By Field Ruwe
Vice President Guy Scott has proved wrong all white racists who in their sick effort to preserve White dominance claim that Africans have the lowest IQ (Intelligence Quotient). Over the years Scott has showed us that intelligence is adaptable by environmental input; that environment is elemental in the development of a given attribute. He has proved that how and where people live, their up-bring, their economic status, and culture have a substantial impact on the intellectual skills of a person.
Having laid the premise let me expound. Back in September 2011, what evoked great interest for Zambia in the West was not so much the headline “Victoria Station sweeper becomes president of Zambia,” but the appointment of Guy Scott as Africa’s second white deputy president after South Africa’s Frederick Willem de Klerk. The Guardian’s David Smith wrote of Scott: “He is outspoken, has the popular touch and just became the second most powerful man in Zambia. He also possesses something now rarely seen at the top of African politics: white skin.”
The media also stressed that in addition to the color of his skin Scott was an Oxfordian trained scientist: “he graduated in economics from Cambridge, researched robotics at Oxford, and wrote a PhD in cognitive science before returning to Zambia at the dawn of multi-party politics in 1990.” It was clear the ulterior motive of some of the writers was to draw a distinction between the white vice president and the black president—scientist and sweeper; day and night; white and black; European and African; all in their aversive racist effort to activate stereotypes of Whites as intelligent and Blacks as dull and lazy.
For those not familiar with the term “aversive racism,” it is a type of subtle bias practiced even by well-intentioned white journalists and individuals in order to perpetuate negative feelings about Africans. It can be said that 99.9% of whites possess non-conscious aversive racism which can be dictated in their actions, comments and body language. I am including Scott in this category. They believe in the stuff peddled by eugenicist and unrepentant racist Richard Lynn and other pseudo scientists who continue to insist that the IQ of whites is higher than that of Africans no matter the level of education.
The Lynn garbage has been fed into our minds as well. It has created in us a lack of self-worth, and a feeling of not measuring to White standards. As a result we tend to subconsciously over-compensate Whites when we are in their presence. Scott, having been born in Zambia knows how we cherish him because he “possesses white skin.” We, I mean most of us believe that he is more intelligent than we are. We believe that his engagement in various forms of reasoning is rapid, and he tackles problems by taking thought.
This goes for every white person. Some of us think white people are super smart; that that they are blessed with more intellectual gifts than us; that they have more natural innate intelligence; that they possess survival-orientated knowledge that allows them to achieve goals they personally desire. Whites know this and in order to sustain our impression of them, it is only natural that they retain an element of aversive racism.
In the case of Scott, it would not be far-fetched to claim that he is the reason some people are in the PF party. Wherever he goes, villagers and a good number of town dwellers flock to him and believe every word he says. Because they have been convinced a White has more wisdom and sight, the simply conclude “the muzungu has spoken.” In actual fact, it is this belief that gave them a sense of hope when he became vice president. Perhaps a white man “at the top of African politics” would put things right and lead the way to prosperity, they said in their indoctrinated manner. He would make economic success and modernism the crests of the Zambian nation.
Scott is in the third year of his vice presidency. One would expect that his “high IQ” coupled with his academic achievements [PhD in cognitive science] would be clear testimony of Lynn’s claims. If the IQ boloney is anything to go by, we would, by now, have seen Scott spearheading Zambia to first world status. Blessed with “sheer natural ingenuity” he would have found an intelligent way of ensuring that his uncontrollable boss understands that it is on the core values of democracy that the success of Great Britain [the country of Scott’s origin] is dependent. We should have heard him threaten to resign due to Sata’s failure to exercise legal equality, freedom of the press, and the rule of law.
Understanding a constitution is the defining essence of a country, Scott would have scoffed the “show me an animal-driven constitution” and side with those who are calling for the release of the draft. Being a “genius” Scott should fully understand that China is an external predator in a Venetian mask; that Chinese presence in Zambia is no different from that of Cecil Rhodes in early 1900s. He should be tutoring his boss on the dangers posed by Chinese investment and advising him to resist any exploitative deals.
By now Zambians should be applauding Scott for devising a most feasible solution to our economic and unemployment woes. We should be seeing clear signs of Zambia embracing globalization, free market capitalism, education, and strict pragmatic policies. Scott, by now, should be connecting us to the developed world and convincing their nationals to resuscitate our mines and reclaim our ranking as the second highest producer of copper in the world after Brazil. We should be giving him credit for allowing Western investors to manufacture in Zambia and thanking him for the training of unskilled workers in information technology.
