“Senior Arts Researcher of the Year, 2004”, University of Botswana, 2004. “Emerging Arts Researcher of the Year, 2003”, University of Botswana, ($1542) 2003. Awarded $1000 after paper was selected as being one of note at the CODESRIA/TWN-Africa conference, “Africa and the Development Challenges of the New Millennium”, Accra, Ghana, April 23-26, 2002.