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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
- George Ayittey
#History
#People
#Power
#Shooting
#Way
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
- George Ayittey
#Fault
#Leadership
#Never
#Time
#Wrong
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
- George Ayittey
#Africa
#Before
#Free Trade
#Free
#Trade
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.
- George Ayittey
#Back
#Black
#Country
#Indigenous
#Reason
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
- George Ayittey
#Across
#Africa
#Election
#Own
#Where
What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa.
- George Ayittey
#Government
#People
#Understand
#Vampire
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.
- George Ayittey
#Corruption
#Naked
#Problems
#World
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
- George Ayittey
#Africa
#Excluded
#Marginalized
#Were
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
- George Ayittey
#Banana
#Now And Then
#Now
#People
#Work
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
- George Ayittey
#Africa
#Find
#Lie
#More
#Salvation
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
- George Ayittey
#First Step
#First
#Free
#Society
#Step
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.
- George Ayittey
#Back
#Hero
#I Am
#Say
#Us
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.
- George Ayittey
#Africa
#History
#Look
#Peace
#Terrible
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
- George Ayittey
#Africa
#Concerts
#Lie
#Live
#Problems
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
- George Ayittey
#Change
#Hands
#Matter
#Power
#Wealth
#Will
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