Why Can’t Africans Copy & Paste Already Existing Technology?
You know, I know, and everyone knows that Africa is the definition of poverty. The area where we disagree is why it is poor. Africans would have you believe that the white man is the reason for all their problems, including their poverty levels. As you already know, I vehemently disagree. All of that aside. The pertinent question should be: Why can’t Black Africans copy and paste already existing inventions from Whites and East Asians, given that their educational systems are exactly a copy of the British, French, and Portuguese curricula?
A typical African home is nearly 100% built with tools made or imported from outside Africa. What’s hard to copy is the windows, shower, nails, and every other tool needed to build a home. What’s so hard about using your endowed arable land, with no adverse weather, to grow your own food? What’s so hard about forming a committee to design your city and plan it to reflect your culture? Structures in Africa lack style and identity. Why use a Dulux or other imported paint brand intended for winter climates on a structure where the year-round average temperature is 35 degrees, only for it to peel? Go to buildings and offices in Africa and see how the paint is peeling off.
Imagine a scenario where African countries use the funds stolen by the government officials and the wastage from excess bureaucracies, many branches of police, and unnecessary institutions and employ a competent Chinese, British, American, Japanese, or German to take charge of scaling up farming, infrastructure, and healthcare and to teach local engineers and scientists how to reverse technology and conduct research. After ten years of learning from them, follow that pattern to continue the progression. Don’t you think that would change the various African countries, instead of running around beating your chests about how you invented everything and how everyone hates you and is racist?
Do you think that if an African leader came to the European Union, the USA, Japan, or South Korea and said, ‘Please, we don’t know what we are doing’? Could you help us by sending some professionals to the a, b, c, and d branches to educate us and help us improve in the areas where we fall short, instead of giving us handouts? ‘ Do you really think that the Europeans, Americans, Japanese, or Koreans would say no? In fact, they’d been touched by the gesture. Nobody wants Africans to suffer, stay poor, and be underdeveloped, because if they remain poor and underdeveloped, it will only end up becoming a burden to the developed, as they will pour in illegal immigration en masse. What the developed world wants to see are African tourists, not African illegal immigrants with no skills, whom they now call migrants, instead of what they are: ‘illegal immigrants’.
Africa has coal, abundant trees and forests, fertile land, rubber, excess rainfall, and endless sunshine, with everything else required to copy and paste already invented technology. In fact, Africans should be in the driver’s seat because they can correct all the mistakes the West made as it industrialised by simply copying and improving Western inventions. Instead, it copies the West’s worst aspects and ignores its overwhelmingly fantastic inventions. The way black Africans or black people in general get triggered by my content is beginning to reinforce the narrative that perhaps their current situation is the peak of what they can achieve. This may be their reality; thus, trying to make them into a developed or industrialised culture is being ignorant. It’s like asking Europeans and East Asians to urinate in public and disregard their institutions. That’d be naive and ignorant, because it is not their culture or state of mind.
I have reviewed Africa and black people thoroughly, and I don’t see people with any intention to change their state. Black people are happier than white people and East Asians. They are more sociable, have a lower suicide rate, party and celebrate more, and they can make the shift from boredom to exuberance. These aren’t qualities of people who are uncomfortable with their current state but of those who are thriving. We may be expecting too much from a culture that has reached its peak. Just like when a business reaches a saturation point, growth stagnates, and pivoting then becomes the only pathway forward. I’ve seen videos on YouTube claiming that Africans have actually progressed faster than the West did. Then they compared population growth, GDP, and lifespan with those of the 1960s and even earlier.
Listen, guys, Africa’s lifespan increase is due to Western advancements in medicine, which they hand out to Africans for free. Its population growth is due to the same Western advances in medicine, made available for free, which have decreased mortality rates, thereby skyrocketing birth rates. Its GDP growth, if you want to call it that, is due to Western discovery of mineral resources, support for mining, and alignment of the African market with the world. Black Africans have done nothing on their own to warrant praise. In other words, a toddler who is well-fed and looked after isn’t told they are doing well; the parents are told they’re doing a good job. What this narrative projects is a cycle of praise for a never-ending dependence that is crippling the Africans who have reached the peak of their advancement.
There are over 500 universities in black Africa, excluding white-built South Africa. How many have produced world-class engineers, scientists, IT geniuses, or novel findings that have gone on to revolutionise the world? None have even managed to copy and paste already existing technologies. How could you not see that the shoes you are wearing, your toothpaste, watch, tap, phones, medicine, books, cameras, and even the things you use to cook are imported? People with brains will review their system of governance around education and study why there is such an unprecedented degree of dependency. Can they come up with a plan to reverse and correct this? Why do you think they don’t do this? They may have reached the peak of their intelligence. The Africans are happy the way they are. We should stop bothering them by comparing them to a culture that wants to improve.
When I was in primary school in Central Africa, the first time I came in contact with a white person was when they came to our school to vaccinate us. To save us. They did it happily, freely, and proudly. The white man’s generosity increased the black global population, and his intervention in Africa brought black people from the fringes of the jungle into the urban living that we now see in the majority of Africa. However, evolving culture and inherent abilities cannot be taught overnight.
If Africans have reached their peak, and the data are pointing to the scary potential decrease of the white population by half or less, to about 350 million in a hundred years, whilst the black population would hit 4 billion. Japan, Korea, China, and even India would continue to decrease, with more older people than young ones. The world would be left with an overwhelming African population that can’t even make a printer or phone charger. That is a threat to humanity. Arab and Islam are another trouble altogether. They make nothing either, and their religion is so scary that even if my flight passes through an Islamic country’s airspace, I panic. I’d rather have the Christian black Africans than live in a world with Islam.
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By Ikechukwu ORJI
