The Martin A. Klein Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association for scholarship in African history published in the English language. It is named for Martin A. Klein.

List of recipients of the Martin A. Klein Prize

2010, Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in 19th-Century Western Africa, Cambridge University Press 2011, Jonathon Glassman, War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar, Indiana University Press 2012, Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, MIT Press & Wits University Press 2012, Bruce S. Hall, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960, Cambridge University Press 2013, Derek R. Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East Africa Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972, Cambridge University Press 2014, Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman, Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007, Ohio University Press 2015, Frederick Cooper, Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–60, Princeton University Press 2016, Nancy Hunt, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo, Duke University Press 2017, Mustafah Dhada, The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013, Bloomsbury Press 2018, Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi, University of Chicago Press 2019, Michael A. Gomez, African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, Princeton University Press 2020, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa After Independence, Cambridge University Press 2021, Jacob Dlamini, Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park, Ohio University Press 2022, Judith A. Byfield, The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria, Ohio University Press 2023, Paul S. Landau, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries, Ohio University Press 2024, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, Cambridge University Press 2025, Admire Mseba, Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960, Ohio University Press

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