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Cassandraloius:
If it's all painted in black, people will come to the conclusion that the person is a witch.

BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN MENTALLY COLONISED.

In pre-colonial Africa it was an ALL-WHITE COLOURED HOUSE that would be viewed as a 'witch house'.

ChrisFerds:
It will make huge sense with streaks of white here and there

A BLACK HOUSE NEEDS NO ''STREAKS OF WHITE''.

https://loveincorporated.blob.core.windows.net/contentimages/gallery/06f6f39f-4228-4aa1-ad7b-e306ca768bdd-beautiful-black-houses-modern-mansion-oz-garden.png

https://www.benjaminmoore.com/-/media/sites/benjaminmoore/images/advice/exteriors/home-exteriors/2023-refresh/article/black-painted-house-porch-stone-steps-640x640.jpg

Goldsplash:
"They have approved South East Devt Commission. go to south east and see where they are already. apart from state capitals, the rest of southwest looks depressing. we need SOUTH WEST DEVT COMMISSION urgently too. No pride about it".
The south east is where it is today not because of the recently established SEDC or government, but individual efforts. Is he expecting the South West Development Commission to embark on demolition and rebuilding of houses in those areas. The major eyesore are the old houses which can only change when there is extra money in the hands of the people. I reside in one of the capitals (Akure), and it's a surprise to even see some houses built with mud, just plastered with cement.

What’s wrong with that?

You can build a beautiful house ENTIRELY with mud.

It is colonial programming that makes you think mud is inferior for building.

Open Gutter Specialists.

O.G.S.

Prof, is that how they built the road that is in front of your American mansion?

Peter Obi is a narcissist.

He sees people as tools, not humans.

That's why he callously exploited the passing of a supposed 'friend' for political gain.

His 'friend' is only useful to the extent that he can advance his political ambition.

The way Igbos run from these threads eh?

You won't see any of them here.

Only when it's time to insult Tinubu or Soyinka, you will see them.

Kevineleven:
Rules:
1: Stop Using white man phone
2: Stop wearing the clothes they invented
3: Stop speaking or writing with their language
4: Stop wearing their shoes
5: disconnect your electricity
Men there are many things invented by white men that you need to reject not just Their religion.
Africans couldn't have invented any of these things, which made me to believe that God is a white man.
Now you can go and worship your ancestors

Typical brainwashed, ignorant Nigerian buffoon, and compound dullard.

Who told you white people invented clothes?

Your wretched colonial miseducation that filled your little head with trash designed to make you feel inferior?

Where would the world be today without the numerous AFRICAN inventions that civilised the entire world?


12 Amazing African Inventions That Changed The World



1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.



3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY.

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the black races of inner Africa whom he called ''Ethiopians'', dwelling south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Ethiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity."


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."

Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed.

He wrote that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says:

"From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians (ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara) have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found.

..The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished. They still continue to be the objects of curiosity and admiration, and the pen of clear-sighted, cautious historians places them in the highest rank of knowledge and civilization."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3025163?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

unclejb2:
You don't need to sacrifice anything..... Just speak to them in sincerity of heart... If you are calling on Amadioha, do so when it's raining under the rain barefoot

If you are calling Njoku, pack sand and throw. Just ensure that you are doing it with a sincere and open heart

Oh, this is fantastic.

You should write a book or even a pamphlet on this, and market it.

There are many people out there who need this information.

Peoples’ eyes are opening. And not everybody has time to go to village and be asking questions.

Thank you brother 🙏

Sapasenator:
At the heart of every religion the worship of a god or deity. You cannot separate religion from worship. Like you, I gave up on the white man's religion more than 2 years ago.

Never stepped in a church the past 2 years as I realized they are all an elaborate scheme to hypnotize and control members.

Buddhists don’t worship Buddha.

Buddhism and Shintoism are sort of spiritual codes of conduct, fundamentally similar to African religions.

The deity or godhead is seen merely as a conduit or facilitator helping us to access supernatural realities and powers.

MossadAgent:
Another deluded 0su IPOB who thinks he is a Jew .

You know nothing whatsoever about me, so please STFU.

Sapasenator:
Must you worship anything? I don't get the compulsive need to worship. As humans, we have come a long way and we are god.

I never mentioned the word worship.

African religion is not about worship. It’s a different type of relationship that we have with God and the deities, it’s not worship.

MasterJayJay:
You know nothing. If you did any research, you should have known that England were worshipping other gods before Christianity came to them.

That’s irrelevant. Christianity in Nigeria was a British imposition.

