It's our independence day and I'm sure that most Nigerians are not happy with the current state of the country. One can easily say the reason for this is bad leadership. So many political commentators and scholars have attempted to explain this phenomenon from a social science perspective, which is laudable, but I intend to approach this from a neuroscientific perspective. Let me start with the agreed consensus that our problems started with the colonialist. You may say they exploited us. So what did they think about our cognitive functioning for them to so? Because of their inability to diagnose mental illness in Africans due to communication barriers, colonial neuroscientists concluded that the brain of an African adult was no more developed than that of a child, that Africans lacked the ability to plan for the future and that the African mind is dependent on excitement and external stimuli. In simple term, our mentality was primitive! Years later, African neuroscientists d...
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