I am utterly distraught to learn from my friend Walter that my favourite political economist and teacher, Thandika Mkandawire, has died. My intellectual development took a different direction when I found Thandika Mkandawire after Graduate School, first, through his edited 1987 book “The State and Agriculture in Africa,” and subsequently through the brilliant work he…
Month: April 2020
Thandika Mkandawire
Thandika Mkandawire (10 October 1940 – 27 March 2020)[1] was a Malawian economist and public intellectual who was a Chair of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics.[2][3][4] He is a widely published scholar on the social sciences in Africa.[5] His research focused in development theory and economic and social policy. Personal life[edit] He…