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MrBrownJay1:
here is how Africa would improve INSTANTLY, with the right "people": the minute a head of state messes up, the PEOPLE should rebel and eject that yeye president. if the people did that (like they do elsewhere around the world) Africa will greatly improve instantly.

the power lies with the people, not these yeye head of state. sadly, African are so brainwashed that they would go and riot in the streets for every lame reason yet not for what would change their destiny...

- why cant Nigerians go to the streets and protest when leaders fukc up, like they did during endsars? is endsars more important than the future/existence of Nigeria?
- why cant Nigerians go to the streets and protest when leaders fukc up, like they did during South African ressentment (after South Africans were killing Nigerians in SA)?? is SA treatment of Nigerians more important than the future/existence of Nigeria?
- why cant Nigerians go to the streets and protest when leaders fukc up, like they did when some yeye coza pastor was accused of rape? are coza pastors more important than the future/existence of Nigeria?

It will take a long time for Africa to develop. The rot is very deep.

Africans can't do all these things you said because of their low level of intelligence. When there are large numbers of people in Africa, who are stupid enough to believe all those silly tales meant for kids in the Bible and Qur'an, such a people can't develop.

Those books won't allow them to develop until they start discarding and binning the books. The books won't even allow them to unite as one and face a common enemy so the continent can move forward.

So, the first step is getting rid of Christianity and Islam in Africa. That will take years.

A001:
It will take a long time for Africa to develop. The rot is very deep.
Africans can't do all these things you said because of their low level of intelligence. When there are large numbers of people in Africa, who are stupid enough to believe all those silly tales meant for kids in the Bible and Qur'an, such a people can't develop.
Those books won't allow them to develop until they start discarding and binning the books. The books won't even allow them to unite as one and face a common enemy so the continent can move forward.

So, the first step is getting rid of Christianity and Islam. That will take years.

oh yeah, you are absolutely right about the above....religion is one of the MAJOR problems of Africans. without religion, Africa would be such a better place.

MrBrownJay1:
oh yeah, you are absolutely right about the above....religion is one of the MAJOR problems of Africans. without religion, Africa would be such a better place.

It's not even only Africa, but the whole planet. Religion limits the development of planet Earth because it puts a bar on people's level and depth of thinking and limits the development of science and technology.

If not for religion, Earth would have developed a lot faster.

Many technologies we're enjoying today would have actually been developed many years before now by the millions of past philosophers and scientists in Europe, Asia, and Africa killed by religious people, especially Christians and Muslims, for practicing philosophy and using the scientific method, which the ignorant religious people called witchcraft in the past.

A female philosopher and mathematician like Hypatia was burnt alive by the Christians for allegedly practicing witchcraft (what we call philosophy and science today). Millions lost their life like that in Europe before some European countries like ancient Greece and old Rome started leaving the philosophers alone.

That was when development started in Europe and spread to some parts of Asia such as Arabia. That's why ancient Greece and old Rome are regarded today as the sources or origins of Western philosophy and science.

Yet, many of their philosophers, including Socrates and Plato, schooled in ancient Egypt taught by black people that developed the civilization. So, Africa is really the source or origin of philosophy and science.

MrBrownJay1:
i beg to differ, this has nothing to do with weakness and all to do with WICKEDNESS. only wicked people oppress the weak and rob them of their natural ressources, their lands, their lives (for their selfish agenda).

just because someone does something wrong for 1000s of years, doesnt suddenly make this wicked act any more right.

I see your point......

The woes of the weak are numerous....

Smh

A001:
Nonsensical post. Just stop embarrassing yourself already.

It's people like you that do all those barbaric killings.

If you and your fellow Christians lay your hands on any atheists or agnostics on Nairaland, you're ready to burn and kill them. And those that don't do so, kill such freethinkers while being alive by rendering them virtually useless.

Lecturers won't allow them to graduate. Employers won't give them jobs. Parents won't allow them to marry their children.

You and your fellow dolts will ostracize thinkers in society and still come to Nairaland to create stupid posts about why the black race isn't developing.

