Fri, May 09, 2008
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Development through free thinking
Imani Summer University 2007 - APPLY NOW!
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Imani Ghana's :
Last Quarter Activites-A Must Read
"As Ghana prepares to celebrate its
50th Independence Anniversary Imani gives by far the most balanced historical, political and economic analysis on the country in the
Accra Daily Mail, February 13, 2007 -"
"Ghana: An African country`s odyssey through 50 years of nationhood"
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However, Imani has issues with Corporate Ghana on what it considers an asinine definition of social responsibility. Read it here in the Ghanaian Chronicle of February 12, 2007 -"
"Corporate Ghana at 50: When Corporate Social Responsibility Stinks"
Imani on China-Africa Relations
"Read Imani's latest article on Sino-African Relationship in the Asian Times, Saturday, January 13, 2007 -"
"China Smiles at Africa with two faces"
"Imani continues to warn on Sino-African Relationship in the Asian Times, February 1, 2007 -"
"One thing China can't offer Africa"
"Imani forays into the future on Sino-African Relationship in the Asian Times,February 8, 2007 -"
"Emperor Hu's new clothes for Africa"
For details on Imani's China-Africa research, contact
Bright Simons at bright-at-imanighana.org
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Imani cited in House of Commons debate on Aid & Corruption-- United Kingdom
From the
"very article" that got the ire of former
"Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa to fire off a personal rejoinder to Imani Director", and a
"counter rejoinder from Imani Director", comes a quote from a member of U.K's House of Commons,in a debate on corruption, aid and debt relief. The U.K. Secretary of State for International Development was in attendance.
"A member of the House, Mr. Christopher Chope, asked, "Does my hon. Friend accept that it cannot be that difficult to get hard data on the extent of corruption when Franklin Cudjoe, the Ghanaian director of the Imani think tank, has asserted that $4,700 is stolen by African Governments from their people every second?"
Read the entire Hansard (verbatim report) debate by clicking on the quoted and boldened sentence above. We arrived at the $4700 by using Africa Union's own statistics of
US$149bn,being the cost of offcial corruption per annum in Africa.
Winning policy battles
"Bravo WHO! Please keep thinking right!, Monday, September 25, 2006 -"
"Imani joins other reality-based think tanks that pressurized the World Health Organization to lift the ban on DDT in the fight against Malaria"
"Is DDT really such a good idea? Monday, September 25, 2006 -"
"But some illogical reasoning against the lifting of the ban remain as seen in this Reuters News Alert"
Making very positive local impact
"High tariffs on drugs breeds counterfeit medicines-Ghana News Agency, July 27, 2006-"
"Imani Director bares it all to Ghana's Health Minister and wins his 'comradeship' in Ghana's new "paradigm shift" in health care delivery"
Making sound policy arguments
"Read more ...-"
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Ideas for a Free Society- CD Project Finally Completed
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An innovative knowledge tool to help African students and teachers to think outside the box
What are the intellectual underpinnings of the free society? Ideas for a Free Society was inspired by the observation that the political and economic arrangements that seem to be most conducive to peace and prosperity are those that exist in free societies.
Ideas for a Free Society is a collection of over
100 writings assembled and edited by Imani's network of thinkers, scholars and Nobel Laureates and published on a CD. The CD contains a selection of contributions by some of the most important scholars and thinkers, both historical and contemporary, which explain the general intellectual concepts, some of the challenges, and some applications to public policy issues.
Unfortunately access to such ideas is extremely limited in many countries today so this CD was created to fill the gap. Our lay man’s estimation of the value of titles on the CD is about
US $2000. But each student, faculty and library in Africa can get the CD at a little under
US $3.
Imani, as part of its project has given 75 copies to international undergraduate students and their satisfaction is overwhelming. But the contents of the CD are of paramount importance to Ghanaian/ Africa students. We want
20,000 tertiary students in Ghana to receive the CDs by mid 2007.
Corporate and individual support is particularly encouraged. Copyright holders of texts were broadly consulted for the project.
