Vulturereloaded:
Dear Seun,

Most times we complain of racism and how the whiteman took us as slaves for many years to build their land.

But we often forget that we as blacks played significant roles in the success of the slave trade.

I hear Nigerians still blaming the whites for the failure in Africa. But i always tell them that the blackman is 100% responsible for our failures. Our wickedness is in our blood.

We asked for independence in Nigeria, the whites left, and we took control of our destiny.

Less than a decade later, we began to loot our resource and run after the whiteman. I ask, is the whiteman also the reason we loot and move our resources abroad?

We wonder why the blacks are still poor and suffering even in America with all the opportunities.

We wonder why both our politicians and celebs prefer to spend billions on luxury foreign brands, than ours.

The truth is that we blacks recognise that the blackman is wicked and can't trust ourselves.

The whites came up with the programing languages and made most open source, so that people from all over the world can use to create programs.

We wonder why Africans can't have sites or Apps like Instagram, facebook, twitter that the whole world will come to use.

While the whites in tech are thinking broadly and globally, on how they can reach the world through technology, the blackman is thinking so small.

Narrowing the scope of their capacity to units as small as their ethnic group.

Africans, Arabs, Asian, indians etc are all comfortable on Facebook, twitter etc, because they trust the principles and integrity of the whiteman.

Can the same be said of Nairaland?

How will the world come to Nairaland that is limited to the yoruba ethnic group, in African country, in west Africa.

Where the leadership of platform sees it as a tool to pursue a yoruba agenda in Nigeria, while pretending to a libral discussion board.

Will seun swear that he is not aware that the moderators of this website have been making modifications to favour the politcal interest of Bola Tinubu?

Actions like deleting threads that expose Tinubu and the moderators?

This act is still the reason the blackman cannot compete with the whites on the international stage.

Because while the whites are thinking of century's away, and acting based on the future, the blackman is ready to sacrifice their integrity and reputation for an election that will hold in 5 months.

So after the platform is sold to tinubu and he wins, then what next?

After Tinubu presidency for 8 years, what next?

After Tinubu leaves this world, what next?

Will you hope to stand on the same stage with the likes of mark Zuckerberg, steve jobs, bill Gates, elon musk etc, when you have sold your integrity over an election in a 3rd world underdeveloped country?

Threads can be hiden and deleted from your server, but along with any thread that is deleted, goes your integrity and reputation.

This is why the blackman remains backward and inferior to the whites. Before you blame your ancestors for the mistakes of slavery, know it today that you have chosen the same path today.

Since the integrity and core values that form the foundation of this platform have been eroded by ethnocentric agenda's and political affiliation, its time to take a break .

May God deliver the blackman from our selfish limitations.

OnionBandit:
These sit-@-home urchins are a curse to this country, aswearugad.

You can't always have your way. Seun has even tried to have condoned so much nonsense from you lots. He has given you a platform to always yap your nonsense but you have a problem with him giving others same platform to air their views.

Wetin sef? E no dey tire Una? Even before the birth of this country, you guys are always complaining about others while you see nothing wrong in all you do. Is it not hightime you knew something is wrong with you all.

Seun is digital Tinubu. Tinubu gave you enough room to swing a cat in Lagos while osewa has given you same online..but it is always your hosts you have problem with. These guys are being too soft with you guys aswear.

If you are not okay with what graces the FP of Nairaland, go ahead and create your own BeerFraland so you can broadcast all sorts of fake news and hype all the drug lords from your region.

Midastorch:
Why are the igbos always quick to complain about everything Go to to Kano state they are given freehand to go on with their businesses without problems, the same thing in Lagos... On the digital world, they are still complaining.. Seun is just going about doing his job by creating a platform if you feel you can do better create your own and stop crying over the internet... #KMT

LeoDeKing:
This is just how they are wired.

They prefer seun allow only them to air their views on nairaland and deny others same opportunity.

Funny enough, the tribe they want to deny same opportunity happens to be where seun come from.

Regarding the issue of Tinubu's 2013 cycling posted and moved to front page, is it not the same nairaland that moved a contrary thread to FP?

Seun is damn too soft on these people I swear. Two pro Tinubu threads get to front page, they create multiple topics insulting the seun and his mods, but a day 10 pro Obi threads grace same FP, they go about tagging Tinubu's supporters to come see how they are celebrating.

What they want is seun should ban all pro Tinubu threads, move all anti Tinubu's thread to FP. Similarly, any pro Obi thread, whether fake or true should just grace FP while any topic against Obi should be deleted.

