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Deputy Americans and Zionist Nigerians in Nigeria don't have an idea what their Massa has caused. Maybe next time they'll think before cheerleading for a warmongering empire and its vassal terror state. You're not just a spectator like it's a Manchester United v Plymouth match, your survival is on the line you're just not wise enough to see it yet but don't worry, you will feel it very very soon if this war turns out to be a prolonged war.

But one Habibi is telling me to come to Dubai - that Dubai is safe. Ok.

Kushites:
Oga, Americans can't fight.

All they can do is throw bombs from far away and hide under the table.

See how they are looking for the Kurds to go and fight for them. They know they can't send American troops into Iran because they will be decimated.

My comment was an obvious sarcasm. Check my posts

Why did Trump order 28000 soldiers to return home? Thought he's planning a ground invasion?

Your sovereignty is yours. Don't let anyone take it away from you

Cinema. Absolute cinema!

NothingDoMe:
Nigeria does not primarily sell her crude through the strait of hormuz.

We good.

CaseSensitive:
No you're not good. Yes, Nigeria’s crude doesn’t physically pass through the Strait of Hormuz, but the country is still highly exposed to global oil price fluctuations. The conflict is already disrupting Middle East supply and will push up prices worldwide. That means higher revenues from exports for Nigeria, but also higher domestic fuel costs, inflation and living expenses because oil price is regulated worldwide. so no, you're not good.

Tolumiide:
Iran response is understandable and expected. Next time you will think twice before attacking them.
My concern now is that I bought diesel ₦945 yesterday and it's now ₦1450 today. The fuel attendant said it's because of Isreal and Iran war. As how now?. The coming days in the Nigerian market would be interesting. I have increased our service by 50% to reflect the current reality. Diesel is the back bone of Nigeria economy.

Are you sure you're good? You don't have an idea what's coming.

Gulf States brought it upon themselves. Maybe they'll learn not to host US bases on their soil ever again. Maybe Trump too will also learn why 7 US presidents before him did not start a war against Iran since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

NothingDoMe:
Nigeria does not primarily sell her crude through the strait of hormuz.

We good.

No you're not good. Yes, Nigeria’s crude doesn’t physically pass through the Strait of Hormuz, but the country is still highly exposed to global oil price fluctuations. The conflict is already disrupting Middle East supply and will push up prices worldwide. That means higher revenues from exports for Nigeria, but also higher domestic fuel costs, inflation and living expenses because oil price is regulated worldwide. so no, you're not good.

NothingDoMe:
Oh please. During CoVID all prices crashed to $10 per barrel and the world survived.

The world survived Covid but at what cost? COVID caused low prices because demand collapsed. This one is the opposite of that.

Covid - Demand collapse

Middle East war - Supply disruption

In Nigeria’s case, yes Nigeria and Dangote may benefit from higher demands but it’s the average Joe that will suffer for it due to local fuel price rise.

Oh you don't need Qatar to tell you that the war in Iran will bring down the world economy. You don't have an idea what America has caused.

It's common sense for Nigerians not to meddle in the crisis but common sense actually eludes a lot of them, especially the religious bigots.

Iran will teach USA a costly lesson in this war, they're not surrendering. America’s allies in the Middle East are desperate to replenish their US made air defence missiles supplies but the US is running out too. America has a stockpile of about 4000 Tomahawk missiles in total, about 10% of that stockpile has been sent to the Middle East to launch against Iran.

Stockpile of THAAD missile interceptor are depleted too. America has launched about 150 of them in the 12 day war against Iran in June last year. That’s about a quarter of 600 of what is in US stockpile, so depleted they had to requisition more supplies from South Korea. America will have no choice but to withdraw from the Middle East if it runs out of weapons which I think will happen soon because they are using their military equipments faster than they can be replenished, especially their defence missile capabilities. Russia and China are watching very closely too.

