u/mauritaniah8

This isn’t the only channel but they’re the most prominent ones. It’s extremely easy to pander to racists and I’m sure they’ve made quite a bit of money pretending to be unable to open a coke bottle but this is the perception that non-Africans will have of Tanzania. The fake behaviours of a small ethnic group will be extrapolated to over 60 million Tanzanians.

I’m sure the government is aware of this content being produced. I don’t know why nothing is being done about this.

I want this to be true so bad but I can’t find any studies showing my title to be true.

Ex steroid users still gain muscle significantly faster than natties, but not as fast as active steroid users.

I see this sentiment online everywhere but it still seems to me that you have to workout to see meaningful results as a steroid users. Even the dude in the video is probably downplaying how often he was actually working out for so he would get views.

Random ramblings.

Nobody wants to work in servitude for the rest of their lives. People who were born to slavery are more relegated to their situation though, and most of them wouldn’t revolt for fear of reprisals from their enslavers. Being a slave is all they have known.

That being said, slavery was also used a punishment for petty crimes and treason against the Sultanate of Zanzibar. Those people were far more inclined to revolt as they’ve already known what freedom is like. This is the same for the slaves who were captured in the interior of Africa and sent to Zanzibar to work on clove plantations. Africans would be captured in what is called a razzia, where they would subjugate entire villages and capture whoever they can.

One slave revolt was so successful that the Zanzibaris would ship them back to the interior of Africa unharmed.

My question is: without the British invading and taking over Zanzibar as an autonomous protectorate, would slavery have ended sooner or later? Would it still exist in someway in the form of debt peonage and informal bondage? Was the revolution inevitable? An independent Zanzibar seems like a fun alternate history scenario to explore.

Sources:

SLAVERY AND SLAVE REVOLTS IN THE SULTANATE OF ZANZIBAR IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
G. A. Akinọla

Sultan Barghash did not want to sign the treaty. He pleaded for more time to decide with the British while he accepted money from Arab slavers. The economy of Zanzibar relied entirely on the slave trade. Over three quarters of the population in Zanzibar were either slaves or concubines.

> A spear is held at each of my eyes. With which shall I choose to be pierced? [Emancipation and Post-emancipation in Zanzibar, page 48]

British naval patrol found that Arabs would routinely have 4 or 5 slaves in their Dhows and marked them as domestic servants rather than slaves. Arab slavers would continue to skirmish with British patrol up until the Zanzibar revolution, nearly a century after sultan Barghash signed the treaty.

First image: “More slaveries than one!”, Oman and Zanzibar Virtual Museum

Second image: Slaves taken from a dhow captured by H.M.S. 'Undine', Royal Museums Greenwich, 1884

Third image: Arab slavers shooting at African women during the massacre witnessed by David Livingstone, 1871

Fourth image: A Slave Gang in Zanzibar, Royal Museums Greenwich, 1889

Final image: Horrors of the Slave Trade. Result of an Arab Razzia. Royal Museums Greenwich, 1889.

The question that I propose to you: What if the British decided to ignore Zanzibar? How long would it have taken for the slave trade to conclude independent of any pressure by the sole superpower of the world at the time?

Race and IQ is a tired discussion, I’m aware, but this result bothers me a little.

Mali is a landlocked, arid country that is currently failing to curtail the rise of violent Islamic terrorism. They are an extremely poor country even by Sahel Africa standards 🇲🇱. A google search will bring about violent videos. There is no reason to expect that the Malian would do well in an IQ test

Lynn noted down their IQ as 65 because of the results of 206 Malian children, aged 6 to 14 attending a private French-language school in Bamako, when they attempted the Ravens Progressive Matrices (RPM). They performed poorly, with only 1% of them scoring above 84. This is about what I expected.

But in that same study the researchers found that those same children scored above the British average (normed at 100, they scored 106) on a standardized math test, the Woodcock-Johnson. Furthermore, they performed average to well above average on adaptive functioning measures including communication and socialization.

The researchers stressed that while the RPM score was genuinely very low, it didn’t appear to correspond to any deficits in mathematical understanding or real-world functioning. Either the RPM is culturally loaded against Malian children, the RPM is a poor cross-cultural predictor of cognitive functioning, or Malian kids in particular simply don’t need to have a high IQ to function.

I can’t really find much statistics about how Malian refugees or immigrants perform in France proper when it comes to average income, crime, grades etc.

https://christopherjferguson.com/DrameFerguson.pdf