It is clear Scott has not done any of such, and to imagine he is going to is wishful thinking. His degrees in Economics and Science hang on his wall like those of other educated Zambians. There is no scientific innovation to his credit. There has not been since he graduated and returned home. His comments and statements are no different from say Wynter Kabimba’s. In his recent television interview Scott said the following: “The Constitution is not a magic formula to take the place of governance. Good Governance is more important than the Constitution which entails that the people who lead you have to be sincere, genuine and take seriously the obligations of setting up schools, hospitals, roads, etc.”
Clearly his utterance is unintelligent. What IQ Scott chooses to discount is the fact that it is the provisions contained in the constitution that lead to good governance; that it is the constitution that provides a Code of Conduct for elected politicians; and that the constitution carries with it the enactment and judicial validation of accountability and transparency. It is the constitution that is a precursor to good governance.
From the time he took the oath of office, we have been watching Scott eat his own words. Most of the stuff he wrote in his Post column in 2010-11 is coming back to haunt him. He once wrote: “The press provides the means for reporting events and expressing views that represent checks and balances on our elected leadership. A competition amongst the media – such as we are seeing in Lusaka FM radio stations – contributes greatly to quality, and the public also deliver their checks and balances against poor quality nonsense through their patronage.” Sadly, today Scott is part of the system that is shuttering online publications, intercepting radio programs, and jailing dissident journalists and activists.
Scott even went as far as lecturing us on why Africa is so disorganized. “There are two schools of thought,” he wrote. “The first, which I will characterize as “English speaking,” tends to believe it is due to inexperience and immaturity on the part of Africans and/or African institutions…” the other school of thought, tending to be “French speaking,” says that Africans are perfectly good organizers and managers. It is just that they have discovered that deliberately-induced chaos can be a useful tool and they tend to use their managerial abilities to bring it about. Chaos, disorder, whatever you want to call it, is a useful instrument for achieving many goals including stealing money, evading justice and, above all, maintaining political power.”
Both lines of thought are very true and they are Scott’s heartfelt impression of African politicians. Sadly, Scott is no different from the Africans he deprecates. To our dismay, we have watched him become part of the chaos and disorder. A dealer of misinformation and image-repairer of his capricious boss, Scott has mastered the technique of rapid rebuttal, often with a Pinocchio nose and finds pleasure in evading justice in order to maintain power.
What does this tell us? It tells us that Guy Scott, born and bred in Zambia, is no different from us. He is one of us. Like all of us he was provided with the Zambian social and environmental stimuli during his childhood. Although being white he was reared in favorable environs and buffered by his well-to-do parents, his scholastic aptitude is no different from intelligent Zambians with similar qualifications.
It can therefore be concluded that how and where one was raised plays a pivotal role in one’s intelligence. For instance, had Scott stayed at Oxford as a researcher or worked in a robotics company in England it is possible he would have become part of Britain’s distinguished inventors. Why? Because of the various opportunities for enlarging knowledge and the availability of appropriate tools that make imagination an important part of intelligence. This is a fact that Lynn and his legion of followers choose to intentionally ignore. Ladies and gentlemen we are but the same people.
I really wonder why this Field Ruwe post those copy-paste articles on LT, this graffiti should be at Tumfweko.
Why on earth can a person presume that Guy Scott can be more intelligent than Pastor Nevers Mumba or even Fr. Bwalya?
Ba Ruwe you must be going thru a lot of racism where you are, the fact is you and I are blacks, so get over it and come home and build a house in new Kasama before plots finish. You will never be accepted in USA no matter how many Phds you get. Come home where you will be free and happy like me.Scott has nothing to do with the misery you are experiencing, its because you want to be looked after by a woman.Man up and come kumawa.Kambwili wife is in UK but he is not.
I would like to disagree with this article. It mixes alot of issues and is not based on sound research. It wont benefit anyone when we band ill backed information and try to link it with the message we are trying to convey. The concept of IQ and the measure of it has been heavily disputed by different scientific and social bodies and as such which school of thought is Field Ruwe coming from? I have been at conferences with Dr Scott when he was at Oxford and I will say this, he was a fine scientist with a brilliant mind. What Dr Scott isn’t is a politician. Unfortunately, just because he is a failed politician does not subtract from what he is good at. What Field is trying to do is rehash the argument of the impact of nature and nurture on intelligence and explain Dr Scotts…
Field Ruwe, you think someone who enslaved you, then colonized you would say anything good about you, your race or your intellect? After slavery they cant even apologize, but you are expected to forgive, forget and move on.
