ayittey
- Attending a Confab in Accra, held by Club du Madrid: Impact of the global finan.crisis on Africa. Group includes 4 former African presidents8:40 AM Oct 29th from web
- Mogae of Botswana Kufuor of Ghana, Chissano of Mozambique, Obasanjo of Nigeria, and Mkapa of Tanzania. Will restrain myself -- with effort.8:36 AM Oct 29th from web
- On a continent of unrepentant hardknocks and hipps, Mo Ibrahim could not find a good leader to award $5m prize. Surprised?5:03 AM Oct 20th from web
- Having fun writing my book How To Topple a Brutal Despot. Chapter 1 is done. Six more to go. You wait. The despots won’t know what hit them!4:13 PM Oct 14th from web
- Hold the next UN General Assembly Meeting in Burma, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, N.Korea, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela or Zimbabwe. Get it?8:17 PM Oct 7th from web
- The West should stop the guilt trip over Africa. Africa doesn't need to be smothered with compassion or tough love. It needs a cold bath.5:22 AM Oct 5th from web
- The West should treat Africa as it treated the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc. There, it didn't form partnerships with communist regimes5:22 AM Oct 5th from web
- The West did not give aid to communist gov'ts on vain hope of reform. Rather, it helped groups (Solidarity) and set up Radio Free Europe.5:22 AM Oct 5th from web
- Radio Free Africa will do for Africa what Radio Free Europe did to the former Soviet Union.
5:21 AM Oct 5th from web
- How Ghana Did It.
3:04 AM Oct 5th from web
- Tactical opposition blunder in Guinea left over 200 dead. The most effective weapon against a military junta is a civil service strike.5:14 AM Sep 30th from web
- Without the civil service any military junta will collapse (Ghana, 1978; Benin, 1989). Not enough soldiers to run the civil service.5:14 AM Sep 30th from web
- The BBC asked me for a 60-second idea to change the world. A provocation! Here it is:
10:44 AM Sep 20th from web
- "Cheetahs" brook no nonsense about corruption and won't wait for gov't. They are at the next frontier.
6:19 AM Sep 19th from web
- Burundi: Police chief thanks angry mob.
4:29 PM Sep 8th from web
- In Nigeria, bandits now run the banks. It doesn't get any better than this.3:21 PM Sep 7th from web
- A rebel group fighting against the coconut (Idris Deby) in Chad is led by one of his own relatives! O Merciful Allah.1:48 AM Sep 7th from web
- Kenya’s anti-corruption czar is being paid $34K a month – highest salary in the country.The ruling bandits have BRIBED him to look elsewhere5:10 PM Sep 4th from web
- The destruction of an African county always begins with a dispute over the electoral process.It is about POWER, not ideology or imperialism.12:17 PM Sep 3rd from web
- Stolen election in Gabon. Violence erupts. Same stupid mistakes repeated in country after another. Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe.Nothing learned12:15 PM Sep 3rd from web
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- Name George Ayittey
- Location Washington, DC, USA
- Bio Native of Ghana, Distinguished Economist at American University and President, Free Africa Foundation, both in Washington, DC
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