THE LEADING 25 THINK TANKS IN AFRICA

This list of the top African thinks excludes North Africa. Only those from the countries below the Sahara Desert, Sub-Sahara Africa, are ranked. Proving that South Africa is easily the continent’s “thought leader”, the majority of them are from South Africa.

Rank	Think tank	Country
1	Centre for Conflict Resolution	South Africa
2	South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)	South Africa
3	Institute for Security Studies (ISS)	South Africa
4	Free Market Foundation	South Africa
5	Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)	Senegal
6	IMANI Centre for Policy and Education	Ghana
7	Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD)	South Africa
8	Africa Institute of South Africa	South Africa
9	African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)	South Africa
10	Centre for Development Studies	Ghana
11	Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA)	Ghana
12	Initiative for Public Policy Analysis	Nigeria
13	Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)	South Africa
14	Inter Region Economic Network (IREN)	Kenya
15	Kenya Institute for Public Policy	Kenya
16	Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA)	Nigeria
17	Centre for Policy Studies	South Africa
18	Institute for Justice and Reconciliation	South Africa
19	Centre for Development and Enterprise	South Africa
20	Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA)	South Africa
21	Institute for Statistical, Social, and Economic Research	Ghana
22	Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC)	Ghana
23	South African Institute of Race Relations	South Africa
24	Ghana Centre for Democratic Development	Ghana
25	Institute for Policy Alternatives	Ghana
26	Institute of Economic Affairs	Ghana

Source: www.africanliberty.com