Yet, the thinkers that will develop the society are those you and your fellow religionists keep killing physically or otherwise.

It's foolish people like you that forced many freethinkers, including my humble self, to leave the African continent, or at least, Nigeria.

Because thinkers, especially atheists and agnostics, are leaving the continent in droves, it'll take a long time for Africa to develop.

It's highly intelligent people and thinkers that develop societies, not religious zombies.

For silly people like this, a politician that embezzles public funds in trillions of naira putting millions of lives in penury and privation, killing lots of people in their prime, is better and deserves to live. But not a freethinker who often tries to be law abiding.

I've never seen such a stupid set of people in my life anywhere else.

My point is that religion is not the problem of Africa, intellect/intelligence is.
USA, Canada and many prosperous countries were built on the Christian religion and the Christian faith was the basis for these countries so how come these countries are the most prosperous today.

For years Christianity was the predominant religion and that did not stop the development of these countries, the same can be said of Saudi Arabia and most Middle Eastern countries.

Has Islam stopped Dubai from developing ?

beekind:
■ My point is that religion is not the problem of Africa, intellect/intelligence is.
USA, Canada and many prosperous countries were built on the Christian religion and the Christian faith was the basis for these countries so how come these countries are the most prosperous today.
For years Christianity was the predominant religion and that did not stop the development of these countries, the same can be said of Saudi Arabia and most Middle Eastern countries.
Has Islam stopped Dubai from developing ?

Indeed.... religion does not even begin to present itself as the major issue as far as the black man is concerned. Low Intelligence or a sheer lack of wisdom is..

beekind:
My point is that religion is not the problem of Africa, intellect/intelligence is.
USA, Canada and many prosperous countries were built on the Christian religion and the Christian faith was the basis for these countries so how come these countries are the most prosperous today.

For years Christianity was the predominant religion and that did not stop the development of these countries, the same can be said of Saudi Arabia and most Middle Eastern countries.

Has Islam stopped Dubai from developing ?

I said earlier that religion only really benefits the culture (people) that owns it. It was the Britons (white people) from Europe that moved to the present-day USA, massacred almost of the black people (native Indians) on the lands, and stole their lands to create what's now called the United States.

Many prosperous nations in the Americas and the Australian continent have a similar history.

So, Christianity only really benefits white people because it's from their culture. If a religion isn't from your culture, know that it's simply a tool foreigners used to colonize and enslave you.

In Arabia too, it's mainly the Arabs (Saudi, UAE, Quwait, and co) that really benefit from Islam.

Those with high intelligence would already understand what I'm saying, considering the various benefits that a culture (people) reaps from importing, imposing, and enforcing their religion on other people.

Some of those benefits are support and blessing of a people's (culture's) ancestors and forefathers, preservation of the culture that owns the religion, having access to slaves imported from their subjects (those they imposed their religion on) that help develop their country/economy, annual contribution by stupid people around the world (religious people) that visit Israel and Saudi for pilgrimage, and many other benefits.

The first benefit is the most important. If your ancestors and forefathers don't bless you as a people, such a people won't move forward. They'll be among the lowest of the low on a planet.

That's where the problems of Africa started from. As most Africans (the Christians and Muslims) curse and demonize their ancestors and forefathers, Africans won't have the backing of their ancestors to develop and grow.

So, for a long time, Africa will remain backward until people stop demonizing their ancestors, and many seek to establish a connection to their roots, the pagan gods.

Check any prosperous nation in the world. All of them praise and hype their ancestors.

The Arabs praise and hype their ancestors such as Allah, Muhammad and his companions. Mumu Africans join the Arabs as well to praise their (Arabs') ancestors, while Africans demonize and curse their own.

Europeans praise and hype their ancestors such as Yahweh, Yeshua, and co. Mumu Africans still join them.

Any people that curse and demonize their ancestors won't move forward in life. They'll simply remain stagnant and become the slaves of this world.

That's the major issue with Africa. For this key reason, Christianity and Islam are harmful to Africa.

If left unchecked, the religions will kill Africa. Many stupid Africans are even praying for such.

