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Get urself a gun....


Nigerians are at war....



if u get ear make u hear....


If u come to kill me I will kill u first before I explain how I got a gun, license or no license....

It don't matter anymore


The world don move on since....

Maybe it use to be a delicacy around there....

Awwwww

That kain thing dey pain sha but u shd have just let go....

Weyrey dey o....

Na oyinbo weyrey craze pass

MediMedi:
Me As A Brain Surgeon:

Guy, what happen nau Your Head No Greee Close Again

Me : u say

It is citizens that spoil the police....

Why are they giving him money/tips when he is on duty

It is pinkcoin not pitcoin tho....

[quote author=rossniti post=97118048]that's why I said that interior West Africans don't travel far....



The Yorubas as a case study

rossniti:
West Africans built seafaring ships that sailed all the way to the Americas, and this is documented.

Christopher Colombus, who supposedly discovered the Americas, reported that he saw ''men from Guinee'' with gold tipped spears among the natives of Mexico.

BBC news has a report on the history of West African seafaring, especially on the famous trip by a Malian emperor which set sail for the Americas from present day GAMBIA:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1068950.stm

The same Columbus that thought he was in India


He was just guessing....


Have we suddenly lost knowledge of how to make these same ships now


Even ilaje people in riverine Ondo state don't make ships, they make boats.... till now

And Buhari will oblige....

rossniti:
Do you have any clue how large these empires were? There were parts of all the great three empires - Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, that were firmly in savannah terrain. Check them out on Google images. Heck, parts of northern Nigeria seemed to have been within the Songhai Empire territory!

I don't dispute these old empires though


They are defunct now and the countries bearing such names now just do it for posterity sake....

My argument is that interior West africans were domiciled here, we hardly venture out, even if we had horses, it's mainly for warfare or prestige and not exploration of transportation like the Europeans....


for example, we were told that Oranmiyan set out on a punitive expedition against the tivs or so.... when he got to river Niger he turned back because he couldn't cross the river.... that told you that we were a primitive race, no means of transportation to go far.... Europeans had boats and ships at this time in question....


How many miles can a horse go self....


Europeans that colonised Africa didn't come on horses, they came in ships....

We had no means of going that long distance that's my point

rossniti:
Not sure what point you're trying to make here. There is no place known as "interior West Africa".

The Savannah and not the sahel

rossniti:
Garbage.

Everyone used a horse or horse & carriage in the Middle Ages for travel.

Camels also played a great part in helping to cross the Sahara, for merchants carrying goods.

You clearly never heard about the Trans-Saharan Trade, or Mansa Musa, Emperor of Mali, and the richest man who ever lived, who travelled to Egypt with a caravan of 12,000 people.

MALI isn't interior West Africa, they trade with the Arabs, they are on the trade route.... most people on Musas Entourage were on foot as well, they were porters

What about the chibok girls

rossniti:
A poorly trained child who is corrected by his elders regards it as an insult - Igbo Proverb

you are a foolish elder for this statement....


A foolish elder doesn't know the difference between correction and outright insult.


No matter how elder u are, when u insult a toddler, expect to be paid back in ur own coins....



let ur arguments be devoid of insults

rossniti:
Guys, this kid first said we had "no horses in interior West Africa". I corrected him with hard facts.

He then said they were "recent", never mind that Portuguese visitors of the 15th century testified the Oba of Benin had a cavalry of thousands of men.

He then claimed the Nok, Nigeria's oldest known settlers had no horses, and he began abusing me.

But here is a link showing a Nok nobleman on horseback, in a sculpture dated 1,400 to 2,000 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture

Should I just ignore this kid?

old man, u insulted me first

while chasing her, didn't u sleep with another girl

rossniti:
Stop talking rubbish.

The Benin and Oyo armies had THOUSANDS of men on horseback.

I've been studying this stuff since you were in nappies.

If you don't know, go on Google and do your research.

We were taught West African history in my day as a Nigerian student.

PLUS I've done further research since then.

Did u find horses on NOK art? or Ife Terra cotta

I am simply telling u it's a recent thing, did u even know when Oyo raised a Calvary

It was shortly before the British arrived?


We didn't go to any Europe, get that into ur thick skull

rossniti:
Wrong.

The Hausa states and Kanuri empire had cavalry.

The Benin Empire had a cavalry of up to 8,000 soldiers at its peak.

The Oyo empire had a powerful cavalry.

Hausa fulani yes, they were close to the Sahel and stayed on caravan routes, it's normal, they are used to it but you see the Oyo and Benin, that was a very much later thing, Oyo adopted Calvary during the Ekiti parapo war, and it wasn't effective because if our topography.... we were never horse men, we trekked everywhere

rossniti:
Garbage.

Everyone used a horse or horse & carriage in the Middle Ages for travel.

Camels also played a great part in helping to cross the Sahara, for merchants carrying goods.

You clearly never heard about the Trans-Saharan Trade.

interior West Africa had no horses sir

rossniti:
Garbage.

Everyone used a horse or horse & carriage in the Middle Ages for travel.

Horse were a new thing here, infact it's the Fulanis and the hausas who used it and they have Arab connections....


the history of the yorubas made us understand that because we live in the Savannah, horses were prone to bites from tse tse flies, it was during the war with the jihadists, that we tried to change from infantry to Calvary....

Super man....

West Africans don't travel far from their abode historically....

That's why u find NOK arts here and no where else....

They had no sophisticated means of transportation

Maybe it's hoodlums #EndSARS....

Was he retired

UnbanEbenezar:
yes culturally they're yorubas but amotekun is more of a regional outfit that solely covers the SW.
you studied at unilorin Right?

That's right....


How did u know that

UnbanEbenezar:
ilorin isn't in southwest

Offa isn't part of Ilorin....

Geographically yes kwara isn't in South west, but culturally they are....

Yaoli:
I’m currently trapped in my moms store

call Amotekun

Badbunny:
Great book, I was masturbating while reading it.

Weyrey

Buy her a long towel nah....