A nation must think before it acts.
African Development and Economics
George Ayittey, formerly an FPRI Associate Scholar, is Distinguished Economist in Residence at The American University. Born in Ghana, he earned a B.Sc. (Economics) from the University of Ghana, Legon, an M.A. (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. at the University of Manitoba. He has taught at Wayne State College in Nebraska and Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. 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. He is the author of Indigenous African Institutions (Transnational Publishers, 1991; 2nd ed. 2004); Africa Betrayed (St. Martin’s Press, 1992); The Blueprint For Ghana’s Economic Recovery (Africana Publishers, 1997); Africa In Chaos (St. Martin’s Press, 1998); and Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Development (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004).