Why were sub-saharan africans too retarded to create any literature or poetry of great value?

Why were sub-saharan africans too retarded to create any literature or poetry of great value?

>were

They have an oral tradition.

>785. Why did democracy originate in Greece and not in say Africa or China or Scandinavia? And why did it take so long — 2,000 years! — until another nation (the USA) adopted it? Nietzsche gives a hint when he talks about the quantity and quality of Greek personalities — unrivalled in all of antiquity — before which even the Renaissance pales. So, first off, realize that, after removing women, children and slaves, only about 10,000 Athenians voted. Athenian democracy was not about empowering the weak, but about a very powerful average people whom no one was strong enough to bring to heel and rule. Democratic tendencies — when they appear naturally, through the will of the people, as in America and France, not imposed on them by outside as in the third world today — are a symptom of advancing civilization, and of a plurality of wills and voices that are becoming increasingly harder to control. In Greece this occurred 2,000 years before anywhere else simply due to how absurdly civilized that nation was compared to any other. So educated, inquisitive, multifarious and demanding that, at times, there was simply no one around strong enough to control them, and that's when and why democracy was instituted — not as an ideal solution, but simply for lack of a better one, to avoid a complete disintegration of society. And that's why Sparta never became democratic. Sparta was strong, but stupid — almost uncivilized compared to Athens. Even in Rome republican tendencies would take centuries to evolve, and would never get anywhere near how far in this direction the Athenians went, simply because the Romans — even at the height of their powers — were nowhere near as civilized as the Greeks had earlier been. So democracy might indeed represent "the declining form of the power to organize" (Nietzsche), but it makes a difference if those you are trying to control are African bushmen or Asian pygmies, or a race of Western supermen. One lifeform's or society's decline is the distant summit that another lifeform or society, which may indeed be currently ascending, can never hope to reach. The ailments of the strong are problems that the weak only wished they had.

>75. Thank god we still have Africa. If the entire planet were turned into suburban desert, we wouldn't have anywhere to set our videogames in, no contemporary setting at all — everything would have to be set either in the past (and primarily fantasy) or in the future (some variation of science fiction, either dystopian or post-apocalyptic). The new frontier can't come soon enough. Our urban deserts are useless for art, and once Africa is Westernized so will our real ones.

maybe they just have a different culture?

>he doesn't know about Veeky Forums's somalian poetry phase
dude if you're not even going to read Veeky Forums you're always going to namedrop pleb books

They don't need to.

>MALIAN EXPANSION APOLOGIST SHILL DETECTED
fuck the north african university system, musa fucked up the gold price for half the known world with his charitable institutions.

When your dick is big enough you don't need poetry to convince women to sleep with you.

>he can't read Ge'ez
lol and i bet you call yourself a christian