prize 2018 of Oxford University Press. She won the prize for an article on the Matsouanists of Congo-Brazzaville. De Goede - a member of the Collaborative Research Group Rethinking African History - and ASCL researcher Klaas van Walraven collaborate on issues concerning the history of French Equatorial Africa. André Matsoua, whose life and work were to the lead to the Matsouanist movement, exercised influence on the person of Barthélémy Boganda, the subject of Klaas van Walraven’s biographical research. De Goede’s thesis Consuming democracy. Local agencies & liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo was published by the ASCL as volume 57 of the African Studies Collection in 2015.
Congratulations Meike!

Read the prize-winning article in French History.