Most whites dont even like you and anyone else who looks like you .its a race that brought disease and misery to you and people of your color and is constantly looking at ways and means of annihilating you and yet when you see this man you behave like you have seen God Himself.
Do you think he will think or speak highly of you?
No wonder Mugabe says “the only good white man is a dead one”
you dont need a white person to tell or certify you as intelligent, but believe in yourself
No prejudice but based on reality
This is a unnecessarily long, beat-about-the-bush racist crap I have ever seen.
Field Luwe, please get your behind back to Zimbabwe where it came from and spare us the drivel. If you have nothing to write, best keep quiet.
There are still people today who think caucasian skin = intelligence??? I am disappointed with this Luwe chap.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Based on this article our Field Ruwe and MLK are at odds. Double standards. No Zambian should be judged by color of skin, ethnicity or tribe etc. That said one needs to be comfortable in one’s own skin 🙂
You all chose to ignore or completely missed the valid points that Ruwe has raised. He told you the reaction of the Western world was exactly that of prejudice. They praised Guy Scott more than they did President Michael Sata. They touted his academic credentials while focusing of Sata’s career as a street sweeper whose Father was a cook for the colonialist. They called him the by the endearing name the King Cobra when in essence trying to paint him negatively as a risk. So, yes, they thought Guy Scott to a sober equalizer, and to be honest that he (Scott) would be the de facto president. What Ruwe points out are persistent foolish and racist IQ theories. Today’s growing literature backs the idea of environment being more influential than all the IQ and culturally biased Test score crap
Ba Field Ruwe, the website start to look good.
Field Ruwe,I really love the subtle way you’ve denigrated Guy scott and racists! LOL this is so funny
Field I have dated Black men and WHite men and NO
White Men are more intelligent, smarter, better thinking, inventors, good looking etc
I dont hate Black Men, but my fellow zambian men are DEFINITELY inferior to Whites, the truth hates
You will find some cases where a black man has achieved above their expectation here and there, even the super hero ascendance to power by Mr Obama
The law of averages will show a white gene is a superior to a black gene FACt
Even now I am dating someone white the accolades go to me instead of the other way round, another point in place
Sorry just the truth
Thanks
@2.2 Mushota. No wonder your white boyfriend does all those disgusting acts on you! Acts like shoving his thing in your ar.se, removing it and then putting it in your mouth!
Field Ruwe, you think someone who enslaved you, then colonized you would say anything good about you, your race, your intellect? After slavery they can even apologize, but you are expected to forgive, forget and move on.
Most whites dont even like you and anyone else who looks like you .its a race that brought disease and misery to you and people of your color and is constantly looking at ways and means of annihilating you and yet when you see this man you behave like you have seen God Himself.
Do you think he will think or speak highly of you?
No wonder Mugabe says “the only good white man is a dead one”
you dont need a white person to tell or certify you as intelligent, but believe in yourself
No prejudice but just based on reality
we didnt even need an example of Scott except if you are brainwashed and have an inferiority complex like HH
You are the on who is so inferio. Leave HH alone. He has nothing to do with Scotts dullness. How can a PhD holder be controlled by a Standard four chap so easily?
Good article,but Scott is worse than majority Zambians because he lacks passion.
This issue is way bigger than just Guy Scott
Walasa mdala!
Mr Ruwe, drop that Phd you are persuing at George Fox University. Any African university can give you a doctorate degree for contributing to the body of knowledge that intelligence in humans is the same through studying Guy Scott’s thinking and actions. Well Done Sir.
I have an issue with this article! To have taken the time research and write this piece would imply the author actually thought this was something worth writing about, that whites might indeed be smarter than black? For me it is a given that colour of the skill has got nothing to do with intelligence or IQ hence is a non-starter….not even worth researching in the first place. The only difference between Guy Scott and other politicians in Zambia is the colour of the skin!!!!!
Not worth researching on? Are you sure? I think you are somehow ignorant or in denial and Ruwe was just trying to help people like you especially. Yes you may be liberated and know that there is no difference but the majority of blacks and whites think exactly how Ruwe has explained.
I think you are missing the jinx of this article. Field Ruwe is basically saying Guy Scott is a very dull vice president. Nothing more nothing less!
Thanks for the article. It’s well written and well researched.
