12 Amazing African Inventions That Changed The World



1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.



3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY.

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the black races of inner Africa whom he called ''Ethiopians'', dwelling south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Ethiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity."


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."

Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed.

He wrote that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says:

"From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians (ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara) have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found.

..The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished. They still continue to be the objects of curiosity and admiration, and the pen of clear-sighted, cautious historians places them in the highest rank of knowledge and civilization."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3025163?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

Before speech, you missed the most important: copulation

I didn't bother reading through because with everything Created African is still behind Antarctica

Una don start to lie again. Keep fooling yourself, if it makes you feel good. But it is hollow though as deep down you yourself can't sell yourself the lie completely.

Rossikk:
12 Amazing African Inventions That Changed The World



1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.



3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY.

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the black races of inner Africa whom he called ''Ethiopians'', dwelling south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Ethiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity."


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."

Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed.

He wrote that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says:

"From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians (ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara) have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found.

..The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished. They still continue to be the objects of curiosity and admiration, and the pen of clear-sighted, cautious historians places them in the highest rank of knowledge and civilization."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3025163?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

This is probably one of the best post l have seen in Nairaland. Very educative and insightful

why do we still use grinding stones and mortar.


tripods and firewood


Africans should have invaded Europe if all this is true not the other way round

illicit:
why do we still use grinding stones and mortar.


tripods and firewood


Africans should have invades Europe if all this is true but the other way round

You don't understand how History works.

Firstly you can ditch the ''if all this is true'' nonsense. If you are not smart enough to see that it IS true, based on the ultra-credible references and first-hand accounts provided with verifiable sources, then you are too dumb to partake of this discussion.

Secondly, there is no such thing as an everlasting human civilization. Civilizations rise and fall, from Egypt to Babylon, from Greece to Rome. From Nubia to the Mali Empire, from the Benin Empire to the Ghana Empire. From the defunct British Empire to the soon to fall US empire (modern Babylon).

Civilizations also rise again in their turn.

Africa's turn to rise again is upon us.

Today 3 of the 5 fastest growing economies on Earth are in Africa.

https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/fastest-growing-economies-in-the-world

The future beckons.

Rossikk:


You don't understand how History works.

Firstly you can ditch the ''if all this is true'' nonsense. If you are not smart enough to see that it IS true, based on the ultra-credible references and first-hand accounts provided with verifiable sources, then you are not smart enough to partake of this discussion.

Second, there is no such thing as an everlasting human civilization. Civilizations rise and fall, from Egypt to Babylon, from Greece to Rome. From the defunct British Empire to the soon to fall US empire (modern Babylon). Ciovilizations also rise again in their turn.

Africa's turn to rise again is upon us.

Today 3 of the 5 fastest growing economies on Earth are in Africa.

https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/fastest-growing-economies-in-the-world

The future beckons.

it's not by grammar.

ask yourself this important question.

Where is Africa today with all the "inventions"

illicit:


it's not by grammar.

ask yourself this important question.

Where is Africa today with all the "inventions"

Why do you have inventions in quote?

Responding like an illiterate is unproductive.

Where Africa is or is not ''today'' has absolutely no bearing on the mighty ACHIEVEMENTS of our forbears which transformed the entire world, including Africa.

Just because YOU and your fellow colonised modern Africans have been conditioned to see nothing in yourselves doesn't obviate the mighty achievements of our ancestors, who civilized the entire world.

Rossikk:


Why do you inventions in quote?

Responding like an illiterate is unproductive.

Where Africa is or is not ''today'' has absolutely no bearing on the mighty ACHIEVEMENTS of our forbears.

do u know what achievement means

I guess the forbears of the Europeans folded their hands and now their children are suffering

illicit:


do u know what achievement means

I should be asking YOU that question. Because you seem to think that inventing a mobile phone or a car is a more important achievement than inventing speech, mathematics, medicine, mining, architecture, seafaring ships, and laws guiding human conduct, among other African breakthroughs.

Rossikk:


I should be asking YOU that question. Because you see to think that building a mobile phone is a more important achievement than inventing speech and laws guiding human conduct.

If oyinbo didn't make the phone how will u pass ur message accross.

Go to the top of a pyramid and scream

Of what practical use is the pyramid. It's just a big grave.

Look at the Eiffel tower in Paris, it's a telecommunication mast for christs sake

illicit:


If oyinbo didn't make the phone how will u pass ur message accross.

