I am expressing here a deep anguish for losing a pan-African intellectual and brother! I am profoundly sad to receive the news of the passing of Thandika Mkandawire, a comrade and genuine pan-African scholar/organic intellectual. Africa and the world have lost a genuine critic of liberal economics as prescribed by the Washington Consensus and adopted…
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Tribute to Thandika Mkandawire, A Beloved Teacher by Wachira Maina
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…
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…
Reflections of an Engaged Economist: An Interview with Thandika Mkandawire
Below is a link to an interview that our colleague Kate Meagher conducted with the late Prof. Thandika Mkandawire. The interview was published under the title “Reflections of an Engaged Economist: An Interview with Thandika Mkandawire,” in Development and Change, vol. 50 no. 2, 2019, pp. 511-541. Here is the link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.12481 Interview Professor Thandika Mkandawire…