George Ayittey People Quotations

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

You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.