creativeguru: Absolutely incredible!
Africans are superior race, smarter, resilient and thick-skinned. The whites know this and have exploited us via our greedy spots to ensure we are perpetually slaves... But Africa will rule the world in the very near future, before which, we must pass through very tough times.

Shokoloko:
I dont think so. The whites couldnt have exploited us without our own cooperation. We made ourselves slaves. Do u know more slaves were traded than kidnapped.
I dont see us ruling the world soon, our attitude has always been wicked and selfish, and so far there has been no change.
Africans have been selling their people to other races since ancient times, and our politicians and rulers are still selling us away

gatiano:

Thomas Fuller 1710 - 1790 , African “slave” and mathematician.

Thomas Fuller was an African, shipped to America as a slave in 1724. He had remarkable powers of calculation, and late in his life was discovered by antislavery campaigners who used him as a demonstration that blacks are not mentally inferior to whites.

The place of his birth appears to have been between present day Liberia and Benin. Known as Negro Tom, we know that he was described as a very black man and also we know that he lived in Virginia after being brought to the United States as a slave.Certainly late in his life he was the property of Elixabeth Coxe of Alexandria.

Thomas Fuller, known as the Virginia Calculator, was stolen from his native Africa at the age of fourteen and sold to a planter. When he was about seventy years old, two gentlemen, natives of Pennsylvania, viz., William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, men of probity and respectable characters, having heard, in traveling through the neighborhood in which the slave lived, of his extraordinary powers in arithmetic, sent for him and had their curiosity sufficiently gratified by the answers which he gave to the following questions: First, Upon being asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47 304 000. Second: On being asked how many seconds a man has lived who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and a half 2 210 500 800. One of the gentlemen who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations told him he was wrong, and the sum was not so great as he had said - upon which the old man hastily replied: stop, master, you forget the leap year. On adding the amount of the seconds of the leap years the amount of the whole in both their sums agreed exactly.

Another question was asked and satisfactorily answered. Before two other gentlemen he gave the amount of nine figures multiplied by nine. … In 1790 he died at the age of 80 years, having never learned to read or write, in spite of his extraordinary power of calculation.

Present day thinking is that Fuller learned to calculate in Africa before he was brought to the United States as a slave. Supporting evidence for this comes from a passage written by Thomas Clarkson in 1788 describing the purchase of African slaves: “It is astonishing with what facility the African brokers reckon up the exchange of European goods for slaves. One of these brokers has ten slaves to sell , and for each of these he demands ten different articles. He reduces them immediately by the head to bars, coppers, ounces… and immediately strikes the balance. The European, on the other hand, takes his pen, and with great deliberation, and with all the advantage of arithmetic and letters, begin to estimate also. He is so unfortunate, as to make a mistake: but he no sooner errs, than he is detected by this man of inferior capacity, whom he can neither deceive in the name or quality of his goods, nor in the balance of his account.”

Despite Fuller’s calculating abilities he was never taught to read or write and again this is evidence that he did not learn to calculate while in the United States. When someone who had witnessed his calculating abilities remarked that it was a pity he had not been educated, Fuller replied: ‘It is best I got no learning; for many learned men be great fools.’ He died on 1790 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

Segirl18: Weldone op!

#though i did nt really read# bt May God crown ur efforts.....

Mbediogu:

There were many such unsung and innominate black slaves all over the world. It was the mingling of their genes with those of men and women of other nations over time that made wonders such as space travel possible.

superior1: We have got people with brains like supercomputers in Africa yet we are cursed with leaders who are complete idiots

ajl: Geniuses are scattered all over every corner of the earth, among every ethnic stocks and they often do not need to be formally educated to show their prowess. They are supposed to be a blessing to their society if condition permit.
Can you ever imagine a white British professor saying the following to a young proud African (actually Nigerian) scholar who studied under him at the Oxford University in the 1950s.."Stop looking down on us Awonola...you are only fortunate to be a genius".. The young man who turned out to be my father had the habit of taking his classmates and professors to the "cleaners"..and then he would retort (in yoruba) "jeje mi ni mo joko, eyin le wa to mi." (meaning .. I was on my own but you all provoked me)
The unfortunate thing is that the Nigerian way as in other African societies frustrates the beautiful minds among us. I can't imagine how many of such helpless mind roam the streets of Nigeria in frustration.

Shokoloko:
I dont think so. The whites couldnt have exploited us without our own cooperation. We made ourselves slaves. Do u know more slaves were traded than kidnapped.
I dont see us ruling the world soon, our attitude has always been wicked and selfish, and so far there has been no change.
Africans have been selling their people to other races since ancient times, and our politicians and rulers are still selling us away

xij38580: The past is gone, at best it serves as a reminder of how great we've fallen. Slavery is never justifiable, it destroyed the self esteem of the average black person. However, the black race can't totally wash its hands clean of this great crime.

