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The settlers on the North & to a lesser extent the West coasts are Rumi as opposed to the Teutonic protestants stationed in settler southern Africa (as well as settler sierra Africa).
They claim, real or imagined to be descendants of the Frankish Crusaders, even though at times many of them will take on a elche or renegado identity.
Like I said before its no different than the current Pocohontas partisans in North America.
Fanon, the Creole petit-bourgeois nationalist of Algerian fame, seems to associate distrust of Arabi nationalist movements not to El NASSERIYA (the Yousifiya named after Salah were well regarded for their role but of course were later edited & erased from the records) but to the renegado Rumi, muwalladin as they would be known in the Africani Shariq (Bilad Samra, Sudan wa Habash).
Since a previous poster insinuated that the successors of the West Indian Companymen should be paraded as roles to be modeled after, methinks one should check out the works of a Creole petit bourgeios nationalist by the name of Omar before making judgement.
So why do they fail in Lebanon? Migration is a selective process. It isnt the ordinary Lebanese who migrates. Its people with a long lineage in business with solid networks who do.
Nigerians in the USA and the UK are more educated than are whites in those societies, and in the UK their kids outperform white kids in the educational system. Clearly we know that it isnt that Nigerians as a whole are academically gifted. Its that those who migrate to the USA/UK are.
My dentist is originally from Nigeria and he is SUPERB. He saved two of my teeth which, I was told by two other dentists, needed to be pulled. Very gentle, thorough, doesn't miss a detail, and a pleasure (if that's possible at a dentist!) to spend time with.
My husband worked for years with a Nigerian engineer who he couldn't praise highly enough. Extremely intelligent, hard working, motivated, and personable.
My husband and I found ourselves wishing we had a daughter to introduce to these two outstanding men as a prospective daughter-in-law!
Those interested in the Cold War era might want to look up Kwame Nkrumah's mate.
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