The 2019 Vilakazi Prize Report

Abstract

The African Studies editors are proud to announce that there were two recipients of the 2019 Vilakazi Prize. The first prize of R10 000 was awarded to Samuel F. Derbyshire (2019) for his article ‘Trade, Development and Destitution: A Material Culture History of Fishing on the Western Shore of Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya’. The second prize of R5 000 was awarded to Margot Luyckfasseel (2019) for her article ‘Still So Many Illusions to Cast Off: The Territorial Unification of the Ngbaka (Belgian Congo) in the 1920s’.