Research Associate

Email: in13@soas.ac.uk

Innocent Batsani-Ncube is an Usawa Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS. His current project is 'Comrade businessmen: Chinese firms in Africa, the case of AFECC in Zimbabwe’. 

Innocent was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ASA project (March to August 2022) and before that a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS.

Innocent is a recipient of the Chevening Scholarship which supported his MSc studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He earned his BA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of South Africa (UNISA). 

On the ASA project, Innocent studies Chinese government-funded, constructed and maintained parliament buildings in Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe.