LSE’s Professor of African Development, Thandika Mkandawire this week received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki.
Professor Thandika Mkandawire was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki on 1 June.
The University of Helsinki explained why it decided to give Professor Mkandawire an honorary degree.
“Thandika Mkandawire is one of the best known and highly esteemed social scientists in the world with an African background. He has expanded his educational background of economics by writing publications about the role of welfare policy in the development process and the prospects of democracy and social sciences in Africa.”
Professor Mkandawire joined LSE as the School’s first ever African chair in 2009.
Congratulations my brother! Well deserved.
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Many Congratulations!!! Africa is proud!
Congratulations for yet another Africa’s global recognition!
Thandika, warm congratulations If this is your first honorary degree, it won’t be your last, especially if the givers get a chance to hear you speak as powerfully and trenchantly as you always do.
A less succinct addition, but this is a blog: Seeing this news was (almost but not quite) enough to make me believe in Jungian synchronicity. Why?
I woke up this morning with the thought “I really must get in touch with Thandika, and see about lunch or whatever. I only run into him in the accident in the lift or some such.” My motives were not basically social: I started to scheme about ways to get you to be more visible to our undergraduates at LSE, who could much use your presence and inspiration. This is true most of all in my department, Economics. I wondered if Jonathan Leape had thought of you for LSE100 and if you could be persuaded. To capture your remarkable qualities to those who had not met you, I recalled some events you led and inspired, such as the UNRISD seminar/conference in autumn 2000 outside Stockholm and the Uppsala 1999 EGDI on. I logged on to Email you and was distracted to go look at the Exams timetable to answer a student request on a deadline for mitigating circumstances. As I logged on I saw the new Africa blog, so I clicked on International Development to see if it was about you…. hey, presto.
Now its possible that the doctorate was mentioned somewhere in the LSE News this week which I only quickly skimmed, which would explain the coincidence as slightly causal. Or, well, coincidences happen.
I will get in touch and copy this now to your email. No hurry in getting back to me of course.
Am so proud of you uncle !! congratulations and God bless!!!
Am so proud of you uncle! Congratulations and God bless!!!