From prisoner to professor: Prof Wantchekon’s vision for Africa School of Economics in Zanzibar

Prof Leonard Wantchekon during a recent learning session.PHOTO |COURTESY 

By  The Citizen Reporter

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Mwananchi Communications Limited

What you need to know:

  •  For Wantchekon, who once organised student uprisings against dictatorship in Benin, the launch of ASE Zanzibar is more than an academic project—it is a continuation of his lifelong mission to link knowledge, freedom, and development  

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