The sad thing is that, slavery continues to this very date. Nothing has changed. Bad governance in Africa over the years has sold our future and our children's children's future.

Racism would never leave, until the black race wakes up and leaders become more accountable, committed to education development , elimination of poverty, reduction in corruption. These and more is what would restore back true freedom.

We must stop receiving aids from these countries, this stomach infrastructure must end. We sold ourselves to the Europeans for whisky, gin , mirrors and useless items in exchange for our most priced possession, the best and strongest of us. They went on to be used to develop the new worlds.

That legacy still continues till today.

creativeguru: Absolutely incredible!
Africans are superior race, smarter, resilient and thick-skinned. The whites know this and have exploited us via our greedy spots to ensure we are perpetually slaves... But Africa will rule the world in the very near future, before which, we must pass through very tough times.

xij38580: The past is gone, at best it serves as a reminder of how great we've fallen. Slavery is never justifiable, it destroyed the self esteem of the average black person. However, the black race can't totally wash its hands clean of this great crime.

The sad thing is that, slavery continues to this very date. Nothing has changed. Bad governance in Africa over the years has sold our future and our children's children's future.

Racism would never leave, until the black race wakes up and leaders become more accountable, committed to education development , elimination of poverty, reduction in corruption. These and more is what would restore back true freedom.

We must stop receiving aids from these countries, this stomach infrastructure must end. We sold ourselves to the Europeans for whisky, gin , mirrors and useless items in exchange for our most priced possession, the best and strongest of us. They went on to be used to develop the new worlds.

xij38580: The past is gone, at best it serves as a reminder of how great we've fallen. Slavery is never justifiable, it destroyed the self esteem of the average black person. However, the black race can't totally wash its hands clean of this great crime.

The sad thing is that, slavery continues to this very date. Nothing has changed. Bad governance in Africa over the years has sold our future and our children's children's future.

Racism would never leave, until the black race wakes up and leaders become more accountable, committed to education development , elimination of poverty, reduction in corruption. These and more is what would restore back true freedom.

We must stop receiving aids from these countries, this stomach infrastructure must end. We sold ourselves to the Europeans for whisky, gin , mirrors and useless items in exchange for our most priced possession, the best and strongest of us. They went on to be used to develop the new worlds.

creativeguru:
I understand. Achieving greatness as a slave
Whether you like it or not, it's time we started making documented history of modern greatness. Once, you achieve big, you are automatically a property of America or Europe. Africa must get the deserved credit if and only if we work towards collective development.

hollandis:

This is so far the most intelligent response ,and coming from a lady is rather alarming.


The rest of y'all on this thread shame ,you cant even criticize this story ,blacks especially with your likes will always end up being wiping mats for the whites ,except thiscorrosive mentality of yours is destroyed.You are all suffering from one thing " Institutionalised slavery"

killercute16: i pray to be alive to see that day.

sexzskil: Lmao Another attempt for the eternal inferior Black fvcked a.s.s race to console themselves about their damn lower class. I'm not supprise, thread of this nature derived from moonlight fables flood nairaland occasionally to heighten the inferior Black man's awkward narcissism. Such a great pity Africans were created inferior and slaves. Slaves forever! Even the name ''Africa'' was given after a White general.

Am out!

gatiano: corruption is not the problem of africa, no brother, as you might have seen, we've had a lot of master degree holders, doctorates, a lot of wonderful geniuses. but has one helped changed our status? no not one. so what is the problem? the problem and the only problem lies in our mental state, our mind. we are still hold captive in slavery. so we must awaken ourselves to the truth. the blackman must first know that he is marvellous and beautiful which is the truth and fact. the blackman create this world.

stanconnect: Indeed..Africa is blessed.

Shokoloko:
I dont think so. The whites couldnt have exploited us without our own cooperation. We made ourselves slaves. Do u know more slaves were traded than kidnapped.
I dont see us ruling the world soon, our attitude has always been wicked and selfish, and so far there has been no change.
Africans have been selling their people to other races since ancient times, and our politicians and rulers are still selling us away

sexzskil: Lmao Another attempt for the eternal inferior Black fvcked a.s.s race to console themselves about their damn lower class. I'm not supprise, thread of this nature derived from moonlight fables flood nairaland occasionally to heighten the inferior Black man's awkward narcissism. Such a great pity Africans were created inferior and slaves. Slaves forever! Even the name ''Africa'' was given after a White general.

Am out!