"In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity... 
"...fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry.
"His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past.
"His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past.
"His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.
"The African negro is not naturally cruel, though his own insensibility to pain, and his disregard for life—whether his own or another's—cause him to appear callous to suffering.
"He sacrifices life freely under the influence of superstition, or in the lust and excitement of battle, or for ceremonial display.
"He lacks the power of organisation and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business.
"He lacks the power of organisation and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business.
"He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility…He is very prone to imitate anything new in dress or custom, whether it be the turban and flowing gown of the Moslem, or the straw hat and trousers of the European, however unsuited to his environment...
"Perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his ability to visualise the future."
- Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858-1945), Governor-General of Nigeria (1914-1919), page 69-71 of his book "The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa", 1922. #HistoryVille
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