This is very educative. Thanks OP.

dexentity:


Funny
Grab a copy of the book and read before asking me such primitive question Mr.

I DON'T NEED ANY BOOK TO TELL ME THAT THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM PRIMITIVITY TO CIVILIZATION. Learn to appreciate that.

#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.

anibestlala:
you are right, Africans have lost their sense of dignity due to their impoverished conditions. it's sad to know that some tribes take pride in referring to themselves as next to the Caucasians as though they are inferior to them. our leaders have not helped matters.

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.

afolag:

av u watched EXAM?

Yea... A movie that was finished in a classroom but kinda Brainy though!

ijebu is mentioned

Nobleval:
I DON'T NEED ANY BOOK TO TELL ME THAT THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM PRIMITIVITY TO CIVILIZATION. Learn to appreciate that.

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.

Ishilove:

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.

don't be ridiculous dear,'nough of this chest beating. Were you civilized by Europeans? Yes. Did Europeans underdevelop an otherwise dark continent? No.

ehie:
On Listverse there was an article on 10 Brave Warrior Classes Of World History and the Kanuri Calvary came up at number 1
the Kanuri Calvary
The European colonialists who went to battle in North Africa in the mid-19th century must have thought they had traveled back in time when they were confronted by the elite cavalry of the Kanuri people.

They soon learned not to laugh.
The Kanuri people lived northeast of Lake Chad in Kanem-Bornu, a kingdom that existed from the ninth to the 19th century. While the court was officially Islamic, the mai (king) also recognized and permitted traditional beliefs.
The kingdom was dissolved by French colonialists in 1900.
At its height, it had expanded as far as the Niger River to the west, Wadiai to the east, and the Fezzan to the north.They did all this with the help of the Kanuri cavalrymen. The soldiers and their horses were both clad head to toe in an astonishingly strong quilted cotton or padded armor, wielding swords and lances. The cavalrymen in many regions had helms made with brass and ostrich feathers but generally did not carry shields.
Some places, particularly Cameroon, had access to mail armor as well, and all were elaborately decorated with a rich variety of symbols and patterns based primarily on clan membership. The Bornu horsemen also boasted trumpeters, who led the troops into battle.

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.

logica:
The conclusion on the last item is dubious. A more likely explanation is the Yorubas independently developed paving technique similar to the Incas.

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.

NIGERIA is the only country with a clueless man as the president . FACT

Ishilove:

I've been meaning to get it but I haven't had the time to enter a bookshop.

Seems you are a Political scientist. sorry to ask, Lecturer or Student??

Nobleval:
don't be ridiculous dear,'nough of this chest beating. Were you civilized by Europeans? Yes. Did Europeans underdevelop an otherwise dark continent? No.

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.

liveyourlife:


Seems you are a Political scientist. sorry to ask, Lecturer or Student??

A bit of both

Ishilove:

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.

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

guyX:

You will be the biggest re.tard to believe Religion is a racial thing.
I believe what I believe . It has nothing to do with what the white does or thinks.

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.

Nobleval:
I DON'T NEED ANY BOOK TO TELL ME THAT THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM PRIMITIVITY TO CIVILIZATION. Learn to appreciate that.

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.

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.

Ishilove:

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.

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.

good one!

dexentity:

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.

owk,

afolag:
The last line open my mind to something I suspect over a period of time. that yoruba language is spoken in some america movies, Bourne identity, Fat girls, lost, and many more could this be true or just a coincidence?

Wake up, those are just movies!

afolag:
The last line open my mind to something I suspect over a period of time. that yoruba language is spoken in some america movies, Bourne identity, Fat girls, lost, and many more could this be true or just a coincidence?

the guy that spoke yoruba in those movies is a Nigerian, a Yoruba man, his name is Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje

silvermania:
A place where anything is possible. Even someone aiming to become the president without a basic education

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!

BOKO HARAN aka BOKO..........originated from Nigeria too.

NovusHomo:


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!

Lol..Buhari will never rule Nigeria again. Bitter truth

Koolking:
It was irreconcilable mistake amalgamating the Northern and Southern Protectorates and called them Nigeria. These were distinct entities that were meant to be apart

exactly!!
God punish Lord Lugard

I know about number 3...

I love twin babies .

Nobleval:
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.

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.

afolag:
The last line open my mind to something I suspect over a period of time. that yoruba language is spoken in some america movies, Bourne identity, Fat girls, lost, and many more could this be true or just a coincidence?

Ask Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje!

ehie:
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

I'm not arguing that fact. I'm just pointing out that using musical instruments in combat is/was a global phenomenon.

How did we now lost all these history