AREOYE OYEBOLA: BLACK MAN'S DILEMMA

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Oyebola   Black Man's Dilemma.   Black Intellectual Failure after the Fake of Independence. Exploitation by Jews

Published 1976, reprinted 1982. The book is unindexed, often a sign of vague statements which are hard to pin down. Has a booklist, of books mainly by whites(!) including Levi-Strauss, Race and History.
      Author Nigerian, born 1936, son of a chief.

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CONTENTS IN SOME DETAIL:
PREFACE
1 WHO IS THE BLACK MAN? [Short chapter which looks at experts and their classifications of race; starting with Linnaeus]
2 AFRICA: THE BIRTH-PLACE OF MAN [Darwin, the Leakeys, etc; and why black backwardness?]
3 BLACK MAN'S BACKWARDNESS [No black country modern/ BLACK SLAVERY/ THE BLACK MAN IS ALWAYS BEHIND OTHER RACES]
4 BLACK MAN'S NEGLIGIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO HUMAN CIVILISATION [Despite morale boosters, his look at e.g. Europe, China & readings suggest propaganda to him/ FALSE CLAIMS ON BLACK MAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO CIVILISATION]
5 BLACK MAN'S CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: MYTH AND REALITY [Intro/ GHANA/ MALI/ SONGHAI/ OTHER ANCIENT BLACK STATES IN WEST AFRICA/ ZIMBABWE/ BUNYORO-KITARA/ THE ZULUS/ CONCLUSION]
6 THE WORLD'S UNDERDOG [Always a bone of contention. Slavery, southern USA, white supremacy. Apartheid - long list of regulations. The extent of human degradation to which the black man has been subjected in South Africa has no parallel in history. - Added later. Timidity of blacks in South Africa? Namibia too. Portugal's degradation of peoples. Timid blacks in Zimbabwe?]
7 THE MYTH OF WHITE SUPERIORITY [Includes racist books as in Martin Gardner; but I think not of the 'Mongol in our Midst' type]
8 THE BLACK AMERICANS [African slaves in America; comparison of black with other Americans; Harlem, racism, protest movements, education, black power]
9 POST-INDEPENDENCE HELPLESSNESS AND NEW HOPES [Direct bondage continues/ NIGERIA AN EXAMPLE/ NIGERIA'S NEW SITUATION/ 1976 FOILED COUP/ NKRUMAH'S GHANA, GUINEA, TANZANIA AND GUYANA RAISED THE BLACK MAN'S STATUS]
10 THE BLACK MAN CAN MAKE IT [Surveys the scene: black dishonesty, imitativeness, back stabbing/ THE WAY OUT OF THE BLACK MAN'S DILEMMA/ NIGERIA'S GREAT RESPONSIBILITY [i.e. 'richest and most thickly populated black nation on earth'/ THE BLACK MAN'S DILEMMA]
BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Pp 1-3: '.. black peoples.. a candid self-examination of their past, their present and their future. It is the belief that black peoples are today leaving the substance for the shadow that prompted me to write this book.
.. I have come up with the sad discovery that the much-vaunted black man's contributions to civilisation are comparatively negligible. Africa in particular and the black world in general have contributed very little to the modern world and the enrichment of civilisation. .. we are just backward.
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.. We must ignore the liberal white scholars who exaggerate our past contributions to civilisation. ..
.. I have come to the inescapable conclusion that factors like the black man's colonial past, the crippling effect of the slave trade on him, nature's kindness to him, his isolation, climatic conditions and neo-colonialism in the new black states of Africa, the Caribbean and South America have, to varying degrees, conditioned our intellect, our life outlook and our identity. ..
.. the black man has, for too long, looked for scapegoats for his many problems. ..'
[Note: Africa: is it hostile? on 'nature's kindness' it would be interesting to try to impartially assess technical factors [something like Joseph Needham's 'The Great Titration'], which he, clearly, [Joke: absorbing western education!], evidently has no idea about:
e.g. laterite soils, deserts, deficient soils;
shortage of ores? Fuel for smelting? Trees suitable for construction? Clay suitable for bricks?
crops [are they poor? limited? poisonous? Deficient?];
insect parasites and vectors [bilharzia? guinea worm?];
diseases [yaws? etc etc - to be fair, plague and black death seem just as much European and Asian - though this may be an artefact of course. Malaria of course has I think affected 'sickle cell' - perhaps there are mental analogies?];
things like tsetse fly and wood boring insects;
water pollution? hard to purify; eg. difficult to brew?
also lions, leopards.. poisonous snakes.. poisonous spiders;
etc....]
- 23-24: '.. of all the centres of the so-called black African civilisations I had visited - Oyo, Benin, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Ife, the ancient cities of modern Ghana, etc., I found mud walls and dilapidated buildings not in any way comparable to the solid stones and concrete buildings - the great monuments I found in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. ..
    Having visited some of these black African centres.. I have come to the conclusion that the Dutch who visited Benin City in Nigeria in the 15th Century and described it as follows were more interested in trade success and diplomatic deceit than in the reality of Africa. The Dutch visitors wrote:
    "The town (Benin) seems to be very great. .. great broad street, not paved, which seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam...
    "The king's palace is a collection of buildings which occupies as much space as the town of Harlem, and which is enclosed with walls. .. numerous apartments for the Prince's ministers and fine galleries.. supported by wooden pillars encased with copper..
    ".. thirty main streets.. an infinity of small intersecting streets. The houses are close to one another, arranged in good order. These people are in no way inferior to the Dutch as regards cleanliness; .."
    The clownish Dutch adventurers .. must be fraudulent people who wanted to cash in on the ignorance of the people of Holland. ..
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    Many Western liberal scholars are aware of the fact that the white countries have a lot to lose if the black man faces the reality .. if the blacks henceforth work hard to place their membership of human family on the basis of genuine equality. White experts publish books about our past glory, grandeur and achievements. They've got willing disciples among black intelligentsia who have lost the candour of any critical self-searching. [Note: myths:] They create myths about the great past of black Africa. Listen to a leading black African leader [sic] and poet, Leopold Sedar Senghor, creating a myth in 1972, on Ife-Ife, the spiritual centre for the Yorubas.. [Longish passage follows, mostly about myths, prayers, and art. [Note: French colonialism:] He was apparently brought up by the French].. I agree with Poet Senghor that it is sometimes good to have a myth, a black myth in particular. China has. Japan has. But Senghor's Ife myth and others are futile and irrelevant unless they become a source of strength. ..'
- 27ff: Malcolm X comes out with myths about blacks, says Oyebola (whose evidence however seems irritatingly shadowy: how does anyone know whether the ancient Egyptians or Sumerians were 'black' or Hamitic, which Oyebola interprets, perhaps rightly, as north African or 'white'? )
- 29ff: Dravidians in India, Egypt, Carthage
- 31-32: Ethiopia and Nubia or 'Kush', both 'remarkable African civilisations', but, he says, with hybrid populations; not 'black'.
    [His Ethiopia starts 1st C AD; not the very old one - if it existed. The Congo empire about which I noticed a book in Rhodesia seems not to be known by Oyebola.]
- 89: [France's wicked role in Nigeria's civil war]
- 111: [Interesting comparisons of Bolshevik Russia and China with black Africa: with huge efforts managed to achieve things. Also Japan which 'suffered great destruction during the Second World War'.]
- 118: More on China, and on Korean War, nuclear weapons, and Mao's mobilisation in 1954.

