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Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by googi: 5:53pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
One has to wonder if this generation is as messed up as the generation that exchange gold for mirrors. No wonder Nigerians claim they are from Israel and Egypt. Didn't you guys learn anything that Africa is the origin of plants and animals to the New World? You think those who left Sudan for Egypt and Mesopotamia left without plants and animals? Only God of Israel and Mecca can solve your mumurism. Now when this guy discuss anything, I now realize his frame of mind. 1 Like |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by tpiar: 5:55pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
Didn't you guys learn anything that Africa is the origin of plants and animals to the New World? details? |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by googi: 7:33pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by gregyboy(m): 7:47pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
sassysure: Plaintains i think were original to west africa the benins called banana the white men plamtain when they saw it The britsh were amazed when benin offered them plaintain and they wrote about it , Food crops had been shared all rouns the world even Europeans are not left out The issue is not documentation alone the issue we lack the zeal to research to explore our past and future , Youre inquisitive now and wonder which crops africa had before the arrival of historian then go and do research and write articles about your findings |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by gregyboy(m): 8:02pm On Feb 11, 2020 |
googi: Mere claims Our forest are made of tall trees and varieties of vegetables But most food crops ventured into africa by contact with the europeans those tales of africa as an acient civilization holds no water on this article People migrated into uninhabited lands were they meet food crops. They necessarily dont always go with food crops to plant because before thier arrival the plant may have died along the way they would usual go with abundant food supply Even European are not left out if you read the articles you would see the benins introduced plaintain to Britain ,probably it didnt grow in thier region thats why you dont see it in Britain today Do you still wonder why most europeans eat leaves(vegetables) because they were just like africans who really had no food crops but dwell on vegetables all food crips in european countries and even america are imported till today becuse thier vegetation cant grow th The Portuguese on the other hand bought all this food crops from asia and traded them around the world for money , the Portuguese happen to lived in an environment that suported the growth of this crops ( Mediterranean region) The crops were mostly brought from asia and south america especially brazil Little wonder why the asian population grew becausr of abudant of food crops Thank you 1 Like |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by tpiar: 11:21am On Feb 12, 2020 |
By plantain are you referring to the tropical fruit eaten in Africa or the following : https://wildplantguide.com/foraging-plantain-herbs/ |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by babasolution: 2:44pm On Feb 12, 2020 |
gregyboy: oga you dont know anything,no region or culture that wasnt influenced by others,even the portugese were influenced by the moors and arabs.No culture is purely original |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by tpiar: 4:05pm On Feb 12, 2020 |
As per the misinformations, is there any point countering them? I'm not sure who they're meant for. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by theDEVILisHERE: 6:29pm On Feb 13, 2020 |
gregyboy: Utter nonsense u indeed are a whitemans slave Your lack of knowledge is horrific Enlightening ur type is a waste of time cause u have been brainwashed If 90℅ of history u read is from the bleached beings (non blacks) know that u have been brainwashed 3 Likes |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by theDEVILisHERE: 6:35pm On Feb 13, 2020 |
@topic Throw that white man trash into the Dustin Go to ur village meet ur griots or Dibia/priests and learn ur true history Father doesn't learn his history from his children it's the other way round 1 Like |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Rossinky: 12:35am On Feb 14, 2020 |
HallaDaTruth: Only one source of carbs... |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Rossinky: 1:01am On Feb 14, 2020 |
babasolution: As far back as 40,000 years ago, ancient Africans were building ships. The main reason Africans did not fully develop their seafaring in recent centuries in comparison to Europe was the absence of specific types of trees, tall and sturdy enough to build larger ship hulls, unlike what was commonly available in Europe and the US. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by tpiar: 1:38am On Feb 14, 2020 |
Really? Yorubas have a (often debated) link to ancient Phoenicia though. In addition, almost everywhere in the world built ships, not only Europe and the US. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Originalsly: 5:57am On Feb 14, 2020 |
gregyboy: ..... and you went on to make reference of Columbus's discoveries. Bro.... common sense.... how can you discover something if you were not the first there? No man ever.... was at the beginning nor end of the River Niger?... until Mungo Park?... did he discover/explore the upper Niger River? And how can Columbus discover lands that were already inhabited? What does your common sense tell you? @ topic. I think we are getting mixed up with what were the native crops of Africa. No doubt.... most places have crops and animals that were foreign to those areas and imported from others. Palm now dominates Malaysia.... but that doesn't make it a native/original crop. As far as planting crops as we know it today.... that was not the African way of life. So does that mean they never ate plant based foods? Why would one even think that pretty much tropical Africa had no plants to feed the people..... until the Europeans came? We have a serious inferiority complex problem and don't even know. 1 Like |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by tpiar: 7:44am On Feb 14, 2020 |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by gregyboy(m): 11:47am On Feb 14, 2020 |
Originalsly: You don't discover something by just sight alone, discoveries are given credit to if you write what you saw and document it... This has been a tradition that has been applied since ages to encourage people to write down things they have encounteres It is not just applying to africans alone but to the world |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Originalsly: 12:01pm On Feb 14, 2020 |
gregyboy: Are you saying you can't discover unless you document? So seeing that Africans are more from an oral tradition then it is for the Europeans to discover about everything in Africa period? Has Aso Rock been discovered as yet? To document is not the same as to discover. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by gregyboy(m): 2:48pm On Feb 14, 2020 |
