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Active duty American soldiers are fighting in Ukraine and in Kursk under the Ukrainian flag. So tell me what the fuss is about north Korea possibly joining the fight. Or must the fight remain between Russia and the 34 NATO countries plus Ukraine? Is that what you guys consider the natural way ? USA is allowed to always fight with help from more than 30 countries and USA fans see that as proof of USA strength, but God forbid if Russia comes to war with just one ally by its side, then to you guys it is proof that Russia is running out of men and is weak... But heh, you guys literally worship DOUBLE STANDARDS ! |
https://x.com/peacemaket71/status/1851635148501983280 Some fools claimed that there were no active duty NATO soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Everybody wants to talk about north Korean soldiers possibly fighting alongside Russia, we'll take a look at this: (edit. It appears those are two different soldiers who look alike, nonetheless they are both American soldiers so who cares ?)
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What you gonna do about it ? Whine ? Leonardo4: |
How come most Israeli soldiers look like ordinary civilians ? This is not a professional army. Turkey 🦃 really deserves its name for not standing up for the Palestinians who should have been under the protection of Ankara just like the Donbas people are under the protection of Moscow. Ankara, the heart of ottoman empire has really let its people down 👎🏿 |
Unfortunately west African history is often politicised and not taken very seriously by most western laboratories who basically do not fund research on west African history and therefore allow for people to present fairytales as history. So it is very difficult to find a source which you can identify as trusted. But you may ask some people I know here like @samuk and @gregyboy, they have a few sources who researched west African history seriously. Me, I got curious about my people's history when I was a student in mathematics, I went through the flow of claims and counter claims and unsubstantiated claims, then I used my brain to first learn how to conduct proper research by myself with the use of logic. I then set a few ground rules: 1. Any information must be proven. 2. To prove a historical event, you need eyewitness written documents testifying to the event. 3. I concluded that history was the study of eyewitness written documents and and eyewitness created artefacts (depending on the context). 4. I also concluded that it is impossible to have too much detailed information about the past unless you are doing creative writing. 5. I found out through my previous lectures on European and Egyptian history that I had basically discovered on my own the standards which serious history researchers apply to their research. 6. So the best is to look for precolonial documents which you can find in big libraries like the BnF of France and other big libraries in Europe or America. Unfortunately the people who witnessed our ancestors and had the ability to write about their encounters were Europeans and what they wrote remains in european or American libraries, so you need to search those libraries to see what they saw. 7. The website of the BnF of France is called Gallica, you can find a lot of precolonial documents on our region there. You can also search for precolonial documents in websites such as the following, but always be careful to not fall into a website with fakes https://www.google.com/search?q=zncient+maps+of+africa&oq=zncient+maps+of+africa&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTILCAEQABgNGBMYgAQyCggCEAAYExgWGB4yCggDEAAYExgWGB4yCggEEAAYExgWGB4yCggFEAAYExgWGB4yCggGEAAYExgWGB4yCggHEAAYExgWGB4yCggIEAAYExgWGB4yCggJEAAYExgWGB4yCggKEAAYExgWGB4yCggLEAAYExgWGB4yCggMEAAYExgWGB4yCggNEAAYExgWGB4yCggOEAAYExgWGB7SAQg3NzUxajBqN6gCFLACAQ&client=ms-android-oneplus-terr2-rso3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&chrome_dse_attribution=1#vhid=0bXu3Ed1HCFlPM&vssid=_mOojZ7GhJc6kkdUPu9P0oA0_34 FoolishBoy419:
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WrriterNg:The Chinese uniforms totally blend into the environment, whereas the Indian one doesn't at all. There are levels... |
So Zelensky is now the mouth piece of the Russian intelligence agencies ![]() |
Benin was as large as Ethiopia. For your information the eyewitness written documents which prove this do exist. No need to discuss fairytales of flying oduduwa and fire spitting oranmian. |
Benin empire was not subdued or defeated in 1885, Benin was only defeated by the British in 1897. And it was a war between Benin empire and the British empire ! The way you guys just keep trying to downplay Benin at every turn is disgusting ! See below a precolonial map of Benin kingdom, it was published in 1747 by Emanuel Bowen.
