May 22, 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 US Food and Drug Administration has just banned 30 drugs from India's giant Ranbaxy Laboratories because of quality fears but the move is long overdue and Ranbaxy continues to supply the developing world with other drugs that are not checked for quality.
Politicians worldwide are running for cover as their machinations have led to the mother of all crises. Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is reported to heap the blame on failures in lending standards, risk management and corporate governance by the world's major lending institutions.
A ton of 'African Liberty Cards' are being printed and are coming soon to an African shop near you. When you buy one of those you can literally load your cellphone with the face value of that card. Once that is done you can SMS your orders directly to a craftman, say, featured on the site and get that fancy drum you've always wanted delivered straight to your door in a couple of days.
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is back in Harare, to mediate in a political negotiation that is perverted with truancy, egotistical defiance and self-preservation.
The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is not a failure of the free market because lending institutions in a free market would not have taken on the high-risk loans. They were forced to by the heavy hand of government. The solution is not a taxpayer-financed bailout. The solution is to let them fail and allow the people who invested in them, as well as the people who purchased homes they couldn't afford, suffer the losses.
