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At times when some 14 year old guy/girl opens a thread here to present his/her problem, I discover that posters here always come up with replies such as ''Go and face your studies" or ''Ain't you too young to be in a relationship?'' But personally I think its unfair because most of us were active at a very early age. So why dismiss the 14 year olds as immatures?
Taking myself for instance, the first time I had feelings for a girl was when I was 6 years old. I didnt know about toasting then, so all I could do was stare at her to make her respond. I kept thinking about her especially at nights for several weeks. Each time I fantasized when we were in a lonely place kissing and smooching. So what makes you think 14 year olds should be excluded?

you guys should contribute stories.

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Whether you are single, married, or in a relationship, the fact still remains that you will keep coming across certain individuals that you will find attractive as you go about your daily business in public places.
Some days ago, just as I left my appartment and entered a cab to my destination, I saw that 2 girls were already sitted at the back of the cab. As I sat next to the door, I discovered that the girl sitted next to me by my left and in between the second girl and I, wasn't looking attractive to me. So I wasn't bothered by her presence, and my mind was at peaceful rest. I also didn't bother to have a quick glance at the second girl sitting at the extreme left to the door. I just assumed that  both girls belonged to the same category of unattractive fellows, so I started looking out through my door window and thinking  of more important issues as the cab kept moving.
About 3 mins later while the cab was still rolling, the second girl at the extreme left started making a noise with an envelope in her possession while searching for something inside it. The noise distracted me from my throught process and made me look towards her direction to the envelope. WAOW!!! I saw the girl's hands and just noticed that she had this very wonderful skin texture and colour, coupled with cute fingers. I couldn't check out her face outright because the unappealing girl sitting in between us was shielding my view. I told myself that this may be another case of fine body and ugly face, but I was determined to see her face before concluding. I didn't want to look at her face just like that cos I hate giving girls the impression that I am watching them. After some seconds, I then decided to pretend as though something caught my attention at the left side of the road, so I can look through the girl's door window and scan her face quickly at the same time. Just as I did that and saw her face, my mind exclaimed ''WHAAAAAAAAT!!!! What a girl!!!'' The girl was really facially pretty indeed. I just realized how wrong I was to dismiss her with the unappealing girl sitting in between us. Just as I was still recovering from the surprise, the girl then informed the cab driver that she was about to drop. This made something rush into my mind, which is the fact that it would be an opportunity to acess her full figure when she stands up to leave the cab. Moments later when the cab stopped to drop her, I turned my head towards to the left to watch her. The sight was OVERWHELMING. She still did not disappoint in the body shape aspect. After she closed the door and started walking away, I still kept watching her continuously even as the cab started moving far away from the drop spot. The other girl left in the cab with me probably knew I was possessed. I didn't just care. Anyway, I wasn't  ready to run after anybody, and besides getting her number may be the beginning of the end of my current relationship. I had to forget any moves to get her, only that I am still replaying the video clip of what I saw.
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I just noticed that the way christmas was celebrated 15 years ago isn't the same way christmas is been celebrated presently. I think there has been a steady slow decline in interest and celebration over the years. 15 years ago when christmas approaches, you can always feel it in the air. The activities going on around will make you say yes this is christmas. But this present day christmas shows a big change and difference from those of the upper years. It just appears like an ordinary weekened day. I didn't send or recieve cards from anyone unlike the previous seasons. I didn't do any shopping. The radio stations didn't play much christmas hyms like before. Even the lips tearing harmattan of other seasons did not show up. What really happened?

I said the same thing some months agos here. Its a very likely scenario.

^^^maybe the link is the phone number. lol

Why should GEJ stay away from the contest? Is the presidential seat made for any group of people? GEJ should run if he so wishes.