Africans are so dull. Today, the US is known as a white country. The original blacks that owned the land are a dead people (culture) now. The same thing applies to Australia.

And an African with a working brain will be wishing the same fate to befall Africa.

The way forward is for Africans to learn about our ancestors and forebears, honor, and celebrate them. The traditionalists should stop worshipping our ancestors as gods.

Worshipping deities (religion) doesn't allow a people to grow and develop. When the invaders and colonialists came with Christianity and Islam to conquer, enslave, and colonize Africa, the pagan gods (who are really past humans) couldn't help the people.

It's science that can help a people to defend themselves against oppressors and invaders, not a god or religion.

Philosophy, critical thinking, and science is the way forward. Not religion, whether foreign or native.

beekind:
This topic is inspired by a similar topic asking about attractiveness here:
https://www.nairaland.com/7764281/why-cant-black-people-admit

When you consider that Apple is worth more than the whole Africa combined and also realise that all African countries are in a worse position than they were when they were being colonised and most African countries would rather go back to those days before they gained independence, including Nigeria.
Infact, the best period on the African continent were the period before most African countries gained independence. And since gaining independence Africa has gone from good to worse, does this mean Africans are unable to rule themselves effectively due to intellectual defficiency.

Let me address a most common arguement that people bring up when you ask this kind of question which further confirms the lack of intellectual capacity amongst many Africans, they mention the names of a few Africans who have excelled abroad and who did well academically.
Let me state that yardstick for measuring a society is not to consider the outliers, there are caucasians who are dumb but this is not about a small sample, we are talking of the majority.

It does not matter that a little sample of Africans have excelled academically abroad, the reality is that 70 years after independence, the African continent still depends on war ravaged Ukraine to feed itself, yet it has more than 100 times the population of Ukraine.

Also, the African continent has become the most consuming continent, it does not export any manufactured good in any reasonable quantity, it depends on the Caucasians to help to even discover and extract its oil reserves...

Should we conclude that the black man is intellectual deficient compared to the White man ?

You have probably lived all your life in Nigeria or Africa. By the time you travel and live in Europe for a year, you'll be the one saying "my daughter can not marry Oyinbo. Tufiakwa."

The Chinese for decades lived in desperate poverty under Chairman Mao's Communist government. The Chinese felt ashamed of themselves and felt they were backward. During the 30 years of communist rule, only 200,000 Chinese travelled abroad.

Then Chairman Mao died in the 1970s and a few years later under a new leader, Deng Xiaoping began market reforms. From 1978 to 2018, it is estimated that the Chinese economy grew on the average of 8-10% yearly and lifted 800m people out of poverty and 400m into the middle class. A few years back , China claimed to have ended abject poverty. In 2018, 400,000 Chinese travelled overseas daily either for business or for pleasure. What a phenomenal difference from the dark communist days.

The problem with China wasn't the Chinese people but bad leadership and bad policies. A bad leader like Chairman Mao can lead an entire or people into poverty or just a leader like Deng Xiaoping into the top.

Look at India. India is presently poor. We can add Pakistan and Bangladesh as they are all ethnic Indian and are South Asians.

Would you say ethnic Indians are inherently backward. These countries are associated with poverty

Yet, Indians are the preferred English speaking expatriates globally. They are the CEO of many American companies, including Microsoft and Alphabet, the creators of the Windows software and Chrome Browser I am using to draft this response.

The Indians are the richest ethnic group in the USA today, surpassing the Jewish Americans.

Why is India so backward? The reason is simple. Their leaders at independent set up a protectionist wall towards foreign goods to encourage local manufacturing and introduced licensing for most businesses nicknamed the "License Raj" that made it a bureaucratic nightmare for companies to operate. India did grow but it was slow, on the average at under 2.5% yearly and was nicknamed the "Hindu Rate of Growth."

The reason for such policies was not because Indians were stupid or senseless. It was because for almost 200 years, the British who colonized them had overexploited them and they now wanted to insulate themselves from any form of foreign exploitation. However, this backfired and left them poor.

