"...we need to work together to identify and support the up-and-coming new Cheetah cohort of honest, hard-working Africans [named] in honor of Ghanaian economist George Ayittey's distinction between the older generation of Hippo rulers dependent on aid and the younger Cheetah generation of fast-moving entrepreneurs."First time I'd heard of that picturesque distinction, but that's because I hadn't paid enough attention to TED talks, specifically this essential and vigorous one by Ayittey himself...
13 July 2009
Cheetahs vs Hippos ~ New Africa Entrepreneurs
I just read a most interesting column by Senegalese beverages entrepreneur Magatte Wade on Jeffrey Sachs' Misguided Foreign Aid Efforts where she rails against how Sachs bears his burden and instead asserts that...
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