Sunofgod:
Because we vote people like Buhari to lead us,,, ,

Cc danladi7

olawalepopoola:
Ask your self and let me ask myself. What have you done to contribute to its success. Black race is backward because of its people nothing more. Africa has the best land, rivers, landscape, biodiversity, climate but contains people that don't contribute their quota to its success.
The Chinese are where they are today because of the mentality of her people. Malaysia too.

Dude this whole "what have you done to its success" babble have been overused may i ask you what else must I as an individual do in a society so messed up society like ours that'd bring Black people out of global ignominy? You have to understand this isn't just an African thing the most impoverished country in the Northern America is a Black one - Haiti. It is a generational curse until Black people every where revisit their roots, discard foreign religions, go back to what makes us unique until then Blacks will forever be the very floor on which the rest of the world spits on.

Sunofgod:
Because we vote people like Buhari to lead us,,, ,

The same people asking this question will vote someone like buhari again and refuse Biafra it's freedom.
And their children will came back years later to ask the same foolish question.

horsepower101:
Me personally I don't know about other Africans but I know that igbos in particular if given a nation of their own will develop rapidly like Japan and Korea did. They have the potential to do that but unfortunately they are surrounded by people that want them to fail and remain subjugated.

Absolutely correct.

That's why I believe in Biafra

I will give u a simply answer

Because the black man is genetically selfish and self centred to the core.

The black brain is wired to think about him/herself only.

That's why individually,we have wonderful doctors inventors, scientists, doctors,engineers but collectively as a people we are a mess.

Here is an example all over Europe and America you will find politicians in occult groups like Freemason,Grand Lodge,Illuminati etc yet leaders over there work for the betterment of their people. Back in Africa our politicians and leaders who belong to Ogboni and other occult groups both local and foreign kill,destroy and plunder their people.

is it not the same devil their counterpart in Europe and America are serving?

Clentuzbaba:
African problem is very glaring, LAZINESS AND COWARDICE. Read a book or watch a movie of 1000 years ago European history and all u see is how they built big castles, ran a modest society, educating their citizens, operating decent and comfortable horse carriages, developing vaccines against epidemics, documenting their histories and developing their international standing. chk out African history and all u see is how we walk bare footed, our kings living in mud houses, zero education or scolars and everyone living within d family circles.
During d SAKOKU period, Japan secluded itself from d whole world for over 200 years, banning its citizens from traveling out and restricting entrance into Japan so as to self-develop. That is courage, d gut to do it urself. Today African leaders travel out for vacations in foreign lands ratherthan make their own home a comfortable place. Today, hundred of thousands youths r out looking for underpaying jobs, commiting crimes rather than find d courage to create ur own life or at least die trying, they will all give excuses of no opportunity forgetting d fact that wen there is will there is way.
Talk to a Nigerian youth abt politics and and he will tell u zero interest coz its a dirty game and u can't change d system, we quickly submit to impossibility and live anyhow than dare tinz and win or die trying. An average European prefers to die fighting injustice than live under it. ahere we have a culture of accepting our situations no matter how brutal. The day we dump our LAZINESS AND COWARDICE and embrace COURAGE AND INTEGRITY is d day we start making progress.

As for the present you are right on point but for our past history, you are wrong sire. Have you taken ur time to read books by Africans and neutral rather than European accounts. Have you opened books on 'HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA' and 'WHEN WE RULED'. Have you heard of the Mali empire which the lowest scholar has atleast a over thousand collections of books, the Benin empire, the Igbo ukwu art, the aso oke making. No, you haven't. Africa was rich and but was plundered and destroyed. Just look if i want to see the wonders of my forefathers i have to get to Europe. The Great wall of benin, the Ghana empire. The richest in the history of humanity is African is Mansa Musa of great mali, a man who bought close to 6000 scholars from Mecca, a man who singlehandedly brought gold down for ten years. The scholars of timbuktu now an improverished town in Mali knew our world (earth) revolved around the sun when their counterparts in Europe believed it was flat. Our books where burnt, our royals killed, our philosophers murdered. That was our AFRICA

Hardfacts234:
I will give u a simply answer

Because the black man is genetically selfish and self centred to the core.

The black brain is wired to think about him/herself only.

That's why individually,we have wonderful doctors inventors, scientists, doctors,engineers but collectively as a people we are a mess.

Here is an example all over Europe and America you will find politicians in occult groups like Freemason,Grand Lodge,Illuminati etc yet leaders over there work for the betterment of their people. Back in Africa our politicians and leaders who belong to Ogboni and other occult groups both local and foreign kill,destroy and plunder their people.

is it not the same devil their counterpart in Europe and America are serving?

You are right that the blacks are the most selfish and greedy race on earth but it has nothing to do with genes but orientation.


Example, ask Sarrki Madridguy Vedaxcool Superstar1 Onatisi, proudlyyoruba, imperialyoruba etc why they oppose Biafra and you will see the odour of Selfishness and greed oozing out of their mouths


Horsepower101 hope you agree with me.

What is my business with your useless Biafra?

HiddenShadow:


You are right that the blacks are the most selfish and greedy race on earth but it has nothing to do with genes but orientation.


Example, ask Sarrki Madridguy Vedaxcool Superstar1 Onatisi, proudlyyoruba, imperialyoruba etc why they oppose Biafra and you will see the odour of Selfishness and greed oozing out of their mouths


Horsepower101 hope you agree with me.

HiddenShadow:




You are right that the blacks are the most selfish and greedy race on earth but it has nothing to do with genes but orientation.


Example, ask Sarrki Madridguy Vedaxcool Superstar1 Onatisi, proudlyyoruba, imperialyoruba etc why they oppose Biafra and you will see the odour of Selfishness and greed oozing out of their mouths


Horsepower101 hope you agree with me.

HiddenShadow:




You are right that the blacks are the most selfish and greedy race on earth but it has nothing to do with genes but orientation.


Example, ask Sarrki Madridguy Vedaxcool Superstar1 Onatisi, proudlyyoruba, imperialyoruba etc why they oppose Biafra and you will see the odour of Selfishness and greed oozing out of their mouths


Horsepower101 hope you agree with me.

Bro I am not in full opposition of Biafra atleast it awoke some conciousness among Nigerians. If blacks aren't pushed they won't budge. I can't just sit and you insult my ancestry and you expect me to keep quiet. Mí o n se omo àlè ( I am not a bastard). BTW I want to keep my country border intact. Look into my posts for Anti - Kanu posts and bring it here.

We are simply not serious as we prefer to play around and spend most of our time eating, feasting and fcvking rather than sacrifice continuously and invest in personal cum societal progress.
That is why we will remain eternal slaves to those who are much more serious than we are.


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proudlyYoruba:
As for the present you are right on point but for our past history, you are wrong sire. Have you taken ur time to read books by Africans and neutral rather than European accounts. Have you opened books on 'HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA' and 'WHEN WE RULED'. Have you heard of the Mali empire which the lowest scholar has atleast a over thousand collections of books, the Benin empire, the Igbo ukwu art, the aso oke making. No, you haven't. Africa was rich and but was plundered and destroyed. Just look if i want to see the wonders of my forefathers i have to get to Europe. The Great wall of benin, the Ghana empire. The richest in the history of humanity is African is Mansa Musa of great mali, a man who bought close to 6000 scholars from Mecca, a man who singlehandedly brought gold down for ten years. The scholars of timbuktu now an improverished town in Mali knew our world (earth) revolved around the sun when their counterparts in Europe believed it was flat. Our books where burnt, our royals killed, our philosophers murdered. That was our AFRICA

If the historical achievements cannot inspire more sacrifice today for current and future success, what is the benefit of recalling it?
To gloat over bygone things? Do Europeans, Asians, Americans not have historical achievements also?

anonimi:


If the historical achievements cannot inspire more sacrifice today for current and future success, what is the benefit of recalling it?
To gloat over bygone things? Do Europeans, Asians, Americans not have historical achievements also?