However, in the early 1990s when the Indian economy faced severe economic crisis, they were forced to commence market reform policies that was not only bringing about a $1b a month into the country but was delivering fast economic grown. For almost 20 years it grew on the average of 8% yearly.

Africa's problem has a lot to do with colonialism. The West did not prepare Africa for independence. I doubt the British ever built a single school in Nigeria. All education efforts were by religious organizations or communities. It was estimated that only 5% of Nigerian were literate at Independence. The uneducated can easily be exploited by their leaders and can not stand up for themselves. Also, all the countries they ran were all poor at independence. The British had put little effort to develop them. The DRC had only 5 graduates.

Worse, it seemed as though many of the colonial masters had skewered the political system in a way to benefit them or carried without a sense of care of what would happen next.

For instance in Nigeria, the 1960 elections had the North, which had less population than either the more populated East or West determine who would lead the country as they won more seats in parliaments than the other 2 top contenders. It stank.

Also, the West turned a blind eye to the rise of dictators during the Cold War in many of these African countries. The lack of a democratic structure enabled complete incompetents like Kenneth Kaunda and Mobutu latch on to power too long, impoverishing their people. The first African leader to voluntarily leave his office after independence was Olusegun Obasanjo and that was in 1979, When you consider that most African countries gained independence in 1960, you'll realise the severity of the problem.

The West only started demanding accountability at the tail end of the 1980s when the Cold War began to thaw. If they had had that approach in the 1960s, Africa would not have been in the mess it is today.

Contrast Africa with Hong Kong. It was prepared for independence. It was a rich and prosperous colony of the UK and they weren't keen on seeing the British leave and be handed over to China. Britain could have made all their ex-colonies developed and prosperous and that was a shame on it.

All present day British colonies are prosperous, including black dominated ones like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

That is why when you see Nigerians based overseas return, they say "Only if we have good leaders." They acknowledge that it is bad leadership and not the colour of our skin that should be held accountable.

grandstar:
You have probably lived all life in Nigeria or Africa. By the time you travel and live in Europe for a year, you'll be the one saying "my daughter can not marry Oyinbo. Tufiakwa."

The Chinese for decades lived in desperate poverty under Chairman Mao's Communist government. The Chinese felt ashamed of themselves and felt they were backward. During the 30 years of communist rule, only 200,000 Chinese travelled abroad.

Then Chairman Mao died in the 1970s and a few years later under a new leader began market reforms. From 1978 to 2018, it is e stimated that the Chinese economy grew on the average of 8-10% yearly and lifted 800m people out of poverty and 400m into the middle class. A few years back , China claimed to have ended abject poverty.

The problem with China wasn't the Chinese people but bad leadership and bad policies.

Look at India. India is presently poor. We can add Pakistan and Bangladesh as they are all ethnic Indian and are South Asians.

Would you say ethnic Indians are inherently backward. Those countries are associated with poverty

Yet, Indians are the preferred English speaking expatriates globally. They are the CEO of many American companies, including Microsoft and Alphabet, the creators of the Windows software and Chrome Browser I am using to draft this response.

The Indians are the richest ethnic group in the USA today, surpassing the Jews

Why is India so backward? The reason is simple. Their leaders at independent set up a protectionist wall towards foreign goods to encourage local manufacturing and introduced licensing for most businesses nicknamed the "License Raj" that made it a bureaucratic nightmare for companies to operate. India did grow but it was slow, on the average of under 2.5% yearly and was nicknamed the "Hindu Rate of Growth."

The reason for such policies was not because Indians were stupid or senseless. It was because for almost 200 years, the British who colonized them had overexploited them and they now wanted to insulate themselves from any form of foreign exploitation

However, in the early 1990s when the Indian economy faced severe economic crisis, they were forced to commence market reform policies that was not only bringing about a $1b a month into the country but was delivering fast economic grown. For almost 20 years it grew on the average of 8% year.

Africa's problem has a lot to do with colonialism. The West did not prepare Africa for independence. I doubt the British ever built a school. All education efforts were by religious organizations or communities. It was estimated that only 5% of Nigerian were literate at Independence. The uneducated can easily be exploited by their leaders and can stand for themselves. Also, all the countries they ran were all poor. The British had put little effort to develop them. The DRC had only 5 graduates.

