What does beautiful Millennium Park in Abuja, Nigeria have to do with Italy? The Internet can be a mind-numbing rabbit hole but sometimes it yields some genuine nuggets. 

It started with an old YouTube clip I saw of the Black conservative Thomas Sowell (still alive at age 90, btw). He mentioned that the Igbo tribe in Nigeria was one of the first to embrace the allegedly “racist” colonial practice of mass education, which eventually gave them an advantage over various other ethnic tribes in that nation.