At the 2021 ASA-USA meeting it was decided that the organization should create an annual award for scholarship. Below was the innuguat announcement:

NAASC Outstanding Article Prize

The North American Association of Scholars on Cameroon (NAASC) would like to announce a call for nominations for the 2021-22 Outstanding Article Prize.

Nominations are open to journal articles and book chapters by current NAASC members published in 2021 or 2022. Nominations can come from any discipline in any area of Cameroon studies. We welcome self-nominations.

Please submit the nominated article/book chapter and a brief (no more than 300 words) statement explaining why the publication merits consideration to jamin1@udayton.edu by September 1, 2022.

For this inaugural NAASC Outstanding Article Prize, nominations will be reviewed by the NAASC executive committee. The winner will be recognized at the NAASC Business Meeting at the African Studies Association of the USA annual meeting in November 2022.

Previous Winners

2023 TO BE ANNOUNCED

2022: Dr. Simon Kévin Baskouda Shelley of the Department of History, Higher Teachers’ Training College of the  University of Maroua, for his article, “Catholic Missionary Work and ‘Political’ Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974,” published in Africa Spectrum, on July 18, 2022.