Ibbo Mandaza

Thandika Mkandawire, who died in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 27 after a battle with cancer, was a renowned development economist, an institution builder and a pan-Africanist

Calling them ‘credible’ means the bar had to be lowered if any African election experience was to pass the test.

On hearing that Kenneth Kaunda had lost to Frederick Chiluba in Zambia’s 1991 presidential election, Zaire’s strongman, Mobutu Sese Seko, is reported to have remarked: ”Lose an…