Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey, a Liberian scholar-activist, has won the 2023 Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing for her monograph Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia.
Currently an assistant professor in international social and public policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Dr. Pailey is no stranger to academic accolades. The Adesanmi prize is her second book award in two years. In 2022, she won the African Politics Conference Group (APCG) Best Book Award for Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa…
