where is Macaulay ?

In diebus eis

givean:
The colonialists made them look so inferior, that some had to alter the look of their natural hair to look like that of the colonialist. To them,
the Blackman's afro was an evil that needed to be purged out together with their culture and community organization.

Nice observation!.

The early 1900's was the heart of colonialism. By that time, the African people had been conquered completely, our kings dethroned, social, political, and economic structure changed, and a European one imposed on us. As a result, the people then felt the white man and his god was superior and that we and our gods must be inferior. So, everybody then wanted to think and look like the white man in order to be seen as ''civilized'' and to survive in the new socio-economic and socio-political order created by the Europeans- something that's still with us till this day.

Nigerians are so so dumb, if this picture was taken in 1960, these guys are big men, not to talk of freaking 1913, 105 ys ago, before there was even a scam called Nigeria

Look at those suits, those shoes, the hairstyles how many people could afford to take a picture, this guys were rich

Curiously no agbada there.

5thElement:


Nonsense! No clothes in 1913? Are you ok sir?

Yes, he is very correct! Majority of Nigerians had no access to western clothes by 1913. Infact not until 1950 did most rural parts of Nigeria receive western clothes.

Infact there are many rural parts of Nigeria that did not wear western clothes not until early 1980s.

StaffofOrayan:
Where did you get that rubbish from? maybe your tribe were naked, definitely not the Yoruba's,

When he said 'clothes', I think he actually meant 'western clothes'.
Besides, most of those pics you posted showed people from royal families. Many children and the poor masses/commoners and slaves were half naked when the whites came.

smith666999:
i did not even see a tortice car parked arround to complete the BignesS

When did cars start to exist? At 1913, majority of the Europeans themselves had no access to cars and 'tortise car' had not even come close to being created.

Pain:
SOME OF YOU LAUGHING AT THEM, MIGHT ACTUALLY BE THEM. ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED WILL UNDERSTAND

Same soul.... Different bodies. That's deep bro!

fuckerstard:


No mind the poster, big boy indeed. Some even drop caps for ground.

that made me laugh out loud. as in the cap too heavy.

Guilderland1:

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Glo is giving free MTN
credit to Etisalat
CUSTOMERS that are
using Airtel...?

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YES

Ndi ara living a borrowed life and forming oyibo suits
Igbo amaka!!!

Guilderland1:

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Glo is giving free MTN
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CUSTOMERS that are
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Funny you

propanet:
Big boys in terms of what?
Big boys my foot.
All what qualified them as so called big boys came from the white man's world...even the camera that preserved the memory belongs to the white.
So what then made them to be called big boys when they all lived a borrowed life?

Am sure you are doing your big boy with the phone the white made, what's your point?

Nowenuse:


Yes, he is very correct! Majority of Nigerians had no access to western clothes by 1913. Infact not until 1950 did most rural parts of Nigeria receive western clothes.

Infact there are many rural parts of Nigeria that did not wear western clothes not until early 1980s.

Well maybe in the eastern part of Nigeria.

Surely not in the western part.

And please before you decide to start arguing with me pointlessly, Google is your friend.

Am 100% certain all the individual saying "big boys indeed" back then in 1913 would either be slaves or be wearing leaves as clothes.

nepapole:
What made them big abeg? Dey come worwor sef.

The big suit they wore.

In reality, they are not in White and Black. Because some of us are expecting to see DG, Versace, and Gucci...

big worwor boys

5thElement:


Well maybe in the eastern part of Nigeria.

Surely not in the western part.

And please before you decide to start arguing with me pointlessly, Google is your friend.

Ok, so you mean that by 1913, every single person in the west was wearing western clothes, down to those in the innermost rural areas? Just few years after colonialism began? Really, reason it out yourself.

Nowenuse:


Ok, so you mean that by 1913, every single person in the west was wearing western clothes, down to those in the innermost rural areas? Just few years after colonialism began? Really, reason it out yourself.

No. The Yorubas have always had their own clothes.

So you think when the colonizers came they met us n@ked and then gave us their western clothes to wear?

Seriously?

Way before the 18th century every single Yoruba adult was fully clothed and definitely not in European clothes.

Pain:
SOME OF YOU LAUGHING AT THEM, MIGHT ACTUALLY BE THEM. ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED WILL UNDERSTAND

Well said.

Nowenuse:


When he said 'clothes', I think he actually meant 'western clothes'.
Besides, most of those pics you posted showed people from royal families. Many children and the poor masses/commoners and slaves were half naked when the whites came.

You are wrong again. Children may run around n@ked, not for want of clothing.

Adults have always been fully clothed in Yoruba land. You wouldn't see a grown woman tying some strip of clothing to cover her breasts and the tie some mini wrapper to cover her ass.

That's not the Yoruba style of dressing.

5thElement:


No. The Yorubas have always had their own clothes.

So you think when the colonizers came they met us n@ked and then gave us their western clothes to wear?

Seriously?

Way before the 18th century every single Yoruba adult was fully clothed and definitely not in European clothes.

I am not disputing about native clothes. Hausas, nupes, Igalas, Kwararafans, Kanem bornus and many other Nigerians also had native clothes and were well covered before the Europeans arrived.

What I and the other guy were disputing about is western clothes. When did western clothes reach all parts of yoruba land?

Nowenuse:


I am not disputing about native clothes. Hausas, nupes, Igalas, Kwararafans, Kanem bornus and many other Nigerians also had native clothes and were well covered before the Europeans arrived.

What I and the other guy were disputing about is western clothes. When did western clothes reach all parts of yoruba land?

Oh ok. That I can't say for sure. Probably when the missionaries came around and those taken as slaves started returning all garbed in the white man's clothes I guess.

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