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
George Ayittey quotes about
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.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.