Download or read book Africa: Beyond Recovery written by Thandika Mkandawire and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Africas 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.