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ILAPI AJEOT 2018: Driving Media Power for Entrenching a Free Society
With African nations grappling with the effects of bad policies and oppressive leadership, the African Journalists for Economic Opportunity Training (AJEOT) in Ghana, an initiative of Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation…
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Looking skyward towards African Economic Integration
By Todd M. Johnson The recipes for successful regional trade integration are well known. The challenge for policy makers lies in implementation, including accepting that the benefits are rarely instantaneous,…
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How Africa Got Left Behind
By: Marian L. Tupy Robert Colvile’s excellent article on Prince Charles’s misunderstanding of the causes of African poverty provides a good opportunity to take a closer look at Africa’s economic history. African poverty was…
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Africa Grapples With Huge Disparities in Education
By Zipporah Musau At the dawn of independence, incoming African leaders were quick to prioritize education on their development agendas. Attaining universal primary education, they maintained, would help post-independence Africa…
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What the UNICEF is Saying about the Frightening State of Children in Central African Republic
According the UNICEF, at least 350,000 children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are out of school and lack access to health and other basic services, including nearly 29,000 who…
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What’s Fair Isn’t Always Equal
By Filip Steffensen Throughout the past decade, hostility against growing economic inequality has gained ground. An increasing consensus seems to be gravitating towards the seductive demand for “fairness,” even by right-leaning politicians. When…
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International Press Centre: Why Nigeria Should Halt the Hate Speech Bill
The International Press Centre (IPC) recently warned the Nigerian Senate against going ahead with the passage of a bill now before it which prescribes death sentence for ‘hate speech.’ The…
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Trump should put ‘America First’ by treating African nations as partners
by: Jim Inhofe President Trump’s “America First” agenda has reshaped our country in a bold, great way. Our taxes are lower, we have fewer regulations, the economy is roaring and millions…
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How Ghana’s economy will top Africa in 2018
Ghana is tipped to lead Africa as the fastest growing economy in 2018 with a growth rate of eight per cent as a result of increased oil and gas production,…
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Corruption ‘eating away’ at African economies
As reported by Anadolu Agency: Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary Vera Songwe has warned of widespread reaction from the youth to corruption in Africa, which is “eating away” at…
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How African Development Bank’s lifeline lifted Nigeria out of recession
The African Development Bank provided a much-needed lifeline at a time when it was very difficult to secure budget support loans from anywhere else, as the country struggled with the…
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4 Common Capitalism Myths Debunked
Fee.org (by: James Davenport) One of the most disappointing things I face as a college professor is the lack of understanding most students have regarding capitalism. The simple fact is, despite…
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3 Ways How President Mnangagwa Can Make the New Zimbabwe A Success Story
Republished from Rational Standard by: Ibrahim B. Anoba The curtains of celebration are gradually drawing home in Zimbabwe as President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumes office to lead the country out of its numerous…
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The Dos and Don’ts of Talking Liberty
by: Jeffrey Tucker Nearly everyone knows there is something wrong with the world as it is. The liberty-minded person believes that he or she knows a major part of what…
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Shadreck Chirikure: Oral Sources for Documenting Precolonial African Trade and Exchange
Republished from Oxford Research Encyclopedia If one of the limitations of documentary sources on precolonial African trade is that they mostly provide the view of the observers (and not the…
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The History of Freedom in Antiquity
by Lord Acton Republished from Acton.org An Address Delivered to the Members of the Bridgnorth Institute February 26, 1877 Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds…
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Could the PEBEC be a Game Changer for Entrepreneurship in Nigeria?
By Stephen Oyedemi In 2016, when the PEBEC – Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council was launched, there was little hope as to whether its ambitious mission will be achieved anytime…
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Economic Intelligence: A springboard for the development and promotion of tourism in Cameroon
It’s proven that tourism is an emergent market. Nonetheless, for some countries, conquering and maintaining important market shares is problematic. Innovation is a determining factor in ensuring competitiveness and productivity and,…
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5 Facts about Frederick Douglass
By Joe Carter February 14 is the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), one of America’s greatest champions of individual liberty. Here are five facts you should know about this writer,…
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Why We Need to Bring Back the Gold-Backed Currency
By Jacques Jonker When people are confronted with the daunting question of “What is money?”, they usually stare at you like you’ve just asked them to explain the equation for special…
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The Nature of Government and the Fatal Flaw in South Africa’s Constitution
By Martin Van Staden What needs to happen before South Africans realize that the institution of government is not a friend, a servant, or a protector, but a rival that…
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Adam Smith’s Concept of Justice
by Dr. Vernon Smith One of the best-known quotations from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776) defines natural liberty: “Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of…
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2017 ALOD Summer Camp Abuja
Overview The summer camp was an intellectually exerting exercise and the participants expectedly, were mentally prepared having been selected on merit . The speakers had a highly interactive and engaging…
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Will technology enable workers or replace them?
