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IMANI SUMMER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR SERIES, AUGUST 13- 17 2007.
This year the Centre for Humane Education (IMANI), a Templeton laureate organisation in Africa, is teaming up with forward thinking organisations, including Ghana's premier liberal arts college, Ashesi University, the International Policy Network, a leading London-based global think tank, and the respected US-based educational charity, Cato University, a subsidiary of the world renowned Cato Institute, to assemble some of Ghana's, Africa's, and the world's most acclaimed thinkers and practitioners to inspire the next generation of Ghanaian and African thinkers and innovators to greater heights.
The IMANI West Africa Summer University (IMSU) 2007 will take place from August 13 - 17 in the serene surroundings of Ashesi University's residential campus in the heart of Ghana's historic capital of Accra. Here student participants will take advantage of the intellectually charged atmosphere to question, debate, challenge, and learn from speakers, instructors and mentors with rich and varied backgrounds about the great ideas that will define the great struggles Africa will witness in the course of this new century.
In this same spirit of free and critical thinking and exchange, they will be inspired to work together with their peers to create and generate new models and concepts of addressing the multitude of difficulties Africans today face in their efforts to conceive of a future in which persistent failure to address the basic needs of the continent's citizens is not viewed as a badge of self-pity, or worse of heroic endurance, but as a call for radical transformation.
Challenged to disregard outmoded justifications for Africa's continued lack of economic progress, increasing corruption, low levels of business and scientific innovation, failing healthcare and educational systems, student participants will confront head on the crisis of self-belief that prevents the modern African from demanding the highest levels of performance from the leadership of her continent. They will confront the crisis of confidence that stifles entrepreneurial adventure, and prevents the growth of sustainable enterprises. And above all, it is passionately hoped, that they will discover within themselves the belief that they can transform this lamentable state of affairs into one in which the continent of Africa, self-assured and self-confident, can lift off the veil of shame and rise forth to show the world her true potential.
We extend a special invitation to you, dear future leader, to join us for a transformative experience. Visit
www.imaniseminars.com to apply
In service,
Franklin Cudjoe
Executive Director, IMANI
February 16, 2007
Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe speaks to Students in Free Enterprise on 5 Habits of Highly Effective Countries( 60 from all the major Universities and Polytechnics in Ghana) Free copies of our CD, Ideas for a Free Society were given to the students in exchange of an 500-word essay each will write on leadership.
I-SEED is Imani's upcoming project-Exploiting Social Enterprenuership for Economic Development-
"Read more.....-"
"Here and keep watching this space"
July 27, 2006
Imani Director to speak at Annual General Meeting of AREPI
AREPI is Association of Representivies of Ethical Pharmaceutical
Industries in Ghana and their Anual AGM is coming on at on July 27,
2006 month. The association has invited Franklin Cudjoe as a guest speaker.
July 9, 2006
Imani contributes to a report on World Aids Conference
The Ottawa Citizen newspaper, in Canada's capital, is doing a special supplement on AIDS in Africa in the lead up to the World Aids Conference in Montreal. The paper interviewed Imani director on perspectives at the increasing invovlement of celebrities in humanitarian causes.
Updates on this later..
August 4-7
Chairman of the Globalisation and Global Poverty Group of the UK
Parliament to visit with Imani Ghana.
Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP, Chairman of the Globalisation and Global
Poverty Group, who has been following the work of Imani is visiting Ghana to discuss the work of Imani.
The Globalisation and Global Poverty Group was set up by David Cameron MP,the Leader of the UK Conservative Party, in December 2005 to advise on policy to help alleviate poverty in developing countries are currently in the process of drafting a report (please see website for more details).
http://globalpovertychallenge.com/
June 17- 23, 2006, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Imani Director lectures at the Institute of Humane Studies at George Mason University in the United States. Imani Director gave three lectures on Africa's food crises, property rights and Rock star economics-Aid and African culture. There were 75 undergraduate and recent grads at the lecture.
June 15, 2006, Virginia United States
Imani Founder joins allies with interests to share perspectives on developments overseas. The meeting tagged "International Thursday" provides opportunities for networking and discovering synergies.
The other speakers were:
Gabriel Roth, Editor, Street Smart - Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads, Independent Institute (California)
Angela Wu, Director of International Advocacy, The Becket Fund (Washington, DC)
Dragana Ostojic, Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank, for Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
June 13, 2006, Virginia, United States
Fisher International Circle Luncheon Series:
Imani Director speaks on "The water revolution: Practical Solutions to water scarcity in Africa"-a book he co-authored in March 2006.
