Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
George Ayittey
Born: 1945
Died: January 28, 2022 (aged 77)
Bio: George Ayittey was a Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC. He was a professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Known for:
- Africa betrayed (1992)
- Africa in Chaos: A Comparative History (1997)
- Indigenous African institutions (1991)