I no blame una, na seun get all the blame.

udele1:


I am glad you said they are given freehand and not free land. Because They paid for every single space they reside, so how do you sell to them, take their money, use it to solve your problem, and come back to to complain?

omenka:
That tribe has a natural tendency for tyrant and domination. Anything they can't dominate, they rather ruin or kill it.

It runs in their blood.

Midastorch:
Why are the igbos always quick to complain about everything Go to to Kano state they are given freehand to go on with their businesses without problems, the same thing in Lagos... On the digital world, they are still complaining.. Seun is just going about doing his job by creating a platform if you feel you can do better create your own and stop crying over the internet... #KMT

Midastorch:


What is the population of Hausa or Yoruba people in Ariara market, Onitsha main market and other markets in Igboland?? Non indigenes even have problems in your states... People welcome you with open arms but you don't reciprocate same, rather to5u complain about your hosts... You lot need to change

SmartPolician:
I used to work with an Indian boss in a soap-making company. After working in Nigeria for so long, he formed his ideology about black people.

He told us that the day God shared boobs and dicks, the black man was the first to show up. However, the day God shared brains, the black man was absent. That's why the black man is brainless.

There are three major classification of human race - Caucasians, Asians and blacks. In the categorization of common sense, it comes in that order. I have come to the conclusion that some black people are lesser humans, including the so-called educated folks.

OnionBandit:
These sit-@-home urchins are a curse to this country, aswearugad.

You can't always have your way. Seun has even tried to have condoned so much nonsense from you lots. He has given you a platform to always yap your nonsense but you have a problem with him giving others same platform to air their views.

Wetin sef? E no dey tire Una? Even before the birth of this country, you guys are always complaining about others while you see nothing wrong in all you do. Is it not hightime you knew something is wrong with you all.

Seun is digital Tinubu. Tinubu gave you enough room to do all you want in Lagos without restriction while osewa has given you same online..but it is always your hosts you have problem with. These guys are being too soft with you guys aswear.

If you are not okay with what graces the FP of Nairaland, go ahead and create your own BeerFraland so you can broadcast all sorts of fake news and hype all the drug lords from your region.

Nonsense!

omenka:
That tribe has a natural tendency for tyrant and domination. Anything they can't dominate, they rather ruin or kill it.

It runs in their blood.

michelz:

You reason like an imbe*cile.
What do you mean by " they are given freehand..."?
Don't the Igbos, as Nigerians, pay taxes and pay for the shops they rent?
Are there no northerners or Swesterners doing their businesses freely and peacefully in SE without intimidation?
You're obviously poorly educated.

udele1:


Have u tried paying for a shop in any of those markets and you were rejected? Have I tried paying buying property in that area and you were refused.

Did u welcome them with open arms or their money?

michelz:

Did you not fight and kill many of these people that you so much despise to force them to be in the same country with you? It's one Nigeria, and the Sit-at-home people will keep on trooping to your lands in droves and buying up properties, and guess what?
There's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Quintopia:


YOU ARE A BASTARD. YOU AND THE ANIMAL THAT STARTED THIS DISGUSTING, FILTHY, NASTY, RACIST, ANTI-AFRICAN, ANTI-BLACK THREAD.

WE REJECT YOUR RACIST GARBAGE, YOU DEMONIC ENTITY.

YOUR RACIST INDIAN BOSS CALLED YOU A SUBHUMAN TO YOUR FACE AND YOU APPLAUDED HIM.

THAT SHOWS YOUR TRAGIC LEVEL OF DEPRAVED, DEGENERATE SELF HATE, AND YOU NEED SERIOUS, COMPREHENSIVE THERAPY TO CURE YOUR SICK HEAD.

THE WHOLE WORLD OWES ITS CIVILIZATION TO BLACK AFRICA.

WITHOUT BLACK AFRICANS, THERE WOULD BE NO WORLD CIVILIZATION TO SPEAK OF TODAY.


12 Amazing African Inventions and Innovations That Led To World Civilization



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 for reasons that remain mysterious to modern knowledge. The size and simple design show the high skill level of African 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 ''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honour 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 Aithiopians 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 thinks 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."

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


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

Midastorch:


The shops that are not enough for you lots The shops that you'll levy non indigenes higher than indigent businessmen Forget it, you guys should just change

GREATIGBOMAN:



I am
Pro Obi

But thank u so much for educating that brain dead mentally defeated orangutan who belongs in a cage in Asia