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August 2019 revisionist notes

Oyebola's CV:

• Economics at University of Ibadan (1961-64)
• Post-grad programme in education (1966-67)
• [NB Biafra War 1967 - 1970]
• IPC Advanced course for journalists (1971-72)
• Official in Oyo State, Nigeria. Capital Ibadan
• Editor of Nigerian Daily Times (1972)

The blurb says Oyebola wrote on many countries, on Nigerian Universities and foreign-owned companies, and 'Frank Talk by Omoye' on Nigerian society. 'Black Man's Dilemma' has its own website on this human rights 'advocate', the book having been revised in 2002. I have not seen this edition; some readers might like to check my guesswork.
      (I Googled for more, but could only find 'Frank Talk was a political magazine established in 1984 in South Africa, and arising out of the student-led [read: Jewish anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 80s. He may have fathered a boxer, James Oyebola, who was shot; conceivably there may have been a political motive).

• The first point here is Oyebola's constant note of complaint; this of course is the standard Jewish technique of 'Critique'. At the present day the population is about 200 million, and 'comparable in size to Venezuela, and is about twice the size of the US state of California' to quote an Internet source. It's larger than any European country. Its population density is about the same as Germany and Italy. But of course the rate of growth is high. Many inventions by whites have been imported by Nigeria, in an erratic fashion; I doubt if the process has ever been explained convincingly. Electricity, concrete, trains, cars, airplanes, running water, types of food and medicine, printed media, electric media, computers. The constant Jewish complaints might reasonably have been opposed by Oyebola, who benefited considerably. There were also modern weapons, though whites were harmed far more by these than blacks, across the entirety of Europe from Spain to Russia. All this is missing from Oyebola, despite the fact he went to Ibadan University. It's saddening to see that from the start African 'education' was dominated by Jews.