What else clearly depicts the total failure of most of Africa than the crazy run to the white man's country? Africans said they wanted independence and eventually got it. But why is everyone running away? Africans said they were underdeveloped by the white man, but they still run to his country to look for his "trouble''. Does it mean they still want to get further underdeveloped? The running black man is telling us that he wants to reap from where he did not sow. He is waiting for the rest of the world to clean their toilets only for him to migrate and use. When will Africans start scrubbing their stinking toilets and stop running to a white man's land for a clean one?? Too bad.

^^^See temptation.

When I saw the thread starter bkbabe, I knew it had something to do with Igbo land.

oyinda.:
If i use chewing stick, I will be called "aje pako" I don't want to risk that. lol

anyways, yes we don't have as high GDP and what not if that's what you are obsessed with but seriously it has nothing to do with brain size. I don't know how to explain things to you except to maybe change your mindset about things.
Even the fact that europeans are "more advanced" today than 200 years ago doesn't mean that they are smarter today. In fact, in classical times,  IMO they were at their smartest with homer, socrates, and whatnot. There are just a combination of factors that go into it such as exposure to other countries and continents such as china (gun powder etc), invention of writing (also from china. but British happened to develop the printing press that made it widely available), Africa (trade in oil, minerals, labor etc) and even religious views. so i think it's a mix of social, political, evonomic, environment and even coincidental factors.
Anyways, I think that if we don't die out as a race, there's always hope to be ahead in the future. The native americans are basically extinct today even though they inhabited all of America and Australia in the past and had civilizations in the Americas. That's one way of looking at a race's success. Their ability to adapt and survive.

Are you saying that Africans haven't been exposed enough to other countries and cultures?? If you look at it that way then it means we should be far ahead. Considering the fact that Africans have been jetting out of the continent and deported back massively.

I wish the success of a race depends on adaptability and survival. Africa has withstood centuries of all sorts of inflictions and survived. This case wouldn't have been debated.  

oyinda.:
what do you think of other races besides blacks and whites anyways?

what do you think of native americans, south east asians, latin americans, pacific asians, indians, etc.

This discussion is centered on the three MAJOR DISTINCT races. Those you mentioned above are sub races.

Arosa:
Guys can we now talk about what the Europeans did in their past that made them more technologically advanced than us today. what should we do to surpass them or beat them. thank you please.

We know what to do, but we wouldn't do it.

oyinda.:
There is something called the demographic transition theory that says that "underdeveloped" will have to pass through a industrialization phase before we can become more "developed" china and india are currently in this industrialization phase and europe and America went through theirs in the 1800s and earlier 1900s.
So my guess is that after China and India have passed their industrialized phase, we will be the next. I think that we probably won't have it now since we won't be able to compete with China and India who have already started ahead of us and developed the industry.

That's one theory of mine. What do you think?
overall though, i think these stuff anyways are bullocks. I think things will happen when it will happen (maybe influenced by my religious views).
I'm not a fan of industrialization for some reason. lol all i can think of are heavily polluted streets and what not (china is currently going through this). maybe we should think about how we can skip that step. lol

Now you are beginning to make sense. In fact this is the first good attempt by anyone to challenge the title of this thread. This is the kind of stuff you should have said earlier on rather than those things you were typing. But the problem here is that TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Weren't we created the same time with the rest of the developing and developed world? probably we were created first before them. Why should we be the last to reach the industrialization phase?

oyinda.:
I think we are suffering from colonial mentality. Imagine the OP telling me that Europeans brought toothbrush to Africa. what is toothbrush? some cheap plastic thing that end up in the landfill contributing to global warming. making it seem as if Africans don't have an indigenous (and even more effective IMO) form of dental hygiene. Most Africans abroad will tell you that the western dentists are always amazed by our dental health.

Just because we use european tools sometimes doesn't mean they are better than ours. we have just been conditioned to believe that way. We need to stop placing westerners on a pedestrial and thinking they are superior to us. This is one of the effects of such a foolish thinking:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-567854.0.html

What sort of reply is this? Are you trying to tell me that it was only TOOTHBRUSH your eyes saw in my earlier response to your comment I only used toothbrush as example to show how much the European foreigners POSITIVELY influenced the lifestyle of Africans. From the simplest things to the most sophisticated stuffs. If actually your so called indigenous form of dental hygiene is more effective than the western toothbrush and paste, why haven't you been using your indigenous method?

