₦airaland Forum

tsdarkside:
make you igbos keep makin noise....let other africans notice una....

when they start abusin una,dont come to us nigerians complainin about xenophobia....
we nigerians no send una....

tsdarkside:
stvpid tribe causin trouble everywhere they go....

Goodvibes007:
🤣🤣🤣. I hope it stops them from fleeing their region to the SW in their thousands on a daily basis.

90dbest:
Yoruba are insecure people.

goodnessme1:
Yet foolish people want to continue sharing the same country with the by fire and by force

Tochi360:
Igbos are the smartest Tribe in Africa.
Who needs any yeye US to certify this point

OmoFiditi:
There is o group of people who will go through collective adversity and will not survive to become stronger and smarter. None.

It is a natural evolution that has happened since time began.
Facts are stubborn and sacred.

Ola9ja23:
Take Igbo seriously at your own peril



Everything about them is to measure diiick


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goodnessme1:
South West is our extension.



We will continue buying until........

90dbest:
Yoruba are insecure people.

Ola9ja23:
Take Igbo seriously at your own peril



Everything about them is to measure diiick


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Goodvibes007:
This one is in severe pains. The most barbaric tribe? Yes.

90dbest:
Yoruba are insecure people.

ThatFairGuy1:
Is Farouk Kperogi a Yoruba?
What's your obsession with Yoruba

tsdarkside:
goodnessme1....
chaii....

this quarrel is not gonna end....am very sorry....
i dont even understand why its that important which people are smarter sef....

but be belittlin other tribes in nigeria or even africa is not gonna work....
no tribe will put another tribe over theirs....

you igbos need to understand that....

goodnessme1:
We don't need to understand anything and don't care.


We know you people expected Igbos to be worshipping you after the war.

Begging for food and work.


We know why you and your master Hate us.

Ooni:
You lie.
What did the blacks learn from apartheid in South Africa? Does the current situation of the country under their control prove they are smarter?

have the Hausas moved on from jihad to become smarter? No they were completely conquered.

Did we Yorubas survive our internal civil wars to become smarter and stronger? No. Rather it was a Yoruba man that went to Lagos colony to invite the British to colonize us. The first time such is happening in the history of human civilization.

If we see something we can learn from, Pls let us leverage on such opportunity and do away with pride and envy.

Ruke1989:
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern

Ruke1989:
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern

Ruke1989:
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern

Quranisforfools:
Farooq Kperogi

Several Nigerian websites, including the online version of the traditional New Telegraph newspaper, quoted a putative ‘US study’ to have averred that Igbos are the “most brilliant black Africa [sic] race.”

As you would expect, this has animated a frenzied debate in Nigerian cyberspace.
But let’s get the facts straight. The article from where the notion of Igbo IQ superiority is extrapolated isn’t a study, nor is it American.

It is a reflective essay by a Zambian man called Chanda Chisala. The essay, titled “The IQ Gap Is No Longer a Black and White Issue,” was first published on June 25, 2015 in “The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection,” an American-based website that bills itself as “A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media.”


“The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection” isn’t an academic journal, nor are essays published in it considered scholarly. Although the essay that caused Nigerian websites to claim that Igbos have been crowned as the most intellectually endowed African race is a synthesis of scholarly and popular articles, it is itself not a systematic scholarly study. It is merely one writer’s perspective.

The author of the essay, Chanda Chisala, isn’t an American; he is a Zambian born in the Zambian town of Chingola. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Zambia and graduated in 1997. He is known in Zambia as an intrepid Internet entrepreneur who founded Zambia Online, Zambia’s leading Internet portal. He later relocated to the United States where he has held fellowships at Stanford University, the Hoover Institution, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

So headlines attributing Igbos’ unparalleled brilliance to a “US academic study” are factually inaccurate.

In the essay, Chisala merely sought to disprove the notion that whites are innately more intelligent than blacks. As most people know, IQ tests in the US consistently show native-born American blacks underperforming their white counterparts, leading some to conclude that racial difference, not income or environment; is the most important causative factor for white intellectual superiority and black intellectual inferiority in IQ tests.

Over the last few years, with the increasing migration of black people to the United States from the Caribbean Islands and Africa, many settled certainties about racial disparities in IQ tests are being exploded. African immigrants in the US are high academic achievers. In some cases, they outperform white Americans. For instance, Nigerians are the single most educated demographic group in the United States, although it must be admitted that Nigerians in the United States are both too numerically insignificant (we are a mere 228,000) and too self-selected to be representative of the general population at home.

Before Africans began migrating to the United States in fairly large numbers since the 1970s, Caribbean immigrants had excelled, and still excel, in academic pursuits in ways that disrupt notions of racial hierarchy in cognitive endowment.
So Chisala’s basic argument is that if race is the only explanatory framework invoked to account for the IQ gap between white Americans and native-born American blacks, then native-born American blacks should be smarter than recent African and Caribbean immigrants since native-born American blacks have more white genes in them than both Caribbean and African immigrants.

He also dismissed a controversial 2009 Harvard IQ study that found black African immigrants in the United States to have an average IQ of 89. “They lump together black Africans into one homogenous group when there are different kinds of black Africans, including a good number coming in as refugees from highly troubled countries, while other nationalities consist of the most educated ethnicities in America. [T]he different groups of African immigrants can have very large background differences that reflect in cognitive gaps among them that are even higher than the gap between American blacks and whites…In other words, the mean IQ of African immigrants may be as unrepresentative of black Igbo immigrants as it is of white South African immigrants. It’s a meaningless mean,” he said.

The putative average IQ of 89 among African immigrants (it is 83 among black Caribbean immigrants) is lower than the average IQ of native-born American blacks, yet African and Caribbean immigrants, on average, outperform American blacks in academic pursuits and rival, in some cases outrival, whites. Chisala argues, therefore, that the IQ tests aren’t representative of all Africans. “As the UK data below shows, it is very unlikely that children of immigrants from the Igbo or Yoruba groups of Nigeria or the Ashanti group of Ghana, for example, have an average IQ below the white mean IQ,” he wrote.

The data he presented to make his case uses Igbo academic achievement in the US and the UK, and that was the basis for the notion that a “US academic study” has pronounced Igbos as the most “brilliant African race.”

The article “resurrected” from last year because an Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, a Nigerian-American high school graduate born of Igbo parents, was recently accepted by all eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Last year, Harold Ekeh, another Nigerian-American born of Igbo parents, was also accepted by all Ivy League schools.

However, although Nigerian websites, including the New Telegraph, claim that these brilliant young Nigerian-Americans “have broken a record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools,” it is actually not true. Every year, a few smart teenagers get accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. In 2014, for instance, a Ghanaian-American teenager by the name of Kwasi Enin was accepted in all 8 Ivy League schools. In 2015, a high school student by the name of Ronald Nelson was accepted by all the Ivy League schools, but he rejected every single one of them and instead went to a state school.

This is in no way intended to diminish the praiseworthy achievements of the two brilliant Nigerian Americans. Nor do I want to be understood as denying that Igbos, on average, have a higher intellectual drive than the rest of us. (In my high school in Nigeria we often jokingly questioned the Igboness of any Igbo person who wasn’t among the top three in his class).

Nevertheless, no systematic scholarly study anywhere, and certainly not in the US, has proved that Igbos are the most brilliant people in Africa. That study may yet come, but Chanda Chisala’s opinion article is not it.

Ola9ja23:
Take Igbo seriously at your own peril


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