Articles · No. 02-03 (2020): CODESRIA Bulletin, Nos 2 & 3, 2020 · Pages 64-67

Thinking about Thandika, A Friend, Mentor, and Africa’s Foremost Social Scientist

  • Karuti Kanyinga
    Karuti Kanyinga Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Kenya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-9801 (unauthenticated)
    Karuti Kanyinga Research Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Developent Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi.  He is an accomplished development researcher and scholar with extensive national and international experience. He has published extensively and is...
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  • Karuti Kanyinga, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Kenya

    Karuti Kanyinga Research Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Developent Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi.  He is an accomplished development researcher and scholar with extensive national and international experience. He has published extensively and is renowned for his contributions to scholarship and knowledge in governance and development. Karuti’s research and publications include seminal work on: ethnicity and development; devolution and development; and electoral politics and development. This is in addition to commissioned studies on governance, justice, law and order sector reforms. The publications include:Kanyinga, Karuti (2016). Devolution and New Politics of Development in Kenya. African Studies Review,Vol. 59, No. 3, 155-167. Kanyinga, K. 2014. Kenya: Democracy and Political Participation. A Review by AfriMap, Nairobi: Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, and the Institute for Development Studies, 2014: Kanyinga, K and Okello, D. 2010. Tensions and Reversals in Democratic Transitions: the Kenya 2007 General Elections’.Nairobi: SID/IDS; ‘The Legacy of the White Highlands: land rights, ethnicity, and the post-2007 election violence in Kenya’ In the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 27:3,325-344, 2009; and Kanyinga, K. 2000. Redistribution from above: The Politics of Land Rights and Squatting in Coastal Kenya. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute

References

  1. Mkandawire, Thandika. “Notes on Consultancy and Research in Africa,” Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research (CDR) Working paper, 1998.
  2. Mkandawire, Thandika. African intellectuals: rethinking poli- tics, language, gender, and development, Dakar and London: CODESRIA in association with Zed Books, 2005.
  3. See for instance, Mkandawire, Thandika. “Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflections”. World Politics. Vol. 67, No. 3, p. 563-612, 2015.
  4. Mkandawire, Thandika. ‘‘Crisis Management and the Mak- ing of ‘Choiceless Democracies’ in Africa,’’ in Richard Joseph, ed., The State, Conflict and Democracy in Africa, Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999, p. 119-36 and Mkandawire, Thandika. “Agriculture, Employment and Poverty in Malawi.” Harare, Zimbabwe : ILO/SAMAT Policy PA Series, 1999. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyUkq09U9hc&feature=emb_title

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