Spot on Field! Well expounded..
nice and eduative article,please keep it up!!!
Well written indeed. But in your concluding remarks you are almost agreeing that whites are more intelligent than blacks especially if they are not brought up in Africa. I quote, ”It can therefore be concluded that how and where one was raised plays a pivotal role in one’s intelligence”.
He is basically saying the environment in which someone grows is a great factor in developing his intelligence regardless of his colour. The Guy Scott natural experiment is a case in point.
CBC what Field Ruwe is saying is that black or white we have the same intelligence but environment, usually created by whites maginalises other peoples. I can go further to say that Americans have ignored whites (that is English people) and taken their own direction that suits them and flourished. The French, the Germans and all others like do the same. The Chinese are coming to Zambia to seem to appear different but we need to smell the coffee and realise that it’s the same old story. Some black people in British politics have done things differently because of the environment. We are all the same but served by the environment in which we are. We need to realise our potential as a people of Zambia and not let others who communicate using their eyes dictate our destiny.
Spot on Dr. Wabo. Albert Einstein said (I paraphrase), that if you tell a fish it is not good at climbing trees, it will grow up thinking it is stupid. We judged by an imposed benchmark – including IQ tests that ask you how deep the Niagara Falls is… Try Victoria Falls for a bit…
Different doesn’t mean DEFICIENT!
@ Kalok,
Difficient are those that believe different is! I have always believed that we are all a product of our own environment but I also am convinced that humans are the most stupid but yet the most interlligent being. It is due to environment and circumstances that lead to either Stupid or interlligence manifestations.
Though each one of us do express this kind of behaviour in different dosages at various times in our daily lives. For some it is contained and managed due to a positive life style while others it just doesnt matter!This is were other behavioural characterisation comes in, unfortunately with limited resources not everyone is lucky to be helpt!
By the way bloggers, it doesnt matter what kind of specie one is, as long as you are human, we are all equal but different!
@cindy, so well put! I have noted how the balance between guilt and fear brings out different aspects in human beings. Perhaps underlining your point there being different dosages. I have been so positive in my approach to life (without being fatalistic or cynical – but difficult to self-judge) that I have found myself in interesting set ups and unthinkable environments…
What Field Ruwe is saying is manifested on this blog. Having read the few postings made. A fellow black man has laid bare a whiteman’s mentality to maginalise our intelligence as a people we choose not to see it as it is. We are convinced we are inferior. Nangufye imibinde twalefwala, our job should have been to champion the type of dressing as what was suitable for our weather possibly market it to the rest of the world as the best attire. Zambia needs to look around itself for it’s strengths within its society and champion them among ourselves for a start then look to selling it to others as well rather than embrace the ‘suits and ties’ as the best form of clothing and throwing away the environment we have created ourselves. This is what makes us appear inferior.
Oh my! Doc, have you got anything you have written I can read? Your thought approach has resonated very well with what I believe! Well done.
Good to hear you Dr Wabo. Are you still in touch with Dr. Thulani Nyati of the 1989 class at UNZA?
Imibinde had its time or era. (By the way Dr Wabo it has come back as Bikini and slotted into the modern era quite well.) People cant tell me the African never progresses. He cant be expected to wear 14th century dress in the 21st century. Now he obviously would have to “incorporate” (very crucial word) other ideas from those he interacts with to create his own fashion of dress. This would be dress that is identifiable as his style. He doesnt have to throw away everything his own and adapt to what a foreigner brings him.
Well done! Guy Scott is a real Zambian. Look, he should been living in UK long time but he left for Zambia, his home where he was born. His wife divorced him but he met and married other African lady, also white. Man, he is a African so stop looking at his color but look at him well. God bless you, Mr. Guy Scott.
WHITE HUMANS ARE NO MORE INTELLIGENT THAN BLACK HUMANS. THE PERCEIVED (and I am saying perceived) INTELLIGENCE (am gonna call it ability to innovate rather than intelligence) IS DUE TO THE ENORMOUSLY BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH DIFFERENT GROUPINGS OF PEOPLE LIVE. GIVEN THE LACK OF FOOD AND HASH WEATHER CONDITIONS IN OTHER LANDS WHITE PEOPLE AND OTHERS SIMPLY HAD TO QUICKLY INNOVATE TO AVOID THEIR RACES’ EXTINCTION. FOOD IN AFRICA WAS MORE THAN AVAILABLE, THERE IS ALWAYS GOOD WEATHER, PLENTY OF FRESH WATER AND NATURALLY GOOD NATURED (NESS) PEOPLE WHO ARE ABUNDANTLY HUMANE. GIVEN THE ABOVE THERE WAS NOTHING TO FORCE AFRICANS TO INNOVATE. THE ONLY SERIOUSLY INNOVATION WHICH AFRICA NEEDS NOW COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO DELIVER INFORMATION, FOOD AND OTHER RESOURCES TO…
@PETER
You are the man, I dont need expensive innnovation to grow tomatoes in my back yard, but a white man does need innnovation especially in UK where there is no sun.
