Award 5: The APCG Best Book Award. To be eligible for the Book Award, books must have been published in English in 2025. Books should analyze an issue related to political science or international relations with special reference to Africa.

Award 4: The APCG Best Article Award. All articles published in peer-reviewed journals in 2025 are eligible.

Award 3: The 2026 John Harbeson APCG Distinguished Africanist Award The award is presented bi-annually at the African Studies Association annual meeting to a senior scholar...

Second Award: The APCG-African Affairs Best Graduate Student Paper Award. This award carries a cash prize and is intended to recognize outstanding scholarship in African politics.

First award: The APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award. We invite submissions for the best dissertation in African politics. The award carries a monetary prize and is intended to recognize outstanding scholarship in African politics.

The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

This morning I signed a contract with Cambridge University Press for my book, The Repression Dilemma: Trust, Political Violence, and the Politics of Policing in Uganda. Grateful to everyone who supported this project along the way. @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social

Congratulations to @ailitripp.bsky.social for her new book, Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders (OUP, 2025). Learn more about this important scholarship in our latest blog post: www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...

It's Election Time! Please vote for your new APCG officers. Voting will remain open through Monday, December 15, 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-of...

The 2025 Best Article Award goes to @tessadevereaux.bsky.social! Honorable mention: @ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Xiaoyan Qiu. Learn more about these outstanding articles on our webpage: www.afpol.org/blog/tessa-d...

The 2025 Best Book Award goes to Jens Meierhenrich for The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda! Honorable mentions: Catherine Boone & @amandalearobinson.bsky.social. More info & insights on these terrific books on our webpage www.afpol.org/blog/jens-me...

Heading to ASA in Atlanta? Join APCG for our business meeting, social, and panels! 🎉 Full details here: www.afpol.org/blog/african...

🎓 The first APCG online colloquium of the semester is today, Thursday, Oct 23 at 5pm GMT! The session features Kelechi Amakoh’s paper, “Messages and Messengers: How Voters Evaluate Campaign Messages in Multiethnic Societies” 👉 Sign up to join: forms.gle/HL6SwsFUZM84QS6M7

🎉 Congrats to @nicolewilson.bsky.social , winner of the 2025 Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award 👏 Honorable Mention: @victoragboga.bsky.social 👉 www.afpol.org/blog/nicole-...

Heading to APSA in Vancouver? Join APCG for our business meeting, social, and panels! 🎉 Full details here: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-sc...

🔍 Researching African politics? 📢 Call for Papers: APCG Online Colloquium Present your unpublished work, get feedback & connect with peers. 🗓 Deadline: September 8, 2025 👉 More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...

New Book Alert 🚨 In a new blog post, Ato Kwamena Onoma presents his new book: The Undulating Capacity of the State. www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...

Our member Josef Woldense is leading a two-day virtual workshop on August 26 and 27: The Research Presentation as Storytelling. Learn how to present your work through a compelling narrative. More details available on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/the-res...

Great discussion of Adebanwi's ethnography of Gani Adams and OPC. My first time attending Lagos Studies Assoc! Joined by Profs Soyinka-Airewele, Jeffrey Palmer, Sikiru Yusuf and Olubukola Adesina. Discussed factionalism, violence, photos as evidence, class, politics of Yoruba culture, and Obasanjo

The next APCG Online Colloquium will take place on May 13 at 12 pm (EST) with @ricarthuguet.bsky.social presenting his paper titled "Competence Amidst Instability: Cabinet Formation in Uganda Since Independence". www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-on...

Our website is fully functional again, and this is a great time to remind you that you have one month left to submit your book, article, graduate student paper and/or dissertation for one of our awards. www.afpol.org/blog/nominat...

Our website is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. We're working hard to get it back online as soon as possible.