To learn more about supporting this project for Ghana/Africa, please email
sandra-at-imanighana.org or call + 233 21 41 70 94/+ 233 244 638 178
Imani Ghana cited in the June 23, 2006 edition of the
Washington Times in an article titled:
"Moving the world"
Tackling the issues head on
"Imani Director writes to the Speaker of Ghana's Parliament re guaranteed prices for food"
Imani wins 2006 Templeton Foundation Award Please see Press Release on the award here
Imani Research Fellow, Kofi Mangesi cautions the Ghanaian government on its latest interventionist fantansies in the fragile economy. Having bought back Valco,the largest aluminium smelter in Africa and the defunct Juapong textiles company, the government looks set to continuing what Kofi calls ‘shopping spree’ in their much touted ‘golden age of business’ where clearly the private sector is expected to be the engine of growth. The full article is here
"Rolling Back the State or Pushing up the State: Dirigiste Economies at play in Ghana’s Telecommunications Environment"
Ethiopian Journalist confirms Imani Ghana's impact on world trade talks in the
Addis Fortune Newspaper:
" Another critic of Ethiopia’s land policy is Franklin Cudjoe, director of a policy think-tank in Ghana, Imani, whose series of articles are appearing [simultaneously]on the Wall Street Journal Asia[Europe & North America], a business daily widely distributed to the [WTO ]conference attendants,including 2,000 representatives of NGOs and 3,000 journalists."
Imani Director will be one of many distinguished faculty members this year at the aWC Globalization, Culture, & Community seminar at the Bryn Mawr College (outside Philadelphia, PA)
A World Connected:
"Read his Reflections on Africa’s Famine: What Jeffrey Sachs Overlooked & Helping the UN Broaden Its Definition of Human Rights posted on aworldconnected.org "
Please see transcripts of
Franklin Cudjoe's Debate with UN Chief, others on Internet Governance here
WTO meeting in Hong Kong, 13-18 December 2005
Imani Ghana joins the
Freedom to Trade Coalition in Hong Kong for WTO Ministerial click on link here for details
Read the
Freedom to Trade blog
In Search of the Holy Grail
By Kofi Mangesi,
Imani Ghana Fellow
Ghana Web
12 January 2006
Also read Imani Ghana Fellow, Kofi Mangesi's paper
ICTs and Accelerated Development in Ghana:FDI Versus Domestic Markets
14 December 2005
Read Franklin Cudjoe in the
Wall Street Journal:
"Africa needs freer markets -- and fewer tyrants"
Exclusive- Please read Imani Ghana Fellow Mr Jonas Atingdui's 'testimony' in
The Rebirth of an Economist here
Recently Imani's director returned from the USA. He took part in a number of
Useful events italized here. A full report will follow soon.
Please read
Imani's Newsletter for December 2005 here
Please read
Imani's outlook from September-November 2005 here
September 10, 2005:
Imani Director Franklin Cudjoe delivered a ten minute speech on effective leadership for Africa's development to
500 delegates at this year's congress of the National Union of Ghana Students(NUGS). Each participant received photocopied materials; from newspaper articles to copies of Moelesti Mbeki's paper on entrepreneurship and elititism in Africa. The NUGS President-elect,
Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa of the University of Ghana, Legon has been a regular participant of Imani's activities in the Universities. The congress was held in
Sunyani, some 356 miles from Accra.
September 9, 2005:
Two Imani Lectures & Reception at the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Sceince & Technology, Kumasi, 256 Miles from Accra, Ghana's capital city
Read more about the first lecture
Is the Kyoto Protocol Relevant for Developing Countries?
Read more about the second lecture
Our Continent’s scars will need more than Afro music to heal
Please read our
June, July & August 2005 Newsletter here
Imani Ghana mentioned in IPN's August Newsletter
"Over the past two months,
Franklin Cudjoe of Imani, Ghana, has been a Research Fellow at IPN. His stay has been most productive – he has given speeches in
Germany at the World Freedom Summit, in Italy for the Istituto Bruno Leoni, and in the UK, as well as writing numerous articles and participating in a variety of media interviews. Some of his articles are listed below, and his website (www.imanighana.org) features many of his recent activities."