I am not dude. All i wanted to do was correct the erroneous belief about we Africans. We were and are not savages we have our ways of doing things. I submitted to his analysis of the present but i Oppose his assertion about our past.

Reason I asked OP what they meant by Africa Backwards & Why Are Blacks The Most Unsuccessful Race is because the topic is a complex one, demanding answers more complex than I have capacity to justify, nevertheless will attempt the little I'm able . Mistakes people make when faced with this question is letting emotions or expectations cloudy their objectivity. In my opinion formed by literature I've read, debates I've listened to and programs I have watched, seasoned Academics as well as the general public share this flaws. One oversight made by Academicians of racial superiority is the contextualising of the questions within parameters that favour one side of the query (usually the side in which they have much invested (in order words, not impartial) for instance, in one study comparing the IQ's of Black African kids from Africa to white and Asian kids based the tests on puzzles and games familiar to children that grew up in the West and affluent surroundings. This test and its findings whose result inevitably placed the African children at the bottom of the table was popular until – coincidently – a Nigerian academic pointed out the obvious flaws. The African kids did not grow up indulging in leisure activities such as fixing puzzles,building blocks or playing with words games etc. The Nigerian pointed out that any test involving white/Asian and African children set in Africa and based on hawking food, hustling between moving vehicles and calculating money, would result in white and Asian children placing bottom of such an IQ table.

In terms of Racial superiority – and setting aside the science,which doubts the validity of RACE -there are questions to be determined based on Nature's Functions a swell as Variables set by Men. For instance, procreation and population size may be Nature's determinant in which case blacks may be assessed here as being superior to whites.


...i'm of to eat will be back shortly

superiority based on population size is probably more indicative of racial Superiority than ones based on technological achievements since Race is a collective noun -sort of. Notable technological inventions and notable physical achievements are often individual endeavours. Therefore, me, as a Nigerian man, is no more physically superior to a white man based on the achievements of Mohamed Ali or Usain Blot than Joe Redneck is superior to me based on the achievements of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. You would need to devices tests to evaluate our individual comparative abilities. This leads to the problem of how to measure intelligence/physical prowess, what intelligence/physical prowess entails, and how to relate those to Race. And just as you might argue that Whites choose to control their population (which may not be true given that gender relationships in the West may be adversely affecting virility in addition to the effects of industrialization such as pollution and atomisation) you could argue that the benefits of technology (in the form of societal development) as well as the ability to technologically innovate, in the context of collective-Race, may be influenced for blacks by external variables such as Colonisation, Slavery or the saprophytic effects of Sun.


uh, who is snoring back there? it's not my fault that the topic of Racial Superiority loses its excitement and sexiness when examined just a little bit closer than comfortable assumption would allow

Thunda faya all coneheads

Africa is poor because if the ethnic diversity we have.
Two centuries ago, the average European earned just three times an African.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Africa.
If Yoruba people leave Nigeria today, we will develop. Nigeria is holding Yoruba and other ethnic groups back. We can't go on like this. Africa need to develop. We need to restructure Africa as a whole.

anonimi:
We are simply not serious as we prefer to play around and spend most of our time eating, feasting and fcvking rather than sacrifice continuously and invest in personal cum societal progress.
That is why we will remain eternal slaves to those who are much more serious than we are.


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Africa is poor because of enormous ethnic diversity. It is not sensible to lump three of the largest ethnic group in Africa into one. These three ethnic groups are very large and can develop at their own pace.
Split Nigeria!!!

proudlyYoruba:
Bro I am not in full opposition of Biafra atleast it awoke some conciousness among Nigerians. If blacks aren't pushed they won't budge. I can't just sit and you insult my ancestry and you expect me to keep quiet. Mí o n se omo àlè ( I am not a bastard). BTW I want to keep my country border intact. Look into my posts for Anti - Kanu posts and bring it here.