Goodvibes007:
Your family must have a god or deity they follow before the accepting Islam or Christianity. You need to go back home and inquire. A clue may also be in your surname or even middle name. One of my middle names has Ifa***** as an example so I know, even though my family has been Christians since the 1920s or thereabouts.

My brother, I asked my family before, and they were looking at me as if I was not okay.

They are too far gone in the church stuff.

unclejb2:
Amadioha is just one deity. Your ancestors worshipped Chukwu Okike. You make supplications to other deities for specific purposes.

If you need Justice, you call on Amadioha
If you need bountiful harvest, you call on Njoku or Ala
If you need healing, you call on Ogwugwu etc

Thank you my brother. 🙏

What is the most effective way to call on these powers?

Is it by prayer?

Incantations?

Should I sacrifice a hen?

risos:
Learn the basics from nature, you are earths child, the inanimate will speak to you.

Thank you boss.

MasterJayJay:
You have done research on Bible but you have not done on your amadioha.

You are the one brainwashing yourself.

Don’t be ridiculous.

We were all raised to be christians, so of course I know more about christianity than Amadioha.

But I’m looking to extend my knowledge beyond the British religious imposition.

budaatum:
I wonder what you mean by "credibility of the Bible and Koran".

Are you aware that Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a fabrication, which could be classed as lies and deceit that you can learn from?

Chinua Achebe was certainly a legendary writer, but I don’t recall him making a claim in Things Fall Apart that he was speaking on behalf of the Almighty, or promising eternal torture in a furnace for those who failed to read his book.

That's why I said read them yourself instead of believing what you've been told.

What makes you think I haven’t read the bible?

I probably knew every verse before you were born.

You might learn the wisdom of using your own senses like Eve did instead of the ignorance of Adam which kept him in naked ignorant slavery

And you believe the story of ‘Adam and Eve’ because……?

Do you have a single shred of evidence of their existence?

You can’t even prove the existence of ‘Jesus’, never mind ‘Adam and Eve’.

Are you aware that by scientific consensus the first modern humans arose in East Africa over 200,000 years ago?

In fact a paint factory was discovered in South Africa recently, complete with evidence of chemical admixture and deep knowledge of chemistry, and was carbon-dated to 100,000 years old.

Google “paint factory discovered in South Africa” to confirm the reports.

HOW DOES THAT SQUARE WITH YOUR ROMAN STORY OF “Adam and Eve”, dated to 6,000 years ago?

Maybe Adam and Eve were the first Europeans, not the first humans.

We know the white race only emerged about 6 or 7,000 years ago. So maybe your ‘Adam’ was the first oyinbo or the first albino.

NOT the first man.

and you might see through the lie of humans being created from mud instead of in the image of their gods too, which would make you master of yourself instead of a slave seeking a master.

It should at least make you less swift to insult.

I seek no master.

I seek knowledge and truth.

budaatum:
Basically, you now want "you guys" or a "traditional priest" to brainwash you instead?

Pity you haven't decided to wash your own brain yourself. If you did, you'd not "follow" and might end up directing yourself at least.

My suggestion is, read the books (Bible and Quran to start with), yourself instead of going to church to stare at a white face.

Unlike you insolent twerp, I’ve actually done research into the credibility of the bible and Koran, and they are very dodgy indeed, and inundated with fabrications, lies and deceit.

So you can stuff that fake bomboclat up your colonial mentality behind.

unclejb2:
Follow whichever deity your ancestors followed. Christianity and Islam are pure scams

I believe my ancestors’ deity was Amadioha.

But I have no idea how to observe the religion!

I’m stuck!

Zooposki:
What if you are god? Follow yourself. Same way god came about might be the same way you also came about.

That’s a very interesting angle.

I never quite saw it that way. 🤔

IduNaOba:
Where are you from...
First gị to the village
Speak with the elders who practise the local spirituality of your place
Then make up your mind.

Thanks for this.

But I’m far from the village right now.

I need immediate solution.

Bump!

Any ideas please?

I’m sick of going to church and seeing that white man face staring at me.

I don’t believe that God is white and that He has a white son that I’m supposed to worship.

I REFUSE to be brainwashed by the British.

Can any of you guys recommend a good traditional deity to follow, please?

Or if not, a good traditional priest who can direct me accordingly.

Much appreciated.

Streetinvestor2:
It is obvious Nigerians don't read.If most people who made comments did read the open letter. They would understand better. Ken made it clear that Apc and pdp is nigeria problems and not an option. His problem is that obi is too gentle for his liking. He wants someone who can defend his mandate no matter what.The only way obi could have done that is call for revolution or protest which he is happy that is about to happen. He is equally not happy that obi is playing by the law with labour party problems. He believes the kingdom suffers violence and the violent takes it with force.
Finally I am 100% in support of his decision..obi is too gentle to a fault. It cannot work in nigeria

You have a very strange reading of that letter.

