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George Ayittey

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
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 world
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 people
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
— George Ayittey society
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
— George Ayittey self
The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.
— George Ayittey politics
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 people
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.
— George Ayittey art
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 time
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
— George Ayittey leaders
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
— George Ayittey africa
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
— George Ayittey problems
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
— George Ayittey family
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 salvation
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 reason
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
— George Ayittey understanding
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 history
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
— George Ayittey life
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
— George Ayittey war
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
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
— George Ayittey people
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
— George Ayittey africa
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
— George Ayittey free
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
— George Ayittey men
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
— George Ayittey art

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