George Ayittey
George Ayittey
George Ayitteyis a Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC. He is a professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has championed the argument that "Africa is poor because she is not free", that the primary cause of African poverty is less a result of the oppression and mismanagement by colonial powers, but rather a result of modern oppressive native autocrats. He also goes beyond criticism...
NationalityGhanaian
ProfessionEconomist
CountryGhana
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The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
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 plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
The only good dictator is a dead one.
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.