I found this online this evening on my FB timeline, and it struck my heart, I reminded of my mama, even when the cash flow aint consistent or not even coming through as expect yet she manage to feed us regardless of how little it was she still made sure every one had their share,.....I bless God for her #wisdom....what you say....I love my mama

it best if he return the money...

Actually, these stylized features are not synonymous to the Nok sculpture alone, I ve rrasons to believe that this art belong to Africa at large not just the Nok culture area...

Onegai:


It depends on the era and the origin. For the Bini ones, it was probably naturalistic because Bini people tended to value those markings as signs of beauty. They would use a broken edge of a calabash to scrape their skin. That motif is now replicated on modern traditional menswear/attire in Bini culture (by order of the Oba).

.....the extanct royal chiefs of benin still ve this marks on their face...so let me ask, if the ethnic marks were detailed on them, what do you think of the line drawn vertically along the ori olokun bronze heads from ife, are they ethnic striations or crown fringes made with beads which is covering the kings face...? Seems the people today dnt ve these marks

itstpia1:




in addition, nok art places emphasis on straight facial lines.

the jaw is clearly defined and almost always triangular.

not sure if this is supposed to depict eloquence or something else.

some nok sculptures also have an aura of calm, occasionally the figures are looking down and in a reflective (pensive) mood.

eg:




** not sure of the date for this terracotta**

...terracottas are said to have dated as early as 4000bc even more, the ones from jos plateau is older

To a german or russian, humility is deceit,but ama Nigerian and my faith + ethnicity preaches humility and it awesome so id say it worth it....and real, not just in d mind of God, I cn behold it...

This is too long....I have just three words #study. #pray,#focus.....that all....no shortcut....

What more can one say...when the elders themsleves are the orchestrator of violence, and I am disappointed in this so called lawyer, when you trybto explore the constitution to cause social conflict I call the HIGH TREASON, biafran will not agree if any other community were in their shoes....I see their agitation as been questionable and should not b granted....great men from the East making it big see even their biafran brothers as peace violator and wont support them....the young biafrans are too lazy to work and the old are to jealous of men in their age bracket making it and the politicians are power mongers...

Yorubas are the check and balance that holds the two side (north and south) you know we cannot all go on rampage at about same time, it result might be dastardly.....you dnt want things fallin apart....I will take the journalist words as an appraisal and a light tower to other ethnic society

Rapmoney:
As the name implies, 'white wedding' is a cultural way of getting married in the western world. Why do Africans now see it as superior to the normal African cultural marriage where two families meet and dowry is paid? Of what sense does it make to do African traditional marriage and still crown it all with this so-called annoying white wedding? Must we Africans wear those ill-fitting suits and gowns to prove that we have now been married? I personally think Africans are relegating their culture to the background and promoting the white man's culture!

I overheard a colleague of mine at work telling someone that it is a sin to sleep with your 'wife' if the white wedding is not done, even though the dowry has been paid. To me, that is the highest level of cultural inferiority and slavery!!! Are we saying tbghat our cultural marriage is not sufficient? That it must be completed by white wedding?

Our women are not helping matters because they are the most significant agents of cultural slavery. With so much artificial stuffs on them-fake hair(Brazilian, Indian, Peruvian, Venezuelan, Colombian etc), fake eye-lashes, fake nails, fake names, etc, none would want to be married only in our traditional way. Tell a naija girl that you would want only a trad and see the speed she go take leave you. Even the speed of a Bugatti Veron dey learn.

White wedding, over the years, has been erroneously seen by many Africans (Nigerians) as a Christian practice. If truth be told, white wedding has nothing to do with Christianity. All the marriages that are recorded in the Bible were done in the trad way...from Genesis to Revelation. Even the one Jesus attended and performed His first miracle was done in the Jewish trad way. Jesus never went there as a bishop, pastor, etc to officiate the marriage. He went as every other guests.

