AAAS Alum Ogunnaike Wins ASWAD Outstanding First Book Prize

AAAS Alum Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike, a former advisee of AAAS Professor Jacob Olupona, is the winner of the 2021 Outstanding First Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).  Dr. Ogunnaike, an Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia, won the prize for his book Deep Knowledge:  Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions available at Penn State University Press.