Timothy Birdnow

A study done by Africans in Nigeria says that on average Africans are functional semi-morons at least as compared to other groups around the globe.

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BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.

The article goes on to discuss poor nutrition as perhaps one of the causes and no doubt this is correct. It also speaks to language, which at least one philosophy professor believes is at the heart of lower I.Q. (I've long argued language is vitally important for the expression of complex ideas and it is the very thing that makes English so hard to learn that makes it the ideal language for science.)

But there is also the tribal nature of society in Africa. You are a member of your tribe, and that takes most of your allegiance. The insular nature of tribal life is guaranteed to discourage intellectual inquiry, and couple that with poverty (the natural result) and you get lower I.Q.

So, bad food, diseases, lack of intellectual stimulation, and language that was devised in the stone age all conspire to keep Africans stupid. And it's hard for them to change because they aren't smart enough to figure out that the way they live makes them morons; the stupid never realize they are stupid.

That said, this study was ONLY done in one city (Lagos, Nigeria) and it may well be that it's just the Lagocians who are imbeciles. But I suspect it's a lot of other Africans who aren't all that swift, and it shows by the intense poverty in their countries. Ignorance and stupidity go hand-in-hand with poverty. You may remember the scene in A Christmas Carol where the Ghost of Christmas Present shows two filthy, emaciated children from under his robe (which in itself makes me wonder about the old boy there) they were Ignorance and Want. Beware, old ghostie said, particularly of ignorance. Why? Ignorance breeds want; without the former you probably won't have the latter.

So is this just genetics and not the other issues? Perhaps, but this study doesn't answer that. But I tend to think not.

There are other places as impoverished and unsuccessful as Africa/Nigeria and we need to do these kinds of studies there. Papua New Guinea would be a good place to try it. Despite the PNG People looking rather like Africans they actually are genetically related to the People of the Philippines. So we should test them; they have similar environmental conditions (by that I mean the social environment, not physical - except in places like the Congo). We could check Palau, which is isolated and dirt poor. Check out native tribes in the Amazon. See if I.Q. is lower in these places and if so we know it is purely environmental.

Culture does play a big part in all of this and certainly ghetto areas in the U.S. suffer both lower I.Q. and cultural traits brought over from Africa by slaves, slaves who kept their traditions alive.

There is also the matter of alcohol/drug use. In Papua New Guinea the natives don't necessarily drink a lot but they tend to chew on something called the Betelnut, an hallucinogenic, and I gather they munch on that all day to take the edge off their miserable lives. I suspect we'll find something similar in most Third World countries, and that keeps them stupid.

So there are a lot of reasons why African has lower I.Q. and we need to understand much more about it before we can hope to help these people.

Christianity has been growing in Africa (sadly so has it's Canaanite opponent Islam) and the extinction of the pagan religions there, with their spirit worship and belief in witchcraft and other superstitions will help them more than any sociologists or psychologists or U.N. aid program. The civilizing nature of Christianity will provide political and economic stability and help these people do what Europe's Germanic tribes did two thousand years ago.

Africa could be a great continent if it could only be freed from the enthrallment of it's pagan and tribal past. If one takes Nostradamus seriously he predicted Africa would become the leader of the world near the end (he spoke of the "brodde nations" meaning dark or black). I don't take old nostrilities that seriously but who knows? I do know Africa is rich with minerals and has all the makings of the kind of power that Europe obtained. What it doesn't have is a social environment capable of moving past the neolithic.

But that won't always be forever.

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