Articles · No. 02-03 (2020): CODESRIA Bulletin, Nos 2 & 3, 2020 · Pages 45-50

9 - Transcendental Thandika: Tribute to a Global Pan-African Luminary

  • Steve Sharra
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    Steve Sharra is a Malawian blogger who writes on educational issues, Pan-Africanism, and global social justice. He is a senior lecturer at the Catholic University of Malawi, and has research and teaching interests in teacher education, social inequality, social justice,...
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  • Steve Sharra, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) Lilongwe, Malawi

    Steve Sharra is a Malawian blogger who writes on educational issues, Pan-Africanism, and global social justice. He is a senior lecturer at the Catholic University of Malawi, and has research and teaching interests in teacher education, social inequality, social justice, public policy, and language policy.

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  1. Aleke Banda joined politics in his late teens, in the struggle for Malawi’s independence in the late 1950s into the early 1960s. He worked with Thandika on the staff of the Malawi News during the independence struggle. Upon independence Aleke joined Ka- muzu Banda’s cabinet but was later arrested and detained by Ka- muzu for 12 years. He was never charged. He died in 2010.
  2. See the intervention at this link: https://www.codesria.org/thandi- kamkandawire/
  3. CODESRIA Bulletin, No. 3&4, 2018.
  4. Samir Amin tells the story of the encounter with Thandika in his A Life Looking Forward: Memoirs of an Independent Marxist, 2007, Zed Books.
  5. Thandika Mkandawire, Tribute to Samir Amin, as orally presented, 2018.
  6. Thandika Mkandawire, ‘Running While Others Walk: knowledge and the challenge of Africa’s development’, 2011.
  7. Thandika Mkandawire, ‘Running While Others Walk’, p.33.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Kate Meagher, ‘Reflections of an Engaged Economist:An Interview with Thandika Mkandawire.’ in Development and Change, Vol. 50, No. 2 March, 2019; Thandika Mkandawire, ‘Reflections of an Engaged Economist,’ p.12.
  10. Thandika Mkandawire, ‘Reflections of an Engaged Economist,’ p.13. Thandika Mkandawire, ‘Reflections of an Engaged Economic,’ p.21.