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An Enjoyable Afternoon at Quay de Cologny in Geneva

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Quay de Cologny, Sail GP, Spain, the US, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
An Enjoyable Afternoon at Quay de Cologny in Geneva

By Yusuf Bangura We had an enjoyable treat at Quay de Cologny in Geneva this afternoon (20/09/25). We were invited by an ex-UNRISD colleague, Angela, to watch the Sail GP (Grand Prix) or boa... Read more

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Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

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Who Actually Reads What and Why?

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Epistemology, Executive Summary, New York Times, Philosophy of (Social) Science, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Who Actually Reads What and Why?

Let us begin this exercise by citing the readership details of a few, selected texts in Intervention before we get down to the argument we want to push. On January 3rd, 2019, Intervention pu... Read more

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Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) Part 2

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Asian miracle, CODESRIA, Dakar, Developmental State, IMF, SAREC, UNRISD, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) Part 2

This is the second and concluding part of Yusuf Bangura’s tribute to Thandika Mkandawire with whom he worked closely for eleven years. It is the sort of stuff journalists like to call explos... Read more

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Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CODESRIA, Development, Kamuzu Banda, LSE, Mea culpas, Neoliberalism, Prof Charles Soludo, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

As long as the framing of the African crisis is what will tie together the three other forms of power to be mobilised for continental emancipation, so long will the loss of any of the analyt... Read more

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Yusuf Bangura Turns 70

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, IMF/World Bank, Thandika Mkandawire, UNRISD, Yusuf Bala UsmanNo CommentsViews:
Yusuf Bangura Turns 70

Intrusive details from Facebook throws it at everyone that he is 70 years old today. That is Dr. Yusuf Bangura, the Sierra Leone born political economist who is as well known in Nigeria as i... Read more

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