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England’s Smartest Family is Nigerian: We won’t hear about this in the news….. England’s Smartest Family is Black Meet the “First Family of Education” in England . They are black. Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London , are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the youngest students to ever enter high school. They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge ’s advanced mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers. Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their tender age. “We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.” To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said he and his wife have been through this before: they have other super-gifted, overachieving children. Peter and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing, when she was just 13. She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in the United States , Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore . Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British university at the tender age of 11. And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6, something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did. Chris Imafidon migrated to London from Nigeria in West Africa over 30 years ago. And despite his children’s jaw-dropping, history-making academic achievements, he denies there is some “genius gene” in his family. Instead, he credits his children’s success to the Excellence in Education program for disadvantaged inner-city children. “Every child is a genius,” he told British reporters. “Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] — they were nurtured. You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them excel in anything they do.”

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Taken at TMC London

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Taken at TMC London.

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At Top Model Of Colour London.

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50 Cent in Somalia to feed a million hungry children. Support him STREET KING

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This documentary made me cry! It so sad what goes on in the world... It seems to me that black people are still stuck in economic slavery... It makes me physically sick that people are subjected to horrendous living conditions and young people are put in situations that no one should ever have to go through. It's just far too easy.... when you're living in western societies... to turn a blind eye... and stuff your face with chocolate with no care about the 'EVIL' that goes into making it..... Disgusting.

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Beautiful. Just beautiful.

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Blue Ivy Carter is SO beautiful!

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Money and property are not the only things that people inherit. Wealthy families pass on social skills and networks, accents and vocabularies, influential family names and relationships with institutions- a college that receives sizable donations is more likely to admit the offspring of alumni, no matter how dumb they are. Just as wealthy white Americans can inherit all these advantages and white privilidge besides, African-Americans inherit long term effects of slavery and segregation, of their ancestors being terrorized and their families struggling to compete in a racist society. The same goes for children of indigenous people, of refugees, of immigrants, of all the exploited and excluded.

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back when scarves were my saving grace.

woot.

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Even though the weather is so miserable in London at the moment =/..... She never fails to cheer us up with her unique, vibrant & colourful choice of clothes!! <3