Botswana a leading Example in Africa

Are things settled now in Kenya, in May, 2008?

This link is from news of Jan 1, 2008

Mob (of Kenyans) burn Kenyans seeking refuge in a church. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/01/kenya.elections/index.html

Existing Government "re-elected". [How about that?]

["If the tear gas doesn't work then unfortunately they have to use live bullets," he told CNN. "The president has been sworn in, the elections are over, the Kenyans have to accept the results, the opposition has to accept the results."

Tuesday, international observers said the balloting fell short of international standards for democratic elections.]
----CNN, Nairobi, Kenya ---

Kenya is Better? Now?

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"Not one person has been tried, let alone convicted, for these killings and displacements. The international community at the time seemed quite ready to forget as well." --
Jacqueline M. Klopp --(contributed to Christian Science Monitor)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0114/p09s02-coop.html

Jacqueline M. Klopp is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Recently Nobelist James Watson, Cold Springs Harbor, was pilloried for describing Africa as a place where grasp of the meaning of agreements were different from that of the rest of the world.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/18/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-US-Scientist-Racism.php

http://www.vdare.com/misc/rushton_african_iq.htm

I would like to better understand the results (of testing) that produced this graphic. Was it the test that was unfair?

No matter where you are (look at the nature/nurture/education and GDP) and draw conclusions or be curiously intrigued. As a person, as a human, I am devastated by the idea Watson forwarded, and the bigotry not hidden in both the utterance and the response to it by the press and the social structure of the world as well the response of scientific community in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
(The Wikipedia article references therein are a goldmine.)
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And here is a 2003 paper of IQ testing in Kenya:

This 2003 paper:
Iq on the rise: The Flynn Effect in Rural Kenyan Children
Psychological Science 14 (3), 215–219.
doi:10.1111/1467-9280.02434
abstract here, also link to full paper:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1467-9280.02434/abs/
Excerpt from the abstract:

The hypotheses that resonate best with our findings are those related to parents' literacy, family structure, and children's nutrition and health.

http://www.racialcompact.com/racesofhumanity.html

One. I appreciate your perspective, and on Xomba, hope you can continue to share it.

Two. As with Mugabe's behavior in Zimbabwe, I understand the hyperbole with which you make comments in Kenya -- and hope the light of reason is reached, as well as justice.

Three. I hope the Chinese are smart enough to remove the CO2 we in the US and they in China are placing there to the detriment of the world. I hope we do not lose the wildlife and animals species that had enjoyed protection in Kenya.

I hope Environmental Conspiracy Laws can be enacted to help fund the cost of C02 recovery from the Air. That is a task you and your future faces -- where even our species cradle of origin will be destroyed as billions of our species are poised to die.

Good luck to you. (If luck has anything to do with it! -- or maybe I should wish you "favorable outcomes" to your endeavors or "mathematically favorable though improbable outcomes.")

Stay well.

Can you imagine the equatorial temperature of 130, 140, 150 F helping the plant life and thereby the animal life. Neither you nor I will live to see that; but without change, it is on the way!

Have "things" overall, improved in Africa?

Good luck!