In October 2017 NFS held a Liberty Fund type event in Kenya called the African Young Scholars Colloquium. We met for dinner on the first night followed by two inspiring days of discussion on Liberty, Social Thinking and Constitutional Government led by Dr Stephen Davies, Director of Education at the […]
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Linus Okechukwu Unah Winner of the 2016 Rising Tide Foundation Essay Contest
The 2016 Rising Tide Foundation Essay Contest for African Undergraduates, was set up and managed by NFS and African Liberty Organisation for Development, ALOD, and won by Nigerian Linus Okechukwu Unah then in his last year as a journalism student. His first prize was $1000 and a scholarship to the […]
Students for Liberty, Great Lakes Conference, November 2017
Following a very successful inter university quiz contest covering about 18 universities in the three countries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda the finals of this contest involved one team from each country and took place at the Regional Students For Liberty Conference in French-speaking Africa, November 22-23, […]
Students for Liberty Group Uganda
Mugabe John Socrates was introduced to us when he helped NFS promote the 2016 essay contest in Uganda which he did very enthusiastically and managed to make some new connections to students interested in learning more about liberty and also to sympathetic universities as a result. Shortly afterwards he started […]
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
Students for Liberty Burundi was started in 2015 by Aimable Manirakiza who was first introduced to the concept of a free society at an SFL meeting in Kenya in May 2015 where he was given the French version of the CD “Ideas for a Free Society” in both English and […]
The Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions Zimbabwe
The Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (COMALISO) run by Rejoice Ngwenya ran a stand for four days at the Harare 2016 Book Fair again in 2017. They were promoting the concepts of liberalism (European definition) and talking to students and others. Also giving copies of the handbook Know Your […]
The Chevauchee Foundation - Common Sense for Life and Prosperity
The Chevauchee Foundation led by Nathan Tjirimuje will run a Common Sense for Life and Prosperity project which is an on line course to improve employees understanding of free markets so they will appreciate better how their firms need to work for both the firms and themselves to prosper. It […]
The Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organisation
The Afghanistan Economic and Legal Studies Organisation, AELSO was set up in Kabul in 2009. Its mission is to promote the values of economic freedom and responsibilities which includes strengthening the institutions of the free-market economy, such as clear definition of, and respect, for property, and promotion of freedom of […]
The Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation, Ghana
The Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI), run by Peter Kwofie, is working to develop the African Journalists for Liberty (AJL) and started this year with an event in Ghana were more than 70% of the population listen to news everyday and there are 300 radio outlets as well […]
Students for Entrepreneurship and Economic Reform – SEER
Students for Entrepreneurship and Economic Reform – SEER Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan. Alternate Solutions Institute organized a seminar in the Department of Management Sciences on the Eco-system of an entrepreneurial society in Pakistan such as strong property rights, sound money, open trade, less regulation, favorable banking and financial system and other […]