Somalia, Ethiopia, the Songhai Empire of present-day Mali (Timbuktu, etc), the Sultanate of Zanzibar, Great Zimbabwe (medieval trading city that modern Zimbabwe is named for).
The nobel prizes, too, tend to be heavily European biased. Remember the year that the European Union as a whole won instead of Malala Yousafazi?
Then we have to realize that Europe did not set Africa up for success when they colonized them, nor when they left. They used the continent for raw materials and cheap labor, packed up, and left a society designed around cash crops and not much else. How many educated people are such societies going to produce compared to industrial and post-industrial Europe/Asia/North America?
Latin America has a similar yoke on her. How many Latinos (Central/South Americans in a broad sense) win such prizes?
One's capacity to achieve has nothing to do with the color of your skin. What you achieve, however, has everything to do with the conditions you are raised in, which black people as a whole (whether in or out of Africa) generally have as a disadvantage.
See also: Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Have your friend ask him whether blacks are dumber than non-blacks.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