US made a huge strategic mistake by killing Ayatollah Ali Khameini and provoking a needless, baseless unjustifiable war and they probably know it.

zeuss:
Yet another illiterate that lacks basic understanding of the war he is fighting. Let me in the interest of making the world a better place by redirecting you energy right with improvement in logical understanding.
Now listen, the Arabs are just like the fulani they come into a place by Force of conquest impose themselves and generations forget their origin and the blood letting that introduced them into that society. Khamenei family are direct descendants of Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad the great grand son of Muhammad (saw). They are bonafide Arabs by genelogy and DNA and as they boast undiluted with the filth of interbreeding with native Persians, allowing only for marriage between socalled noble Arabs and blood relations , so they are directly connected to the spiritual origin of islam front and back.
The Persians assimilated them like the hausa and Yoruba of ilorin assimilated the fulani.

Use your tongue and count your teeth as it concerns your country Nigeria with fulani so it concerns persians with Arabs.

For your information the same is the story with Jerusalem which is fully historically Jewish territory

“Yet another illiterate” actually made me laugh, almost a chef’s kiss in rhetoric. A presumed “literate” Dunning-Kruger subject who believed Iranians are Arabs? Iran is majority Persian culturally and linguistically, regardless of any clerical lineage. Don’t you think logical understanding is doing a very heavy lifting here? The claim of Ali Khamenei being a direct descendant of prophet Muhammed is not confirmed by DNA but rather a claim that was orally passed down through generations. Even if Ali Khamenei claims descent from Muhammad, that does not make Iran Arab.

Family lineage is not equal to national identity. Nigeria’s Fulani dynamics here is influenced by the same people you cheerlead for. It’s a modern political construct, If you use your critical thinking skills, you’d know exactly why that political construct exists in the first place. 7th century Persia is imperial and very different structurally to the Fulani you’re drawing unaligned parallels with. At least you would have sounded a little "literate" if you draw comparison between the Kurds and the Fulanis given that they're both involved in identity politics. Again, I'm discussing geopolitics (bordering sovereignty), you’re discussing racial purity myth using a religion that rejects racial hierarchy anyway. You obviously have issues with Islam, I don’t, neither do I have issues with Christianity despite the fact that I view both religions as foreign to me as an African.



More importantly - (this is the core nuance that flew over you) this war was NEVER about Christianity v Islam, Arabs v Persians or whatever rhetoric you’re being made to believe by default conditioning. I don’t view everything from a religious or tribal lens unlike some dum dum. Maybe zoom out a little then you’ll just maybe realise that there's a class of global elite instigating and supporting tribal and religious unrests and insurgencies around the world including Nigeria. You’re not part of that class and they got you right where they want you. This is beyond your comprehension. Happy cheerleading and good morning whenever you wake up.

huptin:
Liar...your blood thirsty delusional wish will never co.e to pass...blood suckers!

Good morning to you whenever you wake up

zeuss:
you actually believe that the Arab can tolerate your presence as a black man more than the Caucasian can tolerate you? Wake up Arabs are not a tolerant people just like their spirituality

We're talking about geopolitics and value alignment, this one is talking about tolerance. Ok let's talk about tolerance - caucasians tolerate you because they literally control you, your media, your resources, your mind, your leadership class and your life! Iranians are not Arabs by the way, dum dum, they are Persians.

Iran stopped all exports to South Africa until apartheid regime stopped killing Africans but we have Africans here thinking Iran is the country birthing Islam extremists and terrorism. A lot of you don't know who your real enemies are but until then......

Oh he's ready to meet Putin now? Putin is ready to meet him too, but in Moscow. He probably realised that the 90 Billion euros he's set to receive from his allies will be the last because allies are broke too and without allies, Ukraine is a sitting duck.

He would have gotten a better deal in 2022 Istanbul Plus peace negotiation framework but Boris Johnson told him not to broker a deal and fight on instead. Whenever he's ready for peace, he knows the peace conditions and he knows his way to Moscow.

