maxit2:

You have got to be the must uneducated eediot on Nairaland.
See how stuupid your post is.
The person you quoted made some very nice and informative points. You just quoted him and started spewing all sort of nonsense.

GET A BRAIN as soon as you can PLEASE !

bushdoc9919: All I can do here is quote Field Ruwe's article



The problem is....we prefer to share money rather than to use it. We would rather fight wars over how the oil money should be shared...instead of using that oil money to build things.

maxit2: IN SHORT:
Humans are like dogs. Different breeds with different qualities.

Some with a lot of muscle but little brain.
Some with brains but little muscle.

Let's not force it people. BLACK race(NOT just AFRICANS) lacks the brains.

By brain, i don't mean the ability to cram formulas or graduate as 1st class in Harvard(This is just a result of hardwork)

A "brainaic" is one who can think outside the BOX/textbooks and see things you'd never see in books.
We just do not belong to that line of human specie.

We have the muscle, the will power to do things. We are survivors. But the brains we just don't have.

greatwaters: Nice write-up but you're getting some things mixed up

I agree with you partly on this.


Now you're beginning to sound really gnomic, hard to understand. You want the Nigerians to lose their superstitions which are very much part of their culture, yet you want them to retain their languages. Thats impossible. Its like telling the Arabs to stop wearing their veil and gowns but to keep their language, Lol. My point is, Nigeria has been influenced by the west greatly during development and there's no way their languages would not be affected.



Here, i agree with you. Our leaders have always been our bane. I dont quite believe that we cant catch up though.

While it is true that translating books into their languages aided these countries' rennaissance, it is notable to note how difficult achieving the same feat on the African scene. First of all, the Arabs, Asians and Europeans have one major language in their countries which almost everyone understands, so translation is easy. Imagine doing that in Nigeria for example, which language would you translate into? Even if manage to translate into the three major languages, there's still a sizable population that do not understand any of those three languages. So you see how hard it is.

Good idea, but that would take quadruple the effort it took the Arabs, Asians et al. This is because everyone has to first become literate in the said languages, which to me is far fetched considering that it is discouraged in most basic schools.


If we want to achieve anything, lets encourage our own, though teaching science in our languages seems far from possible. We should not bundle off our promising scholars 2 America or the U.K, where their brains will be tapped 4 d benefit of those countries.

bushdoc9919: All I can do here is quote Field Ruwe's article



The problem is....we prefer to share money rather than to use it. We would rather fight wars over how the oil money should be shared...instead of using that oil money to build things.

greatwaters: Nice write-up but you're getting some things mixed up

I agree with you partly on this.


Now you're beginning to sound really gnomic, hard to understand. You want the Nigerians to lose their superstitions which are very much part of their culture, yet you want them to retain their languages. Thats impossible. Its like telling the Arabs to stop wearing their veil and gowns but to keep their language, Lol. My point is, Nigeria has been influenced by the west greatly during development and there's no way their languages would not be affected.



Here, i agree with you. Our leaders have always been our bane. I dont quite believe that we cant catch up though.

While it is true that translating books into their languages aided these countries' rennaissance, it is notable to note how difficult achieving the same feat on the African scene. First of all, the Arabs, Asians and Europeans have one major language in their countries which almost everyone understands, so translation is easy. Imagine doing that in Nigeria for example, which language would you translate into? Even if manage to translate into the three major languages, there's still a sizable population that do not understand any of those three languages. So you see how hard it is.

Good idea, but that would take quadruple the effort it took the Arabs, Asians et al. This is because everyone has to first become literate in the said languages, which to me is far fetched considering that it is discouraged in most basic schools.


If we want to achieve anything, lets encourage our own, though teaching science in our languages seems far from possible. We should not bundle off our promising scholars 2 America or the U.K, where their brains will be tapped 4 d benefit of those countries.

Mars88:

How did the union between Tangayinka and Zanzibar come up with theirs? Without a common language we could as well project our various regional languages, simple!

ChiSun27: All these continents you mentioned all have a common language spoken and understood by her citizens.


Which common language do you have in Nigeria? Pidgin English


So my friend...the fight should first be: which of the languages spoken in Nigeria should Nigerians adopt as a common language? And until that is done...we will still remain at our average level.


But then the big question is: Will other languages willingly go down for the one that will be adopted?

SkyRider1: Sure that's our only lifeline.

Think about this all great powers study in their language.

