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| Intelligence Test or Chitling Test; Robert Williams’s (1974) Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity or BITCH-100 and The Chorizo Test (Cabrera and Cabrera 2008) which is biased towards Hispanics. Similarly, it is equally possible that non- Ghanaians will underperform on the Akan (Ghanaian) ‘Agya-reko’ test (or Akan puzzles. It is clear that these two so-called enlightenment luminaries (Hume and Kant) employed wrong premises to justify the continued enslavement of Africans during their day. Their works on racial differences in intelligence should, therefore, be dismissed as desperate efforts to provide the then needed intellectual support for the Zeitgeist. Should we also critically examine their other works for the same biases Thus, a reorientation is required on the part of everyone that given equal opportunities, persons from all continents of this world can excel regardless of their skin colour. REFERENCES Abraham, WE. Anton Wilhelm Amo. In A Companion to African Philosophy ed. K. Wiredu, 191–199. Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing. Adler, P. J. and R. L. Pouwels. 2006. World Civilization. Fourth edition. Belmont, CA Thomson Higher Education. Amo, AG. On the Apathy of the Human Mind Or the Absence of Sense and of the Faculty of Sensing in the Human Mind And the Presence of these in our Organic and Living Body. Trans. J. EH. Smith. PhD thesis, University of Wittenberg. Amponsah, D. K. 2013. Christian Slavery, Colonialism, and Violence The Life and Writings of an African Ex-Slave, 1717–1747. Journal of Africana Religions 1(4): 431–457. Asante, KB. Voice from afar A Ghanaian experience. Accra, Ghana Graphic Communication Group Limited. Bemile, SK. Anton Wilhelm Amo, from a Ghanaian Slave-Child to a German Professor and Philosopher. Available at http://www.afrst.illinois.edu/news/archive/seminar/documents/ sem-bemile-2002.pdf (accessed July 15, 2015). Berhanu, G. 2011. Academic racism Lynn‘s and Kanazawa‘s ill-considered theory of racial differences in intelligence. Education Review 14(12). Available at http://www.edrev.info/ essays/v14n12.pdf (accessed 8 November Bernard, TS. Dercon and AS. Taffesse. 2011. Beyond Fatalism An Empirical Exploration of Self-Efficacy and Aspirations Failure in Ethiopia. Working Paper CSAE WPS/2011-03. Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. bin Yahya al-Wangari, M. 2008. Shaykh Baghayogho al-Wangari and the Wangari Library in Timbuktu. In The Meanings of Timbuktu ed. S. Jeppie and SB. Diagne 277–285. Cape Town HSRC and CODESRIA. 69 Oppong Racial stereotyping of Homo Sapiens Africanus Blakeley, A. 1997. Problems in Studying the Role of Blacks in Europe. Perspectives on History The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association. Available at http://www. historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-1997/problems-in- studying-the-role-of-blacks-in-europe (accessed 28 April Brennan, J. F. 1998. History and Systems of Psychology. Fifth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice-Hall. Cabrera, N. Land GA. Cabrera. 2008. Counterbalance Assessment The Chorizo Test. Phi Delta Kappan 89(9): Carey, B. 2003. The extraordinary Negro Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 26: 1–I4. Christainsen, GB. IQ and the wealth of nations How much reverse causality Intelligence 41: 688–698. Colman, AM. Oxford Dictionary of Psychology. New York, NY Oxford University Press. Daniele, V. 2013. Does the Intelligence of Populations Determine the Wealth of Nations? Department of Legal, Historical, Economic and Social Sciences University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro, Catanzaro – Italy. Englebert, P. 2000. State Legitimacy and Development in Africa. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Eze, MO. Humanism as History in Contemporary Africa. Taiwan Journal of East Asian Download 0.82 Mb. Share with your friends:
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