Discover our Vision and Mission
in Pioneering Africonomics
Advancing African monetary sovereignty, economic stability, and prosperity
Vision & Mission
Our Vision
To see a free, prosperous, and structurally just Africa—anchored in truth, liberty, sound money, and respect for natural individual rights.
Our Mission
The Afrindependent Institute exists to advance African intellectual and economic sovereignty through original research, principled policy frameworks, and public education grounded in Africonomics. We challenge prevailing models, expose systemic injustice, and promote sound ideas to empower African nations and humanize global systems.
History And Founder
The Afrindependent Institute was founded by Manuel Tacanho, a social philosopher and economist, to reframe the global conversation around African economic development, governance, and justice.
Dissatisfied with the moral emptiness and structural failures of mainstream economics and state-led development models, Tacanho began formulating Africonomics—a school of African philosophical and economic thought grounded in natural-moral law, human dignity, and voluntary exchange.
What began as a critique of fiat money and statist economics evolved into a far-reaching intellectual project: to reconstruct African social and economic thought from first principles, restore truth in economic science, and support African nations in building free, just, and prosperous postcolonial societies.
What Makes Afrindependent Different?
The Afrindependent Institute is a pioneering think tank advancing Africonomics, an African school of philosophical, economic, and civilizational thought.
While most African institutions mirror Western thought and frameworks, the Afrindependent Institute is unapologetically independent—philosophically, economically, and morally. We do not seek to adapt Africa to Western models that have proven arbitrary, repressive, and ruinous. We advance principled Africonomics frameworks grounded in:
Natural-moral law
instead of legal positivism
Sound money
instead of fiat deception
Voluntary exchange
instead of coercive redistribution
Liberty and justice
instead of democracy as an end in itself
As the Home of Africonomics, Afrindependent is a beacon of economic truth and moral clarity, building the intellectual infrastructure for a postcolonial Africa that is structurally just, sovereign, and prosperous.
Our Principles
We are guided by four foundational principles that undergird all our work:
Truth
We believe truth is objective, discoverable, and essential to any just society. Our research unmasks deception in policy, economics, and global narratives.
Liberty
All individuals possess inherent rights to life, liberty, and self-ownership. We promote systems that uphold human dignity, agency, liberty, and moral responsibility.
Sound Money
A just and stable economy cannot exist without sound money. We expose the fraud of fiat money and advocate for market-based, sound monetary systems.
Justice
Justice is not a political slogan—it is the structural design of society in accordance with natural rights and universal moral law. We advance structural justice through principled analysis and policy recommendation.