sunch:

oooooooh, i vexed anytime i see this thread. Shey na only bini dey edo, wey una dey dubb vernacular like say,
anyway sha una language na edo, while mine na etsako. abeg make una carri waka

snowdrops:

You mean tomorrow

PhysicsMHD:

Amazonia, these are the kind of Olokun symbols I'm familiar with:





The first picture is from the book The Art of Benin by Paula Ben-Amos

The second picture is from the article "The Initiation of a Priestess: Performance and Imagery in Olokun Ritual" by Joseph Nevadomsky and Norma Rosen


So you're definitely right about it being written in columns/rows, but I still don't think the Olokun symbols constitute a written system for daily communication like ezeagu was asking about.

If you can find an image of this aroko writing, then please share it somehow. Or at least describe this binary writing.

PhysicsMHD:


Please provide more information on this. This is the first I'm hearing about this.


The only written symbols of the Edo that I'm familiar with are the Olokun symbols, which are strictly religious and not for daily communication.

Meyan:

And colonial records also recorded that we (Nigerians) were uncivilized - a people incapable of leading themselves, and that was the reason they colonized us. So are you telling me that was also true, if we are to take “colonial records” as the basis for this discussion?

ezeagu:

The box hat is interesting. It looks powerful. Did Edo have any type of writing they communicated with (like to generals and the queen mother and all, giving them signs or a word)?

byrron:

Beaf, u are such a big not-so-smart person and d biggest sycophant in NL. U were busy posting trash on how atiku stoled 40billa and hw america wanted him so badly but your folish uncle dint send his sss thugs after him but he is busy seeking for audience with your 40billa thief. So your thieving uncle and co suddenly realised to probe tinubu jst because its election time and he is obviously hitting u guys hard politicaly. U are so inconsisten which goes to show how bankrupt u are morally. U disgust me all the times with this your sycophantic post, ODE.

Rhino.5dm:

@ bold.

You took that from my mouth. was he hibernating when lucky was busy stuffing the money meant for Edo people abroad?? I see another pastor Bakare in the making, when will the Oba declare his intentions for governorship?? kind of asking.

Kilode?!:

Respect to Omo N'Oba N'Edo, Uku Akpolopolor.

Oba Gha To 'Kpere!

^^^^^^ ISEEEE

ShangoThor:

The only way and time Africans will really start to make PROGRESS is when they begin  deconstruct the identity that foreigners have forced on us and start to redefine our own identity as the Prototype of mankind, the Source of humanity, and we start to take control, exercise ownership of our own property, consolidate our property in order to get the best deals and assertively espouse our uniqueness as the ‘SOURCE of HUMANITY’. Arabs and Europeans come from us. No foreigners are superior to Black Africans, they have just managed to successfully exploit our differences; the gaps in our knowledge, and ability to effectively organize to date .

We now know the truth, the information is there for all to see! What a pitiful sight, Africans squabbling over peanuts when we should be affluent and fulfilled. Damnnnn

sage:

You need to get some education on the roots of words like Libya and Africa and how ancient people depicted them as well as learn about the history of North Africa before spewing lies on here

~Bluetooth:

and who's oranimiyan ?