davidylan:

This is quite a daft response. Of course if i drove my car to work i do not claim to have flown or walked... but neither does the car claim to have gotten their by itself nor have i seen a donkey having a say in whether corn or wheat is the crop of choice on the farm ploughed. African Americans were the slave labor... but the true brains and those deserving of most of the credit are the white Europeans... look at Haiti.



To say America would not have existed without African Americans is the real horse manure here. Lets be honest with ourselves...



That is a dishonest play on words. Again blacks were simply the slaves who simply did what massa told them to do.



Again i repeat... Haiti hasnt been colonised in over 50yrs... why cant they get their shit together still while countries like the Dominican republic are doing ok? Nah... just blame the white man for the black man's failures.



Big fool... the Dominican republic shares a large border with Haiti and its GDP per capita is at least 8-9 times more than that of Haiti. Next excuse?

dasparrow:

Gbam! very well said Shymmex. We ought to know by now that most Nigerians are some of the world's most self hating negroes. Everything the whiteman does attracts their praise and accolades and when Africans do some notable things worthy of praise, Nigerians start bad mouthing. Sorry set of pathetic people with identity crises and a low self esteem!

Dede1: It is a borderline lunacy for anybody to insinuate that Africans invented anything worthy of mention. Where are the traces of such imagery inventions by Africans? Flood water does not percolate anyhow. The idea of African invention is a feel-happy crap borne out of idiocy.

ROSSIKE:

Back in the early 90s when I lived in the US, I had some African-American friends, and all of them UNANIMOUSLY thought Africans were the worst sellouts and self-hating people of the black race. They regaled me with stories of how Africans at their workplaces worshipped and treated the whites like gods, and sniffed their noses at AAs. I didn't really believe them back then, but boy... now I do. It's tragic. But I suspect we're slowly moving beyond that state.

oily Yoruba: You're a shameless liar and a pig. You never lived in any US of A, rather you were stuck in Italo pimping your Edo sistas in prost**tion. Shameless Edo batty man.

deor03: @OP

All these are natural characteristics of all human societies. There is a tribe in the Amazon that hqve not had touch with "civilization".
They have a bit of these ,if not all. Hence, no.race can.claim to invent speech,law etc

Dede1: This original post is an example of delusional madness that had afflicted the poster. Africa and Africans had invented absolutely nothing worthy of mention in the progression of mankind as we know it today. Every group of human had its style of speaking and writing. So one wonders what speech and writing Africans invented. Maybe, they invented Chinese method of speaking and writing.

I do know my grandfather perfected the act of certain traditional medicine which few of them were passed onto me. It is very hard for me to remotely suggest my forbearers invented medicine. Besides, the acts of cure are unique to individual group of people.

In architectural display, different people have different ways of erecting structures for shelter. Some people even caved shelters in rocks and dug hole on the ground. It is funny to read that a drunken rascal from Africa have arrogated act of building structures to Africa.

I shall not get into the idea of addition and subtraction which are benchmark for mathematics because every shade of human was endowed with the idea of summation. It is laughable to read Africans invented everything from mining of minerals, Iron Smithing, Laws, trade, philosophy to art.



dede1 I think you are an insecure little retard. re you claiming that when Africans started mining there were no other humans around who could have done the same in their territories? If that is what you are saying then supply the evidence idiot?

Africa had it's inventions and it invented things which were appropriate for the time. Now please go away.
At juncture where religion was introduced as one of the African inventions, I stopped and concluded the poster is under the influence of cheap form of grass. There is one adage that states “water flows to the channel it is once selected”. One wonders why the water has not flowed to Africa, the once selected channel since ages.

nigeriasshame:
dede1 I think you are an insecure little slowpoke. re you claiming that when Africans started mining there were no other humans around who could have done the same in their territories? If that is what you are saying then supply the evidence ?

Africa had it's inventions and it invented things which were appropriate for the time. Now please go away.

Dede1:

From your post, it is safe to write that you have acute comprehension deficiency. Please reread my post and correct your niche for foolishness. If Africans invented mining of minerals and Iron Smithing, why did they fight Europeans with sticks instead of sword and guns? The first musket or sword seen by African was brought by Europeans.

