John Mustapha Kutiyote of Students’ Organization for Liberty and Entrepreneurship (SOLE) is the winner of the 2019 Think Tank Shark Tank for his pitch to end cultural discrimination that takes private property rights away from women in South Sudan. The $5,000 prize will be spent on an awareness campaign that includes special wor...
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Atlas Network announces the finalists in the 2019 Think Tank Shark Tank-Africa competition, which will be held during Africa Liberty Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Three think tank professionals will pitch their projects to a panel of judges, showcasing some of the region’s most exciting new liberty-advancing projects. The competition...
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Atlas Network’s partner the Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI) in Ghana just held their second African Journalists for Economic Opportunity Training (AJEOT). In addition to the 20 students from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Switzerland, experts from around the world were there to offer training and insights on the...
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The 2017 Africa Liberty Forum, held in Johannesburg in May, closed with the much-anticipated Regional Think Tank Shark Tank Competition. The winner of this competition was Peter Bismark Kwofie, executive director and president of the Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI), an Atlas Network parner in Ghana. Kwofie wo...
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The Think Tank Shark Tank competition at Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner has been a hallmark of the event for several years. There, three graduates of the Atlas Leadership Academy compete before a panel of judges for a $25,000 grand prize in a showcase of the worldwide freedom movement’s most exciting new projects. This year’s co...
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In Ghana, the Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI-Ghana) recently launched a project to help diffuse economic freedom and question the status quo through journalism. Through African Journalists for Liberty, ILAPI-Ghana hopes to inspire African journalists to share messages of freedom, individual liberty, and econo...
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During Africa Liberty Forum 2017, more than 125 influencers and think tank professionals from 16 countries gathered to discuss the best and the brightest work breaking down the barriers to prosperity and opportunity on the continent. Sponsored by Atlas Network with organizing host the South Africa-based Free Market Foundation (F...
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The people of Sierra Leone lack fundamental liberty. According to the “Index of Economic Freedom,” an annual guide published by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation, the country ranks 142nd out of 178 measured countries. Sierra Leone’s 10 year civil war in 1990s had devastating effects on the country’s economy, an...
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