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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by rickleye: 9:17pm On Oct 23, 2023
prophetic69:
Ahhhh! Naija why....

Hope our government learns from this great achievement.

What is to learn ? People will begin to doubt or engineers transcript and certificates. They will begin to say ask the university to provide a letter that you attended the school
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by JOemmy(m): 9:20pm On Oct 23, 2023
franchasofficia:
White people deserve to be praised.


Without whites, the world would have been so backward and difficult.


I am black like you, but lets leave sentiment aside and say the truth. White race are a superior race when it comes to creative intelligence, invention, science, technology and leadership, there is nothing bad in saying the truth.


Even in families, siblings are not born with equal wisdom and talent, some are more talented than others even though they were born by same father/mother.



Until we blacks learn to say the truth and begin to address our natural weakpoints that has kept us below par when compared to other races, we will continue to bask in our foolishness in the name of being woke.



I stand on my initial words that without White South Africans, South Africa would have been a very backward, dangerous 4th world country.


Give honor to whom honor is due. Give respect to whom respect is due.


You have a very good point bro don't mind that dude he already knows u are saying the bitter truth but just pretending let him mention the major inventions and great modern cities black people have singlehandedly built.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Ashawoman82: 9:23pm On Oct 23, 2023
Mrtaye:
This one don commot for drone ooo na aircraft be this ......drons are not expected to be this big
it is called a drone because it is controlled remotely, it's not by size..if u can fly an aeroplane remotel then u could call it a drone too
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by AbuAeesha: 9:25pm On Oct 23, 2023
franchasofficia:
You don't have any reasonable argument on Nigeria's leadership mess cum failure.


Agreed the first coup of 1966 was led by an Igbo soldier and it was mainly carried out to purge Nigerian leadership of corruption that marred its performance at that early stage.



Now I ask you, was 1966 Nzeogwu led coup the only coup in Nigeria? Igbos even paid a huge price for that January 1966 coup, so what other nonsense do you have to say?



Why didn't the successive Northern and Yoruba Heads of states and Presidents since 1966 turn things around for good for Nigeria? Instead they keep plunging Nigeria into deeper mess year in year out.

You don't need to include foul words if you really have valid points. 😆

Just being bittered and blaming others won't change anything, CONTEST AND WIN LETS SEE?

That premeditated act of bloodily killing the nation's first indigenous leaders just to attain power by any means is enough curse to bring the nation to its current situation.
Ponder over that.
No hard feelings 🤝

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by JOemmy(m): 9:26pm On Oct 23, 2023
TMKsouth:


How could blacks invent all those things while they were under slavery, colonialism or apartheid? Even now neo-colonialism is at play.

Our time will come but first we need to develop pride and self belief. We wont get there with a defeatist attitude like yours and your kind. What single positive thing do you gain from being a white worshipper and afro-pessimist 🤷🏽‍♂️ Tell me.


Why did you allowed the whites from very distant land to come to subdue and colonize you in ur own land that you have lived in for thausands of years? This only proves that you are inferior race to the white man.
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by caye(m): 9:27pm On Oct 23, 2023
TMKsouth, I have to commend you for even answering the fools talking.
The truth, the bitter truth is that Nigerians are presently the weakest link in Africa's development.
A small number ( I believe) are potentially white power worshippers ( I don't use the word ' suoremacist' as it give them more energy). You can be a yt power worshipper and still have an ebony skin. The most important is the mind.

The minds of these small Nigerians are very small indeed. Very reprobate and useless.
They love Rome and hate Kemet.
They would rather be beggars on the streets of Rome than strive to bring Nubia back to greatness.


I agree with you...eventually they must be eliminated by every means necessary.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Rostikol: 9:29pm On Oct 23, 2023
franchasofficia:
White people deserve to be praised.


Without whites, the world would have been so backward and difficult.


I am black like you, but lets leave sentiment aside and say the truth. White race are a superior race when it comes to creative intelligence, invention, science, technology and leadership, there is nothing bad in saying the truth.


Even in families, siblings are not born with equal wisdom and talent, some are more talented than others even though they were born by same father/mother.



Until we blacks learn to say the truth and begin to address our natural weakpoints that has kept us below par when compared to other races, we will continue to bask in our foolishness in the name of being woke.



I stand on my initial words that without White South Africans, South Africa would have been a very backward, dangerous 4th world country.


Give honor to whom honor is due. Give respect to whom respect is due.


YOU ARE AN IGNORANT SLAVE WHO THINKS THE WORLD JUST BEGAN YESTERDAY.