This thread is meant for women, but sorry I have to convert it for both sexes.
I would have chosen to be a woman so I can depend on man's sweat and also enjoy all the attention. But I have to remain a man only for SURVIVAL and SECURITY reasons cos men are more suited to withstand a horrible world in a state of armagedon. A world where each person is left to survive on his own.

I wonder what will happen there if that Osisikanku should rise up with force like a vampire. You go fear race. Both army and civilian.

That write up has shown that even blacks discriminate against fellow blacks. So why call the whites racist when we practice self-racism?

^^^ Of course it is absolute fact that the whites were living in caves thousands of years ago. But what I wish to understand is how Africa ''introduced'' civilization to them and didn't help themselves out of the cave with their knowledge of civilization to the present day.
The Europeans had some foreign influence, but not SO MUCH as when compared to Africa. Most of what they do today where brought up themselves. But in the case of Africa, even the clothes they wear and the official languages isn't there own idea, before we start mentioning the knowledge aspect.

oyinda.:
How can you say that  interaction with Europeans brought Africa more good than bad. You obviously do not know your history.
my opinion is that you will have to learn the hard way. you are best left to wallow in your inferiority complex.

Anyways, in my opinion, inferiority complex is one of the hindrances that have kept us from advancing.
how can one progress when he has internalized the idea that he is inferior to all of his peers?


You ask me to prove you wrong that blacks have a st[size=1pt].[/size]upid gene. are you kidding me? The "gene" theory has been  proved wrong and debunked a long time ago!!
the europeans came up with the "scientific fact" that blacks had smaller brains and silly genes etc. This racist pseudoscience was used  to justify a lot of the atrocities they committed against blacks, native americans and dark skinned people.
Even the nazis used the same argument on the jews. i.e pure aryan race.
And you are asking me, a black person, to agree with you that I have a st[size=1pt].[/size]upid gene. You are a fool for that. I will insult you. yes. because you have already insulted me with this topic and your racist posts about blacks.

Hehehe. My friend go and have a sit. First of all I have to repeat again that I never made any direct statement to say that Africans have a faulty gene. Go back to my original post and see that I asked a question if that is probably the situation of things.

Secondly, what do you think Nigeria/Africa would have been like if we were on a planet of our own and never came into contact with the Europeans? The Europeans brought in new knowledge to us including most of the things we use in our daily lives Today ranging from toothbrush to Cars and modern medicine . I doubt if Africans would have had this much knowledge and enjoying these wonders of  technology at the level of this present day if actually we were on different planet away from contact with the Europeans. I believe Africans may invent one or two things on their own, but not close to the present day level of knowlegde.

Talking about the inferiority complex issue you brought up, I have said it several times that this topic isn't about inferiority complex, but the quest to know the truth why Africans are behind. We shouldn't shy away from taking a deep examination simply because it is the race we belong to.

Whites are Caucasians whose ancestral home is Europe. Blacks are Negroids whose ancestral home is Africa.

I didn't ask you about anyone's continent of origin. You said a black skin is automatically a black man, therefore a fair skin is also automatically a white man. Concluded.

The ''university I am talking about''?  Mali had several universities (plural). They actually have NAMES, those universities, in case you didn't notice. And no, they did not ''teach mainly quranic principles''. Why don't you research what courses those universities specialised in? I even listed the courses above, yet that flew completely over your head. I think the problem is nothing to do with ''black people''. The problem is that YOU are not very bright.

If actually you are the one ''very bright'' why didn't you observe that saying ''mainly Quranic'' is not the same with saying ''only Quranic'' which you presumed it to be. I said ''mainly Quranic'' meaning that other subjects may be included, but the teaching of Islam is their main area. Anyway, I would still repeat that the Persians influenced the setting up of those universities.