Originalsly: There ia no how you're putting africans never discovered the river , Africans only had seen the river they never never knew anything about the river than just the spot they fetched the water from Columbus had written about america in europe and was acknowledged to the man who discovered america ,and americans didnt fight ,that didnt mean people had not seen america before the arrival of columbus he only was given the recognition because he wrote about it Africanus the man who discovered africa was names after africa |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by googi: 4:13pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
Greyboy, You and your Yoruba Oba that falsified Benin history for acceptance, need to go deeper into local history. Even some Yoruba do not know the difference between Akalamagbo and Akannamagbo. Akalamagbo is a bird. Akannamagbo is a yam that never fails to grow yearly. If it is not planted, it grows like roots on its own. So is cocoayam. But I can understand your fascination with Portuguese writers because they came in contact with Benin. As many people educated you, any European or foreigners that came in contact with the Zulu or Massai first does not mean they established the first civilization in Africa. Your over reliance on foreign writers flawed your judgement. Do more research with African writings from Senegal to Sudan to Ethiopia. Even your own Nsibidi by the Ekoid adopted by Efik, Ibibio and now claimed by their neighbors will give more insight than the writings of foreigners that saw you as economic tools in their plantations. Africa has many food and different yams indigenous to the land. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 8:17pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
googi: Who falsified what ? Precolonial maps of Benin empire: These precolonial maps contradict your unsubstantiated and hate filled claim: Some of the maps: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b77595185.r=Benin?rk=21459;2 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759521n.r=Benin?rk=21459;2 An other map of Benin made in the 17th century once again: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530530714.r=Benin?rk=214593;2 An other map of Benin from the 17th century: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8595583b.r=Benin?rk=193134;0 This one date to the 19th century: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b846939 |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 8:22pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
The Yoruba have no history. The name Yoruba came about late in the 18th century. The name Benin was already writtent down in 1485. It is weird that a Yoruba would claim the king of Benin falsified Benin history. What exactly made you Yoruba the barometer of truth and the custodians of other People's history ? You keep calling the Oba of Benin a "Yoruba Oba" even though the Oba of Benin has always denied that claim and you are yet to provide any proof of that claim. In the precolonial era, non of your chiefs answered the title Oba, not even in the early colonial era. They all answered "sir" in the early colonial era because they sought recognition from Britain, when it was clear Britain would live our shores your chiefs started copying the title Oba which belongs to the Oba of Benin. There is no such thing as Yoruba Oba, there is only the Oba of Benin and he is not a Yoruba. googi: I just hope you know a huge chunk of the Yoruba descend from American slaves liberated and dumped into our shores. Those are the people who rewrote their "history" for acceptance. Most of you yoruba are not from this part of the continent ! You created the Yoruba tribe as a means to acceptance, you made up stories and told many other lies. You even recently tried to claim Igbos migrated from ife. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by googi: 9:24pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
Can you quote from his reverse Ife or Ugbo (if you do like Yoruba) where the Oba Binin translated Benin or the meaning of his name and why Oba Ile-Ibinu left Benin and install his son after wipping Ogiso into submission. Can you quote from his book why the land is leased to him, made Palace language Yoruba, sorry Ife and why the head of your Oba was buried in Ife. While at it why you worship Yoruba gods of Ogun, Oya, Sango etc. I know that next week you will open another thread to deny you were Ogiso turned to the sword bearers and slaves of Yoruba (sorry Ife). |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:28pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
googi:never happened |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:31pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
googi:this question doesn't even make sense, so basically, I should adhere to your claims in order to prove you wrong ? |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:34pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
googi: It seems all you have in your head are fairytales. Let me help your deluded slave descendent mind: oduduwa, oranmiyan, ogiso, Igodomigodo are fairytales like that of Hercules or father Christmas. Your ooni claiming oduduwa came from the sky with an iron chain should have tipped you off. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:40pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
googi:wouldn't your time be best served by proving your claims rather than playing theatrics ? Nothing you say is logical ! |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:44pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
Arguing with Yoruba feels a lot like arguing with toddlers. Logics are just not natural to yorubas. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:56pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
gregyboy:So now we can all just start making up statistics ? What the heck is wrong with you ? Find better things to do when your menstruation starts working your head. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 9:58pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
gregyboy: I have always known you to be a fool. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by googi: 10:42pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
ghostwon: Wait O! So your Yoruba Oba that tried to reverse history was made making all these up. Only what foreigners wrote about you is true. Pity! |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 10:55pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
googi:Actually it was an ooni of ife and awolowo who made up oduduwa. Also, it is not about "what foreigners said". It is about what eyewitnesses said ! Given that it is a fact we did not witness our ancestors but people who met them wrote down what they saw ! Those are eyewitness accounts. In other words, history ! By the way, if I recall, it was the ooni of ife who recently claimed Igbos migrated from ife, an other lie. He also claimed Yoruba had artefacts several thousand years old, an other lie. He claimed an ooni of ife lived 400 years, yet an other lie...the list goes on. |
Re: What Were The Original Food Crops In Africa by Nobody: 11:16pm On Feb 16, 2020 |
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