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Q. “What effect will the materials employed in your domes have on the underdeveloped countries?”
RBF: "The underdeveloped countries are like 150 admirals on one spaceship. I don’t think in terms of underdeveloped countries. The people aren’t going to stay in those countries any more than Americans stay in the same town.
"My feeling about the African students is that they are much keener than others in their mathematics. We learned this at Kumasi. We should have expected that their great feeling for rhythm should have made them good in mathematics… Last month in my meeting at the State Department they said that Africans couldn’t use tools. I asked them what do they at the State Department know about tools?
“Those countries have high capabilities and have been developed for a very long time… but I understand what you are asking. Taking the bauxite from Ghana is economic colonialism. In the 1970s the Ghanaians made the most beautiful dome ever built right in Accra–better than the one in Kumasi. They made this”