The Chinese, the Russians, the French, the swedes, the Germans, the Koreans, the Japanese,

They have domesticated science and technologies. Hence they apply these to their local challenges

SirHouloo: Nice talk but how many of our Yoruba students can successfully read and write in Yoruba?
We find English easier and at times feel proud of not even understanding our own mother-tongue.

Omarbah:

Fighting superstition does not mean getting rid of languages. The Spanish, the French, the Germans and multiple other nationalities have rid themselves of most of it but they still retain their language. The communist in China fought it with their "cultural" revolution. And knowledge is the only way to fix it. People need to know how is electricity produced, they need to know what a eclipse is so that they would interpret it as the death of a ruler. This is what I mean by ending superstition through knowledge.

You don't have to start translating books in every single one of Nigerian languages . In the North , Hausa alone can do the trick. In Central Africa, Lingala would do the job, same thing for Swahili in eastern Africa. For the Western part of West Africa, Maninka and Pulaar/Fulfulde would work. Many of these languages are spoken by other Africans, specially the illiterate.

Our bright minds like those I listed in the post would do us great goods if they made medical, farming, mathematical, and why civics manuals in our languages for a start. Help those millions of our people have access to the knowledge they need.

To finish here is what Friedrich List in National System of Political Economy had to say about the effect of introducing Roman Law in Germany:

"The introduction of the Roman law weakened no nation so much as the German. The unspeakable confusion which it brought into the legal status and relations of private individuals, was not the worst of its bad effects. More mischievous was it by far, in that it created a caste of learned men and jurists differing from the people in spirit and language, which treated the people as a class unlearned in the law, as minors, which denied the authority of all sound human understanding, which everywhere set up secrecy in [66] the room of publicity, which, living in the most abject dependence and living upon arbitrary power, everywhere advocated it and defended its interests, everywhere gnawed at the roots of liberty. Thus we see even to the beginning of the eighteenth century in Germany, barbarism in literature and language, barbarism in legislation, State administration and administration of justice; barbarism in agriculture, decline of industry and of all trade upon a large scale, want of unity and of force in national cohesion; powerlessness and weakness on all hands in dealing with foreign nations."

cococandy: Development is not only infrastructure.
It includes attitudinal change.
That's the only thing that can sustain development.
If not,we'll keep seeing the rot of infrastructure as is the norm in our society. No maintenance culture.
Mostly because the populace don't hold the govt to ransom.

Instead we prefer to pray for solutions.

An example would be people who'd rather consult mediums and seek spiritual help for problems that a good health care system can take care of. But because they rather believe in superstitions and the uncle after my life stories,they shun medical help.

There's no outcry and push to get the govt. to do more.hence the nonchalance our leaders display.
They know we aren't evolved enough to DEMAND what is ours.

Just an example.

maxit2: IN SHORT:
Humans are like dogs. Different breeds with different qualities.

Some with a lot of muscle but little brain.
Some with brains but little muscle.

Let's not force it people. BLACK race(NOT just AFRICANS) lacks the brains.

By brain, i don't mean the ability to cram formulas or graduate as 1st class in Harvard(This is just a result of hardwork)

A "brainaic" is one who can think outside the BOX/textbooks and see things you'd never see in books.
We just do not belong to that line of human specie.

We have the muscle, the will power to do things. We are survivors. But the brains we just don't have.

SirHouloo: Nice talk but how many of our Yoruba students can successfully read and write in Yoruba?
We find English easier and at times feel proud of not even understanding our own mother-tongue.

OkikiOluwa1:
Fulaman,
shey you dey see wetin I dey see?
The Op is so on point.
Our cultures are dieing cos of western culture.
Last Bullet
Too much western culture influence is affecting our education, entertainment industry & way of life.
Nobody's saying we should neglect western culture, but its influence should not overcome ours.

plaetton: Everyone is blaming our leaders, as if the so-called leaders are aliens among us. The leaders are us and we are them.
They are the reflections of us.

Surprisingly everyone has dodged the real reasons why we remain backwards, and why our cultures are disappearing.

It is RELIGION.

You will notice that our two tokumbo religions are aggressively anti-African in every measurable way.

Our addiction to tokumbo religions, religions that I must boldly say, we never understood and still do not understand even today.
I continue to maintain that these tokumbo religions are the equivalent of deleted uranium, once a useful source of power, but now an eternal toxic danger to any life that comes into contact with it.

