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Africa: A low IQ and poverty

Written byNdesanjo Macha
Posted 5 November 2006 13:41 GMT

Naija blog on the claim by an evolutionary psychologist from the London School of Economics that Africans are poor because of a low IQ.

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  • African guy in Kenya

    I’m an African living in Kenya and I’ve just scored 113 in an online IQ test. The test was culturally biased since most Africans have never heard of pies and ducks.

    4 November 2007, 7:29 am
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