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George Paul Meiu's book "Queer Objects to the Rescue" is finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Prize of the African Studies Association, USA
The ASA’s Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize recognizes the best book on East African studies published in the previous calendar year. Established in 2012, the award is named in honor of Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot, a leading Kenyan historian, public servant and public intellectual, made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Prof. Kennell Jackson, Jr., of Stanford University.
The finalists for the 2024 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize are: Jennie E. Burnet, To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2023); George Paul Meiu, Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy & Citizenship in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri, Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa (University of Michigan Press, 2023); and Jodie Yuzhou Sun, Kenya & Zambia’s Relations with China, 1949-2019 (Boydell & Brewer, 2023).
The winner of the Ogot Book Prize is announced each year at the ASA Annual Meeting.