George Ayittey
George Ayittey, a "visiting associate professor of economics" at American University, is the "founder and President of The Free Africa Foundation - a group dedicated to the promotion of development and democracy in the region," according to a biographical note on the website of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. [1]
Ayittey is a member of the African Oil Policy Initiative Group [2], a lobbying group set up to promote greater American extraction of African oil.
"In 1988, he accepted a National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University in California. He left Hoover in 1989 to join the Heritage Foundation as a Bradley Resident Scholar. In 1993, he started The Free Africa Foundation in Washington, DC, to serve as a catalyst for reform in Africa." [1]
In 1999 George Ayittey was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. [2]
"Dr. Ayittey has served as a consultant to several organizations, including the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME)." [3]
On July 24, 2005, Professor Ayittey, discussed social, political, and economic development in Africa with Anchor, Bill Moyers. see
In 2008 George Ayittey was a co-founder of Radio Free Africa. [4]
Recently recognized by the prestigious Foreign Policy Magazine to be one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers "for pushing policymakers to let Africa help itself." [3]
- Associate Scholar, Foreign Policy Research Institute [5]
- Advisory Board, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria) [6]
Contents
Published Works by George Ayittey
These include [4]
- Africa in Chaos (Chapter 1)
- Indigenous African Institutions (Transnational Publishers, 1991)
- The Blueprint for Ghana's Economic Recovery
- Africa Betrayed (won the 1992 H. L. Mencken Award for Best Book). (Cato and St. Martins, 1992)
- Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Resources and articles
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References
- ↑ George Ayittey, Foreign Policy Research Institute, accessed February 16, 2010.
- ↑ Funding Graft in Russia and Africa, Cato Institute, accessed February 17, 2010.
- ↑ George Ayittey, Mercatus Center, accessed February 16, 2010.
- ↑ George Ayittey on the BBC: Freedom of Expression was not invented by the West, committeetoprotectbloggers, accessed February 16, 2010.
- ↑ George Ayittey, Foreign Policy Research Institute, accessed February 16, 2010.
- ↑ About, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria), accessed February 17, 2010.
