The prize is presented at every ECAS meeting. From 2020 onwards the Gerti Hesseling Prize (of € 1500) will be awarded by the organizing committee for the biannual AEGIS Summer School in Cagliari to the best African PhD candidate participating in that Summer School.
Previous winners:
2015 - Manase Chiweshe: ‘One of the boys. Female fans’ responses to the masculine and phallocentric nature of football stadiums in Zimbabwe’. In: Critical African Studies, 2014 - (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21681392.2014.940077 (subscr.))
2013 - Olufunke Adeboye: ‘ 'A church in a cinema hall?' Pentecostal appropriation of public space in Nigeria’. In: Journal of Religion in Africa, 2012, vol. 42, no. 2, p. 145-171 - (http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700666-1234122 (subscr.))
2011 - Kojo Sebastian Amanor: ‘Family values, land sales and agricultural commodification in south-eastern Ghana’. In: Africa. The Journal of the International African Institute 80(1), 2010, pp. 104–125 - (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/375062 (subscr.))
Journals in African Studies (AEGIS-affiliated):