Ishilove:

http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/05/not-quite-long-ago-pupils-went-to.html

Seriously?? According to oral history, western style clothes only came into the present day Delta state as recently as the 1930s, but even at that it is surprising that two decades after, kids went to school butt naked. In a bid for the European imperialists to sell their manufactured products, foreign textile materials and sewing machines were imported into the country, and the presence of these products made it possible for people in Delta, Ukwuaniland for example, to take up tailoring as an occupation. Before then, the Onicha-Ukwuani people were weavers of the local cloth called 'nchichi or 'ukor ogbolu,' a kind of cover cloth. This cloth is small in size, made of cotton and tied around the body. This was their mode of dressing before the influx of western style fashion which stifled the local industry.

At the risk of anachronism (judging past events using contemporary standards), I am seriously wondering why these children were not covered with nchichi before being shipped off to school. I can see one little boy at the extreme right who is the only one not in his birthday suit.

All so note that majority of the kids in the photo are male, unlike now when the opposite is the case. How times have truly changed.

Thank God for civilization in Nigeria.

VickyRotex:


I sight you too o. No be you wan that guy for front?

I have never being to Africa before,I was born and raised in Canada

IYANGBALI:
I have never being to Africa before,I was born and raised in Canada

Canada ko, Cotonou ni

IYANGBALI:
I have never being to Africa before,I was born and raised in Canada

Oh you mean, you were born and raised in Calabar, okay, I understand.

Poor kids. Looking like they're suffering from kwashiorkor

Why is everyone shouting civilization? Not long ago,Africa civilized the world. Scholars came to Egypt and Mali to learn from englightened Africans.
I guess this is the time for Western civilization to take over the world. That does not mean your ancestors were not civilized or only became civilized after the whiteman came. Years ago,Europeans were steeped in darkness and under the whims and caprices of nature. They didn't bring clothes to Africa,igbos had their own covering and unclothedness was not a sign of undevelopment.
It's time for Western civilization to shine sha.

YEEE! DATS MY GRAND DAD AT THE FAR LEFT.

Ishilove:

Canada ko, Cotonou ni

bad belle,for say you go school I for invite you down here,but I no wan make you come dey embarasse me for here

VickyRotex:


Oh you mean, you were born and raised in Calabar, okay, I understand.

where is Calabar?is that a state in UK?i have never being to Calabar in UK before,but I have being to Ijebu ode in UK for summer holidays

VickyRotex:


I sight you too o. No be you wan that guy for front?

God forbid bad thing. That wasn't me

IYANGBALI:
where is Calabar?is that a state in UK?i have never being to Calabar in UK before,but I have being to Ijebu ode in UK for summer holidays

Uhmmmbanu, No be only Ijebu-Ode in the UK, you've been to Ijebu-Igbo/Ipokia in the UK too during winter.

IYANGBALI:
God forbid bad thing. That wasn't me

That wasn't you, but you were there

Isn't the man arrowed in the picture Chief Obafemi Awolowo?

VickyRotex:


That wasn't you, but you were there

i can't be there,I have never being to Nigeria before

VickyRotex:


Uhmmmbanu, No be only Ijebu-Ode in the UK, you've been to Ijebu-Igbo/Ipokia in the UK too during winter.

bad belle,there in no ijebu Igbo nor ipokia in Uk,it's just Ijebu ode and its very close to old trafford

IYANGBALI:
i can't be there,I have never being to Nigeria before

IYANGBALI:
bad belle,there in no ijebu Igbo nor ipokia in Uk,it's just Ijebu ode and its very close to old trafford

IYANGBALI!!! your lie fit dry ocean water...

Old Trafford kor, New Stamford ni

OMG see stomach...and yet they say our politicians are pot bellied...it started long ago