A four-year soccer player and three-year member of the rowing team, Mhlanga earned All-America honors in soccer in 1963 and 1964.
A team captain and member of the University Athletic Council, Mhlanga was honored as the top male senior athlete when he recieved the athletic department’s Hebert Trophy.
Following graduation, Mhlanga stayed at Clark to earn a master’s degree in 1966 and then went on to earn his Ph.D. from Columbia Teacher’s College. In 1992, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Clark University at commmencement.
One of Africa’s leading environmentalists, Mhlanga served as General Manager of the Agricultural Rural Development Authority in Harare, Zimbabwe, a position he has held since 1981. As general manager, Mhlanga has become the largest producer of food in Africa, specifically for Zimbabwe, which has a population of ten million people.
In addition, Mhlanga is considered to be among the foremost environmental practitioners in all of Africa and he was a prominent member of the Zimbabwe delegation to the Earth Summit (the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) in 1992. Accepting for Mhlanga will be his son, Musa.
Liberty and his wife, Kate, have two children, Musa and Suki.
PRESENTER:
Dick Ford (Clark professor of history and director of international development)