That does not mean am dull. ENVIRONMENT !
They need to come up with green houses , which is now harmful to our lovely planet, due to emissions from them.
Kombo, not to critique you, as I agree with the main point of your argument, but greenhouse gases don’t have anything to do with human-constructed greenhouses. The greenhouse effect is what happens when the sun’s light hits the Earth and is reflected back into the sky as heat, but becomes trapped by gases in the atmosphere (so-called greenhouse gases) such as carbon dioxide. The heat that would normally escape the Earth is kept in, and the more of those so-called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the more the heat stays and warms the Earth. The atmosphere is like a metaphorical greenhouse, but actual greenhouses don’t contribute, rather factory and car emissions.
ONE DOES NOT NEED TO BE A PhD HOLDER TO KNOW THESE. WHAT ONE NEEDS IS PROBABLY EXPERIENCE THROUGH VISITING SOME OF THESE PLACES TO NOTICE THE HASH CONDITIONS. THIS TOPIC NEEDS DEBATE ON A PLATFORM SUCH AS RADIO, TV, NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER CONVENTIONAL MEDIA.
I HAVE MORE TO WRITE ON THESE BUT I HAVE GOT TO GO. LATER.
Ironically, Field Ruwe’s c.r.a.p. above only helps reinforce racial-stereotypes perpetrated by racists from other races. Not just whites, actually every other race on earth thinks ‘black’ is bottom of the pile. Sadly, Field Ruwe is fighting hard trying to confirm that. It is a very ill-thought, shockingly daft, rumbling article which doesn’t even know when to stop. Bashing Dr. Guy Scott to champion contorted anti-racism sentiments is the most sickening form of inferiority complex I have ever encountered. Obviously, Field Ruwe is seeking to lounge in the admiration from, as usual, the unsophisticated Zambian readership. As a PhD fellow, he is better testing his ideas on the global platform of philosophical thought, not basking in the uncritical ignorance of readers from Chibolya.
Mwembeshi, Ruwe is only saying when one observes Guy Scott’s thinking and actions, you will conlude that, although educated in some of the best universities on earth,he is just as useless as most of our own black intellectuals who actually make our leaders dictators and enjoy that at the expense of the masses and contrary to what is done where he (Scott) originally comes from. Anyway, you write like an educated person but from your reasoning, either your PF-ness has clouded your thinking or just daft. You can’t defend Guy Scott today as a normal person. There is nothing to defend in Scott.
@ Constitution is # 1 Issue for 2016 Elections:
No, I’m actually not a PF church-goer. But I do actually like and support a lot of the bold policies the PF have come up with, although actual execution of those policies has been less than admirable. The trouble with Field Ruwe’s topic in the article is that it is an over-beaten horse and he needed to come up with a fresh perspective on it. But to use Guy Scott, a white person, to make a good point has ended up messing up his message. Secondly, as somebody has already said in above, trying so hard to make the argument in itself suggests that the argument “white people are more intelligent than black people” itself is even worth discussing. Total rubbish. Field Ruwe simply had too much time and didn’t know how to waste it.
Agreed, What a load of drivel?
The reasons for Guy Scott’s failings are no different from most Zambian politicians. Self preservation. Sebana Wikute, some would say
We all respond to incentives. Somehow this is lost on Ruwe.
Perhaps Ruwe could do well to shed some light on what Guy Scott stands for. Does someone out there have an idea?
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Based on this article our Field Ruwe and MLK would disagree. Double standards. No Zambian should be judged by color of skin, ethnicity or tribe etc.
