An eminent American professor and Nobel Prize Winner was quoted in a recent report in the UK Independent newspaper claiming that Africans are genetically less intelligent than Europeans.
Should he be ignored? What have you thought of the debate on this matter around the internet? Is there really such a thing as an intelligence gene that can be handed down? Even in our country, among our ethnicities, such ideas persist and not just among chauvinists either. Is this not an opportunity to banish them for all time?
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Showing posts with label nobel prize literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nobel prize literature. Show all posts
Friday, October 19, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
The Grass is Singing
Last week, Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature.
"The Grass is Singing" is a psychological and social analysis on race relations in the old Zimbabwe, and an exploration of the dichotomy of culture and nature.
Read here as Annette Keino writes a review on her book, the Grass is Singing."
"The Grass is Singing" is a psychological and social analysis on race relations in the old Zimbabwe, and an exploration of the dichotomy of culture and nature.
Read here as Annette Keino writes a review on her book, the Grass is Singing."
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