WITHOUT BLACK AFRICANS THERE WOULD BE NOTHING LIKE A MODERN WORLD TODAY.

ZERO. ZILCH. NOTHING.



TOP 12 AFRICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD CIVILIZATION.

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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
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by ovcwality(m): 9:29pm On Oct 23, 2023
JOemmy:



You have a very good point bro don't mind that dude he already knows u are saying the bitter truth but just pretending let him mention the major inventions and great modern cities black people have singlehandedly built.
Are Nigerians fools or what? Hong Kong was built by British, Chinese learnt and want to be better than them presently, nothing wrong if you learn from someone and get good with time, even white might have been backward at one point than other race, you guys keep repeating same thing every time, instead of concentrating on something better, are we daft in this country or what, black man can't do this can do that, okay they want to learn, problem.......what do you want them to do? you guys are just fools at this point

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Rostikol: 9:30pm On Oct 23, 2023
caye:
TMKsouth, I have to commend you for even answering the fools talking.
The truth, the bitter truth is that Nigerians are presently the weakest link in Africa's development.
A small number ( I believe) are potentially white power worshippers ( I don't use the word ' suoremacist' as it give them more energy). You can be a yt power worshipper and still have an ebony skin. The most important is the mind.

The minds of these small Nigerians are very small indeed. Very reprobate and useless.
They love Rome and hate Kemet.
They would rather be beggars on the streets of Rome than strive to bring Nubia back to greatness.


I agree with you...eventually they must be eliminated by every means necessary.


I absolutely agree with you.

THESE PEOPLE ARE A DISGRACE.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by tnerro1(m): 9:30pm On Oct 23, 2023
But but one country say dem be gaint of Africa 😁😁

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by StarRiderr: 9:34pm On Oct 23, 2023
PARADIZEPRIEST:
naija youth did generator that runs on water, and up till now nobody for naija dey talk about this guy,including socalled busybody press people, both people in govt. and outside govt.
There is no doubt that some so-called elite don't want people to stop paying for fuelling generators angry
IF NA CHINA THIS GUY WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE,THEY WILL PATENT HIS TECH AND PAY HIM OFF AND MASS PRODUCE THIS WATER GENERATOR.
the rich no want the poor to breathe in this country from economic point, they keep suppressing them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZHSehpvbs
Bruh do you know what building up something means it means building up something from the scratch not already made generator some one will go there change the carburetor and start claiming he built a project let us not make caricature of ourselves as a country

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by JOemmy(m): 9:36pm On Oct 23, 2023
ovcwality:

Are Nigerians fools or what? Hong Kong was built by British, Chinese learnt and want to be better than them presently, nothing wrong if you learn from someone and get good with time, even white might have been backward at one point than other race, you guys keep repeating same thing every time, instead of concentrating on something better, are we daft in this country or what, black man can't do this can do that, okay they want to learn, problem.......what do you want them to do? you guys are just fools at this point


Just accept the bitter truth and move on no need for all these unesessary insults it only proves what am saying that we black africans are yet to properly evolve to modern civilized humans.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Rostikol: 9:39pm On Oct 23, 2023
JOemmy:



Just accept the bitter truth and move on no need for all these unesessary insults it only proves what am saying that we black africans are yet to properly evolve to modern civilized humans.

TELL THAT TO YOUR ANCESTORS WHO BUILT THIS WHEN THE WHITES WERE EATING EACH OTHER IN CAVES.

STUPID DUMB ANIMAL YOU.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by oneman2k7: 9:46pm On Oct 23, 2023
IDF and Russian army laughing hysterically.
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by prophetic69(m): 9:47pm On Oct 23, 2023
EXOUSIAng:

Has Proforce died?
Learn to appreciate your own.....
Nigerian companies have been doing better for yes, but another country makes a drone you say we should learn from them.
Does it occur to you that they probably learnt from Nigeria?
How many countries in Africa produces military equipments?
Don't be a slave.
Appreciate your own and respect yourself before will respect you
Either you have family or personal issues....try deal with it first

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Rostikol: 9:49pm On Oct 23, 2023
NUBIAN PYRAMIDS OF SUDAN.

There are more pyramids in SUDAN than in Egypt. These were the world's first SKYSCRAPERS built thousands of years ago by black Africans with advanced mathematics when white people were illiterate savages in the caves of the Caucasus mountains of Russia (hence the term 'Caucasian')


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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by TMKsouth: 9:51pm On Oct 23, 2023
Imagine a whole country (most populated in Africa) priding itself for white worship and afro pessimism. Nigeria is really messed up.

