African Affairs presents new Stephen Ellis prize

During the ASAUK conference in Cambridge, 7-9 September, African Affairs will present the new Stephen Ellis prize and announce its inaugural winner. The Stephen Ellis prize is awarded for the most innovative article in African Affairs in the previous two year period, and is intended to highlight and promote the kind of thought provoking, politically engaged and pathbreaking analysis that Stephen Ellis pioneered throughout his hugely influential career. Ellis was the ASCL’s most prominent scholar. The presentation of the prize will be followed by the launch of Stephen Ellis' book This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime (2016, Hurst Publishers).