• Oyebola's bibliography of about 100 titles are, it's obvious to me now, picked for ideological reasons, presumably (but not necessarily) by Oyebola.
      Franz Boas (2 titles), Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and 'Ashley Montague' are easy to spot. We also have UNESCO publications: Juan Comas (Racial Myths), Levi-Strauss, Michael Leiris, and K S Little, on Race and on Negroes in Britain. Basil Davidson (2 titles) was another Jewish writer on Africa. There's a 1965 Encounter (a CIA front) piece by Artur Lewis. L C Dunn was another UNESCO writers.
      There are books on world-wide races. The racial basis of civilisation: A critique of the Nordic doctrine (between the wars; US book by F H Hankins) is listed. So is the 1924 book by A C Haddon The races of man and their distribution , which is descriptive of everything except achievements. And so is M J Herskovits' Man and his works: the study of cultural anthropology (1948), part of the post-1945 Jewish race-is-a-myth fantasy. But John Baker's Race (1974) is not listed. Nor is Waddington's large book. Galton's Hereditary Genius is not listed; nor are any books on IQ, I think, or hereditary weaknesses.
      There are many books on slavery, meaning blacks in the USA, though Oyebola has some idea of Arab slavers. Islam had penetrated to Nigeria by that time. I think his book pre-dates the Nation of Islam's work, which helped show that Jews ran the slave trade. Oyebola assumes slavery is bad, as of course Jews claim, though people isolated in Africa in the most primitive conditions might have found it acceptable.
      I was saddened, though not surprised, by his lightweight material on economics—he claimed a degree in economics, after all. The Pillage of the Third World by P Jaleé (1968) appears to argue with Jews. I could not find anywhere any recognition that Jews in South Africa, after the Boer Wars, got control of minerals there.

• Oyebola on Civilisations. Chapter 5 lists various supposed early African states. With no written language it's of course difficult to judge. Oyebola does record with disappointment that there must have been fraudulent promotion of Africa. (In the style of the South Sea Bubble). He doesn't seem to realise how common the analogous process is, though. For example, the idea that human life began in Africa.
      Oyebola accepts Egypt, and Sumeria, Greece, Rome have claims to civilisation, though without examining in much detail. Were pyramids, for example, worth building? And he omits the traditional Jewish mimetic and suggestible work. His ideas of great men are chaos. He praises Hannibal, if he was blackish. He praises 'Martin Luther King'. He praises Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Murtala Muhammed and Sekou Toure. He praises Mao Tse Tung, Andrei Gromyko, Henry Kissinger, George Best, Ho Chi Minh, Winston Churchill.

• Oyebola's attitude to technology and science. The chapter called 'The Myth of White Superiority' has a small section on the 'electric-fan invention'. He thinks on Darwinian lines that in cold climates, uninventive people would die of cold. So surely blacks could have invented air conditioning and electric fans? It's fascinating to see the inability to understand science (and Oyebola appears to believe he talked with God, and thinks blacks are gifted with witchcraft). The long trail which led to the current understanding of electricity, including such things as electric charge, chemical generation of electricity, dynamos and fields and transmission, makes it obvious that there could never be an invention of electric fans.
      I was amused to see in the final chapter, The Black Man Can Make It, that Oyebola wants Nigeria 'to become an atomic power as soon as possible.' I won't go into the tragic absurdity of this; see nukelies.org and weep.
      Readers will be unsurprised that Oyebola has no lie detection circuitry. Chapter 8 on Black Americans (often of course mixed race) have shown 'indisputable excellence and creativity'. His list begins with Granville Woods, one of a number of fakes. I haven't found who compiled these things; I'd guess Jews and Jewish journalists. Black Inventions Myths decodes all these rather sad examples of mimicry and Jewish lies.

• Oyebola has a chapter on black Americans which shows a rather comic ignorance of Jewish activity there, such as the NAACP, forced 'integration', and the colossal expenses in such things as 'affirmative action'. '... although the blacks form 11 per cent of the United States population, they hold 15 per cent of all full-time jobs with the U.S. Federal Government. [And more, not worth quoting]. Oyebola knows nothing of media ownership and control.

• Chapter 7, 'The Myth of White Intellectual Superiority', could almost be taken from Jewish sources of the USA. Oyebola doesn't have the wit to challenge IQ tests, which are cheap pencil-and-paper assessments of such mental characteristics as can be estimated in a short time in an easily marked fashion. Oyebola quotes: One main conclusion that can be drawn from all the research and intelligence tests is that the range of mental groups is the same across all races.
      The final paragraph of Black Man's Dilemma would seem to be impossible or near-impossible: '... black nations [ought not to copy—this is the dilemma—but] find original solutions to their complex problems of indiscipline, abject poverty and poor leadership. ... Education, discipline, self-reliance and the right leadership should form the basis of such a new position of strength. ...'

Oyebola is alive, over 80, and appears to occupy a position in Nigeria analogous to elderly journalistic and media hacks in the UK and USA, looked up to without any critical examination of their work. Saddening stuff.

RW 2019-08-14