Thanks you all who backed me up and sent positive messages⭐Our continent needs us and not these black white-wannabes who'll never be accepted by whites.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Ajsmart(m): 9:51pm On Oct 23, 2023
White supremacist in black skin spotted grin
franchasofficia:
White people deserve to be praised.


Without whites, the world would have been so backward and difficult.


I am black like you, but lets leave sentiment aside and say the truth. White race are a superior race when it comes to creative intelligence, invention, science, technology and leadership, there is nothing bad in saying the truth.


Even in families, siblings are not born with equal wisdom and talent, some are more talented than others even though they were born by same father/mother.



Until we blacks learn to say the truth and begin to address our natural weakpoints that has kept us below par when compared to other races, we will continue to bask in our foolishness in the name of being woke.



I stand on my initial words that without White South Africans, South Africa would have been a very backward, dangerous 4th world country.


Give honor to whom honor is due. Give respect to whom respect is due.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by iykejohnson(m): 9:52pm On Oct 23, 2023
AbuAeesha:


Sure I agree that white south Africans actually influenced development in SA.

back home here,as u stated since 1966.
Who orchestred the first bloody coup in the country killing majority of the northern and western leaders ??

Who would trust the leadership of this nation in the hands of these pple??

Fortunately, presidency is not an appointment,pple contest and voted for.
Let them Contest and win.
No hard feelings.
Bro, In as much as I like the way you approached this guy comment, but you didn't make a valid point or rather, sorry to say it, you didn't make any point at all

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Ajsmart(m): 9:56pm On Oct 23, 2023
Thanks for educating these ignorant, self-hating bastards who if given a chance will promptly sell their own people into slavery due to their deep-seated inferior complex. These likes were the ones who sold Africans into slavery and assisted the West in perfecting colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Rostikol:



YOU ARE AN IGNORANT SLAVE WHO THINKS THE WORLD JUST BEGAN YESTERDAY.

WITHOUT BLACK AFRICANS THERE WOULD BE NOTHING LIKE A MODERN WORLD TODAY.

ZERO. ZILCH. NOTHING.



TOP 12 AFRICAN CONTRIBUTIONS 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 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

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by JOemmy(m): 9:57pm On Oct 23, 2023
Rostikol:


TELL THAT TO YOUR ANCESTORS WHO BUILT THIS WHEN THE WHITES WERE EATING EACH OTHER IN CAVES.

STUPID DUMB ANIMAL YOU.



This doesn't proves anything no one is even sure who really actually built all those Egyptian pyramids if it were really black africans that built it we would definitely have seen it reflect today but instead black africans still lives like salvages and barbarians who are incapable of putting very simple things together. We can't even manage the huge natural and human resources that's abundantly found in our lands due to the hatred we have for ourselves yet dumb black fools like u will rather prefers to live a lie than accept the bitter truth. Bye

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by ovcwality(m): 9:57pm On Oct 23, 2023
JOemmy:



Just accept the bitter truth and move on no need for all these unesessary insults it only proves what am saying that we black africans are yet to properly evolve to modern civilized humans.
I can do what 99% of white people can do, if you have not evolve, me I don evolve. African was very backward, we are improving daily. Even people better than us then are still struggling now, there is nothing important you can add to any enlightened black person, you guys just want to undermine south Africa everytime like they are the only country white people have stay on, what about all the countries in Asia and america, what they are doing now is what is important not history

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by KingCold: 9:59pm On Oct 23, 2023
Entanglement:
white indigenous south Africa people making the black south Africa proud
While the black indigenous south Africa people are busy engaging in xenophobia, stealing, drinking and infecting others with HIV undecided


Nice one
typical

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Daystar7: 10:00pm On Oct 23, 2023
franchasofficia:
My brother you can spit out all the saliva in your mouth, it doesn't change the truth.



White race have proven to be a superior race with proven facts and track records that the whole world can see and feel.


Blacks are only good in activism and talk talk with no action.


Tell me who invented the internet?
Who invented the mobile phone or computer you are using to bask in your ignorance?
Who invented the aeroplane?
Who invented automobile?
Who invented ship, boats?
who invented Radio, TV?
Who invented formal education?
Who invented gun, bombs?
Who invented industrial machines and industrial revolution?
Who invented fan, airconditioners, electric iron?


Who invented medical equipments and medications saving your lives?


