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 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 Seminar (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.
In service,
Franklin Cudjoe
Executive Director, IMANI
The 2007 IMANI West Africa Summer University Seminar program schedule is available as a PDF download
Monday, August 13, 2007
3:00- 5:00pm: Registration
6:00-7:00pm: Introduction of seminar, Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director, IMANI.
7:00pm: Welcome Dinner
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
7:30-8:15am: Breakfast
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Time |
Topic |
In charge |
duration |
MORNING SESSION |
8:30-9:30am: |
Why Freedom Matters |
Tom Palmer/ June Arunga |
1 hour |
9.30 – 10.00 |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
10.00 – 10.45 |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
AFTERNOON SESSION |
10:45 -11:00am: Coffee Break 15 minutes |
11:00-11:45am |
Entrepreneurship and the concept of creative destruction |
Kofi Bentil |
45 minutes |
11:45- 12:15 pm |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
12.15 – 1.30 pm |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
1.30 – 4.30 – LUNCH AND REST |
EVENING SESSION |
4.30 –5.15 PM |
The mystery of property: How property rights conquered poverty in rich countries. |
Dr Antwi Adarkwah |
45 minutes |
5:15- 5.45 pm |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
5.45 – 6.30 pm |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
NIGHT SESSION |
8:30pm- 9:30pm |
Film Screening: The Devil’s Footpath |
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Wednesday
Time |
Topic |
In charge |
duration |
MORNING SESSION |
8:30-9:30am: |
Why Africa should forget Foreign Aid |
Dr Robert Osei |
1 hour |
9.30 – 10.00 |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
10.00 – 10.45 |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
AFTERNOON SESSION |
10:45 -11:00am: Coffee Break 15 minutes |
11:00-11:45am |
Multinationals and Poverty Reduction |
Franklin Cudjoe |
45 minutes |
11:45- 12:15 pm |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
12.15 – 1.30 pm |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
1.30 – 4.30 – LUNCH AND REST |
EVENING SESSION |
4.30 –5.15 PM |
Property Rights and the African Concept of private ownership
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Dr Antwi Adarkwah |
45 minutes |
5:15- 5.45 pm |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
5.45 – 6.30 pm |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
NIGHT SESSION |
8:30pm- 9:30pm |
Film Screening: Mine Your Own Business |
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Thursday
Time |
Topic |
In charge |
duration |
MORNING SESSION |
8:30-9:30am: |
Should wealth creation be left for governments to manage? |
Kofi Bentil |
1 hour |
9.30 – 10.00 |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
10.00 – 10.45 |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
AFTERNOON SESSION |
10:45 -11:00am: Coffee Break 15 minutes |
11:00-11:45am |
How African Leaders impoverished their countries |
June Arunga/ Tom Palmer |
45 minutes |
11:45- 12:15 pm |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
12.15 – 1.30 pm |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
1.30 – 4.30 – LUNCH AND REST |
EVENING SESSION |
4.30 –5.15 PM |
Is Trade a Fair or a Free concept?
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Dr Robert Osei |
45 minutes |
5:15- 5.45 pm |
Group discussions and preparation of questions |
Group leaders |
30 minutes |
5.45 – 6.30 pm |
Discussion of group questions with presenters |
Moderator and presenters |
45 minutes |
NIGHT SESSION |
8:30pm- 9:30pm |
Film Screening: The Ultimate Resource |
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Friday
Time |
Topic |
In charge |
duration |
MORNING SESSION |
8:30-9:30am: |
Can a redenomination of a currency help or hurt the economy? |
Rev. Daniel Ogbamey Tettey, Head of Research, Data Bank Ltd. |
1 hour |
9.30 – 9.45am: |
Coffee Break |
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30 minutes |
9.45 – 10.45 |
The African Union and the United States of Africa- Will it work this time?
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Mr. Kofi Bentil |
1 hour |
10:45 -11:00am: Coffee Break |
11:00-11:45am |
How social enterprise changed my attitude to life. |
Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, Joy FM Super Morning Show Host |
45 minutes |
11:45- 12:00 pm Coffee Break |
12.00 – 1.30 pm |
Submission of Evaluations |
Ms Sandra Birago Duah |
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1.30 – 4.30 – LUNCH AND CLOSING CEREMONY
DAPARTURE |
Give Aways: Ideas for a free society CD.
Copies of Ayn Rand’ Atlas Shrugged*** to be confirmed
Bruno Leoni Freedom and the Law
Leonard Read’s, I, Pencil
Frederic Bastiat’s “What is seen and unseen”
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