A while back I wrote a blog called "Are black people really incapable of governing themselves?" and noted various reasons of why black countries almost never reach certain heights. I know the stereotype of black people is often very negative in developed countries but this is all psychosocial & often engineered to be so. Corruption & criminality is not an exclusively black thing. We have many law-abiding black people who just want to live ordinary lives. The only time black people want to be the main attraction is usually in communities where they are mentally made to be like that. No normal black child grows up just wanting to be corrupt or a criminal without external influences. Not every black person is a criminal & bad behaviour as well as good behaviour is taught. A black society can teach positive behaviours. You might call me "well-trained" or a "house negro" but what does being a criminal often get you other than jail? You can rob a bank & act like a thug but what good does this really do? If you're a successful thief, you'll get lots of money but the stakes are too high. Being a criminal is gambling with your life. That's not the type of black any normal black person wants unless that particular black society is full of criminals itself.
In precolonial sub-Saharan Africa, particularly outside of West Africa, we had nations & tribal regions demarcated by rivers & mountains. We'd build fencing for livestock, plant crops, make iron tools/weapons, hunt & do all the things necessary to survive & keep our homestead & nation in tact. Ofcourse, there were conflicts but they were not as frequent as we think they were. How would we get anything done if we were constantly at war? Huts & fencing may seem simple but they also need to be built, how would we get any of that done if we were always at war? It is really funny how frequent people think war was in precolonial Africa. We had kings or emperors & their advisors. These were all functioning societies all over Africa without a single white man in sight. In West Africa where they were in contact with the Arab world, they had the Songhay Empire, Mali, Yorubaland, Hausaland, Benin & Sokoto Caliphate... all these states/countries had intricate artworks, nobility, laws, various scripts & even universities. The University of Timbuktu is one of the oldest universities in the world. All in Africa with sovereign black-led lands & black populations. It is only after colonisation & the infamous Berlin Conference that Africans lost a sense of nationhood & lost their sense of duty to their lands. After colonisation & the Berlin Conference, Africans would be more selfish because they had nothing to serve, their kings & chiefs became obsolete when they could no longer protect their lands from gatling guns. The African's focus became about personal wealth & self-satisfaction when he had no nation or sense of duty to anything but himself. This individualism becomes useful in the European colonies of Africa because the African now has nothing to serve but himself & whatever the new European master says, goes in absence of the African's nation & traditional leader. It is social engineering that causes black societies to be more disfunctional. Social engineering is sometimes done deliberately to disturb Africans mentally so that they become restless & are not at peace to make clear , reasonable solutions for their world. Ideally, the Western world would rather have black Africans that are psychologically incapable of making solutions for their black people than black Africans making sensible solutions for their lands that would surpass Western lands.
STATISTICS OF MAJORITY BLACK LANDS:
Despite Africans being slaves in America & the Arab world then treated as the most dispensible people in the world in Leopold's Congo & having their nations rendered disfunctional by invaders in the rest of Africa, Africans have made something for themselves. The Top 10 countries with the lowest GDP per capita in the world are indeed mostly African, these being:
1) Yemen
2) Burundi •
3) Afghanistan
4) South Sudan •
5) Somalia •
6) Central African Republic •
7) Liberia •
8) Mozambique •
9) Madagascar •
10) Sierra Leone •
These lands have had civil wars in their recent past & are constantly being destabilised. African countries, in general, are frequently destabilised by more developed countries.
Positive stats: Of the countries with a majority black population with the highest GDP per capita; Bahamas is 44th in the world beating the likes of Latvia, Panama, Slovakia & Turkey. Botswana is 80th in the world in terms of GDP per capita beating Iran & Brazil.
The H. D. I. (Human Development Index) calculates health, education, income & living conditions. The best performing majority black country in this index is St. Kitts & Nevis which beats Uruguay & Romania. In Africa, the best performing black country in this index is South Africa which stands at 110th in the world. Sadly, not an index majority black countries do well in.
In the GINI coefficient index of inequality; Gambia is the best performing majority black country in the world. Gambia stands at 55th in the world in terms of equality beating El Salvador & Canada. Mali stands at 60th most equal country in the world beating Malaysia & Bulgaria. South Africa is the least equal country in the world with income still heavily defined by race.
To some these stats look bad, but they simply tell a story of Africa still being average somehow despite starting at a terrible disadvantage. Some border changes & kwatuist reforms & an African country could one day be ranked among the countries with the highest H. D. I.
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