I am tired of typing, enjoy your foolery

They are all Jewish inventions
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by dNortherner(m): 10:04pm On Oct 23, 2023
prophetic69:
Ahhhh! Naija why....

Hope our government learns from this great achievement.
We ain't learn nothing pal, don't expect much from the Nigerian government.
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Rostikol: 10:05pm On Oct 23, 2023
Ajsmart:
Thanks for educating these ignorant, self-hating bastards who if given a chance will promptly sell their own people into slavery due to their deep-seated inferior complex. These likes were the ones who sold Africans into slavery and assisted the West in perfecting colonialism and neo-colonialism.


More than welcome.

These people are so depressingly ignorant of their African contribution to civilization, it is tragic.

The country needs massive reorientation to teach them their African history. Their heads are totally empty. All they see is the modern world, and ''white people'' as the creators of 'civilization'.

Their ignorance stinks to high heavens.

TILL TODAY Europeans celebrate annual festivals where they commemorate their independence from the black African MOORS who ruled Europe from 711 to the 1500s, nearly 800 years.

They wear black face to celebrate.

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by KingCold: 10:06pm On Oct 23, 2023
franchasofficia:
Its typical of mumu South Africans.



I know deep down their evil hearts, they are thankful to white South Africans for the little development South Africa has today, but pride and stupidity will never allow them to speak out.



All they know how to talk is coon that coon this, people that would have been walking about naked if not for the whites. They always make me laugh lol
You are Coons though, Uncle Toms, and have an acute inferiority complex, but it's expected of you Nigerians. You generally act like a remote village seeing a helicopter for the first time

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by toxtimmy: 10:08pm On Oct 23, 2023
This is not a naija problem... It is a black problem... Imagine no white man in the south African team?...

Point is South Africa is where it is because of the white in their system... If you think say na joke ask yourself why white men are not practising xenophobia in South Africa but only black south African men do this shit?

Good luck and congrats to South Africa though for their fit.

prophetic69:
Ahhhh! Naija why....

Hope our government learns from this great achievement.
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by themanderon: 10:08pm On Oct 23, 2023
TMKsouth:


I understand your desperation, clearly Nigeria has no place that comes even close to Sandton despite massive oil wealth 😢😢😢

Here are some super fine places in Royal Bafokeng where u can find the King's white subjects - definitely finer than anything in Nigeria but still a black area.


Royal Bafokeng Is that a tribe in SA? Never heard of them. Are they a subgroup of the known tribes in SA?
Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Minsk24: 10:09pm On Oct 23, 2023
Rostikol:
NUBIAN PYRAMIDS OF SUDAN.

There are more pyramids in SUDAN than in Egypt. These were the world's first SKYSCRAPERS built thousands of years ago by black Africans with advanced mathematics when white people were illiterate savages in the caves of the Caucasus mountains of Russia (hence the term 'Caucasian')


What is your point, the same black people who built the pyramids were conquered by the Europeans ,the greeks, the Romans, who occupied Egypt..the arabs as well...what we are stating is very simple, ur inferiority complex will not allow u to comprehend simple fact, that the White people have been superior since the dawn of Western European expansion...
During the height of ancient Egypt, the Egyptians were the most powerful...times have changed.. accept simple facts and move on...
It doesn't demean u..we can only learn and build ourselves...
At some point, the arabs were very powerful , the had some of the biggest Empire the world had ever seen... innovations in mathematics and science flowed all over the Abbasid caliphate...
The pendulum swung to the Europeans and they have held it and pushed humanity to greater heights....now other races are catching up ,
If u like quote how black people started civilization , the truth be say, black people today are no match for the Europeans, we can only learn and build our civilization to greater heights...every knowledge we will need to build, we will learn from other races and adapt to our own unique thought process, that is how civilizations grow

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Re: SA Unveils Largest Defence Drone Built In Africa (PICS) by Rostikol: 10:10pm On Oct 23, 2023
JOemmy:



This doesn't proves anything no one is even sure who really actually built all those Egyptian pyramids if it were really black africans that built it we would definitely have seen it reflect today but instead black africans still lives like salvages and barbarians who are incapable of putting very simple things together. We can't even manage the huge natural and human resources that's abundantly found in our lands due to the hatred we have for ourselves yet dumb black fools like u will rather prefers to live a lie than accept the bitter truth. Bye


OH, WE ARE VERY VERY SURE WHO BUILT THE PYRAMIDS, YOU SLAVE DONKEY WITH NO BRAIN.

WHY?

BECAUSE THEY LEFT US THEIR IMAGES:










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