The article shows that a small earthquake likely occurred between 26-36AD. That's a 10 years dating window. Even the researchers themselves were cautious, they didn't outrightly confirm that the earthquake is a biblical event. Also the area is a highly active fault system, so earthquake records in sediments there are entirely normal. Multiple earthquakes are recorded in the region long before the time of Jesus.

SIRTee15:
where does subsahara start, is eritrea, ethiopia, sudan and south sudan subsahara africa or not. u are the one conflating the identity of subsahara africa to push your agenda.
u cannot be shifting the geographical location of subsahara africa as u like. it has a specific defintion and a fixed location.
so is eritrea, ethiopia, sudan and south sudan part of subsahara africa or not.


my friend, culture is dynamic, its never static. every culture is infuenced by imported traditions. The word Yoruba itself was imported, we never called ourself Yoruba to begin with, it was given to us.
I never said Tertullian or Athanasius influenced ancient Yoruba mythology, I pointed out the influence of africans on christianity because your earlier argument was that christianity was alien to africa. Now that u have swallowed your vomit and admitted xtianity isn't alien to ancient africa, no need repeating that argument or referencing them.


exception These were prominent men in their kingdom, how do u even think xtianity spread. seriously, have u actually taken time to study ancient theology and how they spread? It takes just the king to announce a faith the national religion and everyone falls in line.
That's how it is in the kingdoms mentioned in the bible and how it is in real world. In the bible, the king calls the nation to repentance and people obey.
Emperor Constantine in one edict announced xtianity the official roman empire religion and the rest is history.
Or u think an english man was one of Jesus disciples or Jesus appeared to the ancient ethiopian kingdom and told them to convert. No sir
Romans brought xtianity to England and a Phoenician brought xtianity to ethiopia. The king of aksum liked it, he converted and made the faith the national religion.

Without colonisation, these 2 religions would have made serious inroads into Yorubaland due to its adoption by prominent leaders and its just a matter of time they would replace the local ones. Already Oba Momodu Lamuye of Iwo already made Islam the official religion in the land as far back as 1820.


People adapt whatever belief to their cultural identity. xtianity isn't monlithic in Nigeria, white garment church felt very indigenous while Pentecostal felt very elitist. missionaries took the religion to Japan not colonialist and was very popular amongst the peasant due to the message of salvation.
colonial pressure only hastened what would have been an eventual dominant force if nature was allowed to take it course.


it shows u cant separate subsahara africa based on some nonsense skin colour or recent geographical location. I didnt bring it up to prove xtianity instead to show u the artificial boundary attributed to present nations has no relevance to ancient migration.
anthropologist will argue bantu people migrated from cameroon and Nigeria to east, central and west africa all the way to senegal and Tanzania, then stopped.
so why did they stop?
why didnt the bantu continue their migration to somalia, sudan, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Ethiopia, algeria.

They argued afrosiatic group re-migrated back to africa and spread throughout the north and eastern africa then stopped. so what happened to kenya, Tanzania, uganda, chad and central africa republic. what prevented these afroasiatic group from entering kenya and populating it?

If the berbers could occupy the hot sahara region of algeria, niger, mali. what prevented them from moving southwards and populating the lesser hot region of norther nigeria, upper volta, senegal, gambia sierra leone and ivory coast.
They could live in the desert region of sahara for thousand of years but couldnt survive in savanah part of west africa.

anthropologist even claim bantu migrated all the way down to angola, zambia, namibia then stopped, they claim bantu didnt enter south africa.
Like what stopped the migration at the south african border.
oyinbo and manipulative lies are like 5&6.

There's nothing to indicate african region is monolithic in anyway. so u cannot tell me my ancient ancestors didn't worship Jesus before me. u dont have any evidence for that.


