“Today a Mozart in Nigeria follows the plow.” Deirdre McCloskey argues that Africa’s stunted economies are concealing forever our would-be greatest thinkers. It’s hard to fully comprehend that losspic.twitter.com/FkjO8viAAI
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I feel like this misses a step, ie culture. He/she obviously wouldn't be a Mozart. And Mozart wouldn't have existed without 200 years of prior, localised musical development.
Richer locales have access to (and absorb, to greater or lesser degrees) global culture. It’s not absurd at all, for example, to consider an Australian artist building very successfully upon a French tradition.