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Professor Hecht wins ASA Best Book Prize

Professor Hecht's book, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, received the 2024 Best Book Award from the African Studies Association.

The African Studies Association (ASA) invites publishers to nominate titles for the ASA Best Book Prize. The ASA presents the ASA Best Book Prize to the author of the most important scholarly work in African studies published in English during the preceding year. A list of the finalists for the Prize is published in the Annual Meeting program. Past winners have included some of the most prominent names in African Studies.