Received prestigious award for best PhD dissertation in African Studies

Jacinta Victoria S. Muinde, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Institute of Health and Society at UiO has been awarded the ASAUK (African Studies Association of the UK) Audrey Richards Prize 2020 for the best PhD dissertation in African Studies.

Muinde's dissertation explored how state-introduced cash-transfer schemes impacted gender relations, contributed to kin-making relations, and informed women’s economic lives and their narratives and practices of health and wellbeing in the matrilineal and Islamic context of the Kenyan South Coast.

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Research Fellow - Awarded the 2020 Audrey Richards Prize