This is just a blind argument. xtianity was introduced to England by roman colonialist just like it was introduced here. it evolved and adapted overtime. Are we going to be having this same argument in 1000 years time that xtianity is an alien import to Nigeria?


western world tried atheism and secular liberal laws for just 50 years. The result is moral decadence and societal degeneration. collapse of identity- both national and self, breakdown of societal and family values, explosion of debauchery and rising case of mental illness.
If above is the fruits of atheism, thank u but I dont want to be a part of.

western world tried xtianity for 1000 years, and rose to become the most powerful and influential civilisation ever known in history. The explosion as crazy and unimaginable. The rest of the world saw them as demi gods. They were accelerating at a unprecedent rate until pride got into them, decided they wanted to continue the journey alone and kicked God out of their society.

Now they are so ordinary and their society becoming unappealing that even their own natives are now jumping and abandoning the sinking ship. In 2026, the only continent the white man can bully and get away with is maybe Africa. europe has lost its identity and a false god is gradually raising its head in their midst. what a pity for a race that rejected the One True God.



very funny, u think God's plan is dependent on action of people. read the bible and be educated. God blessed Israel because their forefather was the first person to understand that God hates polytheism and wanted to be worshipped without any partner.
when they messed up, they were duly punished and scattered. nobody is special in the sight of God, we are so inconsequential in his overall plan.
People can stop worshipping God for another 5,000 years and it changes nothing. when we are ready to follow his command, he will hearken to us again and show us his mighty hand.
WE ARE THE ONES THAT NEED GOD, HE DOESN'T NEED US. GET THAT CLEAR.

UNIVERSE ITSELF DOESNT NEED US, U THINK IF EARTH GOES INTO EXTINCTION TODAY, U THINK UNIVERSE WILL NOTICE OR CARE?
The universe will continue to exist without planet earth for billions of years and nothing will happen.
Now imagine your relevance to God who is bigger and mightier than the universe.
That's how irrelevant and inconsequential man is. It's that self-consciousness u have that's giving u grandiose delusions, giving u ideas u are important.



debunked thoroughly. u can continue to believe in your lies if it makes u sleep well.
ok since u have been living abroad for donkey years, and has followed the white man to godlessness....
now that they are retracing their steps back and embracing Islam, when are u joining your fellow whites to say the shahada
when are u copying the whites and say your own shahada.

and I will advise u take a look at books on old ancient africa and read, it will expand your closeminded ignorant mind. Your intellectual depth on ancient africa is very shallow for someone who claimed to have lived abroad for donkey years.
Most africans embrace afrocentrism when they live abroad not reject it.

start with Precolonial black africa by cheikh Anta diop

just to wet your appetite- do u know Efusetan Aniwura exported cosmetics to america, the biggest source of her wealth?
do u know the ancient benin kingdom currency was an acceptable mode of payment in the kingdom of Morocco?
do u know Yoruba had their own writing system before Crowther intoduced the latinised alphabets
do u know west african biggest export to europe from 15-17th century was textile and soaps

So just dont sit there and assume your ancestors were dumb, couldn't think for themselves and were just accepting anything thrown at them. That's an eurocentric bias to make them look weak.

Whether Ethiopia is Sub-Saharan or not is irrelevant to the core issue. Christianity existing in Aksum does not mean it existed in Yorubaland. I don't know how that is difficult to grasp. That’s like saying because Buddhism existed in India, the Aztecs must have been closet Buddhists. Proximity is not proof. Continent is not transmission.

You’re inflating Africa into this mystical spiritual blob where theology teleports across deserts without trade routes, missionaries, inscriptions, churches, manuscripts, or archaeological evidence. Show one pre-19th-century Yoruba Christian liturgy. One church ruin. One manuscript. One cross inscription. Or at least one contemporary account. Then you swing to Constantine as if the guy pressed a heavenly “Apply to All Regions” button. Constantine didn’t convert an empire overnight; he legalized a religion that had already spread through Roman networks. Institutional backing accelerates religion. That’s precisely what happened in colonial Nigeria. You can’t use state power to explain Rome and then pretend state power is irrelevant in West Africa.