CapX.co A long-read Q&A with Daron Acemoglu As the next generation of robots arrives in the workplace, will they enable workers or replace them? According to MIT’s Daron Acemoglu, one…
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Oyesoji Aremu: Nigeria At 57 And The Failure Of Her Educational System
by Oyesoji Aremu By all intents, assumptions and human estimation, age 57 is said to be very advanced. An individual at 57 would, therefore, be said to be approaching the…
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The World Is Getting Freer, Faster
According to the new Fraser Institute report, economic freedom is steadily increasing, and that’s a good thing. by Alexander Hammond Earlier today, the Fraser Institute published the 21st edition of its annual Economic Freedom…
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Nigerian Government Just Take a Remarkable Leap towards Free Market
Courtesy: Vanguard News Nigeria The Federal Government has granted a 3-year tax relief to the newly inaugurated Pay TV operator in the country, TStv Africa, as well as tax…
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Everyone Loves This Book But Who Has Actually Read it?
After years of avoiding Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, I have decided to dedicate the next sixteen days to liveblogging each chapter. by Brittany Hunter I have never actually completed F.A.…
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Finding alternative strategies in Nigeria’s war against corruption
By Doyin Olawaiye ‘A rotten apple spoils the whole barrel’ is the proverbial saying that has been used by many to describe how corruption spreads. This suggests that a bad person…
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The Real Reason Young People Can’t Get Jobs in Africa
Youth unemployment in Africa is sky-high, and that’s a serious problem. by Karol Boudreaux 6.8 percent: that was July’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for US workers ages 18–44. For…
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A Book Is a Tool, Not a Trophy
By T.K. Coleman I once had coffee with a guy who told me that he read Rich Dad, Poor Dad six times. He said it with such pride too. I was really…
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The Best Fantasy Has Roots in History
By James Walpole This week I came across a popular Reddit thread exploring how Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin created his fictional land of Westeros. It looks remarkably like England. Landmass shape…
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A Libertarian Paradise in Nigeria
By Daniel Mitchell Whenever someone accuses me of being too dogmatically opposed to government, I tell them that I only got 94 out of 160 possible points when I took Professor Bryan Caplan’s…
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There’s a Hole in the Middle of Doughnut Economics
By Steven Horwitz The last 30 years have seen the demise of the Soviet Union and its administrative-command economy as well as a revolution in technology and trade that has reduced…
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Adeleke David: On Free Market and Equality
The following was one of the top essay entries in our 2017 Adam Smith Challenge on the topic “How Does Free Market Promote Equality According to Adam Smith?” In simple…
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Property Rights In Nigeria: An Untapped Tool For Economic Growth
“… Law, Liberty and Property are an inseparable Trinity.” – Friedrich Hayek. There are three dimensions to property rights, they are: 1) legal and political environment, 2) physical property rights and,…
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Stop Conflating Inequality With Poverty
By Bryan Cheang The problem of inequality has often been considered to be one of the biggest social problems of our generation. Widespread concern about the great disparities of income and wealth have…
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The Core of Liberty Is Economic Liberty
By Deirdre McCloskey Since the rise during the late 1800s of socialism, New Liberalism, and Progressivism it has been conventional to scorn economic liberty as vulgar and optional—something only fat…
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Poverty Breeds Nigeria’s Next ‘Boko Haram Mother
By Mercy Abang “Over 134 suicide bombings have occurred since 2009 when Boko Haram unleashed a campaign of terror on Nigeria’s northeast region. According to research by Combating Terrorism Center at West…
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No thanks to Ghana, Ivory Coast is at risk of losing fifth of next coca harvest to smuggling
Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator forecast the nation may lose a fifth of its cocoa crop to smuggling during the next harvest if neighboring Ghana refuses to cut payments to farmers…
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The Power of Making Friends with Ideological Enemies
“How can people hate me, when they don’t even know me?” This is the question that drives the subject of a fantastic new documentary on Netflix called “Accidental Courtesy: Daryl…
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How Prices Promote Peace
By Matthew McCaffrey Donald Trump’s plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan makes it necessary to once again stress the value of peace and the importance of rejecting US militarism and imperialism.…
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Nigeria Needs More Entrepreneurship And Government Has A Role
By Gbadegesin Tosin Entrepreneurship is an important factor in the development of any nation. Entrepreneurs are responsible for taking calculated risks that open up doors to progressively higher levels of economic…
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Twelve Economic Concepts Everyone Should Know
By Richard N. Lorenc When I tell people that I work at the Foundation for Economic Education, they sometimes ask: “What economic ideas should people understand?” We at FEE have…
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2017 ALOD Essay Contest: The Top 20
Position Name School 1 Ota A. Chinonso University of Nigeria 2 Esther O. Tunde Sa’adatu Rimi…
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New South African Airways bailout package shows government is not committed to transformation
By Martin Van Staden With low economic growth prospects, ever-increasing unemployment and destitution, government appears to be more concerned with the useless prestige and status that comes with our national…
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Money Is the Real Social Contract
By Baudoin Collard Despite major inconsistencies, the social contract theory remains one of the most prominent founding myths of our societies. Is it possible to revisit this dogma to correct…
