Africans are simple people

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Summary: The transcript argues that Africans are simple people unsuited to modern technology, infrastructure, and nationhood. They historically lived in tribal communities with oral traditions, no advanced writing systems, and high mortality, unlike more developed Eurasian and East Asian societies. Imposed nations clash with tribal loyalties, leading to weak civic responsibility, poor institutions, and preference for personal gain.

Strong authoritarian rule is needed for unity, as education and development lag due to cultural patterns favoring short-term enjoyment over sacrifice.

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By Ike Jukum

Transcribed from the YouTube video, The Africans Are Simple People Who Find Modernisation Too Complicated

Chapter 1: The concept of simple living

The African is a simple man. Simple people don’t understand technology, innovation, and other advanced systems that dominate the contemporary world. He aspires to live in luxurious mansions, but does not invest in the necessary infrastructure to support them, such as power plants and sewage systems. He drives a luxury car yet neglects to invest in building and maintaining the road network. He enjoys fine dining but does not want to cook. He travels in first and business class yet does not invest in developing reliable airports and air traffic systems.

The Africans are simple people who find modernization too complicated. The dark-skinned people of Africa lived happily in communities hundreds of years ago. Deep in the Sahel at the border of the Sahara Desert, the Africans lived happily in communities and endless celebration. In the heart of Central Africa’s rainforest, an area twice as large as Western Europe, the same Africans lived in communities and celebrated with nature and extended families. The same was true for East Africa. In the plateaus, the Africans lived in communities. It wasn’t any different in southern Africa, in the desert of Namibia, and the savannah of Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana. The Africans lived just fine.

What do I mean by just fine? One day at a time. Abundant food, barely any decent infrastructure, polygamy, cousin marriages, incest, tribal wars, and unprecedented mortality rate. This was the life of the thousands of ethnicities that make up the area belonging to the dark-skinned people of Africa. There were barely any libraries, universal writing systems, or a sense of exploration driven by global interest or advancement.

Chapter 2: The role of written history

As in other parts of the world, especially Europe, Eurasia, and East Asia, this was the life we were accustomed to. Europeans ruined it for us trying to make us a developed people in our blood rooted in thousands of years of a consistent pattern which involved the characterization I just painted. Modernization became the enemy. We had no clue what to do with it. We struggle to understand how to work together, prioritize education, enforce the education we acquire, sacrifice for the nation, delay gratification, and most of all understand our responsibility as members of a country.

Every person inherits and learns from their parents, close relatives, or the world that shaped their upbringing. We are never detached from it. The parents who raised every African life today lived like the parents who raised them. We don’t understand what a nation or a country is. We are not raised to see our countries as our responsibility. Instead, we are raised to see them as an opportunity.

Now that we have narrated how the Africans used to live hundreds of years ago, we’ve also inserted a lack of self-control within a country and an inability to comprehend how to apply the knowledge acquired through the Western education system that was given to us for free.

Chapter 3: Global development comparison

Moving on to South America. The South Americans, the indigenous ones, did not possess a conventional alphabetic or logographic writing system like those developed in Mesopotamia, East Asia, Europe, and Eurasia. Cuneiform, widely regarded as one of the oldest writing systems, developed in Mesopotamia, suggesting that people there were significantly more advanced than those in Africa. Some might ask why, if ancient Mesopotamia was that developed, then why did Europe become so far advanced than everyone else? An important factor to consider is that ancient Mesopotamia was not Islamic. In my opinion, that religion destroys everything. Islam began to spread through the region between 633 and 638 AD during the early Arab conquest led by the Rashidun Caliphate.

When we examine empires such as the Inca, the Aztec, and the Norte Chico and Maya civilizations in South America, it becomes evident that these civilizations did not develop writing systems comparable to those found in Mesopotamia, Europe, Eurasia, or East Asia. I bring these empires into the discussion to highlight similarities between ancient African societies and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Both groups were the least advanced. This is visible in their lifestyle and development today. Without the white people in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, the USA, Canada, and all the countries from South, Central, and North America, those countries would just be as terribly underdeveloped as Africa. Similarly, had the Europeans settled in Nigeria, Congo, Ivory Coast, or Uganda, these countries would have been equally developed. The transition of knowledge acquired from one generation to the next is nurtured and gradually passed on to the subsequent generation. Like the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the dark-skinned people of Africa did not develop sophisticated writing systems and often lived simpler lifestyles.

Chapter 4: The importance of literacy

The Chinese writing system is estimated to be between 3,000 and 3,500 years old, making it the longest continuously used writing system in the world. Egyptian hieroglyphs date back over 3,000 years. The English writing system evolved from the early runic script to the Latin script around the 5th century. Most Western European scripts derive from the Latin script which is over 2,700 years old. The Cyrillic script is over 1,000 years old while the hiragana and katakana are also more than a thousand years old. And kanji has been used for over 3,000 years.