Ba Ruwe, nice piece!
well this is for mushota.your thinking isn’t only an embarrasment to yourself but a disgrace to the race.years and years of african struggles against racial discrimination weren’t meant to produce self hatred and inferioty complex.you appear to be stupid or brainwashed.. and i hope its the later# a disgrace again
This mushota thing is not normal. You believe in hegemonic researches the white imperialist do to secure their continued colonialism on blacks. You are happy that these fools think that we half human. I believe blacks are very intelligent, we get phds taught in their languages and in the knowledge foreign to us. The same racists you are supporting are the ones who brought confusion in aspects in our lives. They fractured our culture, knowledge, killed our people, stole our resources, and above demonized our God
Ifipuba fimbi filetasha. Is this crap to praise?
Tell us you argument not this PF-rish mentality you are showing here. Your fellow PF admirers are giving a perspective view of why they think the article is not good. Anyway your writing alone shows your great inability to understand let alone analyse Ruwe’s article. You should have done better to keep quite.
This has to rank as one of, if not, the most ridiculous piece of writing I have ever read. I have to say I was rather reluctant to read it because just the title for me was like “OK” – it is difficult for me to even start to imagine how an article with such a title could ever be sensibly turned around! It is a total shame that someone engaged in pursuit of higher learning and intellectual thought could produce this unmitigated tosh – it is nothing shy of a tragedy, a total tragedy! Mwembeshi – I share your view – I mean why O why? I cannot for the life of me begin to conceptualize at what point a black man stops and start to rationalize his level of intelligence in respect to a white man – what circumstances could possibly lead to such an outrightly futile pursuit? Field Ruwe has lost…
I don’t know why people are condemning Field Ruwe. If i were to summarize what his thinking is, he trying to make people understand that IQ does not depend on whether you are white or black taking Guy Scott as an example, and he is trying to disagree with Richard Lynn who continue to insist that the IQ of whites is higher than that of Africans no matter the level of education.
The issue that those of use who are against the article have is ‘did you need anyone in the first place to tell you that a white man is no more intelligent that a black man’?
Iwe chi cs, you mean you can’t see that the article is condescending. I read just half a paragraph and stopped because its absolute crap based on un-researched data. I don’t even think that Ruwe took time to gather any credible data apart from what he reads from the Watchdog. Perhaps he is one of them.
So What are you saying? Are you saying whites are more intelligent than Blacks? Are you in support of Richard Lynn? I surely cant see the reason why you are so agitated by this simple and straight forward article. All Ruwe is doing is to show people like Richard Lynn who believe that whites are superior that actually in Zambia we have a perfect example of Richards trash. He is saying you dont need to do an expensive research on this issue because in Zambia we have a proven result. A Muzungu who is just like us. He thinks, eats, drinks, sleeps and does everything else like us. No difference at all. Basically Ruwe is telling the likes of PK to stop worshiping Guy Scott and also to throw away some of the PF junk manners because they are destructive.
You wrote…
“Scott, by now, should be connecting us to the developed world and convincing their nationals to resuscitate our mines and reclaim our ranking as the second highest producer of copper in the world after Brazil”.
I presume the world’s top copper producer is still… Chile…at 5.5 million metric tonnes in 2013 not Brazil. Its interesting to note that, in 1970 Zambia was producing more copper at 756,000mt beating Chile at 692,000mt by 64,000mt . Population of Chile in 1970 was 9 million in 2013 it was 17 million, Zambia in 1979 was 6 million and now at 14 million. In 2013 Chile GDP was $284 billion and GDP (PPP) $17,000 to Zambia’s $23billion and a GDP- PPP of approx $1,700. Both countries Nationalized their mines. Chile had military coup.
The question is? What…
Iwe chi Real Muntu, as your name suggests, your IQ is 20 far less than 69 which is recommended as that for normal human beings. What Ruwe has written has no data to back it up. He has no statistics whatsoever to prove his assertions and thats dangerous. It is a well known fact that you can not go to a new place with a new culture and fight to change that culture. It has never worked anywhere. It has nothing to do with intellect or IQ. The colonialists succeeded in changing quite a lot of our cultural practices because they first of all seized power and used it against us. The same goes for apartheid but was that sustainable in the long run? Guy Scott has to be a Zambian because he is Zambian and has to do what Zambians do, simple. He can not change it and that does not prove that
blacks and whites have the same IQ. To the contrary, a black persons IQ is higher than that of a white person except people like you who are inferior and proud to even be equated with them. Black person invented things earlier than white person but was slow in using those toold to invade and dominate white person. White person came to Africa and colonized and reduced a black persons IQ, superficially to look like we were inferior. Far from it Bwana. So stay with your Ruwe with diminished IQs similar to white people’s.
