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Thandika Mkandawire Quotes

1940–2020

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.

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"I am very interested in the development of nations. I am African so I don’t have a choice."

"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."

"The aspirations driving development in Africa are not foreign impositions"

"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."

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."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thandika Mkandawire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.