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Dr James Watson being the eminent scientist that he is made remarks which I consider to be fallacious to say the least.  In trying to offer an insight, (a solution maybe!) to Africa’s ills he says that there is no evidence that African intelligence levels are at the same levels as their Caucasian counterparts.  Therefore he reckons to uplift their economic standards; programmes should be thought out taking into consideration the low IQ levels.

I am of the opinion that this is contemptuous of him.  To try and peddle the notion of white supremacy in this day and age is saddening.  There isn’t any concrete evidence to prove it.  This is a fact that I know, he knows and everybody knows. But to have an eminent scientist use his standing in society to try and influence people otherwise is an abuse to all progressive Africans and non white human beings in the world.

It is sad that this trend has continued to exist amongst people who should know better.  I dare say that Dr Watson is nostalgic about the past when the white man’s word was gospel and black were non citizens whose only existence was to serve the white man.  Days when Africa was but a resource appendage of the whites, to be partitioned and milked dry of resources and to hell with the people who happened to live there.

Examples abound world wide of Africans excelling not due to tokenism as is the practice in the west but due to intellect.  Corporations and world bodies are headed by Africans, African-American music sells globally, and the examples are endless.

Africa economies have failed to take off because of policies forced on them by the Bretton Woods institutions (western controlled institutions); policies which they dare not practice at home.  The SAPs (Structural Adjustment Programmes) espoused by The World Bank and IMF in the late 80s and early 90s have been recognised as failures.  These are programmes designed to subjugated economies and bond them with debts.  For all the aid given to Africa, it repays nearly two fold that amount.

It is not wrong to say that Africa has been under developed by the west.

Dr Watson better talk to Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Wangari Maathai and the Africans on the street daily trying to make ends meet then tell us who is dumb and who is dumber?