Your migration spiral is intellectual smoke. Bantu routes, Berbers in the Sahara, Afroasiatic dispersals, fascinating anthropology but that's about it, absolutely zero proof of a first-century Levantine theology embedded in Yoruba cosmology. Population movement does not equal doctrinal transmission. If it did, we’d have archaeological trails of it. We don’t.

And the “West declined because atheism” sermon? Europe’s rise correlates with industrialisation, science, colonial extraction, and capital accumulation, not some divine mood swings. If moral decay proves atheism fails, then crusades and inquisitions prove Christianity failed centuries ago. You're struggling to pick a consistent metric, your argument has been ridiculously inconsistent then you throw absolutely irrelevant nonsense into the mix.

You keep accusing me of insulting ancestors. I didn’t. Precolonial West Africa had trade networks, metallurgy, currency systems, textile exports. None of that manufactures indigenous Christianity out of thin air. Civilisation doesn't equal to prior exposure to Jesus. If you actually read, I earlier mentioned that I don't subscribe to either universalist religion which is Christianity and Islam but of course you're just itching to gag out diarrhoea. And of course, the hint flew way over you when I said "Africa is my holy land" but it's me that's discarding afrocentrism? Funny, no? I'm tolerant of other people's religion, for context, refer to my initial post that you unfortunately quoted. Your God is the God of Israel, good for you. The age old religion and way of life of my ancestors is what I proudly and fiercely uphold, Isese is where I found my God (Much for someone who discarded afrocentrism eh?). That's godlessness to you but hey, not my circus, not my monkeys.

Funny how you brought up my ‘donkey years abroad’ when it was you who volunteered to tell everyone you’ve been living abroad for over ten years. I didn’t need to invent that detail to prove a point, but of course you deemed it important, otherwise your arguments that are collapsing into a loop of projection, redirection, and historical cherry-picking wouldn't have made any sense to yourself. There are chairs for you at the back, a lot of them, pick one and sit your backside there.

SadiqBabaSani:
Some Pastors are standing on the Altar of God with the mindset of Babalawos, they behave like wizards in the name of God.

But the lady should be prayerful, like a stated most of these god of men standing on God's Altar don't even fear God the creator hence they can resort to any means to get even against their perceived enemies

Any Babalawo that threatens to place a curse on anyone unprovoked is not a babalawo. Please let's reorientate away from this mindset of demonising babalawos.

Are there any trees around the cemetery? It's not very obvious from the pictures

When you're in their shoes, you'll probably understand. Reality hit most people in the face, it's a new world abroad. Most people who leave Nigeria and went "Ghost Mode" didn't choose to go Ghost mode. I guess going ghost mode is also part of growing up. You literally can't keep in touch with everyone.

They will NEVER tell their citizens about the true wealth of Africa. Believe me when I say that majority of Europeans sees Africa through the lens of what their media shows them on TV which is mostly diseased children with tsetse flies on their face, zebras and monkeys, dirts and huts.

Do you wonder why? Everybody eye go soon clear se.

SIRTee15:
It's obvious u drinking the white man's racist cool aid with your weak attempt to divide Africa based on skin colour.

When the white man say Africa didn't have a writing system or produce the wheel and we point them to Egypt; they argue Egypt isn't an african civilisation. Then we point out Ethiopia and Eritrea, they argue Ethiopia is not fully subsahara. Then we point them to Timbuktu, they argue it was an Islamic civilisation built by Berbers and has nothing to do with subsahara Africa.

Your first post mentioned Christianity is alien to Africa. Now that u were called out u switched it to subsahara Africa. So tell me, is Ethiopia, Eritrea and south Sudan no longer part of subsahara Africa anymore?


U people keep shifting the goalpost to suit your propagandized agenda. An agenda that makes no logical sense.
The bible in Ethiopia, is it different from the one the white man brought to Lagos. The Jesus they worshipped in Eritrea since the 5th century, is it different from the one Bishop Ajayi Crowther brought to Badagry.
If it's the same, then u guys have nothing to stand on and the idea that Jesus is alien to Africa is foolishness.

