Talk:George Ayittey

"Arab apartheid"
I've just reviewed Ayittey's article from Law and Policy in International Business. This is the full context of his remarks:


 * Politics has always been a means of securing `access to the meat.' Rampant corruption has sapped the economy and widened the gap between a rapacious few and the sullen wanachi [the common folks]. Companies with links to [President] Moi have skimmed monumental sums off government contracts in wheat, oil, and land, and particularly off foreign aid. Budget allocations are sold to the highest bidder. One series of scams in the early 1990s cost Kenya the equivalent of 10 percent of its annual gross domestic product.(12)


 * The "rapacious few" are drawn largely from President Moi's kinsmen, the Kalenjin. This insidious system of governance was far more rampant in Africa than analysts cared to admit. Like the whites in South Africa, elite minorities elsewhere in Africa held all economic and political power and ran bloated and inefficient civil services with brutal and corrupt security apparatuses to suppress the majorities. In Sudan and Mauritania, the Arabs monopolized power and excluded blacks--Arab apartheid. In Rwanda and Burundi, the Hum and Tutsis alternatively held a monopoly on power, as did the Hausa-Fulani in Nigeria--tribal apartheid. In Togo, Zaire, and Uganda, the military had a monopoly on power--statocracies. In Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Kenya, and Tanzania, one political party held the monopoly--one-party states.

Ayittey is making a point about government becoming a prize for factionalized groups in various African societies. It distorts his point to focus exclusively on one sentence having to do with Sudan, Mauritania, and Arabs. CJCurrie (talk) 20:14, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

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