May 24, 2013
I have been traveling though West Africa. I have not seen a lot but I have seen enough to make some early judgments. You cannot take...
There has been much talk on Africa’s renaissance especially by the World Bank and the African Development Bank. This...
The say you do not choose who your neighbors are, there is no doubt however that Somalia is as a bad as a neighbor can get. As a...
Is Africa truly rising? It depends on where you are looking at it from. If you look at it from where we used to be then you’d...
African Liberty launches $3000 essay competition
The Nation CAMPUSLIFE in collaboration with Blantyre newspaper, Malawi, AfricanLiberty.org and Network for a Free Society, is calling for entries into an essay competition. [Learn More!]
Students and Young Professionals African Liberty Academy 2013
This year’s Students and Young Professional African Liberty Academy Seminar will be held at Kabarak University - Nakuru, Kenya from August 14-17, 2013.
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We are happy to announce that our Swahili version of notable libertarian texts are now available. We would be publishing the works of Frederick Bastiat, John Staurt Mill, Freidrich Hayek, Cato, Tom Palmer, and many others. We would be grateful if our Swahili speaking friends will spread the word in East Africa in particular.
1. Hernando de Soto's, "Bringing Capitalism to the Masses"
2. Erik Gartzke’s, "Economic Freedom and Peace"
3. F. A. Hayek’s, "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
4. F. A. Hayek’s , "Competition as a Discovery Procedure"
5. Ludwig Lachmann's, "The Market Economy and the Distribution of Wealth"
6. Frederic Bastiat's, "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen"
South Africa holds its Parliamentary elections this April. There would be political and economic challenges that will confront the new government In this paper,the authors focus on key domestic and foreign policy issues that they believe are important to expanding opportunities for South Africa’s poor:
Exactly twenty-nine years into our ‘independence’ many Zimbabweans are worried about the resurgence of property rights violations. The renewed plunder is ostensibly spearheaded by President Robert Mugabe.
"The key to this progress is stronger African leadership and more accountable governance. Today, more than 20 African countries are democracies, up from just three in the 1980s; they have competitive elections and improved human rights, and their news media are much freer." Read more in the 
Is it really prudent for government to continue to expand the electricity grid without an explicit linking of grid expansion policy to energy generation capacity? This year, for instance, Government of Ghana intends to extend electricity to at least 946 communities across the country, yet no comparable commitment has been made to generation capacity expansion.