BBC News Hour Programme
May 7, 2006
The UK charity, Christian Aid recently launched a study on climate change. The study predicted dire consequences for Africans if bureaucratic interventions are not made to force outcomes. The author of the study and Imani director debated on BBC’s “News Hour” programme on the relevance of the study to the climate change debate and specifically to Africa. Imani director argued that Africans are better off promoting economic evelopment through market solutions rather than chasing mythical out-oriented projects.
A listener in the UK wrote “I listened to your interview by the BBC on climate change. I was impressed with your responses.Congrats. I'm now in Ghana .You can contact me if need be.”
May 12, 2006
Television Interview, Ghana
Imani director was interviewed on Metro Television (Africa wide), one of three television stations in Ghana on Ghana government’s decision to privatise water delivery in urban areas. Imani is the only think-tank in Ghana that expressly supports water privatisation. Imani will continue to feature on water-related programmes on Metro Television.
Imani’s Adjunct Fellow, Michael Kottoh will speak on Anti-corruption
efforts in Ghana. The event is being organized by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development on June 13, 2006..
Imani’s director of development, Evans Lartey returns from Switzerland after attending this year’s International Student’s symposium held at the University of St. Gallen.
Lartey’s selection was based his essay on international migration.
April 21, 2006
Book Launch
Imani: The Centre for Humane Education cordially invites you to a book launch & announcement of its Templeton Award for Advancing Freedom.
“The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity “
Date: Friday 21 Aril 2006
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm, followed by reception
Place: The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, CDD
Speaker: Franklin Cudjoe, Co-author of The Water Revolution & Director of Imani, Accra, Ghana
Seminar- The Philosophy of Liberty/ Why Economic Freedom Matters
Imani held a one-day lecture on the principles of market economics. The lecture was delivered by
Professor Ken Schooland on January 18, 2006 at the
conference room of the University of Ghana’s SRC Union Building at 10:00 am. A record
85 students from the country's Universities and Polytechnics attended and interacted with Prof. Schoolland.
Prof. Schoolland shared with lecture attendees a moral justification for a free society based on the institutions of property rights, free markets, respect for contracts, and decentralized government under the rule of law as convincingly explained in his world acclaimed book, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. Prof. Schoolland also explained how economic freedom had lifted advanced countries from being dirt poor to filthy rich.
Television Interview, Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation
Prof. Ken Schoolland and Franklin Cudjoe gave a
25-minute interview to
Ghana Television, Ghana's widely viewed state television corporation on Thursday, 19, January 2006. The discussion ranged from the fundamentals of a free socety to trends in world trade. VCD copies of the interview are available upon request. Contact Sandra Birago Duah at sandra-at-imanighana.org
Radio Interview, Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation
Prof. Ken Schoolland and Franklin Cudjoe also gave a
30-minute interview to
Uniiq FM, Ghana's widely listened to state radio on Thursday, 19, January 2006. The discussion ranged from the fundamentals of a free socety to trends in world trade.
Radio Interview, Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation
Imani Director debated the President of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana on the outcome of the World Trade Organization Talks in Hong Kong. Both personalities were at the Sixth Ministerial Meeting Talks. The hour-long interview was on Uniiq FM, Ghana's widely listened to state radio on January 6, 2006.
Past Events
Please read
Imani's outlook from September-November 2005 here
June 17, 2005
Imani Director speaks to largest gathering of all University students and leaders at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana´s heritage capital, some 200km from Accra. Franklin gave out copies of " What Every Should Know About Economics and Prosperity" to all University student leaders for their libraries.
June 17-18
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science of Technology won this year´s National SIFE Championship held at the Royal La-Palm Beach Hotel. Twelve teams from 12 tertiary instituions througout Ghana. Universty of Ghana, Legon and Ho Polytechnich came second and third respectively. Imani presented book prizes to all participating schools. The winning team will represent Ghana at the World Championship in Toronto,Canada in October, 2005.
June 2 2005
Franklin Cudjoe, Imani Ghana director granted a 15-minute telephone interview to Rosie Murray-West of the Daily Telegraph in London.
The Interview sought Franklin's viwes on the Make Poverty History Campaign. Rosie's article "Can St Bob really Make Poverty History?" was publsished in the London Daily Telegraph on Saturday, June 4, 2005.
June 1 2005
Graduate student form Cornell University on internship with Imani.
Beginning June 1, 2005 through to August 2005, Mr.Edward Kweku Ofori Abrokwah, a Masters student in Public Administration at the Cornell University in the USA will intern with Imani. He will use the period to research on his thesis titled
Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Ghana: Impact on Macroeconomic policies.
May 26 2005
Imani will take part in a workshop on increasing government's responsiveness to civil society in matters of land and forestry. The day-long workshop is being organized by the CDD and the venue is the Coconut Groove Regency Hotel in Accra.
