New Essay Contest
ESSAY CONTEST ON IDEAS FOR A FREE SOCIETY
Prizes
1st place: $1000
2nd place: $850
3rd place: $650 Full scholarship to 2011 summer school
4th place: $300
5th place $200
Other prizes: 10 Honorable mentions: $ 100 each
See details on how to participate here
Leadership, information, and Poverty Traps: Rationalizing Social Equilibria
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
By J. Atsu Amegashie
The context of economic development, one may see the role of leaders as providing the public information required to move away from “bad” equilibria to “good” equilibria.
Untangling Central Africa for business
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
By Chofor Che
Central African governments seem much removed from the principle, that the true role of government in a free society is for it to make it possible for individuals and businesses to go about their lawful duties unhindered through outright plunder or exorbitant taxes..
The Students and Young Professionals African Liberty Academy 2010: Talking Freedom in East Africa
Thursday, September 02, 2010
If one of our core objectives was training a new corps of future visionaries and leaders who will carry the torch of liberty and blaze the trail of prosperity in the coming dawn of African renaissance, we needed to sow our seeds across the continent so, we can raise many champions of freedom, who, otherwise would have been limited by finance to travel outside of their regions.
The World Bank’s Vision for Africa- Your Support Needed
Monday, August 30, 2010
If you had the chance to directly address the World Bank, what would you recommend their 'vision' for Africa should be? IMANI and AfricanLiberty.org have that task now, so help with your comments by posting them. If you have a Facebook account, click this LINK and ‘Like’ the page, otherwise,send your comments to franklin (at) imanighana.com. Replace (at) with @.
Opinion:How not to Rebrand Nigeria
Monday, August 30, 2010
By Olumayowa Okediran
Nigeria’s information minister Dora Akunyili’s re-branding Nigeria project is one with good intents. However, the strategy is not too different from the approach of the producers of a well branded inferior commodity.
Schooling: Trapped in a Web of Special Interests
Friday, August 27, 2010
By Eustace Davie
Schooling systems everywhere have become frozen in time. Schools are configured much as they were, and function in the same way they did, a century ago. A 1910 child would feel very much at home in a ‘modern’ school environment, whereas everything else in the world we live in has changed dramatically over the past 100 years. All other providers of goods and services had the freedom to change and adapt to cater for changing consumer preferences, but not schools.
