Seminar 1- June 22-27, 2008. 

Please register here 

This year, IMANI is continuing with its acclaimed seminar series for students and young professionals (Check out our 2007 seminar here) by partnering with AfricanLiberty.org to deliver the summer's biggest educational event, right here in Accra: the 2008 IMANI - African Liberty Academy.

While retaining some of the ingredients of last year's successful recipe, the 2008 Academy will revamp the flavour by introducing new formats such as roundtables, evening tutorials on the classics of liberty and practical-oriented workshops around mouth-watering subjects (such as how to avoid a diplomatic faux pas!) that university courses ignore and most social commentators are clueless about.

As usual, some of Ghana's, Africa's and the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers will grace the event to inspire, motivate and stimulate participants towards new levels of awareness about fundamental liberty and, having spurred such consciousness, invite fresh concern about how social, public and civil policies at state or communal level increase or decrease liberty, and by extension the well-being of individual citizens.

If you are a young professional or student, you are assured of at least one thing: your attendance at the 2008 Academy will change your mental life forever, and for the better! Only 60 in-residence applicants will be competitively selected. Some of our round tables will be opened to the public. Apply Now before June 05, 2008
 
Evaluate our broad themes for the week of June-22-27, 2008 and join us!

Tutorials

Public Choice Theory

The Free-Rider problem from the Tragedy of the Commons

Rent-seeking, Special Interests & Moral Hazard

The Virtue of Liberty

The Power, Value and Dimensions of Information in a Plural Society

Spontaneous Order, Efficient Design & Central Planning

The Individualist: Objectivism or Obsession? : Rand vs Critics

Lectures

Populism and Participatory Democracy: Why Elections are not enough

Energy Security & the so-called Resource Curse

Climate Change & Food Security: Putting the Cart before the Horse?

Chinese Dragon; African Prey?

Can Governments be Trusted to Deliver Public Goods?

Saving Globalisation From the Practioners

The Geometry of Our Poverty

Roundtables

1

Technology Policy in Africa

The Mobilization of Telecom Power

Internet Governance & Accessibility

ICT infrastructure & development

2

The Logistics of International Trade

Trade Liberalisation or Rationalisation?

Do "imports" ever create jobs?

Cargo Handling – the nuts and bolts of trade performance

Deliver Us from the Taxman

3

The Skills Crisis in Ghana

Brain Drain or Brain Circulation?

Graduate Unemployment Re-Visited

Diaspora Connections (remittances, relocation, return and re-settlement)

4

Political Governance at the Cross-roads in Africa

The Rule of Law: Accountability of Public Institutions

Chieftaincy and the onus of relevance

EPAs, APRMs, NEPAD: Time for a Shrewd Foreign Policy?

Has the Media Lost the Plot?

Civil Society and the emergent "NGO" culture

5

Healthy By Choice: the ethics of a liberal public healthcare regime in Africa

National Health Insurance, any pitfalls ahead?

Drug Patents & Pharmaceutical Innovation

Prescription Costs: the dynamics of local medicine supply

Workshop

How to Catch a Rogue Trader

VIPs are all too human: Avoiding Diplomatic Incidents

6 tips on preventing African coups

Who's that peeking over your head? Privacy in an age of information domination.

Let us know where else you will get educated so much in a week!