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…
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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…