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| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Nobody: 10:51am On Jun 27, 2021 |
Nawa oh, come to think of it. How the fck did the Stonehenge and the pyramids come to be, there weren't pulleys at the time but large stones were lifted over great heights to form these structures, this just makes me feel that there might have been advanced civilisations before mankind or truly there are advanced extra terrestrial beings. |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by BabaIjebuXL(m): 11:31am On Jun 27, 2021 |
SegFault: You're very correct my brother, these questions need answers. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Nobody: 11:37am On Jun 27, 2021 |
BabaIjebuXL:This life is just mysterious, even our consciousness is just so mysterious. 1 Like |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by temitope27(m): 2:44pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
illicit:omo amudasile fi ogun enu pani 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Yewandequeen(f): 2:46pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
SimplyShit:wrong. Ibadan has more of the brown roofs. 1 Like |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by davidnazee: 4:56pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
udede: and ijebu ode becomes Jebu Isalem.. 1 Like |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Emilokoiyawon: 6:08pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
Yoruba lagba...argue with your keyboards. |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 8:39pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
illicit: Heritage, unless you are a miseducated dunce, is never a 'single story', as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie would say. In your heritage are instances of high intelligence and development, as well as instances of human frailties, as is common with all civilizations. U will be surprised that this ur eredo is a mere temple to kill people or castrate them for no fvckng reason If you were not a self-hating air head and a dunce, you would have gone on Google to research the possible reason for the construction, rather than jumping to your negative, self-hating conclusion. We didn't even cross the Atlantic Again, more illiterate, ignorant nonsense. AFRICANS actually pioneered in seafaring, THOUSANDS OF YEARS before white people did. AFRICANS sailed to the Americas as discoverers, traders, educators, religionists, and conquerors, THOUSANDS OF YEARS before the cave dwelling white savages of old did. WHITES are newcomers to civilization. The last race on Earth to be civilized, not the first, as they trained you to believe. Christopher Columbus, who supposedly 'discovered' the Americas, reported in his memoirs that on arrival there, he saw ''BLACK PEOPLE FROM GUINEE'' who used gold-tipped spears, and engaged in trade with the locals. The Emperors of Mali were reported to have sent several THOUSAND ships to the Americas and the new World, many centuries before Columbus. The evidence of this is clearly visible in the hundreds of Olmec heads' relics found all over the Americas, showing powerful African settlers from antiquity.   |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 8:46pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
Until you colonised dunderheads get off your self hating bums, and go and study your African history, and finally learn that it was YOUR ancestors that civilized this world, and that without them, there would be no 'modern world' to speak of today, you will continue being self hating, underachieving, ignorant dolts drowning in inferiority complex and lost in colonialist brainwashing. The Ancient Egyptians.   . . . Lord Lugard's wife, Flora Shaw, was a historian, who knew black history inside out. Flora Shaw's (alias Lady Flora Lugard) book is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of The Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing the detail and descriptive power, and the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that: "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 Ethiopians) 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 tallest, 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 favorites 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, Black Classic Press (1900) |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 9:09pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
When our own invader and colonial 'master' knows and respects your history - respects your ancestors, more than YOU do, you know you are LOST, and are in serious need of self-discovery. |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 9:36pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
This document was penned in Africa by an African scholar, Maiherperi, around 2,500 BC, ie, nearly 2,000 years before anyone in Europe could read or write. Papyrus of Maiherperi  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiherpri ''Maiherpri was buried in a Royal Tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the royal necropolis. The mummy was unwrapped in March 1901, revealing a very dark skin with woolly hair. In Maiherperi's tomb, a papyrus was found depicting him with literally "blackish" skin. The papyrus in question was the Egyptian Book of the Coming Forth By Day, also known as the 'Egyptian Book of the Dead'.'' |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 10:41pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
Funny how threads like this never make Front Page, but we see titles like ''Tonto Dikeh Celebrates Her New Boyriend'' there. |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by macof(m): 11:37pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
Two sides One self hating and ignorant, another overtly centric and pseudohistoric We need to do better as Africans 2 Likes |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by illicit(m): 11:44pm On Jun 27, 2021 |
Rossiminku: Olmec heads are Mesoamerican, read your books I don't want to insult you 1 Like |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 12:38am On Jun 28, 2021 |
illicit: Not only Mesoamerican. They are Martian. That is what colonial brainwashing does to you. You see the image of your ancestor and call it 'Mesoamerican'. Soon you will say the Egyptian relics are Roman. Olmec Heads of clearly African features, dated to 1,600 BC, discovered in the Americas, signifying that Africans sailed the oceans thousands of years before any other people.  "The fame of the ancient Kushites was widespread in ancient history.... 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, Black Classic Press (1900) |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by macof(m): 10:56am On Jun 28, 2021 |
Just incase anyone is reading to learn something... Olmec heads are indeed mesoamerican. The olmec culture existing from 2,500 - 400 BCE in modern day Mexico. We can't steal other people's heritage and cry about ours being stolen 3 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rissamenti: 6:02am On Jul 01, 2021 |
macof: Slave boy talking rubbish. Those photographs you posted DO NOT MATCH THE OLMEC HEADS. Those carved broad, flat noses and thick lips belong to no other race but BLACK AFRICANS. You've been a slave-minded Uncle Tom and a coon for so many years and still refuse to stop hating yourself, assuming you're actually African. How do you explain THIS head? Don't look for something to conveniently display your slave boyness. Explain THIS artefact: |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by RedboneSmith(m): 9:04am On Jul 01, 2021 |
illicit: SMH. And you think African heritage is the only one that has negatives? The Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Aztecs, the Germanic and Celtic tribes, etc, didn't kill people in their temples and elsewhere? And you talk about castration. Lol. Nigga, the few African tribes that did castration learnt it from the Arabs and the Turks. We didn't practise castration historically. We only crossed the Sahara as slaves? Lmao! Some of the Moors who conquered Spain came from West Africa, around the Senegal area. Taharqa came from Sudan conquered Egypt and even threatened Western Asia. . West African scholars taught in the Arab world. You, sir, are ignorant and self-hating. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by davidnazee: 3:47pm On Jul 01, 2021 |
macof: Just like how you and your afonja brothers are trying desperately to steal Edo heritage.. |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by JanSnow: 8:44pm On Jul 01, 2021 |
Rissamenti: The fact that you can't talk like a human being but instead like a bot repeating the same thing and throwing unprovoked insults speaks volumes So it is only Africans that have flat nose and thick lips and it is every African that has flat nose and thick lips? |
| Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by SIRTee15: 2:34am On Jul 04, 2021 |
Some people can be so annoying. Just imagine...someone saying his ancestors had no heritage. The sungbo eredo is the largest continuous city wall ever built in ancient history spanning 160km. More earth was excavated from the rampart than what was used in building the pyramids or great wall of China. Built more than 1000 yrs ago, it's a testament to the early engineering ingenuity/innovation of the then indigenous population. Yet to some people, if it's not a gigantic castle or pyramid...it's not worth celebrating or talking about. Why are black people like this? Those people built what they needed- a defence fortification that proved useful. If they had a need for other monument..probably they will build one. Instead of us to ponder on how they were able to move such volume of earth despite limited modern tools, we asking why they didn't build western like heritage. Is that not modern slavery? And to that guy who said ancient Africans never learnt to read or write...I have nothing to say to u. But just know university existed in west Africa b4 any European country dreamt of establishing one. 1 Like |
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