Open to undergraduates or registered students of any nationality working for a first degree or first post-graduate degree, or graduates who have qualified for their degree in anthropology not more than 15 months before the closing date. Judges are appointed by Council. Publication is at the discretion of the Council of the Institute. Only works published in the calendar year prior to the submission date are eligible for the award. Preference will be given to works relating in the first place to Nigerian and in the second place to any other part of West Africa in general.
Works relating to other regions of Africa are, however, also eligible for submission.
Entries will not be returned. Past Recipients 5. The annual medal for anthropological research was instituted by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1931, and was continued by the Wellcome Trust after his death in 1936. The Medal lapsed in 1966 but was re-launched with new rules in 1978. The Medal Committee is appointed every two years by the RAI Council, while the Medal and a prize are awarded by the Wellcome Trust.