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Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Antivirus92(m): 7:00am On Dec 27, 2012 |
Where are your comments, peeps? |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by odumchi: 7:22am On Dec 27, 2012 |
Ginwa kwan? I deachilara m na ihe m dere? |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Antivirus92(m): 2:58pm On Dec 31, 2012 |
odumchi: Ginwa kwan? I deachilara m na ihe m dere?too busy this time around. Will get more chances by mid-january. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by ba7man(m): 5:08pm On Dec 31, 2012 |
If anyone feels the white man hasn't contributed anything worthwhile to Africa, the might as well move out of the cities and go back to small scale farming, drop their smartphones and pick up their gongs, drop their automobiles and start walkin round,forget about 3D TV and go back to moonlight games, the list is endless. Our problems have and always remain "Ourselves". The whiteman never forcefully captured us for slavery but we were sold by our fellow Africans to them. Slave trade was the highest income earner at a time in Africa and Africans that benefited from it actually fought against its abolishion. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Antivirus92(m): 8:49pm On Dec 31, 2012 |
ba7man: If anyone feels the white man hasn't contributed anything worthwhile to Africa, the might as well move out of the cities and go back to small scale farming, drop their smartphones and pick up their gongs, drop their automobiles and start walkin round,forget about 3D TV and go back to moonlight games, the list is endless. Our problems have and always remain "Ourselves". The whiteman never forcefully captured us for slavery but we were sold by our fellow Africans to them. Slave trade was the highest income earner at a time in Africa and Africans that benefited from it actually fought against its abolishion. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Nobody: 12:22am On Jan 01, 2013 |
[size=30pt].....?[/size] |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by ba7man(m): 1:42pm On Jan 01, 2013 |
We had Religions of fear. Sango, Oya, Sopana (How can u worship Chicken pox?? I mean how daft). We Worshiped what we couldn't understand. Rather than cut a tree and turn it into tools, tables nd chairs, we would tie a piece of cloth on it and worship it, when confronted with d ocean, rather than build boats to explore it, we would worship it.....Whites decided to explore the world and discovered us in our state, took advantage of it and here we are today. We still Worship "Money" today (We praise sing any rich person without first questioning the wealth's source). |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Antivirus92(m): 8:36pm On Jan 01, 2013 |
ba7man: We had Religions of fear. Sango, Oya, Sopana (How can u worship Chicken pox?? I mean how daft). We Worshiped what we couldn't understand. Rather than cut a tree and turn it into tools, tables nd chairs, we would tie a piece of cloth on it and worship it, when confronted with d ocean, rather than build boats to explore it, we would worship it.....Whites decided to explore the world and discovered us in our state, took advantage of it and here we are today. We still Worship "Money" today (We praise sing any rich person without first questioning the wealth's source).i love ur comments. You truely understand what i mean. Our fore-fathers worship anything around them,trees,animals,sky,water bodies etc instead of putting them into use. That's why we remained in the dark till the white men came. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by ezeagu(m): 10:11pm On Jan 01, 2013 |
You have to actually know how your people lived first before you start making evaluations. I can see from your comments that you haven't taken the time to research anything. 1 Like |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by PhysicsQED(m): 11:05pm On Jan 01, 2013 |
ba7man: Sopana (How can u worship Chicken pox?? I mean how daft) I don't think small pox itself was what was actually being worshipped: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1160301 Also, go and find out what Shitala, Mariamman, Hoso-no-Kami, and T’ou Shen Niang-Niang are and let me know if it is still so "daft" an idea when you find out. 1 Like |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Antivirus92(m): 4:05am On Jan 02, 2013 |
ezeagu: You have to actually know how your people lived first before you start making evaluations. I can see from your comments that you haven't taken the time to research anything.okay sir, |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Sladem05: 10:31am On Mar 29 |
pleep: Nonsense, With or without colonisation Africa would be poor. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Sladem05: 10:36am On Mar 29 |
somalia8: But they were and so was Asia hence why the Arabs were able to conquer Africa too. Look at Ancient Rome and Greece, that even by today’s standards is in many ways more sophisticated than Africa. Africa has always lagged behind the rest of the world. Romans and Greeks conquered North Africa and The Middle East. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Sladem05: 10:39am On Mar 29 |
ba7man: It was both ways. Europeans raiding plantations and taking slaves or trading with kings. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by ba7man(m): 7:31am On Apr 03 |
Sladem05:Who else did they use to raid the plantations and settlements? Black folks of course. |
Re: If Not For The Coming Of The Europeans....would Africa Ever Develop? by Sladem05: 3:13pm On Apr 03 |
ba7man: Yes but they were under their influence. A lot of the time they would also conquer the kingdoms and then enslave the people. Look at Dahomey, Benin Expedition and so on. Africans lost to the Europe because of the technological gap, worse tactics and so on. 1 Like |
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