Sunnyconvo:
Hello all,

Why is every large community of black people in this world behind? Africa is a country with a majority of black people and it is known all around the world as a third world continent and is used as an example of world hunger.

In America here, black people are only about 14% of the population yet they are responsible for over 50% of the crimes committed. Yes I know we have dealt with racism and colonization but can this really give such a hard blow to an entire people like this? Moreover, why did we suffer from colonization and slavery in the first place. What was it with us that we could not stand strong as a nation? Was it really a bad hand that led to almost an entire people being colonized or enslaved?

You look at Italy, they are known highly for many things like their food, art and architecture. Germany is known for many things including technology, philosophy. Japan is also known for many things such as it’s advanced technology. What is Nigeria known for?

Today look at Nigeria and other black African countries economically, how do they fare to European countries? It is only their will that is stopping them from conquering us again.

Other peoples promote themselves and their people. They are at least somewhat not too narrow-minded to see that the state of affairs of their people also affects them.

I know no people is anywhere near perfect and you can argue that other countries are actually worse but it is less obvious. Still I will say why is it us that must shine as the examples of inferiority for the world?

tensazangetsu20:
The curse of ham. The black man has been cursed by God.

Sunnyconvo:
Hello all,

Why is every large community of black people in this world behind? Africa is a country with a majority of black people and it is known all around the world as a third world continent and is used as an example of world hunger.

In America here, black people are only about 14% of the population yet they are responsible for over 50% of the crimes committed. Yes I know we have dealt with racism and colonization but can this really give such a hard blow to an entire people like this? Moreover, why did we suffer from colonization and slavery in the first place. What was it with us that we could not stand strong as a nation? Was it really a bad hand that led to almost an entire people being colonized or enslaved?

tensazangetsu20:
The curse of ham. The black man has been cursed by God.

Quintessence44:


The problem is YOU.

Get rid of your inferiority complex.

When you feel inferior, you will only see the bad things in Africa and the black world.

The minute you rid yourself of racial inferiority complex, you will start to see the things that MILLIONS of FOREIGNERS who visit and settle in Africa and the black world every year, see in us, from our food to our culture, to our hospitality, to our vibrant cities, picturesque rural regions, fast-growing economies with vast opportunities for business and investment, to our music and film industries exploding in popularity across the world.

Today, 11 of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world are black African or black Caribbean.



As we speak, 20,000 black Americans have left the USA to live in Ghana just in the last 2 to 3 years.

They don't have your inferiority complex which says everything black is bad and ''behind the world'' and such rubbish.

Or they would have moved to Norway.

Use your time and energy to help build up and promote your continent instead of feeling inferior.

LikeAking:


Abeg stop all those save face things..

Is this a position we shud be proud of?

This position means the bottom in a polite way..

The black man is not smart and you are no different..

Imagine the chart you are using to defend the truth..

For now we are all glorified monkeys..

Including you..

Sunnyconvo:
Hello all,

Why is every large community of black people in this world behind? Africa is a country with a majority of black people and it is known all around the world as a third world continent and is used as an example of world hunger.

In America here, black people are only about 14% of the population yet they are responsible for over 50% of the crimes committed. Yes I know we have dealt with racism and colonization but can this really give such a hard blow to an entire people like this? Moreover, why did we suffer from colonization and slavery in the first place. What was it with us that we could not stand strong as a nation? Was it really a bad hand that led to almost an entire people being colonized or enslaved?

You look at Italy, they are known highly for many things like their food, art and architecture. Germany is known for many things including technology, philosophy. Japan is also known for many things such as it’s advanced technology. What is Nigeria known for?

Today look at Nigeria and other black African countries economically, how do they fare to European countries? It is only their will that is stopping them from conquering us again.

Other peoples promote themselves and their people. They are at least somewhat not too narrow-minded to see that the state of affairs of their people also affects them.

I know no people is anywhere near perfect and you can argue that other countries are actually worse but it is less obvious. Still I will say why is it us that must shine as the examples of inferiority for the world?

Quintessence44:


The problem is YOU.

Get rid of your inferiority complex.

When you feel inferior, you will only see the bad things in Africa and the black world.

The minute you rid yourself of racial inferiority complex, you will start to see the things that MILLIONS of FOREIGNERS who visit and settle in Africa and the black world every year, see in us, from our food to our culture, to our hospitality, to our vibrant cities, picturesque rural regions, fast-growing economies with vast opportunities for business and investment, to our music and film industries exploding in popularity across the world.

Today, 11 of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world are black African or black Caribbean.



As we speak, 20,000 black Americans have left the USA to live in Ghana just in the last 2 to 3 years.

