May 25, 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"
Since our last comment on Ghana's nascent oil industry, which raised questions about the production timelines and economic projections of the oil production companies, we have been inundated with feedback identifying aspects of the issue we had omitted in our analysis.
Countries with low traffic fatalities have one thing in common: commercial vehicles run along company lines. This provides a neat way of delegating the task of road safety to the public. Can the market help?
After months of political battles, Zimbabwe is coming in from the cold, hopefully, not pretending to join the rest of civil international community just to get a breather from the vestiges of Mugabe's plunder. Many observers do not believe the power sharing deal will survive, solely because of Mugabe. Equally worrying is the ability of the Prime Minster, Morgan Tsvangirayi to deliver.