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Igbos do not have any form of writing, you guys should stop making up history. Mrexcell: |
Don't believe all you read. First of all the concept of yoruba which you have today is not a reflexion of precolonial realities. Jebu for exemple didn't consider themselves yoruba, their ethnic group was jebu. Yoruba is a new thing. So there was no "yoruba civil war", there were just wars between independent kingdoms. Also the Sokoto/Kano and Bornu fought bravely against the British contrary to the yoruba who actually gave up sovereignty without a fight but also collaborated with the British against the other local precolonial countries. Mrexcell: |
I'm sure you will be able to see some Nigerians who worship him. What shocked me the most was when I saw one Igbo guy who identify as "Israelite" calling Adolph Hitler a strong and great leader who should be emulated. Golan007: |
Many Nigerians worship white supremacists such as Hitler and Margaret Thatcher and Marine Lepen and Georgi Meloni and (insert name of white supremacist). Golan007: |
The biggest problem of most Nigerians is their lack of education. Even graduates in Nigeria are not up to educational standards elsewhere in the world. A 30 year old Nigerian has the mental acumen of a 9 year old European kid. All this goes down to education. Nigerians confuse fairytales like that of Santa with actual history. Nigerians believe in religious texts literally and in other kinds of magic. They need education, and they hate education, rough combo. Also they are extremely arrogant. Golan007: |
So speaking the truth is considered as an act of hatred now ? I guess that in your world view every black person should thank any other black person who does him wrong, because that is your idea of solidarity ? For your info, except the jebu who didn't consider themselves yoruba in precolonial days, the rest were complicit with the colonizers and never fought against the colonizers. Even up to today, the yorubas vividly thank the British for colonization, because while we were killed and our cities were burnt down by the colonizers the yoruba were elevated by the same colonizers. Pan Africanism is not about blinding yourself and thinking we all have the same world view , it's about knowledge first, knowing the truth and being wise. Look at the Oni of ife, he was a mere priest before colonization, but thanks to colonization and his usefulness to the colonizers, he was artificially made a king by the colonizers and now he even calls himself "emperor". Some yorubas were actual slave returnees from places like Brazil, they were deported to our region and as soon as they landed they already had a written language (that of the Europeans) and they considered the Europeans their true friends and they saw us as a threat, just like their brothers in Liberia who were slave returnees saw the whites and the locals... Historical research is important if you want to actually be s true Pan-Africanist. All true African indigenous rulers in what we call Nigeria today were severely dealt with by the British, the sultan of Sokoto was killed, the Oba of Benin was exiled and many of his chiefs were killed and even humiliated after death, the emir of Kano was also severely dealt with, the emperor of Bornu was also dealt with, meanwhile the yoruba monarchs and those yoruba whom the British would elevate to kingship were collaborating with the British and getting the favours of the British. The kingdom of Benin was totally destroyed and non Edo people were brought into parts of Benin kingdom by the British and those non Edo people were encouraged to declare those lsnds as their own land and not Benin land, also monarchs who previously paid tribute to the Oba of Benin were made to declare independence from Benin... Onewazobia: |
These Colombians are actual active duty soldiers who "resign" from the Colombian military in order to serve as mercenaries in for Ukraine. Given that none of them chose to serve Russia, I'm going to assume the Colombian government is still secretly giving them orders in collaboration with the USA government... ariesbull: |
No, I'm a mathematician and as a hobby, I used to go to European libraries and museums to see the documents left behind by people who met our ancestors and wrote about what they saw. Satazaa: |
He's a kid, stop engaging with him, you are wasting your time. You can't gain anything from discussing with a kid and you can't teach a kid who believes he knows it all. So the discussion is pointless. YoungBlackRico: ThierryJay: |
It's a little bit more complicated than that, and the slave coast was an actual coast and there was nothing called Nigeria back then... You have to do proper research before talking about a topic. But indeed some Nigerians are uncle Toms, but it's not just Nigerians, many Africans suffer from low self esteem. Many suffer from mental illness. caye: |
You see, this which you just said is a statement for which you would qualify to be sectioned. You are mentally ill my friend. You've lost sense of reality, you are a religious fanatic. Kingsnairaland: |
I don't know what your problem is, but I am not going to be your punching bag. Go and sort out your problem and leave me alone. Needless to say, you speak complete garbage. motymop: |
Can you at least consider that perhaps these are not abuses but rather advises which we are giving you ? My friend, you are being crazy ! This is not a joke nor an insult but a sad fact. You have too much religion in your brain, so much that logic has been pushed out of your brain. Take a break from religion and start thinking properly. Kingsnairaland: |
Again, you are either a child or not very smart or you are just trying to vex. Am I supposed to seriously respond to this ? motymop: |
It's hard to reply you because you don't focus on anything, nor do you actually have any arguments, you seem to be more interested in vexation then in actually seriously discussing the topic. 1. We didn't need paved roads. 2. We didn't have a written form of language, we had our own indigenous systems, not European schools. 3. There is clearly a horse in the painting of Oba of Benin. 4. You are basically saying that we were not Europe. Yes we were not, we were Africans and we had our own way of life, our own culture, our own needs and our own centres of interest which are not the same as those of Europeans. 5. Benin had its own architecture which was not limited to walls motymop: |
