₦airaland Forum

Pope Xander VII: Why is Scorpionking being Demonized? He made some very good Points. West Africa has always been Some-what developed, we had the Benin Kingdom and several others in West-Africa.

Pope Xander VII: The Only Problem was that we were cut off from other Parts of the World, most importantly China. West Africa would have been at the same level of advancement as the West and South east Asia. if we started intercontinental Trading Early.

Arosa: About a hundred years ago the north of Nigeria was more civilized than the southern part but why is it that the reverse is the case today? I tell you why, it's their so called "high self-esteem"

KidStranglehold: Wrong...The San people were not the early people and West Africans and other Africans do NOT descend from them. They just carry some of the oldest clades like Y-DNA haplogroup A in high frequencies. But even so there are other Africans that carry much other clades. San/Khoisans just share a common ancestor with other Africans. But the earliest Africans lived in East Africa and were not San/Khoisan.

The early Africans most likely did not look like modern Khoisans, because they didnt live in dry heated/Arid climates like Khoisans but humid where darker skin is needed.

The OP is non-Islamic Boko Haram
The whites enhanced our knowledge base, but we seriously lack WISDOM to implement the knowledge we have!
Nobody can teach you wisdom.

PocketEconomist: Okay. That's the Japanese story. I want you to find and read this book The China story. Why don't we replicate such in Nigeria? For example, the federal government can make it a goal of training 2000 specialised doctors abroad every year, set up and ultra modern lab in conjunction with private sector shared 60-40 and renumerate them reasonably, within ten years ceteris paribus, you have 20,000 specialist doctors in various fields, world class specialist hospital, and medical tourists would flood the country. That's just an idea among others looking at the india story.

PocketEconomist: Good points, but you shouldn't have called me a fool. We are all learning and nobody knows everything, as i've learnt something from your post. However, let us ask, were the chinese taught by the west? Don't think so. They copied what they saw and replicated it, although their goods were inferior at first, they improved. I also think we should do same. Copy aod paste, as we have the financial muscle to do so. Good day.

PocketEconomist: oh seriously... so why is there no industrialization. isn't it the same laziness? or intellectual laziness

Obi1kenobi: People can post all they want about ancient Egyptian civilization thousands of years ago. The fact remains since the turn of the post-AD era, Africa and the black race are several generations behind the rest of the world. We're a conquered, colonized people who were feeble in the face of European and Arab conquest. They arrived here with barely a few footsoldiers with blazing guns and we capitulated to their might and even sold our people to slavery. Western culture is a dynamic one that always looks to evolve and improve itself. Always looking to explore. Always looking to innovate. African culture is a stagnant, naive, insular culture. It's why the colonial powers caught us napping in our mud huts, oblivious to the rest of the world - unable to even explore the world with our dug canoes. All we can do is cry about how the evil Europeans subdued and subjugated us. Even though we're just as evil. We just lacked their firepower, ingenuity, resourcefullness and boundless ambition.

I don't have all the facts as to who is smarter. It also isn't that important to me cos ultimately, every human being is an individual unto himself. There are smart and dumb people in every race. But you do have to ask yourself why every single white nation on earth all across the globe is more advanced in every measurable indices of development and living than the black nations all around the world from Africa to Haiti. And why the few decent black nations have a white economic and industrial ruling class.

And as a matter of fact, all around Europe and America, standardized IQ tests ALWAYS show the same trends. Asians (especially Japanese, Koreans and Chinese) tend to narrowly edge the Whites with Blacks always being at the bottom (below Latinos, South East Asians, Native Americans etc). I don't believe it's some kind of conspiracy. Afterall, Asians rather than Caucasians usually top the list when the Caucasians could have put themselves top.

Many would call my ramblings "inferiority complex" but I choose not to be in denial. Their being smarter or not smarter ultimately affects little whether you agree or not cos individually, it makes no difference to how smart you are.