We need to promote our culture because the whites do not marry in our own way. This reminds me of Mr Okadu and Mr Tsiba, characters in Kobina Sekyi's 'The Blinkard'.

White wedding is useless and irrelevant in our culture. It makes mockery of us.

Lets discuss this monster eating the brains of our people? Thanks.

......some have failed to see knowledge in what the poster had taken his time to type, it is something that worries him and he wants us to reason upon. But ignorance and anonymity had hindered so many, to see the bright side of the topic rather the talk about something else....I believe modernization is a real deal and the issue with marriage in africa today requires critical thinking, goes beyond social media....thanks

Onegai:
Please don't exactly believe all Wikipedia tells you, as I've seen western "experts" get it wrong, yet publish it till it's believed.
I collect antique Nigerian art and try to do research on my buys, as well as being an artist. The stylizations are our mark, just as lack of Western Perspective is the mark of most Asian art.
The stylization was to give emphasis onto what we would now call the Focal point, of the piece. Please take a look at some of my pictures below to see this. This yoruba statue of a warrior and his horse, depicts the warrior as twice the size of the horse, because he is the focal point. In most yoruba statues, the faces resemble the bone structure of yoruba people (wide cheekbones, short noses, tribal marks). Same with Bini statues (I'll post my collection later). www.alizarene..com

...I so concur,but I will like to ask you this, are the striation (ethic mark) are the naturalistic or stylized?...

I agree with you, consequent observation of the past artistic works of african artist is genuine, the ori olokun head that was used in the past by the people of ife and benin. during the corronattion of a new king at benin, a naturalistic head is been sent for from ile ife until igoega was sent to ife to learn the work, the head is percieved as the presence and approval of the king. Igoega,s family in benin city till today still make naturalistic art in metal..Artists are commissioned to create their portrait, u see the benin royal plaques, not stylised...I call them lovies,#photography in africa even before the modern day camera advent.

let me help some dog head Nigerians who maybe probably because they have been privileged to travel outside the shores of this nation to other part of the world and have arrived and with nebulous and unflattering words about Africa, as a student of culture, I have come to realise that even the so called Europeans and Arabians appraise the ingenuity of the Africans, leo frobenius in the year1910 described Ile-ife as a colony of Greece which he appraised as the lost city of Atlantis, due to his obsession and he weakness to fleeting fingers he stole the ori oloko bronze head, (a prophet is not respected by his own people), most of the benin art that were carted away by the British army during the 1798 match over, are still there, our works were return in replica while the original that proves our ingenuity in the art of metallurgy are kept in their flashy museum as they generate millions. Our father's hard labour(art) are flung around the world across oceans, the Igbo ukwu pot was stolen in Ibadan and in less that 72hours arrived art Belgium, please tell how did the work of a primitive society get there, be reminded, we are the sole decorator of our very own values, when you take them out in public and call them trash, fetish and so on, I bet the people that really know their values will come for this invaluables, just wait and see...I AM AN AFRICAN AND AM PROUD OF MY ANCESTOR'S ARTISTIC SKILLS...Some spend lots of hours examining the Picasso art work and they rubbish the art of their own, they failed to observe the originality of the art, rather they clamour for the stylistic art in which the artist himself made from the sole inspiration of African Art..

undiplomatic?, I wonder what you would have said if he had lied and made up rubbish story about happenings, I know you wouldn't accept him now but time will tell...c'mon people...dnt preach diplomacy, it not innocent...

CaaseStudy:
3/10

Coudnt give a straight forward answer all through.
I think he needs to do some sacking cause he wasnt abreast with the happenings in his government and had little grounding on the economy and forex issues. We are used to his inarticulate nature of speaking but little knowledge of his government workings is a no no.

I also think he was too rash and undiplomatic with his replies to the Igbo marginalization issue and the question on kanu was emotionally and poorly answered. He still cuts a dictatorial image and needs to work on that. MHO

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