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George Ayittey Quotes

1945–2022 Ghana

George B. N.

Ghana
Economists
Non-fiction authors

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I want to make Africans rich. If you make Africans rich, they’ll be less poor. That’s my development strategy.

Between 1957 and 1990, there were more than 150 African heads of state and only six relinquished power voluntarily.

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

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.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Ayittey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.