CandyOps:
That shii still sounds funny to me. No be only discover na Discovery Channel.

You come person village from Yankee say you discover their river. So all the people wey done de use am since na recover dem recover am. Ode mugoyor

mansakhalifa:


Why do we major so much in the minor as Nigerians??

Is this still an issue?

mansakhalifa:


Why do we major so much in the minor as Nigerians??

Is this still an issue?

GerogeI:



You mean the British map?
Are you aware there are various other map sources. You only choose the most popular due to British indoctrination.

Even the British choose theres due to Roman indoctrination. None of these claims is a Universal truth as being stated.

My own forefathers drew their own maps on sand and tree barks. Who says they have no credit? They called the river Orimili. And passed that information through Oral tales.

olisaEze:


Which map has Orimili on it? Even the one used to divided and create states in Nigeria since 1914 till date doesn’t have it. Abi do the Igalas & Ebiras call it the same name in their tree maps too?

The British fine tuned what the Romans left for them, we on the other hand still haven’t been able to define who a Nigerian is!

BTW the map we’re talking about here is not the one ur forefathers used to describe family land o.

GerogeI:


Ha ha ha.

Are you discrediting my Grandfathers map. Which he drew on a tree? You can't be serious.

All the activities you mentioned are those conducted under British tutelage. That's why you used British map.

Each group has a name for the River, we call it Orimiri. Why then do you think what the British called it is more important than what Igbos, Igalas, Hausas etc called it. At the end they are also a tribe - Anglo Saxons and Scots. In fact we are even more in population

Ademola47:
#FactCheck

Who Actually 'discovered' the River Niger?

It's widely believed that Mungo Park 'discovered' the River Niger.

However, there are some unanswered questions to the 'discovery'.

Firstly, history had it that he 'asked' the locals (villagers) for direction to the river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the river, how come some people directed him there? Have they not been there before him? How can some people direct him to where he wanted to 'discover'?

Secondly, the locals are believed to be bathing, fishing and fetching water from the 'undiscovered' river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the River first, he should be the one to first bath or swim in the river. But this is not so.

Lastly, while some people believe that he discovered the River 'mouth', others believe he discovered it for the British. Why is there no generally accepted direct answer to the question "What did Mungo Park discover"?

kayswag100:
Some of the very rubbish "facts" thrown at us in History classes

Ademola47:
#FactCheck

Who Actually 'discovered' the River Niger?

It's widely believed that Mungo Park 'discovered' the River Niger.

However, there are some unanswered questions to the 'discovery'.

Firstly, history had it that he 'asked' the locals (villagers) for direction to the river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the river, how come some people directed him there? Have they not been there before him? How can some people direct him to where he wanted to 'discover'?

Secondly, the locals are believed to be bathing, fishing and fetching water from the 'undiscovered' river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the River first, he should be the one to first bath or swim in the river. But this is not so.

Lastly, while some people believe that he discovered the River 'mouth', others believe he discovered it for the British. Why is there no generally accepted direct answer to the question "What did Mungo Park discover"?

Fidelismaria:
He was the first non native to discover it.

GerogeI:


Are you not being idiotic?

So God did not know the natives , only Mungo Park. Or the natives are not worth to be human beings in the eyes of God.

Following your Logic, Paul also discovered Rome, since he was the first true Christian to enter that part, so he discovered the land and it's people in the eyes of God for the first time.
How come the former Roman slaves/ colony/savages called Britons did not teach us this truth about the Jewish Paul along with Christianity when they came to forcefully colonize our lands.

Talk of colonial brainwashing- keeping black africa under the table. If the Brits were still here, as usual they will select you to lead the rest of us, as you have shown extra ordinary brilliance.

Munamu:
Nigerians confusing themselves from time immemorial. The narration says Mungo Park embarked on a journey to know where River Niger ends after knowing its source. It is right to say he discovered the river, because at time Africa was a wilderness. There were no road network to ease exploration up North.

Khayceeofficial:
Burna Boy already gave an answer...


They lied to us that mungo discovered River Niger.

was he the first man to tread on the river or walk past it?

I'd say NO!

what bout the locals way back?

pansophist:
If I come to your house, sees your daughter and names her "Amaka", does it mean that I discovered your daughter? Yeah that's what Mungo Park did with river Niger.

If the African Association was the "beginning of the age of African exploration" then Mungo Park was its first successful explorer; he set a standard for all who followed. Park was the first Westerner to have recorded travels in the central portion of the Niger, and through his popular book introduced the public to a vast unexplored continent which influenced future European explorers and colonial ambitions in Africa.

On 26 September 1794 Mungo Park offered his services to the African Association, then looking for a successor to Major Daniel Houghton, who had been sent in 1790 to discover the course of the Niger River and had died in the Sahara. Supported by Sir Joseph Banks, Park was selected.

On 22 May 1795, Park left Portsmouth, England, on the brig Endeavour, a vessel travelling to Gambia to trade for beeswax and ivory.

On 21 June 1795, he reached the Gambia River and ascended it 200 miles (300 km) to a British trading station named Pisania. On 2 December, accompanied by two local guides, he started for the unknown interior. He chose the route crossing the upper Senegal basin and through the semi-desert region of Kaarta. The journey was full of difficulties, and at Ludamar he was imprisoned by a Moorish chief for four months. On 1 July 1796, he escaped, alone and with nothing but his horse and a pocket compass, and on the 21st reached the long-sought Niger River at Ségou, being the first European to do so. He followed the river downstream 80 miles (130 km) to Silla, where he was obliged to turn back, lacking the resources to go further.

On his return journey, begun on 29 July, he took a route more to the south than that originally followed, keeping close to the Niger River as far as Bamako, thus tracing its course for some 300 miles (500 km).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Park_(explorer)

KenModi:














Just like they said one German guy discovered mountain gorillas in East Africa. Upon hearing it, I asked myself, what rubbish story is this; were people were not living near the mountain, what about the local settlements close to the mountain. Heck there may have been even Africans settled and living in those mountains.

We need a total overhaul of our education system in Africa especially the history lessons in order not to continue teaching these junk cooked up by white people to future African generations.

lekki1444:
how is someone born in 1771 the first european to reach the niger ? do you know this world has been here for millions of years ?