George Ayittey Quotations

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

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

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

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.

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

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.