ghostwon:


I have always known you to be a fool.

gregyboy:



Mabek ozua


Akowenomhenbe

Ewe( goat)

ghostwon:
What the heck is wrong with you ?
Find better things to do when your menstruation starts working your head.

ghostwon:

gregyboy:


I dont even know who you're

If you are a benin man i dont give a Bleep i owe no benin person or tribe any right or whatsoever

Am here as a benin guy to teach people the true history without any bigotry or entitlement to my tribe


So if you wanna attack my claims dont come with insult alone come with proves then after that you can insult me ....

As for now you made no reasonable comment ...

Even the other tribes had made reasonable comment than you have done

You simply want to turn the thread to benin and yoruba supiority thread ..


Young man your detailing this thread with tribalism this thread his for africans and not edo vs yorubas thread go and do proper research on crops original to the edo people

gregyboy:




Our cultural practice is influnced by the Portuguese 40% our food ,our clothes name it and 60% coming from indigenous benin culture benin may have had 1%/influence on Portuguese or more if only you did your research to find out

it looks like all food crops were imported and foreign to Africans especially west africa so what then did we eat before the arrival of this food crops.....?

ghostwon:
actually you confuse your inferiority complex and your lack of education with antibigotry and education. You have no facts. You are known for contradicting yourself in the same sentence, for attacking Edo people and whenever you are not sure of something you just jump to the most insulting claim against the Edo.

gregyboy:


Big grammers and plenty nonsense

nlPoster:


Could we focus on the question please.


Is there no info about crops indigenous to west Africa?

babasolution:
i read somewere that Africa had a challenge of sustainable foods in ancient times,and that was why we had a challenge developing at the same pace as others.This book guns,germs and steel by p.diamond also explains that.Africa did not have as many naturally occuring edible foods like other regions as we have today which is said contributed to our slow development.

nlPoster:
Palm trees perhaps, although I think coconuts were referred to on the thread as an imported plant, but Yorubas have a name for it, which would imply it's not?

The seeds can be carried by water, so it could have reached Africa in ancient times.

gregyboy:



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

ghostwon:
actually you confuse your inferiority complex and your lack of education with antibigotry and education. You have no facts. You are known for contradicting yourself in the same sentence, for attacking Edo people and whenever you are not sure of something you just jump to the most insulting claim against the Edo.

nlPoster:


Could we focus on the question please.


Is there no info about crops indigenous to west Africa?

letu:
Based on the articles that gregyboy keeps throwing up and down, it means the answer to your question is No, according to gregyboy our lands where only made up of trees, grass and vegetables, this means our ancestors were only eating fruits and vegetables until the coming of whites eg Portuguese, introducing seeds to blacks (west Africa) inwhich they teach blacks eg pre colonia southern Nigeria how to practice farming and also introduce tools needed for farming I guess, to stretch it a little they also introduce blacksmithing, gregyboy write-up/articles are nothing but an Eurocentric view and also gregyboy is a student of Eurocentric school of thought.

ghostwon:
actually you confuse your inferiority complex and your lack of education with antibigotry and education. You have no facts. You are known for contradicting yourself in the same sentence, for attacking Edo people and whenever you are not sure of something you just jump to the most insulting claim against the Edo.

gregyboy:


There is no eurocentrism in my writeup if you're so afrocentrisic then debunk the articles with proves anf not claims

letu:
Based on the articles that gregyboy keeps throwing up and down, it means the answer to your question is No, according to gregyboy our lands where only made up of trees, grass and vegetables, this means our ancestors were only eating fruits and vegetables until the coming of whites eg Portuguese, introducing seeds to blacks (west Africa) inwhich they teach blacks eg pre colonia southern Nigeria how to practice farming and also introduce tools needed for farming I guess, to stretch it a little they also introduce blacksmithing, gregyboy write-up/articles are nothing but an Eurocentric view and also gregyboy is a student of Eurocentric school of thought.

letu:
His a white South African.

letu:
This White South African keeps deceiving tpiar and others that accept what he or she says, I already know that your from a white South African family and it is in the nature of your family history to dispose blacks from what's rightfully belongs to blacks, well you are leaving up to the expectation keep the fire burning, keep disposing them, the so called blacks (some of them) here in Nairaland and also, you keep throwing some articles up and down to support your Eurocentric view well who exactly wrote those articles the same white, your white ancestors who derived pleasure in disposing blacks from things that belongs to blacks, all I can say is that nature runs in the family blood.

agadez007:
Egusi is not a bini food

My sister have stayed in Edo state where they call it Melon and never eguisi or whatever you claim

AreaFada2:


Dude, Benin call Egusi "Ikpogi".

Like in Delta, pidgin & English are widely spoken. So many people can live in Benin or Edo in general and never master Benin (NOT BINI, such doesn't exist Oba's palace has clarified many times) or any Edo language. Just because Benin people use names others are familiar with doesn't mean there is no native name. You are even quoting hearsay from your sister who I can bet doesn't speak Benin language well as a definitive proof.

agadez007:
Good you cleared us on the matter
Yours is Ikpogi not Egusi,case closed

agadez007:
Good you cleared us on the matter
Yours is Ikpogi not Egusi,case closed

AreaFada2:

No Edo person ever claimed Egusi was Edo claim was an Edo name.
Na Una dey claim everything and try dictate to others with is theirs and what's not.

gregyboy:



Are you saying egusi soup is not benin am nof understanding you here

AreaFada2:

Egusi the name is not Benin. Read the post of the person I quoted and posts leading to that.
Benin call it Ikpogi.

Adeba01:


To be fair to you I think it is rather strange and odd for you to be taking the defence of black south africans when they have no love or even warm feelings towards other black africans and have been even killing and discriminating against other black Africans, they justified this by saying that there were criminals and drug peddlers . When in actual fact black africans are trying to make an honest living in that country. As it stands even white countries treat black africans better than black south africans. Goes to show how we are towards one another

South Aftica was actually a lot better under apartheid. It was a lot more orderly and functional

gregyboy:



Then you should make it clesr before you give wrong info unintentionally

Yujin:

For you to sound like this, I'll have to agree that you and gregyboy are birds of a feather. Africa certainly has a history and we were living like every normal community with our natural resources and lacks. Heavily forested regions can certainly not be with enough food to sustain the people. Are you an Afrikaner?