User:Ibrahim Anoba/sandbox

Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba stands at the forefront of emerging African libertarians teaching and defending classical liberal thoughts through peaceful means.

A free-market pundit, he strongly advocates for limited and constitutional governance especially as it affects the economy of African states. His advocacy frequently gets hits in newspapers, blogs, and journals. Ibrahim is a writer and researcher analyst specializing in international affairs and the Africa political economy. He is a contributor to numerous policy blogs and libertarian discussion forums and Acting Executive Director of African Liberty Organization for Development.

He is a commentator on African political economy and foreign affairs with publications in media and academia worldwide. He has an academic background in Political Science and Strategic Communication. After graduation, he ventured into promoting libertarian principles through policy research and tutoring. He serves as outreach director at African Liberty Organization for Development in Nigeria.

= Education = Anoba holds as a bachelors degree in Political Science from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye and diplomas in the History and Philosophy of Liberty, Market-Based Management (MBM) and Think Tank Leadership from the Cato Institute, Charles Koch Institute and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation respectively. = Works = Anoba has published essays on the effects of foreign aid on the economic development of African countries. He once admonished donor to rethink aid strategy in Somalia when he noted that the country "... is on the verge of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and it needs urgent assistance. However, donors should invest in long-term development projects instead of relying on the usual – highly ineffective – aid relief." He advocated for liberalization to solve poverty crisis in Africa rather than continued central planning. Commenting on the poverty crisis in Malawi, Anoba noted in TownHall that "Market liberalization does not hurt. It simply gives  the economy a chance to grow without the hassle of centralized economic planning. After decades of unending economic travails, Malawians deserve a better life. All the government and their donors should do is simply give free markets a chance."

Anoba has also tried to trace the classical liberal foundation of African societies and has vehemently opposed any summation of a collectivist/socialist foundation in all Africa societies. He argued that many traditional African societies were anarchic and respect property rights compared to the falsehood of central ownership of property. He noted that Africans were equally in favor of a fair market system among communities that even "In centralized communities such as the Buganda (Uganda), Hausa/Fulani (Nigeria) Akan (Ghana) and the Zulu (South Africa), there were large and open markets such that it attracted participation from communities hundreds of miles away. Trade ensued among communities in their specialized industries with limited or no restrictions, and one can safely deduce elements of David Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage Theory – a cardinal in classical liberalism – existed in these communities even before it was theoretically developed in Europe."

Anoba is mostly known as a strong opposition to excessive power and all Marxian political doctrines.