A writing system can be seen as a key indicator of how advanced or educated a civilization is. It helps manage large-scale information, though it is not the sole measure of education or intelligence. Historians recognize that many highly sophisticated and educated civilizations have thrived without a writing system using alternative innovative methods to transmit knowledge such as oral tradition, alternative textual forms, and nonverbal engineering and scientific techniques. Nevertheless, writing represents a significant milestone because it preserves information long after the original speaker has passed away, enabling the rapid accumulation of knowledge.

Early Africans could only pass on their limited knowledge and experiences orally to the next generation, a practice that continues to this day. What one does not know cannot be transferred to their offspring. And if something is not written down, it dies with the last person to experience it. Furthermore, the oral transmission of delicate experiences, knowledge, and complex ideas cannot be retained with precision. It dilutes with each retelling, becoming increasingly distorted until it bears little resemblance to the original message. Civilizations with sophisticated writing systems thrive and maintain a historical record of their lineage. Traditionally, Africans lived in a storytelling culture which is still visible in some parts of the continent today. Our grandparents did not live in nations called Nigeria, Congo, or Tanzania. They lived in tribal storytelling worlds where writing systems, formal education, and a fundamental understanding of civic responsibility were absent.

Chapter 5: Challenges of nationhood

Imagine telling my grandfather not to litter, urinate in public, or limit the number of children he fathers. He would likely think that I’d lost my mind. This illustrates why we struggle to uphold the country we now claim as our own. The average Nigerian public servant is not there to serve the people but to enrich themselves. They might sell their office for personal gain even if it means harming their entire community or the country as a whole. While they know that arriving late for work, taking bribes, selling office equipment, and neglecting their duties are wrong, their instinct is to care only for themselves. To them, the country feels like an imposed identity that conflicts with their lived experiences. Like their ancestors, they litter, urinate in public, and prioritize allegiance to their clan, tribe, village, or close family. The notion of civic responsibility and their duty as citizens carries little weight in their worldview. This dynamic is a major reason many African countries struggle.

The nations we currently manage are concepts forced upon us. Many Africans feel compelled to their identity as Nigerians, Kenyans, Burundians, or Zambians. Don’t get me wrong here. Most Africans want their countries to succeed, but they often don’t understand what it means to live as citizens of independent nations. Unlike many English, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese people who would be unlikely to sell their country for a sum as substantial as 10 billion so that they and their families could live in luxury, many Nigerians, Ghanaians, Congolese, or Zimbabweans might. They are not bad people. Don’t get me wrong. They simply do not perceive their countries as entities worth sacrificing for. The concept of nationhood is still evolving among Africans and they need more time to adjust.

While the Germans have a history spanning over 2,000 years, modern Germany, where citizens act as accountable members of the nation, has only existed for less than 200 years. Other Europeans, including the English, French, Italians, and Russians have similar experiences. Their nations have existed longer than their present-day forms. It takes a gradual shared experience for people to unite as one nation built around a constitution that supports their collective identity.

Chapter 6: Leadership and development

For a nation to thrive, citizens must adopt a sense of responsibility not only towards their families but also towards their country. This mindset is not yet fully developed among many Africans. For example, a Nigerian from Cross River State may feel indifferent when misfortune affects someone from Borno State. This perspective often extends across the continent, which is why some African leaders seem unaffected by disasters that impact specific regions of their countries. Most countries began as dictatorships. A unifying force is often required to bring people together under strong leadership. Throughout history, there hasn’t been a single successful nation that wasn’t initially ruled and united by an authoritarian figure such as a king or emperor. Societies don’t transition from tribal affiliations to democracy in just a few decades. Such change typically needs to be cultivated within their culture before moving toward democratic governance.

From Japan to the UK and from France to Korea, these nations had histories of autocratic leadership that united them from kingdoms to republics. Democracy emerged in Europe, Japan, and Korea long after these nations were forged under dictatorial rule. The New World doesn’t count, including Australia and New Zealand, because these were formed by Europeans who had already developed nations in Europe. We cannot expect the same kind of rapid democratic development in Africa where many people have shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle with allegiances solely to their tribes. These nations, often diverse with many languages and ethnicities, still reflect cultural or historical experiences reminiscent of early Europe.

