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ABOUT AFRICONOMICS
ABOUT AFRICONOMICS
ABOUT AFRICONOMICS
ABOUT AFRICONOMICS
Africonomics
What is Africonomics?
It’s an African school of philosophical and economic thought. Africonomics is a social science grounded in upholding people’s natural individual rights [life, liberty, and (self and property) ownership]. Its central goal is to study and understand socioeconomic phenomena to promote prosperity, justice, and peaceful relations within and among human societies.
Unlike prevailing economics and the other social sciences, which rest on philosophical materialism, positivism, and a Darwinian conception of humans and human relations, Africonomics is a social science premised on the African worldview’s theist, principled, and nonrivalrous nature. Notice, however, that Africonomics is not a culturalist-historicist approach to economic science. It is a natural-moral law approach to economics, jurisprudence, and the social sciences with universal applicability.
Western economics is overwhelmingly based on philosophical materialism and a utilitarian-positivist approach, with ethics playing practically no role. In contrast, ethics is a cornerstone in the African approach to economics and other social sciences, as chartered by Africonomics.
About Us
We are pioneering a new vision for integrated African economies.
The Afrindependent Institute is a scholarly and educational think tank. Its principal objective is developing and disseminating Africonomics. Afrindependent is also dedicated to researching and highlighting Africa's economic heritage of free-market systems. We challenge the prevailing statist systems imported from the West, advocating for a shift towards Africonomics in African societies.
Africonomics presents a new paradigm and path forward for African nations—a free-enterprise economic model powered by the nilar to achieve integrated, stable, and thriving African economies.
Igniting an African renaissance.
To date, Africa remains unstable and troubled with its unparalleled potential repressed and therefore wasted under the oppressive yoke of statist/socialist systems implemented in the postcolonial era. Through Africonomics, the Institute seeks to unlock Africa’s potential by providing ethical and sound frameworks to create a new reality of economic stability and prosperity.
The Afrindependent Institute is dedicated to igniting an African renaissance by advancing Africonomics and reclaiming the continent’s economic heritage of free-market systems. Africa must shift its philosophical outlook and embrace Africonomics to break free from the ruinous cycle of debt crises, inflation, stagnation, tyranny, poverty, and dependence that Western statist models trap African societies in.
It’s crucial to grasp that free, structurally just, prosperous, and dignified postcolonial African societies can be built with Africonomics, not Western economics.
Meet Our Founder
Manuel Tacanho is a social philosopher and economist. He's the founder and president of the Afrindependent Institute, a think-tank dedicated to developing and promoting Africonomics, a school of African philosophical and economic thought.
Mr. Tacanho's professional journey began in the Oil and Gas industry, where he gained skills in supervision of offshore drilling operations for over five years after graduating from a technical petroleum school in Angola. A pivotal career transition led him to South Africa, where he pursued and completed his BA in International Relations at Stellenbosch University.
Upon his return to Angola, Mr. Tacanho furthered his expertise by joining the Angola Sovereign Wealth Fund (FSDEA) in 2015, following his successful completion of the Future Leaders of Angola Program in Switzerland at the ZHAW School of Management and Law.
Mr. Tacanho founded two ventures, one in the retail gas sector in Angola and a digital banking startup in Germany. While these initiatives did not reach the desired success, they provided valuable insights, entrepreneurial experience, and enduring relationships.
As a scholar, Mr. Tacanho dedicates his efforts to building the foundations of Africonomics, the African approach to economics and other social sciences based on a natural-moral law philosophical framework. As an entrepreneur he leads the Afrindependent Institute, which he founded in 2022.
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