I already explained to you the political circumstances in which the universities were established. Talking about this or that 'influence' is silly, because there is no part of the world that is not 'influenced' by the other. Europe itself is heavily influenced by what they learnt from Africa, Asia etc.

You might as well credit Africans for the cities you have in Europe today, plus all their buildings.

Is there any building in Europe as old as the Sudanese pyramids?

Am glad the part in bold has finally showed that foreigners played a heavy role in educating Africans as against your claim that Africans educated the world.
Concerning the part talking of cities and building, I don't know which African cities had bitumen tarred roads and sky scrappers before the Europeans got theirs that would make us believe they copied from us.

Both I and VALIDATOR have outlined in clear terms the factors militating against African development on this thread. Go back and read and stop repeating questions after they've been answered.

And Europe DID start their slave trade first with Asians, but this became uneconomical for them after the Asians proved too 'physically weak' for the task.

What was your answer again? The same slavery, colonization and blaming the white man?? Sorry you haven't answered the question yet. Therefore am asking again.

You are wrong to state 'a single school never existed'. Schools existed in the north, and in the south, artisan training schools, apprenticeships, and guilds existed. How else did we manage to train our blacksmiths, our gold miners, our textile makers, our sculptors, our carpenters, our farmers, our hunters, and our pastoralists?

Not a single one of those tasks can be performed without specialised training.

What you should say is that modern/western educational institutes were not in existence. And nothing stopped the English from setting up ''1000 schools''. They should have set up 5,000 in fact, considering the billions of dollars they made from exporting our resources. Instead, only a tiny, negligible minority was granted modern education. There is nothing to be ''grateful'' about THAT. What you SHOULD be grateful for is that NIGERIANS took over power, without which YOU would be a village peasant today, and an illiterate one at that.

Which would be probably no less than you deserve given the questionable use to which you've put your education around here.

Am happy you understood the kind of school I was referring to and save me some stress of re explaining. The question for you is, why should you expect the white man to establish 5000 schools for you? Why didn't we establish OUR OWN modern schools ourselves before the white man's coming? You expect them to give you schools because they were exporting our resources Funny indeed. Why didn't we export our own resources and provide schools for ourselves? This is to show the extent of Africa's weakness which I am asking in this thread whether it's runs in their gene or what. Your statement should be changed to; What you SHOULD be grateful for is that the BRITISH took over power, without which YOU would be a village peasant today, and an illiterate one at that ( Because the inspiration Nigeria had to build more schools came from the Europeans)

Let me bring my truthometer first before any further comments.

A BLACK PERSON IS A BLACK PERSON. PERIOD.

If that is what you are saying then we can safely conclude that a white person is a white person too. Anyone with a very fair skin is simply a white person. The Asians, Arabs, latinos and Africans with fair skins are whites as well. Are you now satisfied?

This is a highly inaccurate reading of what transpired. Persian Arabs did not ''bring in'' the universities in Timbuktu any more than Irish Europeans ''brought in'' the University of Lagos.

I think I may have used the wrong word ''brought in'' rather than saying influenced. This university you are talking about mainly taught Quranic principles. Since the Quran/Islamic faith originated from the then Persia, it means that the setting up of the university was influenced by the Persians during the course of the interaction Mali had with the Arabs.

Also, it is YOU who needs to open your eyes. You don't know how ''backward'' we would have been had European SLAVE SHIPS not arrived 500 years ago, turning everything upside down. Their ''visit'' did not start with colonialism. Their ''visit'' started with their slave ships berthing and threatening coastal village chiefs to sell their people or risk annihilation. This led to wars among ethnic groups and tribes, and a trade that disrupted African civilization like nothing else has, paving the way for colonisation.