Which county border?

proudlyYoruba:
As for the present you are right on point but for our past history, you are wrong sire. Have you taken ur time to read books by Africans and neutral rather than European accounts. Have you opened books on 'HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA' and 'WHEN WE RULED'. Have you heard of the Mali empire which the lowest scholar has atleast a over thousand collections of books, the Benin empire, the Igbo ukwu art, the aso oke making. No, you haven't. Africa was rich and but was plundered and destroyed. Just look if i want to see the wonders of my forefathers i have to get to Europe. The Great wall of benin, the Ghana empire. The richest in the history of humanity is African is Mansa Musa of great mali, a man who bought close to 6000 scholars from Mecca, a man who singlehandedly brought gold down for ten years. The scholars of timbuktu now an improverished town in Mali knew our world (earth) revolved around the sun when their counterparts in Europe believed it was flat. Our books where burnt, our royals killed, our philosophers murdered. That was our AFRICA

Jeeez! Where did you get this picture from? Do you know where or what part of history this happened?

Nowenuse:


Jeeez! Where did you get this picture from? Do you know where or what part of history this happened?

http://www.corespirit.com/100-amazing-african-cities-completely-destroyed-europeans/

oodualover:
Which county border?

NIGERIA BORDER

Because, simple Africa doesn't believe on himself... Instead they always believe the power arm from Europeanans and America can conquer them at any time that's why till date our leaders must lick a white man ass to stay relevant.

Also a case in Nigeria where people don't want a government to get reconstructed just because they would be forced to look for another alternative to develop instead of free oil. The Biafra war could have fostered African growth but instead it placed it in ruins.

Nigeria emerged from British spoilt leaders, they want us to belive our multi-ethnicity is strength but in their European states they have successfully separated almost every tribe from each other making them a country. Today in Africa we see tribal clash at it's highest and when Our leaders God are being questioned all u could here from them is that multi-ethnicity is strength.

proudlyYoruba:
NIGERIA BORDER

Be deceiving yourself. Your country is fuccked up. I don't know when Yoruba people will use their sense. After 57 fucckking years, your country has refused to develop. Light, una no get. Tribalism, nepotism and hate everywhere. Education sector, poor. Health, road, e no dey. 160 million people manage 6 thousand megawatts of electricity. Funny enough, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. Yet some foolish Yoruba's won't allow us hear word because of this hopeless and useless country. If we had left Nigeria 50 years ago, things would have been far much better. When you ask some foolish Yoruba people why they don't want Nigeria to split, they tell you we will all suffer and that we all the tribe need each other to survive. This is the same excuse Yoruba people have been giving for 50 years...generation upon generation, we give the same excuse. Now the question I will like to ask is, are Nigerians not suffering today? What problems and impediment are we going to face in a seperate Yoruba country that we have not faced in Nigeria? Why are some Yoruba people allergic to change? Tell me what the foolish Yoruba people that fought( and died) in the Biafra war to keep Nigeria "one" have gained. They died like ants. They died for nothing. There were sensible yoruba people like me in those day who tried to advise their people in leaving Nigeria, but no, Yoruba people were adamant in keeping Nigeria "one". They put their children and grand children in this hardship today. Yoruba for Benin and Togo nko? That one no concern you. You keep forcing unity down other people's throat. Yoruba people were split into three different countries.
It is better if Yoruba people learn from their past and use it to create a better future for themselves.

EMMAUGOH:
Because, simple Africa doesn't believe on himself... Instead they always believe the power arm from Europeanans and America can conquer them at any time that's why till date our leaders must lick a white man ass to stay relevant.

Also a case in Nigeria where people don't want a government to get reconstructed just because they would be forced to look for another alternative to develop instead of free oil. The Biafra war could have fostered African growth but instead it placed it in ruins.

Nigeria emerged from British spoilt leaders, they want us to belive our multi-ethnicity is strength but in their European states they have successfully separated almost every tribe from each other making them a country. Today in Africa we see tribal clash at it's highest and when Our leaders God are being questioned all u could here from them is that multi-ethnicity is strength.

