George B N Ayittey
Biographic Data
| ID | 135970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George B N Ayittey |
| GIVEN NAMES | George B N |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayittey |
| SIGNATURE | AYITTEY G B N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The United States of Africa
Pan-Africanism was developed over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to combat the political subjugation of black people and the vestiges of slavery. Its founding belief is that black peoples share common cultures, problems, and objectives. It was, therefore, imperative for blacks to unite to achieve their objectives. On the African continent, Pan-Africanism became the rallying cry for the struggle for independence from colonial ru…
Traditional Institutions and the State of Accountability in Africa
Mythology about Africa still persists. It served colonial interests to portray African natives as "savages"; with no history and their indigenous institutions as "backward" and "primitive." Therefore, colonialism was 'good' for them as it 'civilized' them and freed them from their 'terrible and despotic' traditional rulers. Of course, much of this mythology has been tossed into the trash bin. African natives not only had history but also viable t…
Indigenous African Institutions
Indigenous African Institutions
Chapter 11. The Postcolonial Destruction And Betrayal Of Africa
After independence, most of the black African countries entered a new era called Imperialism. While many of the African leaders are addicted to shouting against imperialism and colonialism, they forget to recognize the existence of a new form of imperialism, the Imperialism. Within a spate of just four decades after independence from colonial rule, Africa has been transformed into a broken, dysfunctional continent by the poor quality and caliber …
Africa Unchained
In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous in
The Cultural Betrayal
As noted in the previous chapter, African nationalist leaders believed they could not rely on Africa’s “backward” indigenous institutions for the rapid development they envisaged after independence. As such, they searched for some foreign systems to adopt for Africa. But then, they possessed only a perfunctory understanding of these foreign systems. One could not expect African nationalists to be completely conversant with the intricacies and the…
The Second Generation Problems
The previous chapter examined the first-generation effects of statism: state direction of economic activity and planning with a plethora of state controls (price controls) and establishment of state enterprises to forge Africa’s industrialization drive. To recap, state controls created commodity shortages while inefficient and unprofitable state enterprises—established with foreign loans—failed to deliver the goods. These initial problems may be …
The Wrath of the People
True freedom never came to much of Africa after independence. In many African countries, independence was in name only; all that occurred was a change in the color of the master-from white colonialists to black neocolonialists—and the oppression and exploitation of the African people continued relentlessly.
The First Generation Problems
As discussed in chapter 3, most postcolonial African nationalist leaders and elites made some serious initial mistakes. They adopted the wrong ideology, socialism, which is alien to Africa, under which they spurned the private sector or the market economy, and placed primary reliance on the state to direct economic development (dirigisme or statism). Statism and socialism were bedfellows in many African countries. State participation in the econo…
The Atinga Development Model
The object of economic development is to raise the living standard of the “average African.” He is not an elite. He is a peasant—an illiterate, poor and rural person, whose primary occupation is agriculture. Throughout, we have called him Atinga. The elites were more obsessed with industrialization, missile technology, and nuclear power than with the Atingas peasant agriculture. Arrogantly, they then later marched off to “educate” the Atingas abo…
Africa in Chaos
Into the House of the Ancestors
Africa in Chaos
Africa Betrayed
Africa betrayed
The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982–1991
Epilogue
The Lessons of Africa's Market Tradition
Africa has a lengthy tradition of markets which could be adapted to provide an indigenous solution to economic conflict in southern Africa. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist at present Professor of Economics, University of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, contrasts the 20th‐century oppression of black by black with the lessons of history
Africa Unchained
In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous in
Traditional Institutions and the State of Accountability in Africa
Mythology about Africa still persists. It served colonial interests to portray African natives as "savages"; with no history and their indigenous institutions as "backward" and "primitive." Therefore, colonialism was 'good' for them as it 'civilized' them and freed them from their 'terrible and despotic' traditional rulers. Of course, much of this mythology has been tossed into the trash bin. African natives not only had history but also viable t…
The United States of Africa
