I first heard Thandika Mkandawire’s name from my friend, Vivian, a fireball Tanzanian woman who shows more daring every day than I could muster in a lifetime. We are a group of African students, meeting for the first time in the post-graduate student lounge at the London School of Economics, all studying International Development. This…
Month: May 2020
In Memoriam | Thandika Mkandawire
In Memoriam: Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) Development Economist, Pan-Africanist and Mentor Thandika Mkandawire, who passed away in Stockholm on 27th March 2020, was one of the most significant economists of Africa’s development. He served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several journals including Feminist Economics. A heterodox economist who combined disciplinary rigor with an admirable commitment to…
SE SOUVENIR DE THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE PAR LA CHRONIQUEUSE DE SENEPLUS, RAMA SALLA DIENG
Entretien pour la revue Roape avec le directeur de l’IDEA, Adebayo Olukoshi, sur la contribution de l’économiste malawite et ancien directeur du CODESRIA décédé en mars dernier, à la pensée sur le développement en Afrique et au-delà. Rama Salla Dieng a interviewé pour ROAPE, Adebayo Olukoshi sur la vie et l’œuvre de l’économiste Thandika Mkandawire. Une plongée…
Deaths of Professors; Harry Garuba, Thandika Mkandawire, Euphrase Kezilahabi and Ken Walibora Waliaula: Cruel Impeachment to Africa’s Course of Self-Determination by Alexander Opicho
Zoya Zaidi, wrote in Awaaz Magazine, a short dirge in respect of his late brother Ali Nadim Zaidi that; whoever comes has to go/whoever goes leaves a mark/if it happens to be deep/it might as well be short and sweet/what matters most is a life well lived/a heavy burden of long futile life/is hard to bear for…
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) conveys condolences on the passing of Professor Thandika Mkandawire
Pretoria, Wednesday 1 April 2020 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) extends it condolences to the family, the CODESRIA network, and indeed the entire global social science community on the passing of Professor Thandika Mkandawire. The HSRC worked extremely closely with Thandika. This association went back a long way with individuals in the HSRC…
Thandika Mkandawire : An Intellectual Giant, an Incorrigible Pan-Africanist, An Obituary By Ibbo Mandaza
THANDIKA Mkandawire, who passed away in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 27, 2020, after a protracted battle with cancer, was a renowned development economist, an institution builder and a Pan-Africanist of note. He leaves us having contributed to the development of a formidable community of African social scientists over the half a century that coincides with…
Remembering Professor Thandika Mkandawire
Tribute By Wachira Maina & A Recording of an Interview of Prof Mkandawire By Laura Mann One of Africa’s foremost development economists and long-time advocate of continental unity, Thandika Mkandawire passed away in Stockholm, Sweden, on 27 March 2020, after a long battle with cancer. He was 80 years old. He was born in Gwanda,…