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Loes Oudenhuijsen, alumna of the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University and currently a PhD candidate at the ASCL, is the main winner of the 2019 LOVA/Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award. Loes won the award for her thesis ‘You Have to Know How to Play, Otherwise They Will Catch You’. Young Women and the Navigation of Same-Sex Intimacies in Contemporary Urban Senegal, on which she graduated in 2018. Congrats Loes!

This Wednesday South Africa will be going to the polls, in a national election where for the past 25 years the ANC has led the government. Will President Cyril Ramaphosa be given a chance to continue ‘cleaning up’ the ANC and the country of the remains of the many Zuma factions and loyalists? Read the latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist blog! 

Final-year students who have completed their master's thesis at a university in Africa or the Netherlands can apply for the Africa Thesis Award. They must have graduated with distinction, i.e. 80% or higher, or a Dutch rating of at least an 8. The thesis must be based on independent empirical research related to Africa and must have been examined in the twelve months prior to the deadline of 7 July 2019. Find out how to apply.