why Africans lag behind in technology

February 22, 2012 18:22

Why Africans lag behind in technological innovations By bigfive In virtually all the technological spheres Africans trail the others. This is despite the resources endowments relatively highly educated populace in some countries and rapid integration into the global scene. The apologists like Walter Rodney in his landmark book on development: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, have tried to put a case for Africa’s poverty and backwardness in technological advancement as being the result of colonization. European powers lead by Britain appropriated Africa at the infamous 1884 Berlin conference and immediately went on an offensive appropriating different part of the continent. The plunder of the continent’s resources is now said to be the one behind building of Europe. The ornate ...

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February 7, 2012 18:41

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Does science & technology make life more convenient?

January 28, 2012 23:10

  Does science and Technology make life more convenient or life was better when technology was simpler? A philosophical debate By big five Over the last one hundred years humanity has experienced the most profound change in almost all spheres-social, economic, political, and technology. But it is perhaps in technology that the pace of development and change has been quite phenomenal. Within this period, man was able to conquer the skies with the invention of aircrafts that even travel at supersonic speed. Within this period, man was able to conquer extra terrestrial universe and gather as much information possible about the possibility of life there. It is within the last one hundred years too that the world got shrunk by Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of wireless radio, and ...

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