3 Quotes by George B.N. Ayittey

Some Ghanaian intellectuals still cling to the notion that our current problems are the deliberate attempts by imperialism to thwart our efforts at development. The imperialism and neo colonialism rhetoric belongs to the 1950s and 1960s. The real problem is how we run our own affairs.

It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.

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