Brandeis University |
Wellington W. Nyangoni
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Areas of Specialization
- Political Economy of Developing Countries
- African Economic Development
Background and Description
He has worked as a consultant for various agencies of the United Nations, the World Bank, Technological Associates, the Council of Churches and Social Action, Zimrod Corporation, and the New Era. Professor Nyangoni recently stepped down as chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies Department at Brandeis University and he was chairman of the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College. He was a visiting professor at Brown University, University of Rhode Island and Suffolk University. Professor Nyangoni received his PhD in International Political Economy from Howard University.
Professor Nyangoni is an internationally known scholar who has published numerous articles on international political economy and is the author of the following books: Cuba in Transformation: Economic Integration in the Caribbean and Latin America(2001); The Politics and Economics of Food Security in Developing Countries (2000); Global Capitalism and the Developing World (1998); Development and the Economics of Self-Reliance in Tanzania (1997); The World Bank and Structural Adjustment in Africa (1996); Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Exploitation in North-South Relations (1995); Underdevelopment, Imperialism and Neocolonialism in Zimbabwe (1992); The Western Media and the Third World (1992); Africa in the United Nations System (1985); The OECD and Western Mining Multinational Corporations in the Republic of South Africa (1982); and United States Foreign Policy and the Republic of South Africa (1981) In addition, Professor Nyangoni is very active in the Brandeis community serving as chair of the Faculty Senate from 2000 to 2005.
Professor Nyangoni was on sabbatical during the spring semester 2005 doing research on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its trade policies and how they affect the economies of the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He is also completing a book on African regional trading blocs that assesses the political and economic dimensions of regionalism and its implications for African development, world economic prospects, and public policy. His research on the WTO has so far taken him to China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba. The last part of this research will be done in Costa Rica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Tanzania, Angola, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt. In the countries he has visited he has met government officials, chief executive officers of companies, and scholars that have direct input in policy decisions that affect their countries' relations with the WTO.
In his discussions he raises factors that contribute to the integration of some economies in world trade and the marginalization of others; the problems the poor and least developed face in coping with WTO commitments and taking advantage of the opportunities the WTO offers; mounting global opposition to the WTO; and why there is a call for the dissolution of this trade organization.
In 2005 Professor Nyangoni presented lectures on the WTO and globalization in Mexico, Cuba, Britain, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Malaysia, and Thailand.