Deadline: 20 December 2010
Choose any of the three essay topics below:
1. Is the free market economy alien to Africa’s development? Discuss. (1500 words only please)
2. What would cause you to love your country and fear your government? Are you comfortable with the present size and influence of your government? (1500 words only please)
3. Do you believe entrepreneurship holds the key to poverty eradication?. How does your government treat entrepreneurs? (1500 words only please)
PRIZES: 1st place: $1000 2nd place: $850, 3rd place: $650 +Full scholarship to 2011 summer school, 4th place: $300+Full Tuition scholarship to 2011 summer school 5th place $200 +Full Tuition scholarship to 2011 summer school, Other prizes: 10 Honorable mentions: $ 100 each
1. Is the free market economy alien to Africa’s development? Discuss.
2. What would cause you to love your country and fear your government? Are you comfortable with the present size and influence of your government?
3. Do you believe entrepreneurship holds the key to poverty eradication?. How does your government treat entrepreneurs?
This essay competition is open to African students and professionals between the ages of 18-35 and resident in Africa.
Submission deadline: December 20, 2010. Winners to be announced on January 15, 2011
Send your entries to: Adedayo Thomas, Publisher and Outreach Director of AfricanLiberty.org (adedayo.thomas@gmail.com) and copy Franklin Cudjoe Executive Director/Editor, IMANI and AfricanLiberty.org. (franklin.cudjoe@gmail.com)
This essay contest is an initiative of AfricanLiberty.org sponsored by the International policy Network producers of the (Ideas for a free society CD) and supported by Atlas Economic Research Foundation and IMANI Ghana.