Tribute to Professor Moustapha KASSÉ (by Professor

Professor Moustapha Kassé passed away in June 2026, leaving several generations of African economists orphaned. Well-deserved tributes were paid to him by various members of the national and international community: family, colleagues, friends, and simple acquaintances. I, who was his student, his colleague, his friend and a friend of his family, can only associate myself... The post Tribute to Professor Moustapha KASSÉ (by Professor Ahmadou Aly Mbaye) appeared first on Mwebantu .

Professor Moustapha Kassé passed away in June 2026, leaving several generations of African economists orphaned. Well-deserved tributes were paid to him by various members of the national and international community: family, colleagues, friends, and simple acquaintances. I, who was his student, his colleague, his friend and a friend of his family, can only associate myself with these testimonies which have made it possible to reveal to the public the stature of this economist, politician and intellectual, of an exceptional ilk.

In this contribution, I would like to endeavor to emphasize a particular dimension of Professor Kassé’s enormous legacy: the revitalization of the Dakar “school” and its refocusing to put it at the service of economic policy in Africa. The objective pursued is twofold: firstly, it is a question of highlighting one, among the most decisive of his academic and political contributions, but also of better situating his intellectual heritage in the current academic and political debate, with the aim of providing productive insight for society. Ideological refocusing as a distinctive element of Kassé’s work In the social sciences, a “school” or “school of thought, is a conceptual and doctrinal line making it possible to identify

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authors sharing a certain number of convictions and values on a subject, often controversial. The informed observer who has followed the doctrinal line of the literature produced by African economists, during the first decades following independence, and even before, will find it difficult to obscure the influence of Samir Amin, in the structuring of economic thought in Dakar, in Africa, or even almost everywhere in the world. Indeed, like other development economists, such as Arghiri Emmanuel, Amin left his mark on the economic thinking of development and strongly influenced the current ideologies in most developing countries, and the international geopolitics of the time. For example, the organization of non-aligned countries was openly inspired by his line of thought, like many faculties of social and human sciences throughout the world, as well as several UN institutions (such as...

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