Then tell me why Africans were so weak that the Europeans came with their ships and cratered them away as easy as taking out chickens from the poultry? Why didn't the Europeans go to Asia and the middle east to get slaves? Weren't there human beings there?

How many?

2?

3?

20?

How do you expect the English men to set up 1000 schools for you at a go in place where a single school never existed? The most important thing is they inspired us to set up more schools for ourselves. The fact that they were the spear head of education In Nigeria is enough to give to them credit.

Stop deceiving yourself. Go and ask your father how many people were opportuned to enjoy education under colonial rule. I'll answer for you. Less than 7% of the population. The English left you after their 80 year rule with a 7% literacy rate. Today, that figure has jumped to 75% in only 50 years of Nigerian leadership.

Stop deceiving yourself too. Did Nigerians establish any schools for themselves before the English men came? Why didn't we educate ourselves before the colonial masters came?

oyinda.:
This is a most ridiculous comment. you need serious deliverance.

Why didn't you prove me wrong rather than throwing a futile insulting statement and disappearing.

@Koruji. Didn't I tell you that I said the divine curse thing out of fustration?? Besides I never said a genetic defect is a confirmed explanation. I only asked what other explanation is left to hang on to since the economic and political reasons have failed to address the issue properly. Anyway, you shouldn't completely rule out the divine curse/gene theory because none of us knew what happened before we came into existence. The divine curse/gene theory stands as a probability and not a fact. Do you get it?

@Koruji. I still have to repeat that I never made a direct statement to say Africans were cursed. When I said only a revealation of a divine curse will explain the situation in Africa, I said it out of frustration because the economic and political reasons you mentioned as an excuse has not truly explained the situation in Africa. So what other cause is there again to hang on to? The fact is sub-sharan Africans MAY or MAY NOT have a defect because either way cannot be accurately proven. That is why I am ASKING if it has to do with the genetic make up of blacks. The reason why it has appeared like I am directly saying that Africans were cursed is because poster ROSSIKE has been saying that Sub-saharan Africans gave civilization, writing and organized mass education to the world. And my position has been that Sub saharan Africans did not introduce those things to the world.

Firstly the ancient Egyptians were black Africans. I'll leave you and your racist masters in Europe to distinguish what a ''pure black'' is from what a ''non-pure black'' is. References to ancient Egypt are references to a black African civilization. If you have a problem with that reference, start another thread on it.

I don't know which ancient black Egyptians you are talking about because according to the investigation carried out on the Egyptian mummies together with pictorial evidence showed that the ancient Egyptians weren't accurately and exactly as black as we are. Even though they were Africans. My focus is on the Sub Saharan black man that we belong to. Saying the ancient Egyptians were black is an inaccurate form of description. The ancient Egyptians had black skin, but they are not the same stock with the sub Saharan black man. The Aborigines of Australia have black skins, but they are different from the Sub Saharan black man. Same thing goes for the Indians with black skin. 

The universities of Mali were black African established and run universities. Institutes like the Sankore University in Timbuktu educated thousands of Africans in various fields from law to religion, literature to medicine and the sciences.

See my post below on the Timbuktu Manuscripts, which you can google as well.

This university you are talking about was clearly brought in by the Persian Arabs of that time. It's not like the Malians set up the universities without foreign input. The fact that the university was writing in Arabic, a language owned by the Persians, simply showed that the visit by the Persian Arabs influenced the setting up of those universities. If the university was the original idea of the Malians, a Malian local language would have been used in those manuscripts.

Which universities existed even DURING the time the Europeans ruled Nigeria? Which universities did THEY build in their 80 year rulership of Nigeria?

Answer? A big fat ZERO

It was only AFTER they were driven out, in 1960, that we, AFRICANS, began to build universities in Nigeria.

Today we've built over a hundred universities in Nigeria alone. So we have NOTHING to 'thank' them for since they did NOTHING.

