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"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."

— Thandika Mkandawire

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

"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."

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