Read an article about the Global Development Summit Franklin spoke at in the Ottawa Citizen
Imani gaining more recognition world wide....
Imani featured on page 7 of the 2005 Summer edition of the Atlas Investor Report
Africa’s elite set to blow G-8 windfall
By Franklin Cudjoe
August 11, 2005
Business Day, South Africa
Prevention still key to fighting Aids plague
By Franklin Cudjoe
August 15, 2005
Bangkok Post, Thailand
July 29, 2005- London
Comments on Franklin’s talk at Brian's Last Fridays in London on July 29
July 15- 20, 2005- Cologne, Germany
Franklin Cudjoe meets East African compatriot in Germany
Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe and Kenyan academic June Akinyi Arunga discussed African development issues at this year's World Freedom Summit in Germany. Franklin later took part in a think tank panel discussion on practical ways to improve spreading the ideas of freedom.
Franklin Cudjoe speaks at Italian think-tank, Instituto Bruno Leoni
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July 13 2005, Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe spoke on whether Bob Geldof could save Africa. Alberto Mingardi, IBL’s Globalisation Director said of the speech, “I have not heard such powerful 25 minute speech in m y life”. A full half page report on the seminar was published in the LIBERO, newspaper. The above link automatically leads to report. Please use google translator if you understand.
July 10, 2005
Franklin Cudjoe spoke on how the West should help Africa during two services at St. Dunstan´s Anglican Church in Staplehurst, UK.
Incidentally, Franklin met with the daughter of Sir Charles Noble Arden Clarke, the last governor of Ghana. She still has fond memories of how Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah used to pay them visits and how they were amazed at his about turn in politics.
July 9, 2005
Franklin Speaks on Trade, Debt and Aid to MBA students at Writtle University in the UK
June 28, 2005
A head of the G8 summit Imani's director, Franklin Cudjoe spoke at an
IPN's Global Development Summit and challenged the flawed and dangerous premises of debt cancellation,doubling aid and protectionist policies.
Imani has since become frequent commentator in print and broadcast media about Africa development issues, including appearances on BBC, CBC, Swiss and Swedish National TV, Austrian National Radio and varied local Ghanaian media, and has been published or quoted in the Accra Daily Mail, Ghana Web, My Joy online, London's Daily Telegraph, El Mercurio (Chile), La Republica (Costa Rica), the Ottawa Citizen, the San Francisco Chronicle, Netzeitung Voice Of Germany, LIBERO (Italy) and others.
What Africa needs- Franklin on BBC Newshour June 7,2005
While Tony Blair visits Washington, his Chancellor of the Exchequer is in Europe pushing debt relief, aid and fair trade for Africa. Is that what is needed?
John Sayer is Director of pressure group Africa Now and
Franklin Cudjoe is director of Imani, a development group in Ghana. The Senior Producer of BBC Newshour Mr Nicholas Walton said of the Interview "Thank you for your time for the interview, Franklin. The item was thought of as a success - it is rare to find a good voice from Africa with the point of view that you put forward."
Latest Articles:
Finding a better way for Africa
By Franklin Cudjoe
2005-07-25
The South African Star
Protectionism Won’t Save Countries from Poverty or AIDS
By Franklin Cudoe
American Home Page
Franklin Cudjoe on World Service Newshour
Imani granted three live interviews to the BBC last year in London and in Accra.
2005-06-07
BBC World Service
Franklin Cudjoe mentioned in "Star power: When celebrities support causes, who really winds up benefiting?"
By Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writer
2005-06-05
The San Francisco Chronicle
Free Traders Won’t Be Guilty!
By Franklin Cudjoe
2005-06-04
Ghana Home Page
Cudjoe quoted in Daily Telegraph article "Can St Bob really Make Poverty History?"
By Rosie Murray-West
2005-06-04
The Daily Telegraph
Click here for more articles...
Quote of the Day:
When government agents elect for themselves roles in furtherance of the general welfare , they often mess the whole process and derive maximum gains for themselves first.-
Franklin Cudjoe
