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Dr Divine Asafo's Recognition (4)

Adjunct Associate Member, Ghana Geographers Association
2023

Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
2023

Affiliated Organisations Royal Geographical Society

Fellow, Advance HE
2023

Affiliated Organisations Higher Education Academy

Finalist for the Audrey Richards Prize for the Best Doctoral dissertation in African Studies
2021 - 2022

Description The prize is awarded to the best doctoral thesis on a topic related to Africa, and which has been successfully examined in a British institution of higher education during the two calendar years immediately preceding the next ASAUK Conference. The judging committee were impressed with the quality of all the theses submitted for the prize, and selected these 6 theses, listed alphabetically by author surname, for the shortlist:

Rosalie ALLAIN, “‘The Gold is Gone’: Techniques of Resource-Making and Generativity among Gbaya Artisanal Miners in Cameroon”

Divine ASAFO, “Peri-urban Development: Land Conflict and its Effect on Housing Development in Peri-urban Accra,Ghana”

Kate DAWSON, “Shifting Sands in Accra, Ghana: The Ante-Lives of Urban Form”

Simeon KOROMA, ”Law Beyond the State: The Makings of Justice in Urban Sierra Leone”

Patrick WAHOME, “Statehood, Sovereignty and Identities: Exploring Policing in Kenya’s Informal Settlements of Mathare and Kaptembwo”

Hang ZHOU, “Seeing from the Roads: Institution Building, Organisational Restructuring and Everyday Negotiations in Uganda”
URL https://asauk.net/audrey-richards-best-thesis-prize-shortlist/