One of the reasons why the Gulf Cooperation Council, the GCC countries, have maintained unity and prosperity is partly because strong authoritarian regimes govern them. They too have tribes but because they have a strong man iron-hand leadership it forces them to unite and abide by one order. They were also colonized and later granted independence. Their cultural homogeneity, being predominantly Arab, sharing the same language, and benefiting from abundant natural resources has further bonded them. A leader like Traoré from Burkina Faso can expedite national unity, foster civic responsibility, and encourage allegiance to the nation while suppressing tribal affiliations by ruling with an iron fist that forces the masses to comply.

Chapter 7: Institutional deficiencies

Unfortunately, many in Africa tend to view education the same way they view their countries—as less valuable. The question arises, why aren’t our schools producing geniuses? Why are they not competing globally? Why do they lack proper infrastructure and maintenance? Because our brains aren’t naturally wired to fiercely uphold educational institutions and apply what we learn for everyone’s benefit. As soon as an African acquires basic reading and writing skills, they ignore the important part of advanced specialization in one academic field and use what they learned to develop or apply in their daily lives. That’s why we produce the least in all fields. An African completes his PhD, returns to being a quintessential African—drinking, partying, intimidating, and living for the now.

The president of the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi, has been in power for 7 years. The country depends heavily on mineral cobalt. Despite seeing young children manually dig for minerals, he hasn’t launched any educational programs or provided equipment to empower citizens in the mining sector. Meanwhile, Nigeria has produced oil, crude oil, for over 50 years, but no Nigerian companies handle crude oil extraction. This work is done by foreigners. In other words, after 50 years, why haven’t Nigerians developed a strategy to gain the expertise needed to extract their own oil? Why are all major infrastructure projects from suspension bridges to airports and power plants primarily built by Chinese or foreign companies? The root of this issue is a lack of collective understanding of one’s responsibility to a country and its people.

Chapter 8: Personal and systemic cycles

What feeds the president, his family, his immediate need takes priority over what benefits the people. They don’t see past a few months. Therefore, today the president and people in power see a few million dollars in their bank account. Their children study in the US and the UK. They have private jets waiting for them at the airport. Their many wives and concubines are in line waiting for when they are ready. They are living the dream. Why should they bother sacrificing all these for the strangers who call themselves members of their country? A nation they never requested or created.

The African man often seeks enjoyment. He desires sex, parties, and relaxation while also wanting financial prosperity without putting in the hard work. He aspires to live in luxurious mansions but does not invest in the necessary infrastructure to support them such as power plants and sewage systems. He drives a luxury car yet neglects to invest in building and maintaining the road network. He enjoys fine dining but does not want to cook. He travels in first and business class yet he does not invest in developing reliable airports and air traffic systems.

If he were to return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle where he litters, urinates freely, farms, tells stories, has wives and children, and lives in remote communities, he would live just fine without the complications of modernization. He does not grasp how to manage a country that relies on technology, educational systems that require time and effort to develop the right skills, and a society where everyone is equal before the law, held accountable for their actions, and required to earn what they have. That is not the world he’s accustomed to. The African is a simple man. Simple people don’t understand technology, innovation, and other advanced systems that dominate the contemporary world.

Chapter 9: Final reflections on identity

My name is Ike Jukum. Everyone calls me Ike. You can call me either. I created this platform to be different. The other black channels run the Wakanda version of us. They show you one street in Addis Ababa and tell you how Ethiopia is now developed. It’s better than London. They show you one street in Accra, show you one duplex here in Accra, another duplex in Lagos, and one street in Benin and tell you how black people are doing great. One black person becomes an engineer at NASA. Oh, Africans are so intelligent. As if African means anything. A German is a German, not a European. An Igbo is an Igbo, not an African. A Nigerian is a Nigerian, not an African. A Zulu is a Zulu, not an African. A black person from Zimbabwe, Senegal, Nigeria, in South Africa is a foreigner. If he’s illegal, deport him. He’s broken immigration rules. We are not the same people. We share the same skin color. We are related by a shared race, our dark skin. The black people in America are not one of us. They are a distinct ethnic group. We have to respect that.

This channel is for black Africans and I intend to point out our shortcomings and our positives. Sadly, our shortcomings exceed 95%. Our positives are only 5%. So, I will cover 95% of our shortcomings and 5% our positives. If you like what we do here, please like, share, and subscribe. Also, if you can, why not become a member and support us? Thank you for watching.

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Takeaway

In the aggregate, black Africans have shown to be incapable of assimilating with advanced nations due to neurological deficiencies, such as low intelligence, desire for "shiny things" without the capability of earning them, and impulsivity that includes giddiness and rage.

In the minds of white people, reality has been framed as racism; the ultimate evil. Consequently, whites deny reality, finding it distasteful. Furthermore, whites are conditioned to believe that their racism is the primary reason blacks cannot function at the same level.

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