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Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by PepsiBoy: 3:44pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
This is very educative. Thanks OP. 1 Like |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 3:44pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
dexentity:I DON'T NEED ANY BOOK TO TELL ME THAT THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM PRIMITIVITY TO CIVILIZATION. Learn to appreciate that. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by JYans2(m): 3:46pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
#nice but pictures would have spoken louder of your points, And NO;11 tho, that was then o not now that we have hunt and chop em all,.....even grasshopper,...... Wala I hv seen fried grasshopper being sold. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Ishilove: 3:47pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
anibestlala:You are very correct. I am yet to see a prouder people than the Indians. They are so proud of their culture and identity, and they fiercely defend it, unlike most africans who have been brainwashed over the decades to see themselves as inferior to the caucasians. 2 Likes |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Elcapo(m): 3:49pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
afolag:Yea... A movie that was finished in a classroom but kinda Brainy though! |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 3:49pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
ijebu is mentioned |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Ishilove: 3:50pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Nobleval:Interesting submission. What are your parameters for measuring the level of primitiveness in a society? What is your own idea of 'primitive'? Please define it in your own language. 2 Likes |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 3:59pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Ishilove:don't be ridiculous dear,'nough of this chest beating. Were you civilized by Europeans? Yes. Did Europeans underdevelop an otherwise dark continent? No. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Ishilove: 3:59pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
ehie:This culture of using trumpeters was not used by the Kanemis alone. As recent as the early 20th century, Scottish bairds (or is it lairds? I forget), professional bagpipers led the Scots the into battle during WW1 (1914-1919). Most of these pipers were killed in the line of fire, but they still bravely pressed on and kept on playing during the duration of combat. I think all but one was killed, and it was the survivor who came back to recount how these brave men played their pipes while bullets flew past them...and into them. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by WORLDPEACE(m): 4:00pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
logica:You know the west always tries to explain any kind of development in black africa with the hamitic hypothesis. Now that there is no such resemblance here they have to go as far away as the incas; a people without iron technology before contact with the europeans. I schooled in Ife and you can still see the potsherd pavements in certain areas buried under the ground exposed by erosion. having been thought about it in a history class, it brought tears to my eyes when i stumbled on it in front of my house. tradition has it that it was constructed by the only female ooni in Ife history. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by sokera: 4:01pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
NIGERIA is the only country with a clueless man as the president . FACT |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by liveyourlife: 4:02pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Ishilove: Seems you are a Political scientist. sorry to ask, Lecturer or Student?? |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Ishilove: 4:04pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Nobleval:Define civilisation. So you say the blackman was uncivilised because the whiteman said so? This is the brinwashing I am talking about. The problem is we use western models to define these concepts. The people who built that imposing Eredo wall, and carved those magnificent bronze statues stolen during the 1897 British raid of the Bini Kingdom ARE NOT uncivilised. Open your eyes and stop being brainwashed by Eurocentric racist historiography. Go and read and stop arguing blindly. 1 Like |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Ishilove: 4:05pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
liveyourlife:A bit of both 1 Like |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:10pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Ishilove:it didn't state the kanuris were the only ones to use trumpeters...it said it had trumpets ..Trumpets were used by the Israelites against Jericho. i think they used trumpets as part of the lessons they learnt from the Turkish musketeers Idris Alooma had hired to train his soldiers |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by UrbanMystique: 4:12pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
guyX:right , you believe jesus was superior because jesus was part of your race or because those that enslaved your race for many years said jesus power was a super power over the god of your own race... keep deluding yourself. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by dexentity: 4:12pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Nobleval:I had the same mindset until I read the book. Just get a copy and read, it is very deep and thought provoking. And the theme was based on events before and after europeans came in contact with africans. Every society had and still has its primitive side. It won't be a waste of time if you read it, I can promise you that. Shalom. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:14pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
13. Present day Nigeria is being ruled by a president who is basically unfit for office causing Nigeria to lose its glory in the comity of nations. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:18pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Ishilove:are we arguing blindly now dear? Constructing few structure which I must admit were really cool then and carving,painting some really nice dolls doesn't make one civilize. Without the advent of Europeans here in Africa I bet you'd still be stuck in the Stone Age down there. Am not trying to belittle our achievements as Africans...no. But truth must be told,we owe our progress to the Europeans. And they're not saints either. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by DjAndroid: 4:23pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
good one! |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:27pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
dexentity:owk, |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by NovusHomo(m): 4:28pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
afolag: Wake up, those are just movies! |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by bobostykah(m): 4:28pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
afolag:the guy that spoke yoruba in those movies is a Nigerian, a Yoruba man, his name is Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje
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Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by NovusHomo(m): 4:32pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
silvermania: The Op forgot to add that under a "Ph.D" Nigeria became the third most corrupt country in the world. Carry go GEJ.......... to Otuoke. Sai BUHARI! |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by lizzlix(m): 4:43pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
BOKO HARAN aka BOKO..........originated from Nigeria too. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:47pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
NovusHomo:Lol..Buhari will never rule Nigeria again. Bitter truth |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:48pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Koolking: exactly!! God punish Lord Lugard |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Nobody: 4:52pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
I know about number 3... I love twin babies . |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by WORLDPEACE(m): 4:55pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
Nobleval:Do you know the meaning of 'stone age'? Non of the groups mentioned in the post was in it. They were in the iron age before most of those european nations were born. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by yaskarahyelhope(f): 4:59pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
afolag: Ask Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje! |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Ishilove: 5:03pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
ehie:I'm not arguing that fact. I'm just pointing out that using musical instruments in combat is/was a global phenomenon. |
Re: 12 Things You Didnt Know About Nigeria by Funjosh(m): 5:14pm On Jan 27, 2015 |
How did we now lost all these history 1 Like |
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