Franklin Cudjoe, 2010 Young Global Leader Award
Life seems to grant rare opportunities to show a person how much they really mean to us. Sure, on a daily basis we say “thank-you” and tell people we appreciate them, but very rarely is there a time and place to tell the world about a person who has [...]

On Wednesday, February 17, the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria) and AfricaRoundtable.com will host a luncheon in Lagos on the topic, “US Terror List: Will it impede Nigeria’s Economic Development?” – moderated by Thompson Ayodele, director of IPPA and featuring Martin Oluba, economics professor at the Swiss Management Centre, and Olajide Daramola of the [...]

The Development Research Institute (DRI) at New York University has received the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award for its weblog project, Aid Watch for “its contribution to the analysis of foreign aid provision, and its challenge to the conventional wisdom in development assistance.”  The year-old blog is principally written by economist William Easterly, author [...]

Atlas is pleased to announce that it has selected the Free Market Foundation of South Africa as the recipient of the 2010 Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty.
From the Press Release:
FMF was established at a time when South Africa’s Prime Minister John Vorster was steadily increasing intervention in the economy in preparation for the [...]

As 2009 draws to a close we (gladly) wave goodbye to a decade of government decadence where respect  for the principles of  liberty, free exchange, and limited government was scarce.  For those who hold Adam Smith’s maxim of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” dear to their hearts, the 2000s could not [...]

While all eyes were on the celebrations surrounding the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, another 20th anniversary was almost completely eclipsed in the news last week.
In Africa’s last colony, Namibia, the first free and fair elections were held on November 7th, 1989, two days before the Wall dividing East and West [...]

Thank you to all who joined us at this year’s Freedom Dinner and Templeton Freedom Award Conference. Below, you will find presentations from many of our speakers-audio and video of the talks will be available over the course of the week as well, be sure to check this page often. Freedom Dinner 2009 photos. ( [...]

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On the heels of Barak Obama winning the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, it seems to be unusual that the most valuable individual annual award in the world is not being given this year. The Mo Ibrahim Prize consists of US$5million over 10 years and US$200,000 annually for life thereafter. It is the largest annually awarded [...]

The Free Market Foundation of South Africa is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards 2009 for their book “Jobs for the Jobless” denouncing the high legal restrictions on job security that has led to massive unemployment.

Last week Ed Cropley, African Investment Correspondent for REUTERS listed five risks to watch for in Africa.  Not surprisingly, threat of violence and corruption in Kenyan elections made the list.  Last year’s post-election violence has not yet been brought to justice, and there is strong evidence that tribal and ethnic groups are arming themselves for [...]