George Ayittey Quotes

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• Africa is poor because she is not free.
• The only good dictator is a dead one.
• Radio is the death and life of Africa.
• The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
• The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
• There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
• Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
• What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
• Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
• Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
• When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
• Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked…
• Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
• The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is…
• African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
• Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
• Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
• Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
• Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
• Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

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