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OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Very goods news. Even Americans dey celebrate African cultures yet some Africans want our indigenous cultures to be abolished.

No mind them o. When abroad, the only unique thing you can offer foreigners is your culture. If you try to copy the whites and be like them, there's nothing you can do that they wouldn't have seen before in their country.

However, there are various good aspects of the native cultures an African can package and export to foreign countries.

What intelligent Africans clamor for is the abolishment of the bad aspects of the native cultures, and every culture in the world has its own bad aspects, not only African cultures.

Learn Gravity in Yoruba: https://fb.watch/nlgPC6pPr0/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Great news. Yoruba culture, Isese, keeps growing in leaps and bounds internationally.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
No be lie. "As of June 2020, six of the eleven covid-19 vaccine candidates in early stage human testing were developed by Chinese organisations"...

While other countries were busy developing the vaccine, Africa were interested in pulling funds together to buy the vaccine. E get stage wey e go reach, they will separate the wheat from the chaff. Everything no b la cram la pour just to get "A, FirstClass or Distinction".

In a school like UI, to make first class or second class upper, the code is to get the lecture notes and past questions of the courses from stalites (students in higher levels) and do all assignments (some of those assignments will come out in the tests and exams) and study ahead of the class right from 100 level.

Provided one's foundation is good in the key subjects from secondary school, this is the code to make a first class or 2.1 in that school in the sciences at least. So, basically la cram la pour go work many times.

But if they bring one crazy lecturer that likes to test the understanding of students by setting questions not found in the past questions (using the type asked in exams like Physics GRE and co), most students will fail that course including the brilliant ones.

When I was in school, I had such an experience in my finals. One brilliant lecturer from OAU, who was on sabbatical leave, taught us a course one semester, and he was the type that loved testing student's understanding of concepts and principles.

So, he departed from the norm (of asking questions from past questions and class assignments); most of us failed the course, and only few managed to get 4 point (UI used to operate with 7 points then).

His questions were like Physics GRE and laid an emphasis on application of what he taught us, i.e., he loved testing understanding and application of concepts.

We all hated that man that time. But it was some years after I graduated, I actually understood him and loved his methods.

If we were taught science in the mother tongue then, that understanding and the knack to apply what we were taught (to invent and problem-solve) would come naturally.

No need for la cram la pour.

obainojazz:
Ifa coding back in the days.

Yea, that coding that may look primitive to you was used to establish many towns and cities in Yorubaland. It was also used in molding thousands of past humans in Yorubaland using advanced genetics, mimetics, and a certain kind of Physics.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Some fmr British colonies in Asia don't recognise english as their only official language..like Singapore, Kuwait, Malaysia, Bangladesh & India.

Saudi Arabia, specifically parts of the Arabian peninsula, sef na former British colony. But Arab is the primary language of those Arabs after English.

But if you tell a typical Yoruba or Igbo that Yoruba or Igbo should be their primary language and English secondary, they'd say you're local or a bush man.

This is the view of the majority of Africans, which is why the difference in the intelligence levels of the average Africans and other peoples of the world is clear.

The photo below is such interesting code, what's called "odu" in Yoruba. I'm sure only few Yoruba people here know that "Odu Ifa" means "the code of Ifa" literarily. Ifa was an ancient philosopher, programmer, and scientist who knew tons of codes (odus).

The knowledge of philosophy, science, and programming is indigenous to the Yoruba culture or Isese, just like it's to the Igbo, Ijaw, Ebira, Ibibio, and many other native cultures of Africa.

Endeavor to do science in your mother tongue as the ancestors and forebears did so that your culture and people can develop and meet up with their peers from advanced parts of the world.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Language is a powerful tool.. there is a reason China is deliberately exporting her language & culture outside her borders. For all it popularity & importance in Nigeria, the English language is not our native/indigenous language. Some fmr British colonies in Asia don't recognise english as their only official language..like Singapore, Kuwait, Malaysia, Bangladesh & India. If i see person wey wan translate books to his native language, i go support am.

The English language all these people dey carry for head like say na their native language, how many scientists did they even have some centuries ago? Very few.

The British people had to translate many books of philosophy and science to English language from Latin and Greek, and that was how they started developing science in English, their mother tongue.

Today, English is the primary language of the science world. In the past, it used to be Greek and Latin.

But people here dey antagonize those of us doing the same thing for the native languages of Africa, which the Britons did in the past to develop science in the native culture.

They don't realize that mostly, as an African, you can't do science in English, which you don't even understand well like the Britons (the owners of the language), and understand science to the extent that you'll apply your knowledge to invent things.

It's you when do science and understand it in your mother tongue you can start inventing things.

It's just a fact. Most Africans doing science don't understand it. Even for the first-class and second-class-upper students in universities, most just do "la cram la pour" to pass exams.

Ask them to explain what they learnt after the exams, most can't remember.

It's a fact. How can you apply your knowledge to invent anything if you can't even remember concepts and principles in science after sitting exams?