FYI, the ancient Ethiopians had darker skin tone than most Nigerians. They were so black skin that the ancient Greeks call them Aethiopia meaning burnt face. That's how black they look.

Then u said I as a Nigerian don't have any link to North Africa. Who are the original North Africans? Who are the indigenous North Africans? You think it's the present arabs living there now?

If I may ask u, do the Nigerian Fulanis have any link with the original North Africans?

There was no fixed ethnic group in the north and west African region for thousands of years, it was a constant migratory pattern until around 1000AD.

These regions have always been multi-ethnic crossroads between Sahara and sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change (especially desert expansion), trade routes, and empires constantly reshaped who lived where.
So instead of one “original” people, there were layers of ancient populations, until maybe 11th century.

The idea that one specific ethnic group have always occupied same area in subsahara Africa is an Eurocentric attempt to disconnect your root from ancient northern Africa ethnicity.

The Sungbo’s Eredo is evidence of such migratory ancient civilization. The massive system of walls and ditches built in Ijebu ode span 160km of walls and trenches. It forms an enormous enclosed area, larger than many ancient cities. UNESCO announced it's the largest earth excavation work and the longest wall ever built in history

The local inhabitants in Ijebu Ode cannot explain who built the wall. There's no oral tradition telling us the local community built it. The only oral history we have is that a wealthy lady from Nubia region migrated to the area and built it. That should tell u something about ancient migration.

Fulanis are the most recent migrant from northern Africa to the deep south. That's why they retain many of the phenotypic features of northern Africans. They followed a repeated wave of southward migratory pattern that had existed for centuries.


Finally, u ignorantly claimed we are Christians because of colonisation. Very ridiculous.
UK colonised Egypt and India, why are they not Christians.
France colonised Senegal, Mali, Niger and guinea, why are not Christians.

U people have a lot of work to do in understanding cultural dynamics and how it influence society. Islam was already rampant in Yorubaland in the 19th century. Basorun Latoosa, the great Ibadan warload of the popular kiriji war died a Muslim.
Efusetan Aniwura the 2nd iyalode of Ibadan was a Christian and a strong member of the local church in 1850s. Balogun okenla who led the egbas against the Dahomey on the 1850s was a Christian.
Oba Akintoye and Dosunmu embraced Christianity in the mid 19th century during their reign as monarch in Lagos while Oba Kosoko embraced Islam. None of them denied their heritage as traditional Yorubas.

All these prominent figures embraced foreign religions without any nonsense colonisation and still played powerful role in their respective communities.
Colonisation or not, people will embrace what makes sense and sounds appealing. The truth is always clear from falsehood. It has nothing to do with culture.

China had been in contact with the Philippines for thousands of years but couldn't establish Buddhism, American missionaries arrived in the 19th century and within 50 years the nation became Christian.

The only way Japan could stop Christianity in the 15th and 16th century was to start persecuting and executing Japanese who converted to Christianity. Otherwise Japan would have become a Christian nation within 100 years. It was spreading like wild fire.

Over 60,000 Christians were killed by the emperors after passing the anti christian edict in 1587. 12,000 were killed in a single day in shimbara peninsula after Christian peasant rebelled against the heavy taxation against them.

U guys knows nothing about the power of the gospel and the conviction of the truth. The message of a universal God and his redemption plan sounds appealing anywhere.

It's just the docility of present Christians especially in western world and commercialization of the faith in some regions that gave people like u mouth to talk.

I have been abroad now for over 10 years, if Christianity doesn't seem right, I would have abandoned it long time ago. Don't worry, a wave of revival is coming soon.

Atheism makes no sense, it promotes immorality as the norm, gives no guidance and denies the reality. That's why it's dying out even in western world as people begin to seek the truth again.