Ruwe has lived too much in USA and he has probably suffered at their mercy. We have many intellectuals in Zambia and Scott is not even one of them. It is a pity Ruwe was expecting those things to happen in Zambia just by the virtual of having a so called white vice president. Such mentality should not continue especially amongst educated people and not in this era. Chiwelewele fye!
Dr wamulume typical of a black man so you want ruwe to show you everything where is your intelligence,that’s the bad part of being black you want everything done for you, Scott is vey much white though he was born in Zambia, invite him to US, he will be getting better treatment than you,he can even live in exclusive white only neighborhood and you can’t . So many other benefits but unfortunately Scott is so useless, you can’t even tell he is educated because what comes out of his mouth is that of a street sweeper
GBM even seem wiser than Scott though he is not well educated
At least lets be factual Sir. Please answer my question and that is:
What happened?
Is it because Zambians are black and that’s why they messed up the copper sector shortly after the nationalization and the zambianization program? Or what caused Chile to surpass Zambia by 4.5 million tonnes of copper production when in fact both countries were going through the same high world oil and slow copper prices?
Be mindful IQ is being discussed here….
Ruwe is writing based on what he has been reading and hearing not what he is seeing, the fact that he is not living in Zambia ” …failure to exercise legal equality, freedom of the press, and the rule of law …” us in Zambia we seeing that there is a shift to what was then before PF came into, remember LAZ even took on ZNBC because of the manner they censored news.
Come to think of it, actually its Ruwe who is speaking against Africans just like the West. And not everyone in Zambia believes that a new constitution is a panacea to Zambias woes, some of us believe its just a way some politicians who have failed to beat PF at the polls can probably ascend to power.
So its folly to assert that because Dr. Scott is not “pushing” for a new constitution then he is a wrong person!
GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
Sorry ” … a shift FROM what was, not TO what was …” I begyour pardon, if it was in Bemba or Kaonde (mom and dads language) nga nachilemba bulongo (bwino)
I am really dissapointed with Field Ruwe’s article above. Why devote your precious time to writing such racist content? I hope your university sees this and ends your PHD programme. Such articles were perhaps justified during our struggle against colonial white thought that said we couldn’t rule ourselves. But Now?
Has Guy Scott provoked you by referring to your race as inferior? He hasnt. He doesnt identify with white supremacists and thats why he is in our government. So why should you make him your punching bag for racial vitriol? Ruwe you are looking for cheap fame
Dr.Ruwe has spoken the truth…most Zambians are scared of telling Guy Scott that he is rascist for fear ati Muzungu aza Kalipa….Dr,Ruwe is in the western countries and his perception of how we as Africans are viewed is shaped by his daily experiences and I can attest to that..America have a Blackman as their President but white people still call him nigger no matter what…Guy Scott could be better off inEngland not Zambia….if you see the images on western tv about Africa ,it’s all about poverty,wars,corruption,death,disease,lack of good schools,no or poor roads..so it is ingrained in their psyche..so Dr.Ruwe is right to call a spade a spade..Zambia,lets deal with it!
You mean you don’t know? Both Sata and Scott behave as if this is their last term in office. They don’t care what happens after 2016. To them getting into government was an enough achievement. If people have not realized this up to now, then they have a lot to wake up to. What people should feel sorry for are those people that are in PF thinking PF will still be there after 2016. After Sata, do you think they will be a PF? Who would vote for Kabimba for president? Exactly! Scott knows this and he is enjoying his time while there’s still time. Why waste his intellect on a party that is going down? So Scott will not talk sense because there’s no need to. Sata does not appreciate sense, so why waste his breathe. Scott knows this! Soka Msinde (Msale), chimanga chilinda moto!
I could only manage to read the introductory paragraph and skimmed through the second.Am left wondering, how on earth one would write so much content on such a useless topic.It is shame that LT can even publish such an article.Shame on you author and LT.Do you really need proof that no human race is inferior to another? Such an argument simply exposes ones inferiority complex.
Some bloggers are in support with Ruwe Article,others have just rushed into blogging on it without finishing reading it,and some are asking for data .the article stresses much on Environment -a child raised in Rhodes park,kabulonga or kumayard thinks different from one brought up in George compound,chawama,in short mukomboni.the key factors being they way we perceive life or envisions our future.the IQ is the same.in 1960 Zambia was richer than south Korea but today south Korea is highly developed,why?those who have rubbish Ruwe’s article are denying facts or realities.someone asked for data,oh please think outside the box like Albert Einstein,Galileo,Steve jobs and many others.dont always look for written data to prove your reasoning.
