Shortlist Africa Thesis Award 2025 announced!

The Jury of the Africa Thesis Award is pleased to announce the shortlist of candidates for the 2025 Award. This year, they received 46 submissions, representing a diverse range of disciplinary fields and all examples of excellent theses based on independent research related to Africa. After long deliberations, the jury has compiled the following shortlist of eight (in alphabetical order):

- Emaediong Akpan, ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam, 'Digital Spaces as Contested Sites for Activism'

- Clara Boirie-Bioules, Leiden University, 'Between Phantoms and Promises: Socio-Urban Adaptations to Orientalist Myths and Hyper-Modern Realities in Tangier, Morocco'

- Maryame Ceesay, Leiden University, 'Youth Civic and Political (Dis)engagement in the "New Gambia"'

- Artemis Mantheakis, Leiden University, 'Mimi ni Mama na Mimi ni Baba: A Feminist Political Economy of Women Working on the Gravel Frontiers of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania'

- Yonwaba Matshobotiyanaa, University of the Free State, South Africa, 'Of Speaking and Visibility: The Intersectional Resistance and Resilience of Black Women in Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia, vangile gantsho’s red cotton and danai mupotsa’s feeling and ugly'

- Nnamdi Ozioko, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 'Migration and Belonging in Selected Igbo Folk Narratives'

- Aida Tadesse, Leiden University, 'Death, deposition, and divide: Exploring inequality through an examination of social status and health at Kerma, a Bronze Age Nubian Capital (1750-1550 BC)'

- Ben Verghese, University of the Western Cape (UWC), 'Mapping MAPP: jazz pedagogies & praxes of freedom'

Congratulations to the shortlisted candidates! The winner will be announced later this month. Keep an eye on this website!