A United States academic report for 2015 has suggested that
the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria are the most brilliant black
Africa race. According to the report: “a search through the
promotional materials of school for a black student – all
schools and colleges would always show some black faces in
their promotional materials if they have any – reveals that
they have had at least one black student, and it was,
unsurprisingly, a Nigerian Igbo.”


This is just as two teenage Nigerian high school students,
Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, have broken a
record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools in the
United States. Ekeh is a 17-year-old senior student at Elmont
Memorial High School, Long Island while Uwamanzu- Nna is
a high-school student from Long Island, New York.
Schools within the Ivy League are Brown University,
Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College,
Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of
Pennsylvania and Yale University.


However, the feat, according to two online news portals,
NBC News and MSN, revealed that both teenagers are faced
with “a big decision to make soon.” For instance, Ekeh was
granted admission by 13 universities, including all the eight
Ivy League schools.


The NBC News reports that Ekeh is faced with the dilemma
of whittling down his college prospects, having applied to 13
colleges, with the hope to “maybe” get into Stony Brook
University, about an hour east of his home in Elmont, Long
Island.
But, in recent weeks, the cascade of reply letters started
pouring in: Harvard. Yes. Yale. Yes. Princeton. Yes. Not only
did he get accepted to all of the schools he applied to, those
include all eight Ivy League institutions. Speaking with NBC
News, Ekeh said: “It’s very, like, stunning.
It’s like getting hit with a brick, honestly. When you see
congratulations, you’re like, wow your hard work has paid
off, definitely.” The straight-A student has accomplished the
rare feat of getting into all of the nation’s Ivy schools,
crediting his parents’ work ethic for setting an example and
a desire to strive in his adopted homeland after emigrating
from Nigeria 10 years ago.


“I find that I’m very over-involved,” Ekeh said, counting
advanced placement classes and extracurricular activities,
such as science research, school plays and being editor-
inchief of his school newspaper, as filling up his time. Ekeh,
who scored a 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs, said: “I do have
conflicts that maybe I’ll have this programme at the same
time as I have another programme and so it’s hard to
choose which one to be involved in.
I expected to maybe get into Stony Brook, a couple of other
safeties, just based upon the SAT and the GPA, but I was still
never certain of anything. There are so many variables taken
into consideration in college admissions, so I was never
certain of anything at any point.”


Ekeh, one of five brothers, said he wants to study
biochemistry and become a neurosurgeon. He is inspired by
his grandmother, who began showing symptoms of
Alzheimer’s when he was 11. He wants to find a cure. “There
are so many researchers working for Alzheimer’s disease
right now and many neurogenic disorders that definitely a
cure can be found soon,” he said.
As for where he is going to college, he isn’t quite sure, but
would like to stay close to family. “I am leaning towards
Columbia right now because I’d like to stay in New York City
for I guess the rest of my career and work at Mt. Sinai,” Ekeh
said, adding that America has given his family a life they
might never have had in Nigeria.


Meanwhile, Uwamanzu- Nna, who also had found herself in
the same situation, told MSN News that she has a big
decision to make soon. The Elmont High School
valedictorian, who was accepted into all the eight Ivy League
schools, also gained admission into Johns Hopkins
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York
University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, who
said her parents instilled in her the value of education.
“Though I was born here in America, I visited Nigeria many
times. And I’ve seen that my cousins don’t have the same
opportunities that I have.
So, definitely, whatever I do, I want to make sure that it has
an impact on Nigeria,” she said. She also said her own
tenacity and persistence helped shape her into becoming a
great student. But as with a lot of students, she did face
hardships with some classes.

“I struggled with numerous classes in the past. But I guess
what allowed me to be successful, ultimately, in those
classes, is my persistence and my tenacity,” she said.

Though
Uwamanzu- Nna hasn’t decided on which college to attend,
having scored a GPA of 101.6, and with a recent invitation to
the White House Science Fair, reports indicated that there’s
no doubt that she would continue her academic excellence.

The report that suggested the outstanding academic
performance of the Igbo revealed that if only environmental
factors were responsible for the different Intelligence
Quotients (IQs) of different populations, the world may
expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs
than Europeans.


The report cited empirical backup using theories
propounded by eminent scholars such as Richard Lynn, a
British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of
Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a professor of
educational psychology at the University of California,
Berkeley.
The report’s findings also revealed that while the fact
remains that black immigrants to the U.S have shown
achievements that were superior to native black Americans,
studies had also shown that it had been a phenomenon
studied since the 1970s at the least.
Using Lynn theory, who was also an assistant editor of the
controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known for
his views on racial, ethnic and national differences in
intelligence, the report revealed that: “Failure to find a single
country where this is the case points to the presence of a
strong genetic factor.”
For Jensen, the report said: “Regression would explain why
Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have
test scores two to four points lower than do White children
born to low IQ, poor White parents.” The report also stated
that at first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a
subject of this unexpected outcome.
As black Africans kept immigrating into the U.S, they showed
even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks.
Many scholars theorised on the reasons for these
differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this
disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks
as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell,
1978), to other scholars who suggested that these
immigrants were just the most highly driven members of
their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to
migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).



Credits: New Telegraph

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