first of all, when african people begin to compare themselves to their white neighbors based on their tools and intellectual measurements, then you will fail because our values and what dictates our survival and central meaning to living is different from theirs... that does not make us stupid or lagging behin because by comparrison; whose criteria are we using when measuring such progress; either it be economic or intelligence?... does building a robot necessaarily mean that a man is much more intelligent than his counterpart whose basic needs dictate what priorities to tackle first, perhaps food, or toil the land... whatever?... with the coming of europeans and globalization, all priorities that we lived by were erased and we were forced to turn centuries of what we knew living as - into what we were told/dictated upon to believe... were we stupid because we let our forefathers be manipulated (gifts of gunpowder and alcohol) to gather their keen and sell them as slaves? does that mean that they were smarter? the fascination with the west and the white man has blinded us that we have become more corrupted into materalism and into confining our nature as simple beings with more commandments based on western values than we are able to fulfil... thus tormenting ourselves with feelings of inferiority... by simple i mean; people whose life values and priorities were based purely on basic intrinsic needs...