I've been watching this documentary for the last 45 minutes. It's clear to me now. Thanks @masukuma.

Blaming it on racial difference is an excuse.

The reason why we fail is due to environmental differences: economic and social factors.

Obama got it when he said:
We need new mindset, new attitude. The whole lot of our country men.

I picked up something very impressive: Africans drive through life with brakes on. Waaa, this on blew my head, how true!!

I totally agree with you. I will also add

1. Ensure our children grow up with confidence that there is nothing wrong with being black. Which cartoons do your kids watch? How many black characters are on them ? or asian? At what age did you learn that Africa is the cradle of mankind? Let us propagandize education to make kids that dont hate being black and beat themselves all the time
2. Education should enable kids to be enabled to be more creative and thinkers. That way hopefully they will grow without tribal goggles and choose leaders that are not tender-preneurs
3. Read, think and always better yourself. Please drop the goggles and stop playing victim of the west, religion, tyranny.........etc

True, these people always portray the black as the bad guy. And I always see this in the Hollywood movies, the black guy is always the one being humiliated!!!

That's why @kiterunner is asking you, which movies your kid watches. Please be close to your children, and guide them. I pray to God to guide me to guide my children, amen.

The tribal leaders are greedy. That's why. So the education didn't change them. And because of their greediness, they joint the eaters! So sad.

We should be able to create our own animations.
The few black ones I have watched contain themes revolving around poverty,witchcraft,sicknesses; cholera,malaria,abuse-mashida tu =makes kids develop an inferior attitude towards the society.

Raise up confident kids who believe they can be what they desire to be and change the world for better and you will see how they talk.

@Kysse I have had the fortune of meeting a good number of very smart kenyans and some of whom are educated to the highest levels possible in the best places in the world and I totally agree that as many of them wear tribal goggles as the rest of us average kenyans. Actually if you met these Kenyans abroad, i think you would see they are worse at it. However, one would hope that a critical mass would be built overtime of informed kenyans

I chose the things that kids watch as an easy example of how the black (African) image is denigrated right after birth in the eyes of kids. The barbie dolls your daughter has are probably blonde, her favorite cartoon is probably snow white, her favorite storybook....... I am not saying this is a bad thing (i actually love the big bad wolf ) but it would be nice to have a number of black heroes in there as well as a starting point to have adults that dont view 'blackness' as a disease.

Another solution that you wont hear often is our cognitive ability. This is controversial but I think it is worth looking at. Some of the diseases that plague Africa impair cognitive development in children ie malaria, helminthic infections, anaemia, malnutrition..... These may not kill you as a kid but you will live with the effects for the rest of your life. Now extrapolate that to a population level over thousands of years. So improving nutrition and better health care will take us a long way

And gossip and opinion is thriving in Africa!!

Just open the papers and you'll see it by yourself.

Even on front pages, you'll find headline on gossip or opinion instead of important matters

A good example is social media and sites like this one of ours. You see how long it takes for juicy topic hitting 1000 posts compared to serious one like this

@Alpha,American tabloids are the worst when it comes to gossip.Their gossip is just well formulated while ours is classic raw, poorly researched market place gossip-A reflection of a very idle and below average minds.
Compromised standards of recruitment in work places also have a bearing on the quality of service provided so don't expect much.

@ kite.We are our own enemies.
Just Compare the themes in african and western movies.
While Western movies have heros after the act,
African movies have sufferers.
Western movies end in victory,but ours end in defeat and tears.
Our movies will feature disease,or poverty while western movies feature battles.-don't have to be physical.
It's as if we thrive in sorrow,darkness,dirt and pain.

Which 'one'? Are you a starving African?

Environmental, economic, and social differences, are power relations.

And power is about identity. In late eighteenth century, the idea of 'European' superiority came into being.

And now when we look at others as superior then we acknowledge inferiority. And the results will always leave us inferior.

The problem is that we have been brainwashed to believe that Africa is a hell hole plagued by all manner of problems and that the rest of the world is a paradise. You just need to read abit of history (and current affairs) to realise that worse conditions have occurred elsewhere. Even in Europe the situation was much worse not so long ago. You can read about feudal europe, the black death, cholera in europe, irish famine, slums in europe, world wars (70m were killed in WW2 just 70yrs ago!), bosnia, Kosovo, syria, beirut, afghanistan, Korea, Niajin massacre carried out by the japanese on the chinese,israel/palestine, india/pakistan, annihilation of the indigenous peoples of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, latin america etc etc.