But if you do science in your mother tongue, you'll be able to remember it well and connect with the concepts and principles at a deeper level.

It's this connection you need to invent things.

The world doesn't really care about how many laws of physics or formulas a person knows if they can't apply their knowledge to invent and solve problems humanity is facing.

The major problem of Africa today is that science isn't developed in the native languages, and this is one reason why the continent is backward and contributes next to nothing to world's development.

Hence, it's of paramount importance for Africans to strive to develop science in their native languages. This will enable Africans to solve myriad problems they face.

The solution to our problems in Africa can't be found by engaging in prayer or sacrifice to a god or worship of a god. It lies in good use of the brain and doing science in our natural languages, the local languages.

The best way to study nature, i.e. do science, is to use that medium of communication that nature has gifted you with: your mother tongue.

A hard-fought victory. Luck was on our side.

Osimhen with a goal. A hat trick won't be bad to shut up his haters. Omo ologo

Lols

Interesting article: https://iai.tv/articles/we-need-new-physics-not-new-particles-auid-2611?_auid=2020&fbclid=IwAR27uPk7eHZah4RL4GqvV8Cgo68fIBU7S0qrTd-yWaxZOqLySis5YwBPs7k

Recently, I took a trip to an African village (name withheld) to do some field research for developing a new physics for certain phenomena of nature. I sought to investigate some old trees and study their properties.

The focus was on some waves emitted by those trees. I had already developed the theoretical models for this, but I needed to do some observation so as to fine-tune the physics.

However, I discovered that in the said village, people worship the trees so this prevented me from getting close to those plants to study them in detail.

If some humans worship or revolve round a person or a tree or an object, there must something special or mysterious about that thing that puts it at the center of their attention.

However, the act of worshipping seemingly mysterious people or things, instead of studying and exposing them to scientific scrutiny, presents a huge impediment to scientific research.

There's actually a new physics in some objects in these shrines, such as those built around some trees in different parts of Africa and the Kabbah, the stone Muslims circumambulate in their shrine at Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Based on my preliminary research, that stone is a mysterious object and has some interesting new physics.

But religion won't allow the Arabs to study it and expose it to scientific scrutiny and make some discoveries to aid science.

Hmmm

popizaino:
Will you also have your company's report in yoruba language?

If Yoruba is allowed as a means of communication in the company, why not? There are some official documents done in multiple languages, including the local languages, in Nigerian companies/organizations.

Osimhen don vex. Maybe there's more to the story

Greatswimmer:
It is already after 10(ten) don't you have work to do today ?

I just say make I ask ni oo

Na you be my PA or timekeeper? Lols, it's none of your business.

Some people's careers will be shot to stardom starting next week.

akwesenana:
You no dey waste time sha.

Abi o, it's good you know.

Nairaland, the home of dolts

DissTroy:
Nice. But this was you referencing Wikipedia in a heated debate less than 24 months ago.



So referencing Wikipedia is only valid when it favours your line of argument? Contradictory much?

Nothing contradictory there. The definition of cloud seeding stated in that Wikipedia post is the same you'll find in a standard dictionary and many other reputable sources. Mumu

You use Wikipedia when what you say is backed by other credible sources. Not using a spurious source on Wikipedia to call a people, which most of them can't speak and write correctly in English language, English.

The English people of Nigeria wey dey sit IELTS and TOEFL to relocate or study in English-speaking countries. Lols, but let's accept it because the spurious source on Wikipedia says so.

He brought a Wikipedia post to show Nigerians are English, awon set English people of Nigeria

People frown at the use of Wikipedia as evidence if what it says is not corroborated by other credible sources. How would you be using Wikipedia to prove that Nigerians are English?

Even your claim is odd and so unreasonable because most Nigerians can't speak and write in English correctly.

If you're using Wikipedia, your statement must be backed by other credible sources. Simple.

Saying German is the native language of Einstein is a claim? Lols, see people wey call themselves graduates o Nairaland no go kill me with laugh

All the popular books and big sites calling Einstein a German are all wrong then. Lols

The English people of Nigeria. What an odd thing to hear!

He dug a post where I discussed the age of the Universe and related things and cited Wikipedia. All what I said there can be found in popular books and sites on Physics.

That means everything was corroborated by multiple credible sources, not merely relying on Wikipedia to say Nigerians are English people, yet most of them can't speak and write in the language correctly.

The English people for Nigeria, check their written English for here, you go get migraine from serious gbagauns immediately

If you hear them speak the language, e go be like dem dey speak Igbo or Yoruba English dem no sabi, their native language (local language) sef dem no even sabi that one too well.

These idiots sef can't speak English correctly. But they're English. Lols, according to the spurious source from Wikipedia.

You posted a Wikipedia source to claim that Nigerians are English people. How are Nigerians English? Some people mumu sha

akwesenana:
Bants aside, I have deep respect for you. But the truth is that you're a FRAUD.

You must be silly to think I give a damn about your respect. I made statements from Wikipedia which are backed by authorative sources in multiple papers and books, you dey yarn nonsense.