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EdoDefence:
Bro I have been watching you and I must say you are an epitome of wisdom.
This self acclaimed majorities so much believe in numbers.
Let me add to the list they should also read on how Gengis Khan turn China's greatest weapon (Population) into Thier nightmare.
Hear this wise saying from our wise Yoruba anscenstors
I am fast and strong
Was the song of the stiff necked dog
And he challenged the panther to a duel
I am wise and cunning was the song
Of the slimy earthworm
And he waited for the
Presence of the red capped rooster
The dog
The worm
Are met with the same fate
Death!
They should also read up on why US still defeats China in military terms

2prexios:
Amin aleikun Salam,
waramotul lahi,
wabaraka tun.

Waidun: okan, one.
Odun: one lunar year.
Eid: Iyedun, Odun.
Odun a dun, koni kan.

Aatu Jo samodun ninu oro to po to lapere. Amin. The joy of the moment is evident in iyedun, meaning "to survive a year" we survived a lunar year today altogether and it's worth the rejoicing.

It's also a less ambiguous time to remember patriarch Abraham venerated today by the Muslims for his sacrificial offering that paved the way for the entrant of Divine blessings to all.

What best time there is to remember Yoruba founding fathers than this? We may have continued in destructive idolatry of human sacrifice, but with Abraham, we have another option.

Since Abraham was one of our heroes of faith, he's acknowledged in Yoruba historical tradition. We however ascribe to his name from the passage in the Otua (Torah), where his sacrifice vanished

Ebora: sacrifice vanished

It means we'll not have to continue to sacrifice like he did for all times under a terebinth tree of Mamre, Moreh. Then our Aboreh* can focus on worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

As to expect totality of knowledge from one quarter alone as some of our friends on the old thread did is an exercise in futility. Eventually, they're stuck in monotonous polemics.

People who can't stand on their own but play parasite needs their supposed "victims" to survive. So "ala nii foko ole han", according to the great Yoruba proverb.

Moreso, we can see from great pictures already shared that alluding to the Levant is not a syndrome of inferiority complex, rather the "ignorant masters" want us to abide by their "education" for us with temerity.

Yet that education is a clever way to keep our history in the ruins of the Vandals, so it never see the light of the day anymore. So we can stay where the inheritors of the world want us.

The descendants of Vandals will often continue in their vandalism, several imposters and insidious enemies will pretend as friends, but wisdom, knowledge and understanding will win.

*Aboreh, priest in Yoruba.

Abraham, Abram, Ebora:

Gen 15.

Etinosa1234:
Before it begins, read ur books so that u won't be shocked by the turn of events

Etinosa1234:
Another day, another time for u to spew trash...

U have never seen Yoruba open spiteful trends... Pls is adeyinka grandson an Igbo man

If u think wars are won with population I'm sorry but u are in for a rude shock.....

Goan read how Finland defeated the mighty Soviet union during the 2nd world war..

Goan read how Israel alone, defeated an alliance of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and other Arab nations in the 6 days war in the late 1960s

Goan read abt Bastogne where an encircled American division(101st division) held out the superior German power till help came

Read bro... Read..... If u think wars are easy, then I'm pretty sure u are an illiterate...

Even in the Nigerian civil war, wasn't it a weak and inferior Biafran army that held out against the superior Nigerian firepower for 3 days?

In operation market garden in the 2nd world war, the allied forces underestimated the Germans and lost more than 50,000 of their men..

I can give u a lot of instances of this...

All this small ignorant Yoruba boys sef ...

Let the war come first... I'd make u die for ur Yoruba tribe at ibadan

Full Time Ozuo

TAO11:
To summarize the bolded:
Benin Art = Quantity.

Ife Art = Quality.
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Moreover, I’d like to clarify a very important point here:

The German archaeologist whom you referred to is Leo Frobenius.

In 1910, he visited numerous Ife sites and uncovered an impressive collection of stone and terra-cotta artworks.

His (now quite understandable 1910 stereotypical reaction) emanates solely from his observation that those Ife works stand far above and beyond any “negro” artwork he has ever encountered.

[Now here is the specific crux I’m getting at] Despite his quite demeaning reaction, he was an expert who, as an expert, observed from his fieldworks, that the Ife artwork were produced locally.

Yes, a lot of people who pay little or no attention to the details often misconstrue his reaction to mean that the Ife sculptures were produced in some foreign land. No never said or implied that.

His reaction (although with stereotypes) admit that the Ife sculptures were produced locally in Ife — he couldn’t deny this fact from his own expert observations.

Although he admits that the sculpture were produced locally in Ife, his stereotypical twist was that Ife (and the larger Yoruba area to which it belongs) must have been home to white people in the distant past long before negros came to occupy the area from them.

Although, this view is not only unsupported by any evidence; it is disproven by archaeological and linguistic evidence which shows plainly that Yorubaland have continually been home to negroes for thousands of years before the production of the sculptures.

I will quote the specific words of Leo Fronenius so you can be sure that he is not being misrepresented. He writes:

"Eloquent of a symmetry, a vitality, a delicacy of form directly reminiscent of Ancient Greece, and a proof that, once upon a time, a race far superior in strain to the negro, had settled here."

~ L. Frobenius, “The Voice of Africa,” 1913, pp.88-89.

Cc: balogunodua, Babtoundey.

TAO11:
The bolded is almost exactly how scholars have expressed the comparison of the Ife sculptures with the best from other parts of the world.

(1) “How, in a comparatively obscure corner of this vast and backward continent could an art and a technique have flowered that take their stand beside the best ever evolved by the elaborate civilizations of Europe and Asia?"

~ W.R. Bascom, “The Illustrated London News,” (8 April 1939), p. 592.


(2) The Ife sculptures "would stand comparison with anything which Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe had to offer".

~ Frank Willett, “Ife and Its Archaeology,” The Journal of African History, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1960), p. 239.

I have personally never read of any art historian anywhere in the whole wide world who thinks Benin sculptures stand a worthy (or even remote) comparison with those of Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe. Never!