Worse, it seemed as though many of these countries had skewered the political system in a way to benefit their former colonial master or carried without a sense of care of what would happen next.

For instance in Nigeria, the 1960 elections had the North, which had less population than either the East or West determine who would lead the country as they won more seats in parliaments than aby of the two largest parties.

Also, the West turned on a blind eye to the rise of dictators during the Cold War in many of these African countries. The lack of a democratic structure enabled totally incompetents like Kenneth Kaunda and Mobutu latch on to power too long, impoverishing their people. The first African leader to voluntarily leave his seat after independence was Olusegun Obasanjo and that was in 1979, When you consider that most African countries gained independence in 1960, you'll realise the severity of the problem.

The West only started demanding accountability at the end of the tail end of the 1980s when the Cold War began to thaw. If they had had that approach in the 1960s, Africa would not have been in this mess.

Contrast Africa with Hong Kong. It was preferred for independence. It was a rich and prosperous colony of the UK and they weren't keen on seeing the British leave and be handed over to China.

Nowadays, all British colonies are prosperous, including black dominated ones like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

That is why when you see Nigerians when they return from abroad, they say "Only if we have good leaders." They acknowledge that it is bad leadership and not the color of our skin that should be accountable.

But why should you expect a people that invaded another people's land with the intention of enslaving and colonizing them, which they did successfully, to take any measure that would really be beneficial for their colony?

Why would you expect a colonial master to prepare his colony for independence? Why do Africans generally see whites as people that should be kind and humane?

Do kind people engage in colonization and slavery in the first place?

Every race, except most Africans (because of its high number of stupid people) think of the interests of his own people first. That's a fact.

But for most Africans, the interest of Israel (the whites) comes first if they're Christians, or that of the Arabs if they're Muslims, before thinking of African interests.

The West only gave their colonies in Africa 'independence' on paper because they've found a better way to control them without maintaining a presence in the country: by controlling their leaders as puppets.

So, Africa isn't really independent in the real sense of it, and Nigerian leaders are mere puppets of the West.

British missionaries built schools to serve what purposes? What was taught in these schools?

Indoctrination, false and distorted histories, Western propagandas meant to destroy Africa. Education is meant to train the mind how to think, not the Western education system that teaches students false historical facts and toxic religions that would make you hate your ancestors and forebears and cultures.

Not the Western education system that teaches people lies such as equating Allah to Olorun, Jehovah to Olorun, calling Esu the same as Satan.

These are dangerous lies that will cut off an African from his roots and render the African people almost useless and reduced to the level of a mere animal.

A people that hate and curse their ancestors can never grow. Western education is simply an European tool to indoctrinate and colonize the minds of Africans from a tender age and make them see the whites as superior to black people.

That's why a typical African thinks the whites or Arabs are superior because they've been indoctrinated via Western education/Islamic education system to believe so.

And because of this self-limiting belief, Africans mostly demonstrate intellectual inferiority compared with the whites and Arabs.

An intelligent African uses the native system of education (learning in the local language) as a primary mode of learning, and combines it with Western education as a secondary mode of learning, or any other suitable system of education.

Almost 70 years after independence, Nigerian man is telling tales of how because his ancestor was colonized, he can not be expected to push past his past to move himself forward. No be idiocy dem dey call that?

correctguy101:
I see your point......
The woes of the weak are numerous....
Smh

as i was telling someone else on this thread, the hatred for the black race (from the west) is evident for centuries, and it didnt suddenly stop yesterday. Africa has always been viewed as a dumping ground where the west can do what they please with it to enrich themselves.

ask yourself:
- why is the west still meddling with Africa's economy and/or affairs?
- why would the west care so much about African controlling their own currency?
- why do they care so much about who rule these African nations?
- why do they constantly kill/overthrow the African rulers who dont do what the west desire?