I have variously and vigorously lamented about our obsession with religion and our gross national lunacy, about the debilitating effects of these foreign religions on our national IQ, on the dangers of having the majority of our population being part of the lunatic fringes, on the clear and present dangers of having people whose belief systems are neither founded on nor grounded on objective reality, being in positions where they making decisions that affect not just other people, but the majority of the people.

I see religion, standing on a worldview based on stone-age superstitions divorced from objective reality, as the main impediment to an African cultural renaisance.

macof: @OP lemme tell you one fact.

At independence it was decided for most African countries especially Nigeria which I know of to take English as it's official language and language of instruction throughout because we are multi-ethnic- no one language from the native ethnic groups could come out to take the role of "official"

If African nations were drawn on ethnic lines, not religious or former colonial boarders our culture would be preserved better, there would be better nationalism and patriotism, less bigotry in one nation, respect for the neighbours

We stand a lot to gain from totally reconstructing Africa, cleansing the continent of the pollution of the Europeans.

Let large ethnic groups form one nation, Akan be one Ghana, Yoruba be one Oduduwa, Igbo be one Biafra, Hausa(and the settled fulani) be one Arewa


We are bound to progress with better understanding, freedom and cultural independence

rash47: Tribalism still remains the black man's burden.

Basil davidson.

greatwaters: Nice write-up but you're getting some things mixed up

I agree with you partly on this.


Now you're beginning to sound really gnomic, hard to understand. You want the Nigerians to lose their superstitions which are very much part of their culture, yet you want them to retain their languages. Thats impossible. Its like telling the Arabs to stop wearing their veil and gowns but to keep their language, Lol. My point is, Nigeria has been influenced by the west greatly during development and there's no way their languages would not be affected.
why we always think of catching up? For once let see ourselves LEADING. As My friend said, corruption, fraud, embezzlement & i add mismanagement of public fund kills Africans


Here, i agree with you. Our leaders have always been our bane. I dont quite believe that we cant catch up though.

While it is true that translating books into their languages aided these countries' rennaissance, it is notable to note how difficult achieving the same feat on the African scene. First of all, the Arabs, Asians and Europeans have one major language in their countries which almost everyone understands, so translation is easy. Imagine doing that in Nigeria for example, which language would you translate into? Even if manage to translate into the three major languages, there's still a sizable population that do not understand any of those three languages. So you see how hard it is.

Good idea, but that would take quadruple the effort it took the Arabs, Asians et al. This is because everyone has to first become literate in the said languages, which to me is far fetched considering that it is discouraged in most basic schools.


If we want to achieve anything, lets encourage our own, though teaching science in our languages seems far from possible. We should not bundle off our promising scholars 2 America or the U.K, where their brains will be tapped 4 d benefit of those countries.

Fulaman198:

As you know the OP himself is Fulani like me, but from Guinea. Fulani and Hausa don't really like one another outside of Nigeria. But that's besides the point. India is a country that is comprised of a plethora of ethnic groups and they have the 3rd largest GDP in the world. The whole "let so and so be one nation, does not work" It would not work. That is not the problem to begin with. There are many countries in the world with melting pots and tons of ethnicities that are thriving so let's not use that as an excuse.

macof:

I know for a fact that Nigeria is not the making of Nigerians, we had no say in it, what even worsens it is that we have no cultural connections.
This is different from India where it's so called "tons of ethnicities" have shared an "Indian" cultural sort of commo wealth union even before British colonization
Indian cultured empires have been colonizing the region thereby spreading it's cultures and accepting influence from it's neighbors

You can't compare Nigeria with India, India shares so much more cultural togetherness

macof: @OP lemme tell you one fact.
At independence it was decided for most African countries especially Nigeria which I know of to take English as it's official language and language of instruction throughout because we are multi-ethnic- no one language from the native ethnic groups could come out to take the role of "official"
If African nations were drawn on ethnic lines, not religious or former colonial boarders our culture would be preserved better, there would be better nationalism and patriotism, less bigotry in one nation, respect for the neighbours
We stand a lot to gain from totally reconstructing Africa, cleansing the continent of the pollution of the Europeans.
Let large ethnic groups form one nation, Akan be one Ghana, Yoruba be one Oduduwa, Igbo be one Biafra, Hausa(and the settled fulani) be one Arewa
We are bound to progress with better understanding, freedom and cultural independence