Oh I see, now we’re suddenly defending “all of Africa is one unbroken Christian cradle” while ignoring facts. Let me break it down for you.
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nubia? Fine, they were Christian. Congrats. Does that mean Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, had organic Christianity before European missions. Absolutely not. Aksum isn’t Lagos, Makuria isn’t Ibadan. You’re conflating geography with theology to push your agenda.

Skin color doesn’t equal culture. Just because Ethiopians were black and ancient doesn’t mean their Christianity had any cultural alignment with Yoruba cosmologies. Your Athanasius and Tertullian argument is irrelevant to the daily life of a 19th-century Yoruba peasant or monarch, they had zero influence on them.

Then you went on about voluntary adoption. You’re romanticizing a few converts while ignoring that the widespread spread in Nigeria relied heavily on colonial structures and missionary schools, which replaced indigenous institutions. Efusetan Aniwura, Oba Akintoye, Balogun Okenla etc…sure, exceptions prove the rule, but they don’t erase structural facts or do they?

I actually like your analogy of China, Japan, Philippines comparison but you miss that cultural, political, and economic incentives were massively different. Christianity spread in Nigeria under colonial pressure and institutional incentives. Was it a spontaneous cultural resonance like in Ethiopia? No

Migration myths and Sungbo’s Eredo? interesting archaeology, yes. But again I will reiterate that walls and migration patterns don’t prove Christianity was native to Nigeria. They only prove that we as Africans had complex societies.

With your “universal God” argument, theological appeal doesn’t change history. A message can be appealing everywhere, it doesn’t make it indigenous. The Orthodox Church in Ethiopia is indigenous because it evolved internally for more than 1600 years or so. Nigerian Christianity? Imported, adapted, and Africanized afterward. Big difference.

UK colonised Egypt and India, why are they not Christians? I'll lecture you. Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism etc were centuries old, highly structured belief systems with scriptures, priesthoods, and social institutions. It was hard for the British government to overwrite a civilisation thousands of years old, the Indians actually rebelled. But it was obviously easy for them in Southern Nigeria because of the decentralised nature of traditional religions.

In Egypt, Christianity wasn't new to them even though majority of them are muslims, so the British didn't feel the need to convert them.

In Senegal, Mali, Niger and Guinea, Burkina etc France’s colonial model was more political and cultural than aggressively missionary-driven. They promoted French language and administrative systems more than forced religious conversion unlike the British.

The British ruled Northern Nigeria indirectly through existing Muslim emirates and deliberately avoided missionary disruption there. As a result of that the north remained overwhelmingly Muslim. If Britain had imposed Christianity by force, northern Nigeria would look very different today, but they did that almost deliberately. Make the South Christians, keep the North Muslims, then religion turns political, typical British divide and rule tactics, and you wonder why we have the problems we have in Nigeria today?

Atheism makes no sense? To you maybe. I guess an atheist can say exactly the same thing about religion and I never for once actually mentioned anything about atheism, never said or insinuated I’m an atheist. I’m certainly not one, but in support of the atheists and in counter to your claim that atheism promotes immorality , gives no guidance and denies reality, - if your moral compass collapses in absence of this your “Universal God” then that say more about you and your ethics than that of atheists.

If Christianity is docile in the Western world (who supposedly should be the torchbearer and custodian of the religion, given they forced it down your throat in the first place) while Christianity back in Nigeria is ridiculously fragmented and commercialised to the extent that every half brain Chinedu and Damilola with a bible and half a plot of land or a makeshift "church", can become a “pastor”, I guess that says it all.

Bottom line: Christianity in Nigeria was not organically African before colonial-era influence and that’s my point. Stop trying to use Ethiopia’s unique historical case to erase the structural realities in Africa, especially West Africa. The facts don’t care about your sentimental defense or your ten years abroad - a statement that has no bearing on, or relevance to the subject matter. I’ve been (still) living abroad before you probably had an international passport.