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Millennials Are in a Love Triangle with Capitalism and Socialism
By Andrew Taylor There’s been a lot of talk recently about how Millennials – the generation born between roughly 1980 and 2000 – think about economics. Much of it was…
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ASUU, the Government and Tertiary Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward
By Ashton Dagana Since 1999, successive governments have at least two things in common; ASUU and strikes. ASUU strikes. The ASUU strikes always follow the same pattern; initial noise about…
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IMANI: Update on Efficiency in Ghanaian Ports – A Discussion with Stakeholders & Vice President Bawumia’s Commendable Efforts
IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has been studying the challenges – both current and potential – that negatively impact trade in Ghana. These challenges have been analysed under two…
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The Regulatory State Is the Enemy of Economic Mobility
By David Boaz Why are Americans less likely to move to better opportunities than they used to be? The Wall Street Journal reports: When opportunity dwindles, a natural response—the traditional American…
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World Youth Day: The Concept of Youth Investment, Peace and Security
By Ugbabe Adagboyi Damian Every year since 1999, the United Nations has continued to celebrate the youths all over the world. Eighteen years after, the youths have continued to gain increasing…
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Corruption Rises as Economic Freedom Falls
By Richard M. Ebeling The corruption of government officials seems to be as old as recorded history. For example, the ancient Roman senate passed laws against such political corruption in…
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A Liberty Reading List to Finish Up Your Summer
Summer is the perfect time to settle into a slower pace of life and savor a great book, whether it’s an old favorite that you continue to enjoy or an…
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Lawrence Reed: Thoughts on a Free Market
On Tuesday, March 28, Dr. Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), was invited by Young Americans for Liberty to speak about free trade and protectionism at…
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Why is the number of poor people in Africa increasing when Africa’s economies are growing?
By Laurence Chandy 2015 marks the 20th year since sub-Saharan Africa started on a path of faster economic growth. During that period, growth has averaged 5.2 percent per year. Meanwhile,…
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George Ayittey in TED: Dead Aid
Culled from TED Blog Economist George Ayittey gave a blistering talk at TEDGlobal 2007, laying out his case that not only has Western aid not helped in most African countries — it’s actually…
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Aristotle: Politics
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopherand scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.[3] At seventeen or eighteen…
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James Madison: The Federalist No. 10 (1787)
James Madison was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for his pivotal role…
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Voltaire Philosophical Letters: On Commerce
Voltaire (real name François-Marie Arouet) (1694 – 1778) was a Frenchphilosopher and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. His intelligence, wit and style made him one of France’s greatest writers and philosophers, despite the controversy he attracted. He…
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Friedrich Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society (II)
It will at once be evident that on this point the position will be different with respect to different kinds of knowledge; and the answer to our question will therefore…
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John Locke (1824): Two Treatises of Government (1)
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher who is considered to be one of the first philosophers of the Enlightenment and the father of classical liberalism. In his major work Two…
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John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1869)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was the precocious child of the Philosophical Radical and Benthamite James Mill. Taught Greek, Latin, and political economy at an early age, He spent his youth…
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Friedrich Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society (I)
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. F. A. Hayek (1899–1992) is undoubtedly the most eminent of the modern Austrian…
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Frederic Bastiat: The Candlemakers’ Petition (Part 2)
There is no needy resin-collector on the heights of his sand dunes, no poor miner in the depths of his black pit, who will not receive higher wages and enjoy…
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Announcing ALOD Educational Scholarships
African Liberty Organization for Development (ALOD) is pleased to announce opportunities for academic scholarships for students in high schools and tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The scholarships are awarded to brilliant minds…
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Frederic Bastiat: The Candlemakers’ Petition (Part I)
As described by Andrew Beattie, The “Candle Maker’s Petition” is a satire of protectionist tariffs written the by great French economist, Frederic Bastiat. In many ways, it expanded on the free market…
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ALOD Alumni Promoting the Idea of Liberty
Jennifer Umeh (Nigeria) Hope for African Girls Initiative – HAGi Jennifer is an enthusiastic advocate of Girl Child Freedom and Education. She have been organizing campaigns across Nigeria to draw attention to…
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2016 Essay Contest for Undergraduates in Africa
We announced the applications for this year’s Rising Tide Foundation’s essay contest for African Undergraduate students is open.
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Unveiling alodpolicy.org, Our Online Domain
African Liberty Organisation for Development (ALOD), presents to advocates of liberty and the public her new online domain, www.alodpolicy.org.
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ALOD’S 2016 Liberty & Entrepreneurship Camp Attracts 61 Students Form 18 Nigerian Institutions
The African Liberty Organisation for Development (ALOD) in collaboration with the Language of Liberty Institute (LLI) held a liberty and entrepreneurship camp at the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu.