21.Sadism.
Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, humiliation or suffering on others, sexual or otherwise. Named after Marquis de Sade who is notorious for his unrestrained sexual expression and erotic literary works.

22.Shrapnel.
Fragment of a bomb, shell or an object thrown by an explosion. Named after Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel who invented shrapnel shell, but the word later came to mean fragments of the shells after the explosion.

23. Boycott.
To protest by withdrawing the usage, purchase or relations with someone or something. Named after Charles Boycott, an Irish land agent, who was excluded from the Irish Land League for evicting poor tenants.

24.Silhouette.
The image of a person, animal or object in a single color or their shape viewed against a source of light. After Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister, who imposed severe economic restrictions during a crisis with the result that his namecame to mean anything cheaply made, and eventually the contemporary meaning.

25.Tattersall.
A plaid pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical stripes. Named after Richard Tattersall, the founder of racehorse auctioneer called Tattersalls, where the horse markets sold blankets with such pattern.

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Good work.

Nice one bro

*sips tea*

Not bad!

nice work

Ponzi

a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a non-existent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.

Charles Ponzi (March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases include Charles Ponci, Carlo, and Charles P. Bianchi. Born and raised in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a swindler in North America for his money-making scheme. He promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days, or 100% profit within 90 days, by buying discounted postal reply coupons in other countries and redeeming them at face value in the United States as a form of arbitrage. In reality, Ponzi was paying early investors using the investments of later investors. While this swindle predated Ponzi by several years, it became so identified with him that it now bears his name. His scheme ran for over a year before it collapsed, costing his "investors" $20 million.

Now this won't make front page..

Rather it is story of 'ankara worn by Seyi shay', ' see Ooni's car', 'Olamide's shoe for headies', 'snake killed in a house', and other uninformative stories that will make front page

I remember those days when nairaland was still Nairaland - d home of credible information

remiproxy:
12.Machiavellian.
Machiavellian refers to someone who uses cunning and deceit, and who is cynical about morality and expedient. Named after Niccolò Machiavelli who described such a behavior to be normal in politics in his famous work The Prince.

so dis is wia d "used n dumped" philosophy was born

Informative.

Nice one

Interesting thread

remiproxy:
12.Machiavellian.
Machiavellian refers to someone who uses cunning and deceit, and who is cynical about morality and expedient. Named after Niccolò Machiavelli who described such a behavior to be normal in politics in his famous work The Prince.

number 12,14 and 21 faces realy potrayed their lifestyles,so no introduction is needed

remiproxy:
17.Quisling.
A traitor or a person who collaborates with the occupying enemy force. Named after Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian military officer, who headed the government under Nazi occupation during WWII.

Nigerian words for this are

Sabo or afonja depending on the shape of head or colour of your roof

This is one of the reason knowledge acquisition in English language is such a disaster to Africa.

Any culture in the world can coin, and indeed do coin such words. Popular one I can readily remember is "ọsọ Abiola" which was coined by Igbos running out of Lagos during the annulled June 12th 1993 presidential election won by Moshood Abiola. Its used to describe the "period" within the last days of former head of state, IBB- the exact time Lagos was deserted.

ỌSỌ in Igbo could mean RUN, RUNNING, RAN (depending on the context) and of course, everybody know Abiola and can easily translate "ọsọ Abiola" to your various native languages.

The words listed on this thread that they want you to know should only make sense to those cultures that coined them, not you as an African. Its not up to us to adopt their grammar structure, cause we're not English people!.

If you check the Binis, Efiks, Hausas, Nupes, Fulanis, Ijaws, Ibibios, e.t.c who ran from Lagos during "ọsọ Abiola", you'll discover they also formed similar words to describe that period. Because, language by nature does that for all cultures!. Its just that we still consider our languages inferior just as the British taught us, and therefore, don't consider our own creation as knowledge since we still think knowledge is only knowledge when white man create it.

Noam Chomsky (the world's best living linguist) said that every language in the world possess the same natural capability to coin words in similar way!!.

As a matter of fact, there's this Yoruba man called Alajo Shomolu who lived in the mid 1900's and was said to be a thrift collector, and through him so many words entered into the Yoruba lexicon. Yet, the name of this man doesn't appear any where in textbooks in Yorubaland. Such a great man of historical importance reduced to mythology because of our stupidity!. And we're here studying European Draco; when we have people of same historical importance right here in our own cultures?

At the peak of his career, Alajo Shomolu was said to be so diligent at his work that adages were coined in his name. The sayings are as follows: ‘’Ori e pe bii ti alajo Somolu, to fodidi oôdun meta gbajo lai ko oruko eni kankan sile, ti ko si siwo san fenikeni.’’ (Your brain is as sharp as that of Alajo Somolu, who collected thrift for three years and paid back all his customers without writing down a single name and without making a single mistake with the payment).

There is also another one that goes thus:
“Ori e pe bii Alajo Somolu, to ta moto, to fi ra keke”. (You are so intelligent like Alajo Somolu, who sold his car to buy a bicycle).

Baba Alajo Shomolu was discused on this thread https://www.nairaland.com/3331888/alajo-somolu-nigerias-most-famous/

As you can see, our native languages also have the same grammar and syntax structures to coin words, and we do indeed coin such words. Its just that we continue to vilify our native languages in favor of English.

Again, the same things we fool ourselves studying in English and French in Africa, we do have them as well in our various native languages and cultures across Africa.

Africans, come to your senses. Start asking questions like; what is education? What is knowledge? Is it right to acquire knowledge in foreign language instead of using your own language?. The information on this thread is not necessary knowledge, it is indoctrination!. English language is not better than our native African languages!.