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Research Fellow Bemoans Africa's Healthcare System
IMANI Press Conference: April 28, 2009
Imani Director speaks at Annual General Meeting of AREPI
July 27, 2006
AREPI is Association of Representatives of Ethical Pharmaceutical Industries in Ghana and their Annual AGM is coming on at on July 27, 2006 month. The association invited Franklin Cudjoe as a guest speaker, alongside the Minister of Health.
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.
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.
Trade Event in Nigeria
27-29 September 2005
The Institute of Public Policy Analysis in Nigeria will hold a trade event for Journalists on September 28, 2005 . Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe will be presenting a paper on “WTO: IPR and Access to Essential Drugs”
Monday, September 26, 2005
University Debate on Sustainable Development & Environmental Economics.
On the Afternoon of Monday, September 26 2005, Mr Godwin Kofi Vondolia, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana and Franklin Cudjoe, Director , Imani: The Centre for Humane Education will debate with Economics students on both sides of the sustainable development debate.
September 9, 2005
Two Imani Lectures & Reception at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Sceince & Technology, Kumasi, 256 Miles from Accra, Ghana's capital city
Read more about the first lecture Is the Kyoto Protocol Relevant for Developing Countries?
Read more about the second lecture Our Continent’s scars will need more than Afro music to heal
July 29, 2005- Talk in London
Based on the recommmendation of Helen Szamuely of the House of Lords in the UK, Franklin Cudjoe was invited to speak at BRIAN'S LAST FRIDAYS, meeting of Classical Libertarians.
Comments on Franklin's talk posted by Brian can be read here
July 15- 20, 2005- Cologne, Germany
Franklin Cudjoe meets East African compatriot in Germany
Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe and Kenyan academic June Akinyi Arunga discussed African development issues at this year's World Freedom Summit in Germany. Franklin later took part in a think tank panel discussion on practical ways to improve spreading the ideas of freedom.
Franklin Cudjoe speaks at Italian think-tank, Instituto Bruno Leoni (IBL)in Italy
On July 13 2005, Imani Director, Franklin Cudjoe spoke on whether Bob
Geldof could save Africa. Alberto Mingardi, IBL's Globalisation
Director
said of the speech, "I have not heard such powerful 25 minute speech in
my life". A full half page report on the seminar was published in the
LIBERO, newspaper. The above link automatically leads to report. Please
use google translator if you understand
www.brunoleoni.com .
IBL has republished several articles by Franklin Cudjoe
July 10, 2005
Franklin Cudjoe spoke on how the West should help Africa during two services at St. Dunstan´s Anglican Church in Staplehurst, UK.
Incidentally, Franklin met with the daughter of Sir Charles Noble Arden Clarke, the last governor of Ghana. She still has fond memories of how Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah used to pay them visits and how they were amazed at his about turn in politics.
July 9, 2005
Franklin Speaks on Trade, Debt and Aid to MBA students at Writtle University in the UK
ROBERT.CURTIS-at-writtle.ac.uk
High tariffs on drugs breeds counterfeit medicines
Ghanaian Pharmaceutical Industries invited Imani Director to be the guest speaker at its recently held Annual General Meeting Franklin spoke on governments and access to medicines. The presentation earned Imani an invitation from the Ghanaian Health Minister to work closely with Imani on the country's new health paradigm. Of particular interest, Imani Director mentioned the issues of high taxation (30%) on imported medicines as barrier to access and the need to examine the usage of DDT in fighting malaria. A Newsreel from the State News Agency on the presentation even made it onto the Ghana government website. See entire story here…
June 21, 2005
Ahead of the G8 summit Imani's director, Franklin Cudjoe spoke at the Global Development Summit in the UK and challenged the flawed and dangerous premises of debt cancellation, doubling aid and protectionist policies. Virtually every respectable media house in Europe and America featured him prominently.
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, 2005
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.
IPN lecture & reception: Is there hope for Africa?
30 September 2004
Location: London
This event featured talks by Franklin Cudjoe, Director of Imani: The centr for humane education, Ghana and IPN Fellow June Arunga.
Governments and Access to Medicines
Ghanaian Pharmaceutical Industries invited Imani Director to be the guest speaker at its recently held Annual General
John Templeton Prize for IMANI
IMANI is the only think tank to have been awarded the John Templeton Prize twice in Africa for Advancing Freedom.This year, IMANI was the sole recipient in Africa of the Antony & Dorian Fisher Award (Out of 180 think-tanks globally) that recognise thinkanks playing a crucial role to ensure that public policy debates are not dominated by government insiders.
A judge on the Templeton Prize awarded to IMANI commented, "I give them [IMANI] the highest points for being most specific and rigorous in applying free-market solutions to an array of complex social problems. Their submission shows the importance of using rigorously derived, quantifiable research outputs to gain credibility in shaping the policy debate. Crisp, clear, compelling data is the most useful tool to provide to any media outlet, and it's easy for the media to use, without interpretation."
Atlas Fisher Venture Grant Awarded to IMANI
March 25, 2008 - The Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced fisherthat IMANI Center for Policy and Education (Accra, Ghana) is the only African think tank among its first class of recipients of Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants. More than 180 think tanks competed for the grants in this program, but only nine were selected to receive up to $100,000 from Atlas over the next three years. Franklin Cudjoe, the founding director of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, remarked: "Receiving this grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is another great vindication of the important work IMANI began 3 years ago. We are determined to see that public policy debate in Ghana and West Africa involve students who should be informed by principled, non-partisan viewpoints." Read more
Podcast
July 30, 2008 IMANI director discusses Ghanaian Security matters in Ghana. Ghana's Police Chief in charge of Public Relations, DSP, Kwesi OFori, and Dr. Joshua Alabi are co-discussants IMANI director discusses Ghanaian Security matters in Ghana on Ghana's acclaimed Talk Radio, Choice FM. The discussion was held in early July 2008. In April 2008, Franklin also spoke to Atlas Economic Research's' New Intellectual Entrepreneurs about successful strategies for new think tanks.
The event was held in Atlanta, Georgia. IMANI director discusses Ghanaian government's intervention to reduce the economic burden as a result of high fuel and food prices. The discussion was held on TV Africa, June 2008. Please listen to an audio version here Tuesday, April 22, 2008 In April 2008 IMANI's Executive Director, Franklin Cudjoe discussed 'How Trade and Globalization Expand Freedom, Create Jobs, and Improve Lives" with Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute. The moderator was Ambassador Terry Miller, Director, Center for International Trade and Economics of The Heritage Foundation. The event was held in Atlanta, Georgia. You can hear Franklin's talk here IMANI director discusses Ghanaian government's plan to deepen prisoner rights in Ghana. This week we interview Imani Ghana’s founder and directory Franklin Cudjoe, along with Elyse Speicher, a student at Grove City College, who interned with Imani last year. This interview discusses last year’s inaugural summer seminar in Ghana, Elyse’s internship and work with the institute and Imani’s recent Atlas Shrugged program. Read two of Franklin’s latest articles, Thickheadedness on African Debt and A Libertarian’s Impression of the Stiglitz Performance. |