The next APCG Online Colloquium will be held on Tuesday, March 25th, at 11 am EST / 4 pm GMT. Dr. Fortuna Agbele and Antonetta Hamandishe will present their paper: “Gatekeepers on Women’s Political Participation in Liberia.” Please sign up via this link: forms.gle/X2qUvGJMF2Rv... .

APCG Online Colloquium is happening today! Join us.

Please join us on March 13 15:00 GMT / 11:00 EDT for the next @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social Online Colloquium wiht Hamza Delbar. Sign up here to get the paper and Zoom link: forms.gle/KUNDBdfdL6cN...

Please join us for the next APCG Online Colloquium featuring Hamza Delbar Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town on March 13 at 15:00 GMT/11:00 EDT. To receive the paper and information to join the Zoom meeting, please sign up here: forms.gle/czYUwxSkgaX8...

The African Politics Conference Group’s (APCG) 2025 award cycle is now open. Please see the following calls for nominations for the four awards that the APCG will be giving out this year. Nominations for all awards are due May 2, 2025. www.afpol.org/blog/nominat...

Thrilled to see the OPEN ACCESS special issue of Frontiers in Political Science on "Trust, participation and pandemic politics in Africa" Thanks @apsa.bsky.social @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social for funding and Univ Pretoria for hosting Research Development Group www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...

Send us a submission for the Best Book Award of the African Politics Conference Groups (APCG)! Deadline: May 2, 2025. @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social @thaliagerzso.bsky.social @sigmandecides.bsky.social connect.apsanet.org/groups/afric...

Want to know more about the 2024 election in Mozambique? Celso Monjane (University of the Witwatersrand) wrote a blog post for our APCG: www.afpol.org/blog/the-pro...

The Political Parties in Africa Project (PPA), supported by the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa (IDCPPA), invites paper proposals for our 6th annual conference on 04 & 11 April 2025. The conference will take place virtually. More info: www.afpol.org/blog/cfp-pol...

If you're attending ASA, remember to attend our Business Meeting (6 pm - 7 pm, Michigan Room 6th Floor), where we will honor the APCG Best Article, Best Book, and Distinguished Africanist Award winners! More info here: www.afpol.org/blog/asa-con...

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/

Please join the APCG community for the following events at the upcoming African Studies Association meeting in Chicago, December 12-14. Our full schedule is on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/asa-con...

The APCG Online Colloquium is now accepting applications for our Spring 2024 Colloquium. Applications are due on December 15, 2024. Applications require an abstract and can be submitted via this link: forms.gle/w7QSrNHTYWGn.... More info on our website!

APCG members: It is time to elect your new Chair and Treasurer. More info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/elect-y...

Call for papers on the APCG website: Peter Brett (QMUL) will hold a workshop on African Judges Preventing and Responding to Political Attacks. Deadline: November 15. More info on the APCG website: www.afpol.org/blog/cfp-afr...

@seanurban.bsky.social @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social I am new to this platform but want to get started. Here is This Week in Africa: thisweekinafrica.substack.com/p/this-week-...

Calling all conflict scholars! Please share widely and consider submitting an Expressions of Interest to contribute to the reviews section of Civil Wars. We are recruiting: 🎭 Arts and Culture Reviews 🌎 Language and Translation Reviews 🤼 Reviews and Rejoinders Conflictsky 🗺

We will also hold a remembrance session for Nic van de Walle tomorrow (Saturday 7) at noon in the Convention Center Room 105 B. #APSA2024

Friendly reminder that the APCG business meeting is tonight at 6.30 pm at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Room Washington C. Our social will be right after City Tap House Logan Square. Join us!

Attending APSA and researching African politics? Do not miss the African Politics Conference Group's events! You can find more info on our website: www.afpol.org/blog/apsa-20...

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Our next APCG Online Colloquium will be held on 2nd July at 10M EST/ 2PM GMT. It will feature work by Janek Sunga (Northern Illinois University) entitled “Barriers to Democratic Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focusing on Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia”. Please sign-up here: forms.gle/vC9Y6z29FNGS...

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