Quotes from George B.N. Ayittey

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.

Furthermore, one does not fight an enemy on the turf on which he is strongest, but where he is weakest.

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