Ronnie Lessem

Prof Dr Ronnie Samanyanga Lessem: Co-founder Trans4m, Centre for Integral Development, Geneva, Co-founder, and Lead Researcher at Trans4m Communiversity Associates, UK & Worldwide.

Originally Zimbabwean, educated in the UK (LSE) and US (Harvard) Ronnie Samanyanga Lessem is the Afro-European co-founder, individually with Anglo-Pakistani Aneeqa Malik and Swedish-German-English Robert Dellner, also institutionally with CIEEM in the US and Ko-IDEA in Zimbabwe, as well as with Ireland/Hibernia in Europe, of Trans4m Communiversity Associates (TCA). He is co-author of Integral Research and Integral Development, Integral Economics and Transformation Management, and The Idea of the Communiversity.

TCA serves to bring together community, academy, and laboratory, through a trans4mation journey, altogether co-evolved through an Oiko-muniversity, within and between Africa, MENA, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Samanyanga, is a longstanding student of both economics and business administration, at such illustrious academic institutions as the London School of Economics (LSE) in the UK and Harvard Business School (HBS) in the U.S., as well as formerly at the then (in the 1960s) University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (UCRN), had come to the conclusion that business and economics – at least each in their conventional form, and Africa, just don’t meet. For while Africa was rooted in nature and community lodged in the “south”, the LSE, HBS, and indeed the colonially based UCRN, were founded upon so-called economic and management science lodged in the “west”.

It was then that his long journey began, as an “academic researcher”, to find the local, African, de-colonized “southern” alternative, if not also the “eastern” and “northern” one. For like the noted political economist John Maynard Keynes, Samanyanga too reckoned, despite the prevailing belief that business and academe don’t meet, that “there is nothing so practical as a good theory”. As such, he started out in the 1970s, after his formal business and economic education, informally researching depth psychology, philosophy – including culture – and spirituality, from all four corners of the globe. As such he was continually seeking newly contextualised insights into business and economics, from the four corners of the globe.

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