Go to the top of a mountain and scream

If Black Africans did not invent speech, mathematics, geometry, mining, metallurgy, iron-smelting, international trade, laws, and architecture, how would ''oyinbo'' see phone to invent?

From their savage caves in the Caucasus mountains of Russia?

Your ignorance is insurmountable. You will continue to bleach your brain and soul until kingdom come and suck up to your masters.

jerseyboy:
Una don start to lie again. Keep fooling yourself, if it makes you feel good. But it is hallow though as deep down you yourself can't sell yourself the lie completely.

Rossikk:


If Black Africans did not invent speech, mathematics, geometry, mining, metallurgy, international trade, laws, architecture, how will ''oyinbo'' see phone to invent?

From their savage caves in the Caucasus mountains of Russia?

What did Africans do with the knowledge


Nothing.

We didn't even make a wheel barrow

illicit:


If oyinbo didn't make the phone how will u pass ur message accross.

Go to the top of a pyramid and scream

Of what practical use is the pyramid. It's just a big grave.

Look at the Eiffel tower in Paris, it's a telecommunication mast for christs sake

Research before typing GARBAGE. Not a single tomb has been found in ANY pyramid of Egypt. They were NOT tombs. There is growing evidence that they were emitters of some form of possibly spiritual energy the knowledge of which has been lost to history.

Your job as an African is to RESEARCH your history, and not glibly accept the history of insignificance hoisted on you by others.

Rossikk:


Why do you have inventions in quote?

Responding like an illiterate is unproductive.

Where Africa is or is not ''today'' has absolutely no bearing on the mighty ACHIEVEMENTS of our forbears which transformed the entire world, including Africa.

Just because YOU and your fellow colonised modern Africans have been conditioned to see nothing in yourselves doesn't obviate the mighty achievements of our ancestors, who civilized the entire world.

Africa civilised the entire world my as.s

same Africa that don't even have medicine for malaria and no polio vaccine yet you say they invented things.

What things

No mechanized farming, just brute strenght

Rossikk:


Research before typing GARBAGE. Not a single tomb has been found in ANY pyramid of Egypt. They were NOT tombs. There is growing evidence that they were emitters of some form of possibly spiritual energy the knowledge of which has been lost to history.

Your job as an African is to RESEARCH your history, and not glibly accept the history of insignificance hoisted on you by others.

You see now

While oyinbo made electricity your ancestors were emitting spiritual energy

who that one help

illicit:


What did Africans do with the knowledge


Nothing.

We didn't even make a wheel barrow

Dude, think like an educated person and not a dunce. The very fact that you can speak and write, and calculate mathematically instead of grunting like an animal is due to AFRICAN INGENUITY.

Is pushing a 'wheelbarrow' more important than being able to talk or read, or write, or calculate?

Just because you are so used to these things doesn't reduce their importance in all our lives.

Inventions are not just about physical objects like ''wheelbarrow'', even though by inventing architecture and seafaring ships, we excelled in that department as well.

More important inventions are the type we cannot see, like mathematics, astronomy, medicine, for which ancient AFRICANS were responsible. Of all the sources and references I posted above, not one is African. So you cannot say we are claiming to be something we are not. It is our students, the whites, who are reminding us that we are their original teachers.

HECK, even Lady Lugard, wife of your former British governor-general, Lord Lugard, had this to say about ancient Africa, being a historian herself:

"When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Africans) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt.

For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come."

"The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favourites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor are full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than at that remote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race."

Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, (1900)

illicit:


You see now

While oyinbo made electricity your ancestors were emitting spiritual energy

who that one help

There is research which DOES suggest the pyramids were electricity conductors: https://news.sky.com/story/great-pyramid-of-giza-can-focus-pockets-of-energy-in-its-chamber-scientists-say-11455429

You would know this if you weren't a conditioned person whose first instinct is to credit ''oyinbo'' with everything worthwhile.

PLUS, even if they were solely spiritual energy related, do you know the extent or value of such facilities as they would have applied in the ancient world?

What if their utilisation helped to end wars and conflict in the past?

What if they actually warded off evil for thousands of years?

They would have been even more valuable than electricity.

There is an awful lot we do not know about our past.

But the worst possible way to investigate that past is from a point of ignorant, conditioned negativity.

Rossikk:


There is research which DOES suggest the pyramids were electricity conductors.

You would know this if you weren't a conditioned person whose first instinct is to credit ''oyinbo'' with everything worthwhile.

