African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
George AyitteyIn the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
George AyitteyAfrica's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
George AyitteyThere was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
George AyitteyDictators 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.
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