“We can no longer continue to make policies for ourselves, our countries, our region and our continent on the basis of whatever the westerners will give us. It will not work, it has not worked...Our responsibility is to charter a path which is about how we can develop our nations ourselves.”

—Ghanian President His Excellence Nana AKUFO-ADDO’s Speech, 07 December2017

 “only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

— Milton Friedman

“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.”

— Milton Friedman

“Basic institutions that protect the liberty of individuals to pursue their own economic interests result in greater prosperity for the larger society.”

— Adam Smith

“...where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individualefforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in mostcircumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only methodby which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitraryintervention of authority.”

— Frederick Hayek

“I would like to say a big thank you to PPIAI for the PPIAI-coding class initiative. Recently I was informing a brother in about the python language course that we are learning and there is a gentleman who was sitting next to us listening to our conversation and just after he asked me if I already knew how to code in python I said not yet but I'm still learning. The gentleman in question gave me his contact and asked me to call him at the end of my training because he has a team of developers and he is looking for someone who masters the python language. Now I can see how this training is precious and constitutes a real opportunity for us Africans.  I would also like to encourage my classmates to hold on because the training will really help us in a dimension that will even surprise us.”

— Lukress Yvanna Mbogne Kamno-PPiAI Coding class student of 2021 (Term 1)

"The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge."

— Arthur Lewis