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>It turned out, they couldn't figure out how to procure and install a server for it to run on. Sure they could. There's talent abound in Africa. Unfortunately,
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
>It turned out, they couldn't figure out how to procure and install a server for it to run on.
Sure they could. There's talent abound in Africa. Unfortunately, the case here is usually corruption. That project money was siphoned to the politicians themselves or a connected pal, or both. Just old fashioned fraud here. I think "Africans don't know what they are doing" is a convenient scapegoat that empowers fraudsters. And if that narrative leads to more foreign aid, then wonderful, because the politically connected class abuse that too.
- RogtamBar 11y agoI would not be so sure. While corruption and nepotism is a huge problem, there is more in play. There is decades worth of psychometric evidence pointing to the conclusion that on average, native Africans have less talent for mental tasks. It'd be rather surprising if ~100,000 years of separate evolution and a good deal of founder effects would have not produced appreciable mental differences between Eurasian and African populations. This, of course, is heresy:http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconven...
- hodwik2 11y agoOh, I'm glad you know more than I do about this thing I lived through, so you could correct me on it.