May 24 2005
Imani has been invited to participate in a round table discussion at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD). The topic is "Canada-Africa Relations in the 21st Century". The event will feature Hon. Joe Clark, former Canadian Prime Minister and His Excellency Rapulane Sydney Molekane, South Africa's High Commissioner to Ghana.
May 23 2005
Imani Director Franklin Cudjoe meets with the Executive Director of
the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development,a liberal oriented oraganization in Ghana.
Prof. Gyimah Boadi, the Executive Director called for greater collaboration with Imani and believes Imani will serve as the best resource for Ghanaian students as well as be able to sell viable policy alternatives.
May 22 2005
Radio Interview, Ghana
Imani Director , Franklin Cudjoe was interwied by Ghana's Talk Radio,
Choice FM on the mission and activities of Imani. The Programme, Youth Mate, was aired live from 1pm to 3pm.
May 19 2005
Newspaper Interview, California, USA.
Mr. Jonathan Curiel, a staff writer of the
San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Franklin Cudjoe on his Rock Stars article that was published in the London Telegraph. The 30 minute telephone interview touched on the causes of celebreties to corruption, Aid and entrepreneurship in Africa. Please watch out for Mr. Curiel's article with bylines from Imani.
May 16-17 2005
Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe spoke at a UNDP programme on meeting the Millenium Development Goals which was held in Ghana. The programme was attended by Minisiters, officials of the World Bank, CIDA, UNESCO and many youth groups committed to achieveing the MDGs. Franklin emphasised the role of institutions, especially that of the free society as being the prerequisite to attaining the MDGs.
He noted that the first MDG which commits itself to halving world poverty by 2015 could only be attained if property rights,the rule of law, uncoerced and enforceable contracts, free speech, free markets and dimished government are given attention.
The coalition of NGOs appointed Franklin Cudjoe as the first National Programme Director in charge of the first MDG which is to "Reduce extreme poverty and hunger by halving the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger". The role demands that Franklin gives guidance and write position papers on how the goal could be achieved.
Franklin briefly talked about Julian Morris's edited "Sustainable Development: Promoting progress of perpetuating poverty" and James Gwartney and Richard Stroup's "What everyone should know about economics and prosperity". He gave out copies to some participants.
Please read our April Newsletter
here
April 25 2005
Imani Director attended a Book Review-Commentary at the University of Ghana, Legon. Franklin Cudjoe will make submissions on the book. The title of the book is “Economic Reforms in Ghana; The Miracle and the Mirage”. Edited by Ernest Aryeetey, Jane Harrigan and Machiko Nissanke. Dr. Amos Anyimadu of AfricaTalks.org was the guest of honour. The Event was put together by one of our partners, the intercollege development think. Please see a brief personal
notes here
April 11 2005
Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe organized and facilitated a lecture on why we need liberty, at the Takoradi Technical Institute, located 238km west of Accra. Eight High School students from the Garfield/Global Technology Academy in Seattle, USA, two American adults and over twenty Ghanaian students and teachers took part in the discussion. The presentation was based on Lawrence Reed's seven principles for sound policies. Discussion lasted over two hours and many topics from trade, privatization, welfare, private/ public education were discussed. Imani has been working with the Global Technology Academy to create computer refurbishing centres in the ten regions of Ghana.
Media
Article on the relevance of the Kyoto Protocol had for the past week been serialised in the
Daily Graphic, Ghana's most widely circualted newspaper. The final part was published today April 12, 2005.
Last Week in April
Another seminar on the foundations of liberty will be held in the University of Ghana, Legon. Students from other tertiary institutions will participate.
Roundtable discussion on Economic Freedom
March 22, 2005
The talk by Ms. Whitney Ball from Donors Trust, could not come off. Instead a roundtable discussion on the benefits of Economic Freedom was held. The event was held at the Aid Laba Conference Room SRC Union Building, University of Ghana in Accra. Franklin Cudjoe, Director of Imani moderated with talks by William Essiam, Assitant to SIFE Africa Director, SIFE Ghana Director and the Inter College Development think tank. 32 students from the University of Ghana and the Islamic University of Ghana participated. At the end of the event Mr. William Essiam, Assistant to the Director of SIFE AFRICA commented, “Imani’s efforts were the best to happen to happen to Ghana”.
Read report here
Radio Interview: Effectiveness of Antiretrovirals for HIV/AIDS treatment
1 December 2004
IPN Fellow Franklin Cudjoe and founder of Imani: The Centre for Humane Education participated in a BBC Africa Live Interview in Accra, Ghana on World Aids Day.
2004 Events
2003 Events