MrBrownJay1:
as i was telling someone else on this thread, the hatred for the black race (from the west) is evident for centuries, and it didnt suddenly stop yesterday. Africa has always been viewed as a dumping ground where the west can do what they please with it to enrich themselves.

ask yourself:
- why is the west still meddling with Africa's economy and/or affairs?
- why would the west care so much about African controlling their own currency?
- why do they care so much about who rule these African nations?
- why do they constantly kill/overthrow the African rulers who dont do what the west desire?

Planet Earth isn't kind to weak and stupid people. The rule here is, survival of the fittest.

Every living organism on Earth abides by that unwritten law of nature. If humans slack and become unintelligent, some animals will colonize and domesticate us as pets and for food.

The same applies to microbes and others.

We all witnessed how coronavirus brought this planet to its knees. If humans didn't face the battle head on using science, viruses could have taken over the control of the planet from us.

Religion and prayers (mere wishes) were useless. Science saved the day.

If there are too many dull heads in any people (culture), those mentally weak individuals will weaken the whole people and put them at risk of being colonized, enslaved and/or exploited by more intelligent people from other cultures.

It's survival of the fittest. That's the rule of living creatures on planet Earth.

beekind:
My point is that religion is not the problem of Africa, intellect/intelligence is.
USA, Canada and many prosperous countries were built on the Christian religion and the Christian faith was the basis for these countries so how come these countries are the most prosperous today.

For years Christianity was the predominant religion and that did not stop the development of these countries, the same can be said of Saudi Arabia and most Middle Eastern countries.

Has Islam stopped Dubai from developing ?

Like jon snow no know.

Christianity is flourishing in those countries because they do unchristian things to get wealth. When money was backed by Gold, Enhland lacked it. So, what do they do, they traveled around the world in search of Gold, and wherever they found it, they pulverized the people there. Africa was structured as a worker - bee society to help the british pack out precious metals..

they did al this making sure only a slelect few uncle rokkuses were given knowledge. uncle rokkus worships the white man, and is willing to kill his own for them... Check all your leaders. All thieves.. all uncle rokkuses...

islam conquered Europe once upon a time. if u didn't know.. They also did so by enslaving and converting all the people they held captive. Either that or off with their heads.. The current UAE, QAta are heavily influenced by the west.. infact they are simply investments ground... the day those countries become irrelevant to the schemes of the west, they will turn to iran and iraq.. no doubt about it...

The game is the game... kill or be killed... enslave or be enslaved...


Uncle rokkus from boondocks cartoon.

A001:
Planet Earth isn't kind to weak and stupid people. The rule here is, survival of the fittest.

Every living organism on Earth abides by that unwritten law of nature. If humans slack and become unintelligent, some animals will colonize and domesticate us as pets and for food.

The same applies to microbes and others.

We all witnessed how coronavirus brought this planet to its knees. If humans didn't face the battle head on using science, viruses could have taken over the control of the planet from us.

Religion and prayers (mere wishes) were useless. Science saved the day.

If there are too many dull heads in any people (culture), those mentally weak individuals will weaken the whole people and put them at risk of being colonized, enslaved and/or exploited by more intelligent people from other cultures.

It's survival of the fittest. That's the rule of living creatures on planet Earth.

Bro you are very correct

Infact all these things you narrated I am just watching them right now on 9 PM NTA NETWORK NEWS.

In one of news read, A group of youths in unprovoked attack descended on a poor woman cut her to pieces and proceeded to lynch her by burning the corpse in broad daylight! in a village in Akwa-ibom state. They accused her of witchcraft. And the leaders stood there watching and did nothing.

Very barbaric.

grandstar:
You have probably lived all life in Nigeria or Africa. By the time you travel and live in Europe for a year, you'll be the one saying "my daughter can not marry Oyinbo. Tufiakwa."

The Chinese for decades lived in desperate poverty under Chairman Mao's Communist government. The Chinese felt ashamed of themselves and felt they were backward. During the 30 years of communist rule, only 200,000 Chinese travelled abroad.

