The ASAUK Best Book Prize is a biennial award for the author of an outstanding original scholarly work on Africa published during the two calendar years immediately preceding an ASAUK Conference.
Until 2023, the prize was titled the ASAUK Fage and Oliver Prize, in honor of John Donnelly Fage (1921–2002) and Roland Oliver (1923–2014), who were foundational pioneers of British African Studies and co-founders of The Journal of African History.
Previous Winners
- 2026 Tosin Gbogi, Nigerian Hip Hop: Race Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistence (Oxford University Press).
- 2024 José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenco da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press).
- 2022 Samuel Fury Childs Daly, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press).
- 2020 Harris Dousemetzis, The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas (Jacana Media).
- 2018 Francis Nyamnjoh, #Rhodes Must Fall (Langaa RPCIG).
- 2016 Deborah James, Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa (Stanford University Press/Wits University Press).
- 2016 Prize for best first book Terri Ochiagha, Achebe and Friends at Umuahia (James Currey/Boydell & Brewer).