To be sure, dictators are ...

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.
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 George Ayittey

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Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
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Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.
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Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
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There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
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Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
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