Is Lord Lugard Right about Nigerians?Read his impression about Nigerians and Africans.

Lord Lugard with some Hausa Emirs

Lord Lugard, the former Governor-General of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians.From his book,''The Dual Mandates'',Are Nigerians still carrying these characteristics and or traits in 2013?

''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 jewellery.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.

''Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organized religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural.He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men of business.He loves the display of power, but fails to realise its responsibility- he will work hard with a less incentive than most races.He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future''

Kindly share your thoughts?Does his analysis hold true?