We are pleased to inform you that our Faculty member Professor Robert Kłosowicz has received the award of the Polish Africanist Society for the best Africa-related publication in 2017 in the category of ‘academic publications by authors with a habilitation’ for the book entitled “The Contexts of State Dysfunctionality in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Jagiellonian University Press, Krakow 2017). The award was announced during the 5th Congress of Polish Africanists (23^rd-25^th April 2018).

In the justification, the Award Committee voiced appreciation for “[...] his analysis of the notion of state dysfunctionality with a strong methodological underpinning and well supported by field research , based on examples of Sub-Saharan African countries, allowing for a better understanding of the grounds of statehood crises in this region of the world and contributing to the development of studies on contemporary international relations.”