PLUS, even if they were solely spiritual energy related, do you know the extent or value of such facilities as they would have applied in the ancient world?

What if their utilisation helped to end wars and conflict in the past?

What if they actually warded off evil for thousands of years?

They would have been even more valuable than electricity.

There is an awful lot we do not know about our past.

But the worst possible way to investigate that past is from a point of ignorant, conditioned negativity.

pyramid ward of evil for years
how exactly

be realistic bro, if u are going to keep on ascribing to spirituality to sustain your argument, I am out

illicit:


pyramid ward of evil for years
how exactly

be realistic bro, if u are going to keep on ascribing to spirituality to sustain your argument, I am out

Pyramidology is a discipline that covers many possible functions of ancient pyramids, including their spiritual properties. Investigate it to know ''how exactly''. I'm no spiritual expert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidology

There was clearly something very significant about pyramids that made ancient people go to such great lengths to build them. The oldest pyramids are found in Nubia (Sudan), followed by Egypt. But there are ancient pyramids built in Asia, South America and other places which indicate that the ancient African settlers in those places felt it important enough to transmit those ideas and technologies to these places. Could they have been power plants? Perhaps. Perhaps they served as BOTH plower plants and spiritual infrastructure. In the ancient world, there was no demarcation between science and the spiritual. The two often converged, and interplayed in building outcomes. Research remains ongoing as we speak.

illicit:


Africa civilised the entire world my as.s

same Africa that don't even have medicine for malaria and no polio vaccine yet you say they invented things.

What things

Did you actually read the original post? You sound like a drunkard.

No mechanized farming, just brute strength

What does this mean? Modern mechanized farming is less than 200 years old, in a world that's been inhabited for 100,000 years minimum.

Whole civilizations rose and thrived without mechanized farming, which is an offshoot of the industrial revolution that began in the late 18th century.

Without African ingenuity over thousands of years prior, there would have been NO industrial revolution, and NO mechanized farming.

EVERYTHING we enjoy in the world today is traceable to the INGENUITY of ancient black Africans.

Okwyjesus:
This is probably one of the best post l have seen in Nairaland. Very educative and insightful

Apt! Despite all these achievements, Africa has been relegated to the back seats in global affairs.

Can the mods push this to the FP, please?

illicit:
why do we still use grinding stones and mortar.


tripods and firewood


Africans should have invaded Europe if all this is true not the other way round

We had/have the skills, they had/have common sense.

illicit:


If oyinbo didn't make the phone how will u pass ur message accross.

Go to the top of a pyramid and scream

Of what practical use is the pyramid. It's just a big grave.

Look at the Eiffel tower in Paris, it's a telecommunication mast for christs sake

Ignorance, With the pyramid comes the world wide theorem given by the Egyptian mathematician called PYTHAGORAS used in construction

Juliearth:



We had/have the skills, they had/have common sense.

Thank u

Rossikk:


Did you actually read the original post? You sound like a drunkard.




What does this mean? Modern mechanized farming is less than 200 years old, in a world that's been inhabited for 100,000 years minimum.

Whole civilizations rose and thrived without mechanized farming, which is an offshoot of the industrial revolution that began in the late 18th century.

Without African ingenuity over thousands of years prior, there would have been NO industrial revolution, and NO mechanized farming.

EVERYTHING we enjoy in the world today is traceable to the INGENUITY of ancient black Africans.

I am sober now.

Without Europe will there be industrial revolution?

Or mechanized farming?

Africa with all this "inventions" was a dark continent.

Hell we didn't even rise against slavery.

All those inventions u mentioned makes no sense to a common African.... It's of no use

What do I care about pyramids/grave sites

I know u trying to make Africans happy with all these tales but it down to the fact that Africans didn't even make a gun despite the fact that they had iron

phemmyfour:
Ignorance, With the pyramid comes the world wide theorem given by the Egyptian mathematician called PYTHAGORAS used in construction

And so Africans used the knowledge to build Bridges, canals, skyscrapers right?

illicit:
why do we still use grinding stones and mortar.


tripods and firewood


Africans should have invaded Europe if all this is true not the other way round

they had guns we innocently relied on juju , they took everything , the way if benin far mightier than the walls of China was destroyed years ago by the British

TheSourcerer:
they had guns we innocently relied on juju , they took everything , the way if benin far mightier than the walls of China was destroyed years ago by the British

We dey fly for night, they built planes

African invention abi Ways Egypt modified the world