A University of Cape Town adjunct professor, who co-authored a study which concluded that fewer slaves were taken from African countries with a higher average IQ, resigned at 1am on Wednesday.
”, was co-authored by Professor Simplice Asongu and Oasis Kodila-Tedika. Asongu’s stated affiliation in the study was to the Development Finance Centre at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. Kodila-Tedika’s affiliation was to the Department of Economics at the University of Kinshasa. Its aim was to see if there was a link between “cognitive ability or intelligence on slave exports from Africa”.
The study came to this conclusion by looking at how “intelligent individuals are endowed with capabilities which enable them to easily compromise and find solutions”. These slaves, it said, would be more likely to revolt, so slavers focused on the slave’s “manpower or physical ability”.
In a response that copied in people from UCT’s Graduate School of Business, Asongu said: “I have asked the publisher and editor to remove the affiliation of the University of Cape Town from the forthcoming article.”
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