ROSSIKE:

My goodness you're drowning in ignorance. Why don't you actually spend time online to READ and LEARN things? Your knowledge of African history is zero. Which Africans fought Europeans with sticks?


''The Cordoban scholar Abu Ubayd al-Bakri collected stories from a number of travelers to the region, and gave a detailed description of the kingdom of Ghana in 1067. He claimed that Ghana could "put 200,000 men into the field, more than 40,000 of them archers" and noted they had cavalry forces as well.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Empire


1067. Over 1,000 years ago.

Do you know what archers are? Do you know what cavalry means? Where are the sticks, and which white man brough a sword to Ghana in 1067?

I mean, you're a total embarrassment. Go and read African history before posting further here.

Dede1:


You are a companion of ignorance. Which Ghana Empire were you talking about?

was it Ghana Empire of Mansa Kanka Wali Musa

or later days of Ashantehenes of Oti Akatene, Osei Otutu?

After all moronic scholars in the class of Abu Ubayd al-Bakri such as Abu Ibun Batuta gave the wrong theory of River Niger.

coolzeal: Of course Africans will rise again just like in antiquity. I know full well that Kemet(ancient Egypt) are black African civilization, the culture, languages, Art, techno-complex, religion etc. They're so many civilization in Africa apart from ancient Egypt; such as the Carthage in Hannibal period, Nubian or Kush, the great Zimbabwe, Ethiopia( Lalibela) the oldest christian in the world, Ghana, Songhai, Timbuktu( the largest university and most sophisticated center of learning in the 14th century when Europe was still a mess) Moors, Lunda, congo, Rwanda, Buganda( Successful Caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, Uganda. As observed by R. W. Felkin in 1879. when no one survive it in Europe) Lozi, Malawi, Monomotapa, Kilwa, Merina, Zulu, Axum, Kanem Bornu, Yoruba, Bini or Benin, Ashanti, Wolof... These're great kingdom in antiquity on the African continent by black Africans... i know why they could not consider us in history because, all the anthropological study of blacks has being dealing with primitive or semi primitive or little rural villiage or simple people on the edge of the continent. A lot of people don't know that we Africans suffer from the greatest holocaust in history of mankind, we've been turn slaves, colonize, dehumanize and lost everything we once had in antiquity and knowledge of ourselves. The Africans was on the seize of war back then to protect their land and its wealth( Gold, spice, Art etc) from the Arab and the European invasion but fail to defend herself plus we black people are the most hated people in the world. Well for all the lost sheep( Maybe the bible is talking about us here haha).. Please read and research more. We were great people in ancient time and history and we will rise again.. I think this site is good to learn about Africa history....http://www.africankingdoms.com/

thafanboy:

In the 15th century (when Europeans first visited Africa, including the sub-Saharan part), every centre of civilization across Europe and Asia, from London in the West to Tokyo in the East, and from Sri Lanka in the South to Sweden in the North had at least the following inventions:

The wheel. Wheeled carts. The plough. Irrigation. Glazed pottery. Glassware. Sailing ships. Steel. Writing. Book-length works of history, fiction and philosophy. Calendars. Clocks. Mathematics, including at least arithmetic and geometry. Ability to construct permanent bridges capable of spanning wide rivers and permanent buildings on the scale of a cathedral or palace. Bureaucratic government.

And those are just the basics. On top of these, each region had its own specialisms. E.g., China had its porcelain, Europe had its vertical windmills, and Korea had underfloor central heating.

Sub-Saharan Africa had none of the above, with the limited exception of Axum and the Sahel kingdoms, which had some of the above, but not all. Some tribes lacked metalworking skills, any sort of agriculture, or the ability to make woven cloth. In other words, they were living, technologically speaking, in the Palaeolithic.

The gap in technology between Europe and Asia on the one hand, and the rest of the world on the other, is so obvious that it's simply insane to deny it.

Dede1:

From your post, it is safe to write that you have acute comprehension deficiency. Please reread my post and correct your niche for foolishness. If Africans invented mining of minerals and Iron Smithing, why did they fight Europeans with sticks instead of sword and guns? The first musket or sword seen by African was brought by Europeans.