Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African
Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the
thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at
the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and
imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's
attempts at growth and development since the independence era, her
attempts at recovery from a string of serious socio-political set-backs,
and advocates for the role of universities as essential agents in the
drive to sustained development.