You are very sensible. European countries are split along ethnic lines so reduce tribalism and hate. And to also to foster development.

oodualover:

Be deceiving yourself. Your country is fuccked up. I don't know when Yoruba people will use their sense. After 57 fucckking years, your country has refused to develop. Light, una no get. Tribalism, nepotism and hate everywhere. Education sector, poor. Health, road, e no dey. 160 million people manage 6 thousand megawatts of electricity. Funny enough, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. Yet some foolish Yoruba's won't allow us hear word because of this hopeless and useless country. If we had left Nigeria 50 years ago, things would have been far much better. When you ask some foolish Yoruba people why they don't want Nigeria to split, they tell you we will all suffer and that we all the tribe need each other to survive. This is the same excuse Yoruba people have been giving for 50 years...generation upon generation, we give the same excuse. Now the question I will like to ask is, are Nigerians not suffering today? What problems and impediment are we going to face in a seperate Yoruba country that we have not faced in Nigeria? Why are some Yoruba people allergic to change? Tell me what the foolish Yoruba people that fought( and died) in the Biafra war to keep Nigeria "one" have gained. They died like ants. They died for nothing. There were sensible yoruba people like me in those day who tried to advise their people in leaving Nigeria, but no, Yoruba people were adamant in keeping Nigeria "one". They put their children and grand children in this hardship today. Yoruba for Benin and Togo nko? That one no concern you. You keep forcing unity down other people's throat. Yoruba people were split into three different countries.
It is better if Yoruba people learn from their past and use it to create a better future for themselves.

Yes sir

Setting aside Race, Africa could be relatively backward, by Western criteria, because of accepting Western models of what development means, then trying to emulate this model but doing so wrongly because of misunderstanding how it is achieved.

Democracy is a good example of a Western model African nations believe helped West develop but misunderstand how it really works.

oodualover:
Africa is poor because of enormous ethnic diversity. It is not sensible to lump three of the largest ethnic group in Africa into one. These three ethnic groups are very large and can develop at their own pace.
Split Nigeria!!!

How many ethnic groups are in Switzerland? Is it a poor country like Nigeria?

The four ethnolinguistic groups (Germanic, French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansh) that make up the native Swiss population have retained their specific characteristics.

Read more: http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Switzerland-ETHNIC-GROUPS.html#ixzz4zbAh3Zp3

Let us stop making excuses for our failures.
Did anyone stop Benue, Ekiti etc from making Anti-Grazing laws?
Did anyone stop the 36 state governors when they sued the federal government of Ebola Owu over the SOvereign Wealth Fund?
Does anyone stop you from petitioning your councillor, state honourable, senator, representative to address issues of concern in your area?
Has anyone stopped you from joining a political party and volunteering your money, time and talents for identifying and supporting more useful candidates?


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oodualover:
You are very sensible. European countries are split along ethnic lines so reduce tribalism and hate. And to also to foster development.

Stop spreading falsehood to people here please.
Is Belgium not a European country?

The language divide at the heart of a split that is tearing Belgium apart

Belgium doesn't exist, only Flanders and Wallonia as Dutch and French communites live apart.

More from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/09/belgium-flanders-wallonia-french-dutch

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horsepower101:
Me personally I don't know about other Africans but I know that igbos in particular if given a nation of their own will develop rapidly like Japan and Korea did. They have the potential to do that but unfortunately they are surrounded by people that want them to fail and remain subjugated.

they have 5 states fa and how many local govt.. What have they done at that level?

Daplux4:


it's simple, we have not had the right people in power for decades, especially in Nigeria.

our diversity is a big problem to us.
who can believe that Nigeria build cars.
A good one for that matter but our government turned elsewhere
just because it comes from the other side.

his state Houston nko, is he from the other side?
What about transport businesses are they from the other side? What of his fellow ppl? Company that refuse to advertise and provide after sales service

Cromagnon:
they have 5 states fa and how many local govt.. What have they done at that level?

They have done a lot despite being surrounded by enemies of progress