"Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa."

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Source : "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

George Ayittey

#Party Quotes #Style Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?”
“I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.”
“All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You wonâ€™t remember it, and youâ€™ll learn nothing from it, and youâ€™ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.”
“I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.”
“Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder”
“I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.”
“Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.”
“Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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