Thandika Mkandawire

Thandika Mkandawire (10 October 1940 – 27 March 2020) 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. He was a widely published scholar on the social sciences in Africa. His research focused in development theory and economic and social policy. Quotes "You can say crap about Africa and you know there will be no response. I have taken it upon myself that, as long as I live, I will review what has been written about Africa and respond." "The aspirations driving development in Africa are not foreign impositions" "To 'catch up' Africa must run while others walk and so must be prepared to think and act radically to meet the collective needs of the continent." "For Africans, development was an emancipatory project, and not simply a matter of concerned humanitarians helping distant strangers, as it had been depicted by some in the West." "I am very interested in the development of nations. I am African so I don’t have a choice." A development state is a state "whose ideological underpinnings are developmental and one that seriously attempts to deploy its administrative and political resources to the task of economic development." External links Category:1940 births Category:2020 deaths Category:Philosophers Category:Socialists from Africa Category:Revolutionaries Category:Pan-Africanists Category:Economists Category:Writers Category:Academics