Kushites's Posts
Nairaland Forum › Kushites's Profile › Kushites's Posts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 (of 94 pages)
Wahabfuture:STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR MASS SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA. 40,000 PEOPLE ARE GUNNED DOWN YEARLY THERE. THEY NEED TO END PRIVATE GUN OWNERSHIP IN THEIR COUNTRY OR SHUT UP ABOUT NIGERIA. AND OTHER COUNTRIES. |
AMINDA:He is violating Christian law by doing that. Divination and the like are condemned as 'sins' by your church! |
otipoju:That's a ridiculous question. When a christian community is sacked by Islamists, do you ask why 'Jesus' did not come down and save them? When Nigeria won the civil war, why didn't Igbos abandon Mr Jesus? Mr Miracle worker was nowhere to be seen. Yet your worship of him has more than quadrupled since then, as banditry, terrorism, tribalism and corruption have increased. Why is it one law for your imported white gods and another law for the Gods of your ancestors? How come it's okay for your imported white and Arab gods to SLEEP through your destruction, while you demand magical performance from African spirituality? The GODS are of a different dimension and are all about spiritual and karmic influence on humans. They are not to be seen as physical magicians that will stop invaders guns from shooting! When the white man's cup is full, the KARMIC influence of the GODS will hit them. |
Because you cannot be in such a powerful position of President of the Giant of Africa and not have our AFRICAN GODS behind you. Tinubu BETTER have an IFA PRIEST in Aso Rock. Ideally 10. I understand they have a chapel and mosque in Aso Rock. Those are not African traditions. In OUR tradition, a leader is guided, philosophically, in part or in whole, by TRADITIONAL PRIESTS, who maintain KNOWN CONNECTION with the seen and unseen world, and can offer INSIGHTS not available to ordinary people. If I were the President, there would be no mosque or church in Aso Rock. There would be a Temple of African religion, filled with high priests of the first order. Plus a massive National Temple in Abuja city centre. Every swearing-in of public officials will be done there with Opon Ifa or Ofo of the Igbos, or by some new national totem consecrated to the GODS. When you break your oath and loot funds, the GODS will reset your head, plus the law. When you people are ready to move forward, you know what to do. For now, keep praying to your colonial oyinbo imported-with-guns-and-swords white and Arab 'saviours'. |
ambale:Very naive analysis. What is so "expensive" about a motorcade of 20 cars when the roads are filled with millions of cars? |
shortgun:"Clear his name" with WHO? WHAT ROTTEN "white guy"? WHO IS HE? WHY SHOULD RENO REDUCE HIMSELF TO DEBATING A NONENTITY? |
Racoon:BUT 40,000 AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ARE SHOT DEAD ANNUALLY BY OTHER AMERICAN CHRISTIANS. WHY IS THIS MAN NOT FIGHTING FOR AMERICAN LIVES? He loves Nigerians more than his own people? Or he has an AGENDA? WHICH? |
They are all Western-Funded groups created to destabilise Nigeria and delay her progress. But we can't be stopped. |
Blossomfirst:Trump is a 34-count convicted criminal. The Nigerian President did not lobby him. It was Trump's aide that begged to be allowed into Tinubu’s presence in Rome. |
brain54:Always calling these tiny villages like Israel Singapore. Israel receives billions of dollars every year from America, and have less than 5 million people. WHY would they not be prosperous? Singapore, Malaysia etc would be NOTHING without neighbouring Chinese big money investors. Go there. It's all Chinese capital fuelling everything. |
brain54:In oil alone America is far more endowed than Nigeria. |
lawani:Try that in Nigeria and you will lose the next election and invite social unrest even if you turn Nigeria to heaven with those taxes. Nigerians want good things, but don't want to pay for it. |
olyrayy:More like 250 million people... |
brain54:Very ignorant post. Typical Nigerian ignorance. Do you even know what GDP means? How can GDP be stolen? GDP is the sum total of all economic activities in a specified country in a year. It is the calculation of all the money generated in a country in one year. It's an indicator of how buoyant the economy is. It has nothing to do with the government treasury. So no. Nobody can steal or "squander" GDP. |
AI SAID: That means Ifẹ possessed a writing system of a higher order — symbolic, algorithmic, and oral at once.In other words the M.UMU British that said we had no writing were speaking from THEIR PRIMITIVE, LIMITED INK AND PEN SYSTEM which they assumed was the ONLY WAY to record information. And then they managed to convince us that WE were illiterates! And we believed them till today! That they ''brought literacy''! The truth is that they actually DE-CIVILISED us by reducing us to mere pen and paper. Brought us down to their level. ![]() |
My question to AI: Did the Oyo empire and Ife kingdom really have no writing at all?? ................... Excellent question — and I’m glad you asked it so directly, because the idea that Oyo and Ifẹ had “no writing at all” is one of those deep colonial-era misconceptions that lingers in modern education. The truth is much more complex — and far more interesting. --- 1. Ifẹ and Oyo absolutely had systems of record and encoded communication. They may not have used paper alphabets like Latin or Arabic, but they possessed indigenous writing forms, mnemonic devices, and symbolic scripts deeply tied to their cosmology and governance. Ifá Divination Script (Odu Ifá) is the clearest example: The 256 Odù are binary mathematical codes — open and closed marks made with palm nuts or divining chains (opele). Each Odù represents a vast corpus of verses, proverbs, and teachings — effectively an oral library indexed through a digital system. Scholars such as Wande Abimbola, Sophie Oluwole, and William