I still insist this is rubbish.The waste of its kind.Some people tend to think that having the courage to indulging in foolish arguments amounts to wisdom.The chap may have a good topic but it also matter how he has phrased it.What kind of an intellectual is he if he can’t even coin a good topic?
An intellectual should know how to coin a topic.Having such a nonsense on Zambian media is an insult to us.The author may indeed have a point about environments all whatever research area, but his desire to have a catchy topic has let him down.Ba author next time you have new topic, think.
Kalok I have not written any book in elements to do with social, political or economic issues. I have a book and some academic papers in ‘glorified journals’ of Chemical Engineering. I take your complement with both hands. It takes an intelligent person identify another. Warlord Dr. Thulani Nyati of the ‘class of 1989’died in RSA in 1998. I dropped into RSA in 1989 from here to lay a wreath and pay some respect. People are saying that we are daft and less intelligent. I beg to disagree. Let’s take a different perspective we produced George Weah, Didier Drogba, Yaya Touré, kalusha and other sporting greats and it had to take them to come to Europe for us to realise how great they were. Those are the problems and not intelligence alone!!
99.9%? I need to see some citations for this number.
Get over your bitterness and produce constructive work. A PhD thesis based on hatred won’t take you anywhere.
In other words a white oxford graduate still behaving like a moron like Scott proves that a village chap from Mununga who has never been school but talking more sensibly can prove to be better ‘schooled’.
Biased and racist in itself. Inferiority complex and shoulders chipped. Absolute rubbish. Yes oppresion and racism exists but skin colour has nothing to do with intelligence. The validity of IQ as a measure is seriously questionable as well.
And just because you have lots of letyers after your name doesn’t mean you’re intelligent either…maybe just more fortunate.
Sorry dropped into RSA in 2001 for an academic conference then spared time to lay wreaths on Thulani Nyathi’s grave, an emotional event. Bitterness or ‘Kavundula’ (or stirring things up or shiiiit stirrer), your blogging name, because you have no balls to say who you actually are , me? No. This is simply a High School debate which I can encourage my 19 year old son to engage in because it’s healthy to express one’s opinion. I rest my case.
Chakubaba bwanji? It seems you are the author of this nonsense hiding behind that pseudonym! No need insulting bwana.
whites are superior to negroes, let’s just be honest. any place on the face of this earth where black people are the majority there is chaos and misrule, no innovation, and self loathing
Their are alot of African Americans who have shown superior than whites,in my class alot of Caucasians admit that Africans are smart but we are docile and scared to take risks.i still stand by Ruwe that we are the same intelligently but Environment plays are key role in shaping up one ‘s mind of thinking .
A must be read by all Zambians who are fighting for a new constitution. The main point about this article is that if you want to see development in any country, it has to start with constitutional change. The development you see in the UK and USA and other countries such as South Korea (The SAMSUNG HUB) began with the desire to change the constitution, nothing else. Race, culture, geographical location and other factors have nothing to do economic prosperity of any country. Scott and others may appear to have failed because they operate under a constitution that is biased in so many ways. One that empowers only a few elite people who have connections to the people in power. Political institutions and economic institutions can only perform better under a new unbiased constitution.
Must be read by all Zambians who are fighting for a new constitution. The main point about this article is that if you want to see development in any country, it has to start with constitutional change. The development you see in the UK and USA and other countries such as South Korea (The SAMSUNG HUB) began with the desire to change the constitution, nothing else. Race, culture, geographical location and other factors have nothing to do economic prosperity of any country. Scott and others may appear to have failed because they operate under a constitution that is biased in so many ways. One that empowers only a few elite people who have connections to the people in power. Political institutions and economic institutions can only perform better under a new unbiased constitution.
No! you got things wrong.. very wrong. The development of the US the UK and Europe in general arose from the exploitation of
1 African Slaves: these were never paid for the massive amount of work they did.
2 Colonialism: The colonies handed all products over to the master countries thus propping up an imperial system that greatly benefitted from the poverty of the exploited. Race and culture has played a very big role in getting Europe where it is.
The UK has no constitution so your assertion falls flat there.
So let me get this straight, A guy in the UK tells you Guy Scott is dull because he is in Africa, if he was back in Uk he would be smart. And you respect that message? Well, good luck supporting this drivel!