They don't have your inferiority complex which says everything black is bad and ''behind the world'' and such rubbish.

Or they would have moved to Norway.

Use your time and energy to help build up and promote your continent instead of feeling inferior.

Difrent:


Calm down bro
Don't be too hard on yourself as a black man
There are poor European countries too
And many homeless Europeans and Americans
While
There are also very rich black countries like Nigeria
Nigeria is not a poor country but a rich country with poor leadership.
If Africans get leadership right then theres hope for Africa....

Difrent:


You are not totally correct.
It's not inferiority complex but the sad truth is that Africa is lagging behind in developmental strides globally. Many Asian countries were like this especially the south east Asians but with political and economic reforms they are now on a path to greatness..... Africa has a lot to learn from them.

That 20k blacks have moved to Ghana isn't because of any patriotism but an economic strategy.... Europe and America is becoming too expensive to live in so thousands of Migrants are retiring to Latin America, Asia and Africa...

Kushites:


Stop this ''Africa'' nonsense.

Is Africa a single country?

Some African countries are doing very well, and some are doing not so well but ok, while some are sluggish but still growing, and some are doing badly and need to improve.

You cannot just paint Africa with one negative brush.



African-Americans moving to Africa has next to nothing to do with the cost of living in America.

They are returning to Africa because of the effects of YOUTUBE, where African vloggers have shown them that the western media has been LYING to them about Africa all their lives.

They are returning because they can see that AFRICA, their motherland, is a FAST-DEVELOPING REGION unlike CNN and BBC's racist, ultra-negative misrepresentation of the continent, which many of you on this forum, stupidly parrot.

tensazangetsu20:
The curse of ham. The black man has been cursed by God.

Quintessence44:


The problem is YOU.

Get rid of your inferiority complex.

When you feel inferior, you will only see the bad things in Africa and the black world.

The minute you rid yourself of racial inferiority complex, you will start to see the things that MILLIONS of FOREIGNERS who visit and settle in Africa and the black world every year, see in us, from our food to our culture, to our hospitality, to our vibrant cities, picturesque rural regions, fast-growing economies with vast opportunities for business and investment, to our music and film industries exploding in popularity across the world.

Today, 11 of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world are black African or black Caribbean.



As we speak, 20,000 black Americans have left the USA to live in Ghana just in the last 2 to 3 years.

They don't have your inferiority complex which says everything black is bad and ''behind the world'' and such rubbish.

Or they would have moved to Norway.

Use your time and energy to help build up and promote your continent instead of feeling inferior.

Catapault:
12 Amazing African Inventions That Created The Civilized World


1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.


Pharaoh Usekafe


Pharaoh Tutankhamum


Pharaoh Amenhotep III


3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture

Sudan (Ancient Nubia) is also a site of MORE pyramids than Egypt, many older and smaller-sized.

Sudan has 255 pyramids in total, dated several thousands of years old.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2015/4/5/pictures-of-sudans-forgotten-nubian-pyramids



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the ''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Aithiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity,"


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."
Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed. He thinks that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says: "From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians [ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara] have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found. The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished."

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

Sunnyconvo:


The question is why are we as black peoples not making the same strides today?

gidgiddy:
The problem of black Africa, or should I say black Africans, is what I call backward mentality

Others are thinking 300 years ahead, the black African is thinking 300 years backwards

The inability to adapt to changing times and move forwards has eluded the black African. A typical example is much of the developed world where gays and lesbians are no longer judged for their sexual orientation, as long as it is consensual. However, a typical black African will want to kill a person who does not conform to the normal sexual convention.

In other words, the black African is still ready to kill his fellow human being over what people no longer care about in the West, showing his still rather low level of value for human life

tensazangetsu20:
The curse of ham. The black man has been cursed by God.

ednut1:
That we are last today does not mean we will be forever. In our lifetime we have seen places like Singapore, the Arab countries, Korea etc develop from being a shit hole. The elite/ political class of many black nations are benefiting from the status quo and are working with the west and east as long as they are being settled.

Johnchrix:


You are always too extreme by your summaries. Any slight opportunity you have to say something bad about your home land, you grab. You are no different from whites that promotes racism.

junketer:
We as blacks don't like ourselves. Black on black hate. See one up there writing we invented speech, WTF. The other one wrote we are fastest growing economy. Statistics given to him by the whites. Look at the useless challenges we do on tiktok, dance, shake you a55, who has the biggest waist, jollof rice, nothing that helps anyone. Bring black people to any nice area, leave them there then come back after 2 years, that place will be a mess. Anywhere in the world where black people are more, they run the place down. Check. We have refused to grow.