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Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

— George Ayittey

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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.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

Furthermore, one does not fight an enemy on the turf on which he is strongest, but where he is weakest.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

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