Category: Tributes

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…

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…

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…