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$1,000 Ideas for a Free Society Essay Contest for African Students and Professionals

Deadline: 15 November 2010

Choose any of the five segments inside THE IDEAS FOR A FREE SOCIETY CD, and using a text or more write a 1500-2000 word essay, on any of the following:

• A free market economy: the missing link in Africa’s development (Discuss)
• Globalization: the key to development
• A government big enough to give you all you want can take it all away (Discuss)
• Entrepreneurship: The key to self-actualization
• Capitalism is a moral philosophy: Discuss

This essay is open to African students and professionals between the ages of 18-35. Submission deadline: 15th November, 2010. Winners are to be announced on 15th December 2010. EVERYONE HAS AN EQUAL CHANCE OF WINNING, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE TOPIC CHOSEN.

Send your entries to: Adedayo Thomas, Nigeria –AfricanLibertity.org at adedayo.thomas@gmail.com, Franklin Cudjoe, Imani Ghana at franklin.cudjoe@gmail.com, Murray Sanderson, Zambia–Institute for Public Policy Analysis at murray.sanderson@gmail.com, or Mike Rotich, Nairobi (Kenya) at mrotich@gmail.com.
This essay contest is an initiative of AfricanLiberty.org powered by International Policy Network and supported by: ATLAS ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND IMANI.

Prizes
1st place: $1000
2nd place: $850
3rd place: $650 Full scholarship to 2011 summer school
4th place: $300
5th place $200
Other prizes: 10 Honorable mentions: $ 100 each

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