In short, there is no relations between Benin and yoruba, but the yorubas are desperate to claim Benin in any way or form. Yoruba is not a real ethnicity, rather it is a blender of ethnicities which claims to be one tribe and they desperately want to add Benin to it. To the best of my knowledge, yoruba are a mixture of slave returnee and local indigenous peoples. Among the local indigenous people whom are now part of the yorubas, many used to be Benin citizens. The expression yoruba first appeared around 1808 and it was meant as a synonym to oyo kingdom. Then later on, the expression was used to refer to a larger group of people, that group just kept getting bigger over the time. The peoples whom are identified as yoruba today descend from ancestors who identified as something else. What we know as yoruba today was the brainchild of politicians including awolowo, they tried to unite all the western region in the colonial era into one tribe with fairytales about ife. Most people of the western region accepted the political agenda, but people of the Midwest didn't especially since we were to be the most marginalised by these rewritings of history. So for some reasons, the yoruba have been obsessed with claiming anything about Benin since that era. They have basically claimed any trace of Benin culture as being given to Benin by ife. Of course these are claims without proof. Ife itself was a small village until 1912 when it was the British who started to urbanise it. Whereas Benin was witnessed as an empire on eyewitness written documents as far back as the 1400's FoolishBoy419: |
I'm not insulting you. If you say something which is crazy, am I allowed to say you are being crazy ? Or shall I bite my tongue in order to not look like I am insulting you ? You talk like a crazy person whom has just ingested some hard drugs. You have no abilities to separate religion from reality. You really sound like a mentally ill person, too much religion has killed your senses of reasoning. You need to stay away from religion, your brain is dying due to too much exposure. Kingsnairaland: |
My friend, are you in a mental asylum ? Notice how your hallucination (which you wrote down here) doesn't have any trace of punctuation. It seems you are on drugs or something. This God you are talking about, please provide me his phone number so that I can ask him to corroborate your mentions of his actions. Or if you can have him come and comment on nairaland accompanied with his birth certificate of course. If you could give a physical description of him so that I can recognize him, I would greatly appreciate. Kingsnairaland: |
I can't talk for all precolonial African countries, but mine was not failed nor in dept not incompétent. Our only mistake was loding a war to the British. I agree with you that some people in the south are just incredibly stupid when they keep assuming they are inherently smarter than northerners or that northerners are more backward than southerners. The north wasn't backward in precolonial days. 3 kingdoms stand out in Nigeria: 1. Benin 2. Sokoto/Kano 3. Bornu All other kingdoms were either inconsequential or dependencies of the 3 kingdoms above. I would like yorubas to stop their cultural appropriation of Benin culture. They claimed the title of Benin emperor, they claimed Benin emperor himself, they've claimed Benin's name, they've claimed Benin artefacts, they even claimed Benin people .... Now they are claiming Benin swords "Ada and Eben", the Oni of ife is copying the crown of the Oba of Benin .... Can the yoruba stop stealing my people's cultural heritage ? I have nothing against copiers when they acknowledge the original, but yoruba Always pretend they are the original and that they passed the tradition over to Benin ... FoolishBoy419: |
DNA tests reveal current Israeli are related to the Romans in the bible and not to the indigenous people of Palestine who remain Palestinians. I don't know in what language we have to tell you that this Israel we have today was created in 1947 ! And it was populated by migrants from Europe ! The land on which it is built was changed from Palestine to a name from the bible "Israel" ! Kingsnairaland: |
You've got proof or you're just talking out of emotions towards your slave masters ? motymop:
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@samuk, I don't know if you followed the discussion page on that Wikipedia article about Ada and Eben, I did and I noticed that the moderators blocked anybody contradicting the yoruba and made the page "protected". Myself, I was summarily blocked before the heavy conversation even started, for what reason: I don't know. This is just crazy. I don't understand why our people are not standing up for their heritage. Hasn't this taken long enough ? As you said, they first took the title of our king and we said nothing, then they claimed our king came from ife then instead of logically proving that they were creating a fictitious story to aggrandise their ethnic group, we decided to stoop to their level. Then they claimed our artefacts came from ife, then they claimed our Oba used to be buried in ife, then they claimed the fragment of our people who reside in the capital of our kingdom (the capital is Benin city) are all from ife, then they claimed ...now they are just copying whatever they want from our culture and claiming it came from Ife and was given to us by ife... Meanwhile some people are still dwelling on imaginary Mary Poppins (aka oduduwa and oranmiyan). The British themselves are making claims that our kingdom was powerful (which contradicts yoruba claim of ife supremacy) and was responsible for slavery, but since many of our people are so involved with fairytales they are not even responding the British neither, they can't have a logical historical discussion at all. @Izoduwa, I hope you remember when I was trying to teach you all these things and to pull you away from fairytales and into logically researching history! You insulted me, you insulted any Edo person who tried to educate you on how history is researched. Instead of listening you preferred to stoop to the level of the yoruba and just dwell in fairytales. You did the yoruba a favour, you made their claim as strong as yours, it's fairytale vs fairytale while it could have been yoruba fairytale vs scientifically researched facts. N.b By the way, I don't even understand why you @izoduwa just insult people whom are trying to help. What is the logic behind this ? I brought a scientific view of history and got insulted for doing so. I basically got insulted for being smart. |
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