Your response is really funny indeed. YES no universities existed during the Europeans stay, but you failed to realize something. Don't you think that the coming of the Europeans opened our eyes and made us see what we were lacking and how far behind we were? The simple truth is that even though the Europeans did not establish any universities, they inspired us to do so after we interacted with them and saw for ourselves that we needed the kind of education they foreigners possessed. They fact that we copied some aspect of their university system is a proof of the influence. The truth remains that if Africa wasn't visited by the Europeans, Africa wouldn't have been what it is today. We would have been more backward than we are today. Believe it or not. AFRICA'S INTERACTION WITH THE EUROPEANS DID MORE GOOD TO US THAN BAD. open your eyes and realize it.

Probably more than were educated by the time the Brits left 80 yrs later with our literacy rate at 5% at independence.

The reason Nigerians are educated today is because NIGERIANS are in power, who INVESTED HEAVILY in mass education from independence till date.

Tell that to your do-nothing oyibo looting masters.

Who told you that? Weren't there high schools established by the English? I have come across some secondary schools built around 1929 by the English men. Go and ask your father how the quality of education was under the English supervision. You have to understand that the English men started it first before we took over from where they stopped by establishing universities.

Life doesn't work like that. A young and complex country like Nigeria with a turbulent history, which only got its first modern university in 1960, WILL HAVE TO go through decades of turmoil  and nation building before becoming a fully developed nation.

For how long? Isn't it a shame and sign of weakness that foreigners fixed us in a country? Why didn't we do it ourselves and resolve the issues too.

What is wrong with the behaviour of a Masai?

I didn't say anything was wrong. I was only citing an example.

koruji:
@Blackteeth
You truly are ignorant. My stomach turns as I attempt to read the vomit proceeding from you.

Can you tell me your purpose for these things you are writing? It certainly not for enlightenment. Are you writing some kind of school paper? Are you engaged in a mind warping religious experiment? Are you drunk or on drugs? Are you depressed? Are you. . .?

I am fumbling for reasons on your behalf because it is hard to believe someone would keep insisting that he, his parents, his nation and his race are either DIVINELY CURSED or GENETICALLY DESIGNED TO BE DUMB.

Go through my posts and tell me where I have directly said Africans were genetically designed to be dumb. I am only asking if it is the likely situation of things.

First of all, Africans were not ''stark illiterates'' when Europeans arrived. Thousands of Africans were educated. Universities existed on the continent. After the collapse of Egypt following the Arab invasion, Islam and Arabic became the cultural vehicles of progress in the Nile Valley and beyond. Africans with proximity to this dispensation became part and parcel of that new world. The Timbuktu Manuscripts, several hundred thousand volumes of written text covering science to astronomy, architecture to religion, and dated from at least the 12th century, are clear evidence that knowledge and education were never extinguished on the African continent, and in fact blossomed, with numerous treatises on medicine, literature, and law written in several African languages by African scholars.

The Arabic script incidentally is little more than a corrupted form of the ancient African writing system of hieroglyphs.

The Arabic script directly came from the Nabatean script, which came from the Aramaic script, which came from the Phonecian script, which came from the African Hieroglyphs of the Nile Valley.

My friend STOP using Egypt to cover the ass of the rest of Africa. The Egyptians are Africans but they are not exactly in the same category as the ''pure'' blacks of Sub-saharan Africa down south. The ''pure'' blacks of Sub-saharan Africa are the scope of this post to be specific. Excluding the north Africans what else do you have to defend your position? I guess nothing. Taking Nigeria as part of the Sub-saharan blacks, which universities existed in Nigeria before the coming of the Europeans? How many people where educated? Tell me.

''Africans have had enough time to blah blah blah''. What, 50 years?

You think 50 years is ''more than enough time'' because you are not very thoughtful.

Tell me. Are YOU not an African?

What have YOU done personally to move Africa away from ''backwardness''? Stop projecting your own personal racial insecurities onto ''Africans''. Do YOUR bit and leave the rest to others to do theirs. Afterall today, many Africans work far harder than you to make life better for their fellows, so they by right should be pointing their fingers at YOU, and asking what have YOU done?