Then Chairman Mao died in the 1970s and a few years later under a new leader began market reforms. From 1978 to 2018, it is e stimated that the Chinese economy grew on the average of 8-10% yearly and lifted 800m people out of poverty and 400m into the middle class. A few years back , China claimed to have ended abject poverty. In 2018, 400,000 Chinese travelled overseas everyday either for business or for pleasure. What a phenomenal difference from the dark communist days.

The problem with China wasn't the Chinese people but bad leadership and bad policies.

Look at India. India is presently poor. We can add Pakistan and Bangladesh as they are all ethnic Indian and are South Asians.

Would you say ethnic Indians are inherently backward. Those countries are associated with poverty

Yet, Indians are the preferred English speaking expatriates globally. They are the CEO of many American companies, including Microsoft and Alphabet, the creators of the Windows software and Chrome Browser I am using to draft this response.

The Indians are the richest ethnic group in the USA today, surpassing the Jews

Why is India so backward? The reason is simple. Their leaders at independent set up a protectionist wall towards foreign goods to encourage local manufacturing and introduced licensing for most businesses nicknamed the "License Raj" that made it a bureaucratic nightmare for companies to operate. India did grow but it was slow, on the average of under 2.5% yearly and was nicknamed the "Hindu Rate of Growth."

The reason for such policies was not because Indians were stupid or senseless. It was because for almost 200 years, the British who colonized them had overexploited them and they now wanted to insulate themselves from any form of foreign exploitation

However, in the early 1990s when the Indian economy faced severe economic crisis, they were forced to commence market reform policies that was not only bringing about a $1b a month into the country but was delivering fast economic grown. For almost 20 years it grew on the average of 8% yearly.

Africa's problem has a lot to do with colonialism. The West did not prepare Africa for independence. I doubt the British ever built a school in Nigeria. All education efforts were by religious organizations or communities. It was estimated that only 5% of Nigerian were literate at Independence. The uneducated can easily be exploited by their leaders and can not stand for themselves. Also, all the countries they ran were all poor at independence. The British had put little effort to develop them. The DRC had only 5 graduates.

Worse, it seemed as though many of the colonial masters had skewered the political system in a way to benefit their former colonial master or carried without a sense of care of what would happen next.

For instance in Nigeria, the 1960 elections had the North, which had less population than either the East or West determine who would lead the country as they won more seats in parliaments than the other 2 top contenders. It stank.

Also, the West turned on a blind eye to the rise of dictators during the Cold War in many of these African countries. The lack of a democratic structure enabled complete incompetents like Kenneth Kaunda and Mobutu latch on to power too long, impoverishing their people. The first African leader to voluntarily leave his office after independence was Olusegun Obasanjo and that was in 1979, When you consider that most African countries gained independence in 1960, you'll realise the severity of the problem.

The West only started demanding accountability at the end of the tail end of the 1980s when the Cold War began to thaw. If they had had that approach in the 1960s, Africa would not have been in this mess.

Contrast Africa with Hong Kong. It was preferred for independence. It was a rich and prosperous colony of the UK and they weren't keen on seeing the British leave and be handed over to China.

Nowadays, all British colonies are prosperous, including black dominated ones like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

That is why when you see Nigerians when they return from abroad, they say "Only if we have good leaders." They acknowledge that it is bad leadership and not the color of our skin that should be accountable.

The second largest rice farmer in Nigeria is winding down operations because of insecurity. The leaders have the power to stop insecurity in 48 hours but have chosen not to for selfish reasons.

CodeTemplar:
The second largest rice farmer in Nigeria is winding down operations because of insecurity. The leaders have the power to stop insecurity in 48 hours but have chosen not to for selfish reasons.

Let 's see what Tinubu will do.

A001:
I think the best method is to continuously engage African Christians and Muslims in debates, especially using the Socratic method. It's a slow process, but I think it's more effective and pays in the long run.

The focus should be on those religious beliefs, not on people holding the beliefs.

Please don't even think about that. If you come to the north here and try any debate, you might end up endangering thousands of innocent lives. Black people as a whole are eternally cursed with stupidity. The only solution is for you as an individual to avoid being a typical African and try to raise your kids with that mindset.