From African Socialism to Libertarianism

Wanjiru Njoya ()
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Wanjiru Njoya: University of Exeter, Law School

Chapter Chapter 54 in Libertarian Autobiographies, 2023, pp 315-318 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This autobiography describes my intellectual journey from African socialism to libertarianism, highlighting the friends and writers who have influenced my ideas. The journey begins in Princeton, New Jersey, and onward to undergraduate classes in Nairobi, Kenya, which taught that the essential evil of colonialism lay in imposing private property rights onto a pre-capitalist society. After a brief interlude of enlightenment in Kingston, Ontario, the path leads to Exeter, England, and my ultimate rejection of egalitarianism as an anti-human ideology. I strongly feel that it is essential for libertarian perspectives to be heard in the “historical injustice” debates, and my current work warns that attempting to reverse historical injustice by dismantling property rights only creates new and more grievous injustices.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29608-6_54

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