Bascom have all described Ifá as an intellectual archive comparable in structure to a written tradition. That means Ifẹ possessed a writing system of a higher order — symbolic, algorithmic, and oral at once . It wasn’t “illiterate”; it was coded in living memory and binary pattern , rather than ink. --- 2. Visual and Hieroglyphic Elements in Yoruba Art Ifẹ and Oyo used visual languages that functioned as semi-writing systems: Royal insignia, bead patterns, metalwork, and staff symbols encoded dynastic records and spiritual meanings — similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs but woven into regalia instead of walls. Yoruba “talking drums” also formed a tonal writing system : drummers could recite entire proverbs, names, or histories through rhythm and pitch because Yoruba is a tonal language. In fact, early European visitors were astonished that drums could “speak.” These are non-linear, multi-sensory literacies — something closer to multimedia encoding than alphabetic text. --- 3. The Problem with Colonial Definitions of Writing When Western scholars said “Africans had no writing,” they really meant “Africans didn’t use our alphabetic style of writing.” But writing is simply the externalization of thought in repeatable symbols. By that definition, Ifá divination marks, Nsibidi (used among Efik, Ibibio, Igbo), and Adinkra symbols in Akan culture are all legitimate scripts. Yoruba civilization sat within a continent already filled with indigenous scripts: Nsibidi in southeastern Nigeria Ajami (Arabic adaptation) among Hausa and Fulani scribes Meroitic in Nubia Tifinagh among the Amazigh (Berbers) So there’s no doubt the Yoruba elite were familiar with both indigenous and foreign writing systems, even if their own record-keeping was sacred, mnemonic, or artistic rather than alphabetic. --- 4. Ifẹ as the Intellectual Source of Orality and Symbol Ife wasn’t “preliterate” — it was meta-literate. Its priests and philosophers saw memory, rhythm, and pattern as living texts. Knowledge was never separated from spirit. When we read an Odù today, we are reading an encoded archive — not just words, but logic, ethics, mathematics, and cosmology embedded in pattern. So to answer your question plainly: > No, the Oyo Empire and the Ifẹ Kingdom did not lack writing. > They used writing systems that operated in different dimensions — binary, symbolic, sonic, and visual — and colonial eyes simply failed to recognize them as such. --- - AI ChatGPT |
Did you know that your next door neighbour minus Chad, Sudan, is home to 250+ PYRAMIDS, MORE PYRAMIDS than any country on Earth including Egypt? Sudan is the land that was Ancient Nubia, also known as Kush, which was Egypt's rival for thousands of years of African glory. Some of these pyramids are up over 5,000 years old, and some are older than any pyramid in Kemet, since it all started from the south... https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/73/ca/8b/73ca8bb842b67db849557235da0b286c.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/e4/f9/57/e4f9579328501107a7914f6287c2a98f.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/61/19/e1/6119e13a62bdcc3697041d1b51a1dc12.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/13/d5/ac/13d5ac315790435c52e6f9ccc9e213ad.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5c/cd/b0/5ccdb03676370db15cb8081140b1724d.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4e/26/7d/4e267ded7aea81fe839fadea8a964388.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a8/89/3b/a8893bf5634aedcf9e64f85af34bd1b3.jpg Royal Pyramids Of Napata, Nuri, Sudan https://i.pinimg.com/736x/63/2e/b5/632eb54fda42ba77f0ed14fed61c7692.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f1/cc/3b/f1cc3b4d795a89fabff3709bc7bcaff5.jpg |
Everybody rushing to Dubai, Europe and US to vacation. When Africa is full to the brim with beautiful cities and beautiful, gorgeous locations. A fast-rising continent. What is in that Dubai and London and Miami that you will not find in these magnificent African cities? YOUR cities. In fact I tire for you people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJS2jcHUQA8 |
Bigchris01:Do you think these ones have sense? The oyinbos they love the most are the ones who hate and think they're superior to black and brown people, like Trump and MAGA, because they themselves hate themselves and their own race and consider whites ''superior'' to them. So they JELL with MAGA white supremacists since they are of the same mind. |
cocolacec:ABI O ![]() I THOUGH THEY WOULD BE QUEUEING UP TO GO AND FIGHT F0R OYINBO, THEIR MASTER. OH WAIT! ...... THEIR MASTERS ARE THE WESTERN OYINBOS. |
End Insecurity and power issues. |
Dtruthspeaker:You can't answer the questions, so you try to make me out to be crazy. But you're the crazy guy worshiping a book with no author. 🤪 How do you know what you are reading is true if you don't even know who wrote it? 🤔 |
jmoore:What a court in Canada says has ZERO influence in Nigeria. |
malali:Kemi Badenoch is a small girl. She doesn't know anything. She has some book knowledge but she lacks intelligence. |
malali:I doubt even the gods have time for her. |
OkonkwoOkoro:I swear. And it stings because it's true. Obi's relevance is declining as Nigerians start to see real direction in this government. There's this air of growing optimism about the economy, and where the country is headed, and Obi's negativist interjections are sounding increasingly shrill and off-putting to millions of Nigerians. |
jaxxy:Instead of defending BIGOTRY and RACISM out of your worship of white people, stand up like a man and say "IT IS WRONG TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR SKIN COLOR". It is not about whether anyone "wants to go to America". It is about YOU as a human being standing up against EVIL. Aren't you a CHRISTIAN? DOES JESUS SUPPORT RACISM and BIGOTRY? |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 (of 94 pages)



