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Article: Robert L. West, 65 Tufts professor, expert on Africa
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 19, 1991
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Robert L. West, an authority on Africa who taught at Tufts
University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, died Wednesday at
his home in Wayland. He was 65.
A professor of international economic relations at the Fletcher
School since 1966, Mr. West virtually ran the Congolese economy in
1960 when he was in what is now Zaire with the African economic and
political development project of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Center for International Studies.
Before joining the Fletcher faculty, he had also worked for CARE,
the Rockefeller Foundation's social sciences program and in 1963-64
at the US Embassy in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, as economic
counselor and mission director for ...