Robert L. West, 65 Tufts professor, expert on Africa

The Boston Globe | July 19, 1991 | Copyright

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 ...

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