Pan-Africanism was developed over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to combat the political subjugation of black people and the vestiges of slavery. Its founding belief is that black peoples share common cultures, problems, and objectives. It was, therefore, imperative for blacks to unite to achieve their objectives. On the African continent, Pan-Africanism became the rallying cry for the struggle for independence from colonial ru…
The Lessons of Africa's Market Tradition
Africa has a lengthy tradition of markets which could be adapted to provide an indigenous solution to economic conflict in southern Africa. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist at present Professor of Economics, University of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, contrasts the 20th‐century oppression of black by black with the lessons of history
The Lessons of Africa's Market Tradition
Africa has a lengthy tradition of markets which could be adapted to provide an indigenous solution to economic conflict in southern Africa. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist at present Professor of Economics, University of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, contrasts the 20th‐century oppression of black by black with the lessons of history
Epilogue
The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982–1991
Africa betrayed
Africa Betrayed
Into the House of the Ancestors
Africa in Chaos
Africa in Chaos
Africa Unchained
In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous in
The Cultural Betrayal
As noted in the previous chapter, African nationalist leaders believed they could not rely on Africa’s “backward” indigenous institutions for the rapid development they envisaged after independence. As such, they searched for some foreign systems to adopt for Africa. But then, they possessed only a perfunctory understanding of these foreign systems. One could not expect African nationalists to be completely conversant with the intricacies and the…
The Second Generation Problems
The previous chapter examined the first-generation effects of statism: state direction of economic activity and planning with a plethora of state controls (price controls) and establishment of state enterprises to forge Africa’s industrialization drive. To recap, state controls created commodity shortages while inefficient and unprofitable state enterprises—established with foreign loans—failed to deliver the goods. These initial problems may be …
The Wrath of the People
True freedom never came to much of Africa after independence. In many African countries, independence was in name only; all that occurred was a change in the color of the master-from white colonialists to black neocolonialists—and the oppression and exploitation of the African people continued relentlessly.
The First Generation Problems
As discussed in chapter 3, most postcolonial African nationalist leaders and elites made some serious initial mistakes. They adopted the wrong ideology, socialism, which is alien to Africa, under which they spurned the private sector or the market economy, and placed primary reliance on the state to direct economic development (dirigisme or statism). Statism and socialism were bedfellows in many African countries. State participation in the econo…
The Atinga Development Model
The object of economic development is to raise the living standard of the “average African.” He is not an elite. He is a peasant—an illiterate, poor and rural person, whose primary occupation is agriculture. Throughout, we have called him Atinga. The elites were more obsessed with industrialization, missile technology, and nuclear power than with the Atingas peasant agriculture. Arrogantly, they then later marched off to “educate” the Atingas abo…
Indigenous African Institutions
Indigenous African Institutions
Chapter 11. The Postcolonial Destruction And Betrayal Of Africa
After independence, most of the black African countries entered a new era called Imperialism. While many of the African leaders are addicted to shouting against imperialism and colonialism, they forget to recognize the existence of a new form of imperialism, the Imperialism. Within a spate of just four decades after independence from colonial rule, Africa has been transformed into a broken, dysfunctional continent by the poor quality and caliber …
The United States of Africa
Pan-Africanism was developed over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to combat the political subjugation of black people and the vestiges of slavery. Its founding belief is that black peoples share common cultures, problems, and objectives. It was, therefore, imperative for blacks to unite to achieve their objectives. On the African continent, Pan-Africanism became the rallying cry for the struggle for independence from colonial ru…
Traditional Institutions and the State of Accountability in Africa
Mythology about Africa still persists. It served colonial interests to portray African natives as "savages"; with no history and their indigenous institutions as "backward" and "primitive." Therefore, colonialism was 'good' for them as it 'civilized' them and freed them from their 'terrible and despotic' traditional rulers. Of course, much of this mythology has been tossed into the trash bin. African natives not only had history but also viable t…
Political science (15 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works)