What I wrote here is quod est, to my mind at least

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China just sent a repair kit module to outer space. She wants a brand new Space station.

American companies are vying for lunar land estate. China is ooking into designing smart and socially efficient babies, have designed one already.

Africans have.........Well we had always blamed the Europeans

Lets take a little dive into this.

[b]The economic and social development of any area is always triggered by foreign influences, through trade and/or colonization. For an example, the North-Western European development was the long term result of successive colonial waves (including the Latin, Germanic and Arabian ones).

Africa was not colonized in the same way and in the same circumstances as any other continent. It suffered the pressure of external powers, i.e. first the Arab-Muslim world, then the Europe. It was not an "empty" place, so there was no room for massive colonial immigration such as in the Americas. On the other hand, the colonial grip was much more stronger than in other populated areas (such as Eastern and Southern Asia). As a consequence, the colonization in Africa was a foreign domination without effective cultural mix, that is the worst possible situation.

In addition, the last and the most invasive European colonization in Africa (mainly accomplished during the 19th century) was done for power, not for profit (even if it enriched a few individuals and companies). It was a large-scale collateral damage of the fierce competition between Britain, France, and Germany, each one hurrying from its primary coastal bases into the hinterland in order to grab more land and strategic positions than the others. All that was done without any real consideration of economic efficiency.

So it takes more time for Africa to recover and to become an actor (instead of a victim) of the global economy.[/b]

The bolded is the typical logic we all easily fall back to, blame europeans.....but we also forget that Malaysia, Singapore and china were once colonies.

Back in 21st century, what is still holding us? Are we genetically built to just be fecund, highly virile and spewing forth children to constantly boost the world's population (or become its burden) or Are we just on the same genetic template with every other human sub-group?

Is corruption, really the only thing keeping us down?

Is our spiritualism, and many cultures - the potent mix that continually keeps us less adventurous into science. Do we reaaly think that venturing too much into science is an insult to the Creator?

I wish we could discuss this.

It's Because We Lack The Leadership Will To Turn Things Around. There Are Alot Of Best Brains In Africa But When The Leaders Refuse To Use Them To Achieve Technological Development, They Become Redundant And That's Why There's Brain Drain. Our Government Needs To Invest Heavily In And Encourage Technoprenuership Just Like The Way Of The Chinese And Singaporeans. Technical Education Should Be Invested Upon Becos It Is D Bedrock Of Inovation And Invention.

It's not about colonization, Because virtually every continent or country was colonized at one point or another in history.

It's about our strong held belief that science/technology and religion (especially Christianity/islam) are immiscible.

menxer:
It's not about colonization, Because virtually every continent or country was colonized at one point or another in history.

It's about our strong held belief that science/technology and religion (especially Christianity/islam) are immiscible.

My mind keeps telling me that this two religions might be the underlying deterrents but then Christianity fastened/Midwifed the Renaissance in Europe?

Africa has one problem and that's leadership. It has little or nothing to do with religion or faith, the privileged little see religion as the opium of the masses and the never miss any opportunity to use it against us. Most of our leaders Christians and Muslims patronize herbalists and sorcerers but claim to be whatever when election comes.


Religion is relegated in china but they are doing great. Africa is the scorn of continents

kazuna:


My mind keeps telling me that this two religions might be the underlying deterrents but then Christianity fastened/Midwifed the Renaissance in Europe?

That was Europe and the flavour of Christianity then and now are not the same.

Christianity was not brought to us for emancipation but control.

I have been reading the Zohar and realized that the purpose of Christianity, as we have it, is at variance with what the Zohar teaches.

Science is never at variance with religions.

It is the pleasure of Elokim (bible Elohim) to conceal a thing (scienctific knowledge) and the privilege of kings (scientists) to find it.
~Bible

Don't go too far...how do u expect scientific developments wen pple like lai... BuHari.... San fashola(as power minister)....goodluck.. Atiku.. Etc kips demselvs at d throne?

daewoorazer:
Don't go too far...how do u expect scientific developments wen pple like lai... BuHari.... San fashola(as power minister)....goodluck.. Atiku.. Etc kips demselvs at d throne?

Are u suggesting that they are all dull

Meanwhile Hitler (to the Gemans he was a mighty person) midwifed the scientific progression of Germany.....A bad leader can still fast-track science.

There is another argument (series of theories) supporting the reason for Africa's lag
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We have lots of Mosquitoes and Threatening animals
The problem, was that African humans had a hard time outcompeting other living things in Africa, such as diseases (falciparum malaria and sleeping sickness, most notably) and giant beasts (such as elephants).

To put this in Darwinian terms, humanity not only evolved in Africa, but, unfortunately for the humans, co-evolved along with animals and germs, which gave humanity’s rivals a more than fighting chance. When humans arrived in the New World, in contrast, they killed and ate the local elephants (wooly mammoths) in short order because they didn’t understand how dangerous these two-legged creatures (the new humans) with pointy sticks were to them.

In Africa, the elephants had seen us coming for millions of years and had time to evolve behavioral defenses against us.

A herd of elephants seems cute to Most Non-Africans and even us today, but a herd can eat an entire African village’s crop of food in a day, leaving it starving. So, humans and elephants in Africa tended to form patchworks of habitation, with humans only living in areas where they could muster enough density of population to drive off the elephants and giraffes and predators.

But too high a density of population, such as in cities, made people sitting ducks for diseases borne by mosquitoes and tsetse flies. The germs in tropical Africa were even worse than the megafauna.

Humans in Africa evolved a brutal defense against this version of malaria, the sickle cell genetic mutation, which provides some protection if you get one copy of the allele, but (without modern medicine) kills you if you inherit two. We wouldn’t have such an inelegant genetic protection if humans in Africa didn’t need it against such a massive killer. (The less vicious vivax malaria has a safer mutation to protect Africans, the Duffy gene.)

So, tropical Africans couldn’t learn to live in dense urban populations, with all the advanced trades made possible by the concentrations of city life. They largely remained small villagers scratching a living from the ground.

kazuna:


Are u suggesting that they are all dull

Meanwhile Hitler (to the Gemans he was a mighty person) midwifed the scientific progression of Germany.....A bad leader can still fast-track science.

Intelligence is totally different from meanness /hostility....