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Ibrahim B. Anoba



Biography
Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba (born 1993, Lagos Island, Nigeria), is an African political economy analyst and individual freedom advocate. He earned his BS in Political Science from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State where he started his ideological advocacy.

Work
Anoba’s works have been used by policy organizations including Transparency International and Chr. Michelsen Institute. He is frequently featured in print media and economic blogs including The Africa Report, Business Insider, Real Clear and The Daily Caller. His works has also been translated for readers in Greek, Italian and French.

He has collaborated with advocacy groups including Students for Liberty, Acton Institute and the Atlas Network in promoting economic free education across African universities. He currently serves as Executive Director at African Liberty Organization for Development, an organization dedicated to advancing classical liberalism among young Africans.

Economic View
Majority of Anoba’s work has centered on the effects of statist economic policies in solving development challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. He criticize the alarming rate at which African countries are becoming financially indebted to international creditors in other to finance development efforts. Instead, he argues that extreme poverty in Africa can only be effectively eradicated if governments move from centralized approaches to liberalizing their economies and greatly reducing taxes.

Anoba argues for an internally driven development agenda for Africa with less state intervention, supported by free trade, laissez faire capitalism and the rule of law. He commended the gradual disassociation from authoritarianism in Africa through regime changes and proposes a renegotiation of economic agreements between individual African governments and economic blocs like the EU. Ibrahim extensively advised on how Brexit could be Africa's greatest opportunity to create a balance of trade with Britain and in extension the EU. This he holds would be possible considering the increased interest by emerging economies like China and India in Africa, which leaves Britain to compete for trade deals on the continent.

Philosophy
Ibrahim identifies as a classical liberal. He believes many traditional Africa societies flourished under free trade and the rule of law until the advent of colonialism. He blamed the adoption of socialism in post-independence Africa for putting the continent on the wrong development pedestal.

He has criticized the quick reference to Marxism in providing solutions to the problems in free market capitalism especially economic inequality and surplus value.