Day: May 2, 2020

ROAPE’s Rama Salla Dieng interviews Adebayo Olukoshi on the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire. Olukoshi shares memories of how Thandika helped to shape development thinking in Africa and beyond. On 9 April 2020, I had the privilege to have a conversation with Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of Africa and West Asia of the International…

A number of obituaries have been written about Professor Thandika Mkandawire focusing on his work life. Family in Malawi thought it important to have an obituary from Zimbabwe focusing on his mother’s side of the family. His mother was Dedani Esther Siziba from Gwanda District in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. She was the first-born in a…

March 27, 2020 The Harvard Center for African Studies sends our deepest heartfelt condolences to Professor Thandika Mkandawire’s family and friends. His passing is a great loss to our community. Professor Thandika Mkandawire was the Chair of African Development and Professor of African Development at the London School of Economics. He contributed immensely to the…

Trade & Industrial Policies Strategies (TIPS) is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Thandika Mkandawire, one of Africa’s most respected economists and public intellectuals. Professor Mkandawire was regarded as a mentor by many and his insights into development economics will remain an inspiration. TIPS was honoured to work with Professor Mkandawire through…

A renowned and well-respected Pan-Africanist intellectual, Thandika Mkandawire, joined the ancestors on 27th March 2020 in the early hours of the morning. Sadness enveloped his colleagues, friends and the African intellectual community at large. The Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) on 29th-30th July, 2015 organised a National Conference and Public Lecture at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. The…

The ASA community will have been saddened to hear of the transition of Professor Thandika Mkandawire, who passed on March 27, 2020. He was 80 years old. Thandika was an extraordinary economist and prodigious scholar whose works on African political economy challenged dominant ways of seeing the African continent on a wide range of issues…

March 31, 2020 The incomparable pan-Africanist economic development thinker, teacher, mentor, friend and father has taken his last breath. Having started his career as a journalist, he rests at eighty years of age as the most renowned economist originating from Malawi. A discussion pertaining to Africa’s development cannot hold without reference to his many publications,…

Prof Thandika Mkandawire, who passed away last week was one of the most brilliant African political economists I have ever met. He is well known for the eminent role he played in spearheading social science research and democratic struggles in Africa. He was a household name among the African academia, much as the late Walter…

Thandika will be sorely missed by the entire African intellectual community. His brilliance was matched by his humility, wit and willingness to mentor new generations of scholars to change the fate of the African people. I remember one weekend in Dakar, Senegal, when Thandika and I had had a long afternoon talking and having some…

Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza celebrates the life of his friend and mentor Thandika Mkandawire, remembering his devotion to Pan-Africanism and the diaspora, his deep sense of globalism, his lifelong and unromantic commitment to progressive causes, his generosity in mentoring younger African scholars and his unwavering faith in Africa’s historic and humanistic agency and possibilities. Thandika…