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"
The statement highlights some initiatives aimed at strengthening respect for human rights. However, the statement suggests that "there are continued social injustice and human rights violations throughout many aspects of Ghanaian life, which should be highlighted". There are others it suggests would have helped curb corruption, which exacerbates poverty, and consequently disenfranchises ordinary people economically but has been deliberately shelved by politicians.
While most of the pre-election polls have seemed to favour the ruling NPP of sitting President John Agyekum Kuffuor and its flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, scion of a ruling dynasty that stretches back before the time of his father, Ghana's second democratically elected Head of State, many pundits still say the contest is too close to call.
Zimbabwe's suffering citizens are caught up in the 21st century's first hyperinflation. In March 2007 Zimbabwe's inflation rate passed 50% a month, a good threshold for defining "hyperinflation" and equal to 12,875% a year. The cause of the hyperinflation is a government that forces the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to print money.
