May 23, 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"
As Nigeria has perfected the art of international fraud with official acquiescence many a time, it came as no surprise when the Obama team in the United States wrote to a Nigerian leadership group with deep roots in government to dissociate itself from a fund raising event ostensibly to support Obama's campaign.
The International Criminal Court has been accused of being biased against African War Criminals. The fiercest of such critics it seems, is the Cape Town based Center for Conflict Resolution that believes the ICC is using Africa as a test ground to legitimize international law against perpetuators of war crimes.
Most of Africa is in a deepening state of de-industrialisation. Even mighty South Africa, once a contender in the same leagues as Brazil and Israel, with its nuclear bomb-making antics and machine fabrication edge, is today in a subtle retreat from manufacturing into the comforting arms of financial services and tourism (upswings this year are from a historical low base). What is to account for the rapid shrinking of industrial capacity in sub-Saharan Africa?....
What happens to a country when its tax collectors lay down their tools? The common theory is that while they labour to collect taxes, politicians simply spend away without a thought when it comes to giving themselves a raise. To be fair, the task of tax collecting is not an easy one in Africa where many businesses are unregistered and operate underground. So what ever the justification to delay an increment in wages and salaries, six years is a long wait.
Corruption presents itself in different shapes and forms, and depending on a country's state of development, it can get quite uncomplicated to detect. Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries on the planet would need more than honesty to detect the ever growing number of ghost teachers that get resurrected in to its payroll.
