Innocent Batsani-Ncube wins 2024 ASAUK Best Thesis Award
- asa
- Aug 20, 2024
- 1 min read

Innocent Batsani-Ncube has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Best Thesis Award by the African Studies Association UK for his PhD thesis, ‘Made by China’: the politics and implications of Chinese government funded & constructed Parliament buildings in Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe’, completed at SOAS in 2022.
The prize was officially awarded at the ASAUK conference in September 2024.
Ib is now revising his thesis for a book which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.



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