Explore the foundations of a distinctly human and principled approach to economics, jurisprudence, and other social sciences.
The Afrindependent Institute advances a principled and transformative body of knowledge based on Africonomics— an African school of philosophical, economic, and civilizational thought grounded in natural-moral law, justice, and liberty that advances sound economic systems.
This section presents the key concepts, frameworks, and theories that define our work—from foundational ideas like natural-moral law and the African worldview to deep critiques of fiat money, statism, and technocracy, to fully developed Africonomics theories of money, economic cycles, and international relations.
Each concept is a building block in a larger civilizational vision: a free, sovereign, prosperous Africa—and a more human and peaceful global order.
Browse the categories below to explore core frameworks of Africonomics.
The moral, philosophical, and civilizational roots of Africonomics.
This cluster introduces the foundational thought underpinning Africonomics, beginning with its core principles and extending to philosophical and civilizational frameworks that distinguish Africonimics from Western philosophical and economic models. These foundations form the intellectual and moral backbone of the Afrindependent Institute.
An African school of philosophical, economic, and civilizational thought grounded in natural-moral law, truth, liberty, and justice.
Africonomics offers a principled and transformative alternative to Western economic orthodoxy—rejecting statism, fiat money, coercive governance, and technocratic social engineering in favor of upholding natural rights, voluntary cooperation, sound money systems, and structurally just social order grounded in natural-moral law jurisprudence.
Africonomics challenges established philosophical and economic models and advances a principled and more constructive approach to economics and other social sciences.
The universal moral standard for human decisions, actions, relations, and institutions.
Africonomics affirms the existence of objective, universal moral principles—truth, justice, and nonaggression—as the foundation for all legitimate social and economic systems. It offers a natural-moral law framework that reorients socioeconomic systems toward liberty, dignity, and structural justice.
This framework asserts objective ethical standards that exist to guide human relations and social, legal, and economic systems—forming a universal standard for justice.
A distinctly human and principled conception of human nature, relations, and interdependence.
Unlike the prevailing Western Darwinian worldview, which is animalistic, racial, rivalrous, and aggressive, the African worldview is theist, principled, and nonrivalrous. It emphasizes humankind’s oneness, dignity, moral agency, and peaceful collaboration and coexistence, not aggression and domination. The African worldview underpins Africonomics’ rejection of Western fundamentally animalistic assumptions of human nature and relations.
True civilization is moral, not merely material.
This framework challenges the dominant Western definition and conception of human civilization and the West’s claim to civilizational superiority. It redefines human civilization beyond material progress as the development of just, peaceful, and humane systems—not domination through technology, force, or empire.
As social philosopher and economist Manuel Tacanho writes, “A system built on force and fraud cannot be civilized.
Liberating African thought from Western dominance and deception.
Africonomics calls for a principled reexamination of mainstream economics, political theory, and social science—restoring truth and intellectual sovereignty to African nations.