You are still repeating your 50 years of independence thing. I asked you to tell me what the people occupying Nigeria were doing before the Europeans came and you didn't do so. The fact is if Africans were not weak, they wouldn't have been colonized, and your talk of 50 years of existence as Nigeria wouldn't have been necessary by now. By the way I don't think you realize the magnitude of what 50 years represent. 50 years of independence is enough to make Nigeria at least the fifth largest economy in the world if you don't know.

Talking about what I have done to move Africa away from the backwardness, I am part of a research team of a construction company aimed at improving the quality of civil engineering structures that are put up in various regions. Am sure I am doing my own part. Tell your politicians to do there own part, and if they do theirs, Africa will rise up with full force I bet.

I DON'T believe that whites are superior to the blacks. But what I believe is Africans weren't naturally made to be like the Europeans and have the same culture with them. In other words, before Africans can match the Europeans in brain contest, they have to be TRAINED to live like an European. If you send an African black baby to be raised in a 100% white European community, that African baby will grow up programmed to behave exactly like an European. And if you bring in a white baby into the Massai tribe of Kenya, that white baby will grow up to behave like a massai.

Even if their salaries will be cut, how much will they cut? Highest N50,000.

My dad is way too busy to look at a laptop, before you talk of touching it and then signing into facebook. So am free to be a facebook bad boy as I wish.

^^^Take a microphone and tell that person.




@phate07, I abide by the rules but mistakes happen at times.

^^ waiting

VALIDATOR:
^^^^

You are right?It is not colonization. The reason is that all countries of the americas,asia,australasia and africa were colonized by europe but we see all others have fixed the damage done by colonization except africa and a few aboriginal people in australasia.
WHY?
All others had writing (i.e permanent record storage and accurate retrieval) before the colonization. Only africa and a few aboriginal people in australasia lacked it. Africa's doom was tied to the lack of writing.

Civilization as we know it today is directly tied to writing.

If you look at excavated items from pre-writing era from different continents, you will see that there wasn't much difference in the level of civilization from one continent to the other.However,things changed when others benefited from the invention called writing.Sub-sahara africa was geographically cut off from the rest of the world at that time (4th millenium bc) because of the vastness and shape of the sahara desert.Please check out the facts.

I think you have to direct your comment to poster ROSSIKE who is of the opinion that Africans taught writing to the rest of the world. Ask him how Africans who taught the world how to write eventually forgot how to write and then have to be taught again by the europeans.

oyinda.:
@OP, I ask myself the same question sometimes but then I look through history and find that the successful countries became successful through lots of dirt and blood in their hands. It's like a zero sum game nowadays and it's difficult for power to change hands but it's possible.
You need to change your topic title though. That's ridiculous for you to think it has to do with genes  . It's more social, economic, political etc than anything else. genes have nothing to do with it.

Oyinda, Yes other countries went through lots of dirts and blood, but Africa has already spilt 5 times the blood other countries spilt and its not enough yet. Do they want to spill their entire blood before anything start moving? You are not giving a specifc root by saying its economic and political. My question for you is why haven't we overcome the economic and political obstacle when other countries in Europe and Asia are overcoming the obstacle? Whats the reason?

I think I have to thank the members of this political section for bringing the most important headlines of the day and squeezing them to one page on Nairaland. At times when I buy some of those newspapers and read them from page 1 to the last, I would discover that I only got N20 worth of my money back out of the N200 I spent in purchasing the Newspaper. Ever since I started visiting the politics page of this site, I saw it unnecessary buying Newspapers anymore. Even when I have to visit the sites of the Newspapers, I still have to spend some time and effort filtering the goggle ads from the news. Also considering the sensible and foolish comments and reactions attached to the news topics here, it makes it more fun. Thanks guys and keep the REAL news coming.