The thrust of the letter is that Obi is a lying hypocrite, not that he is “too gentle” or whatever nonsense you wrote.

raskymonojendor:
Summary: Peter Obi lacks leadership skills, and he (Kenneth Okonkwo) has NO confidence in him (Peter Obi) to build a party that can wrestle power from APC or PDP.

Obi never was a socialist-minded politician. He’s a pure PDP capitalist, and his association with Labour was just a political ploy to achieve power by pretending to be a populist socialist. That’s why he’s always averse to actually walking the walk in terms of leading and building the Labour party.

It’s not his ideology.

He and Labour are strange bedfellows.

Was it not Obi that declared that ‘schools are not for the poor’ when he was Anambra governor?

A man that refused to pay his state doctors for a whole year?

Dey play.

frog12:
this man should take am easy

Why?

See the kind of foolish advice you are giving him.

To take it easy!

And we wonder why we have problems in this country.

Kalashnikov49:
Joe Igbokwe doesn't have a compound in IGBO land..

Yoruba hailing him have already abandoned him..

Joe Igbokwe is tissue paper...

No level

SHUT YOUR ROTTEN LIPS, YOU DEMON.

Because he is not a hateful tribalist like you, you open your rotten filthy lips to insult him?

How dare you?

STUPID OUTCAST, BUSH, PRIMITIVE TERRORIST TRAITOR BASTARD YOU.

mrvitalis:
75% of those problems would be solved by restructuring along ethnic lines

Let each ethnic nations control their resources and become a federating unit
The ones too small look for who to merge with in a unique binding agreements they are comfortable with

Do that 75% of those problems would disappear

What ''unique binding agreement''?

Any yeye agreement can easily be ignored by the dominant ethnicity.

The truth is that dividing the country will lead you nowhere.

You'll just be multiplying your problems.

Creating 10 NIGERIAS instead of one.

The EXACT SAME PROBLEMS you have in NIGERIA, you will have in your new republic.

The problem of majority ethnic groups dominating the political space to the annoyance of smaller groups.

Nigeria has over 300 ethnic groups.

So assuming the 'big 3' separate and we have 3 new countries, each of them will carry an average of 100 smaller ethnic groups!!!!!

That's another Nigeria!

It might even be worse!!!

So, the solution in my view is internal restructuring of the federation, however long it takes to accomplish it.

We just need to keep pushing for it.

Adelaide2:
16 reasons why the giant of Africa may never get it right in the next 1000 years.

Majority of the people are one, several, or all of:

1. Too poor to think for themselves
2. Too tribalistic to be objective
3. Too religious to be objective
4. Too impressionable to be self willed
5. Too docile to be decisive
6. Too complacent to be proactive
7. Too dependent to be self respecting
8. Too corrupt and corruptible to be independent-minded
9. Too timid to be strong
10. Too cowardly to be reactive
11. Too short-sighted to see a meter ahead of them.
12. Too prayerful to not understand the concept of workless prayer
13. Too shallow-minded to realize the deep hole they are in.
14. Too ignorant to to know to ask the right questions.
15. Too in the past to be in the present.
16. Too in the present to be futuristic.

It is the same in every country on Earth.

The average person has all sorts of issues.

Change only happens when the ruling class realises it is in their interest for change to occur.

In Europe, it was all aristocracy eating their money until decades of civil society activism compelled them to spread the wealth to wider society.

Medipharm:
See you.
What has this government not raised?
They have raised even the Tax you referred to.
They have raised price of petroleum products.
They have raised Electricity bills
The have raised cost of food stuffs
They have raised cost of clearing goods at the ports
They have raised inflation rate.
They have raised the Exchange rates of dollars to Naira.
They are still raising the cost of governance instead of cutting it down.
They have insecurities everywhere.
All these amount to bad governance.
What else do want? For the citizens to start dying before it is called bad governance?

Meanwhile, you should preach a peaceful protest not this. Nigerians have all the right to protest for what they deem unfit for the citizens. Stop tribalizing this protest.
If you begging for them not to protest for a reason it's different thing but to them not to protest and make it a tribal thing you falled that one

Mr Man, there is inflation all over the world. It’s not only in Nigeria. Everywhere prices of everything have risen, since the end of ‘covid’.

So giving us itemised list of risen prices is pointless.

Mr Perfect. The same politicians you supported had promised the same measures, specifically removal of subsidies, that have worsened inflation.

So MANY OF YOU are protesting for political and ethnic reasons, and are HYPOCRITES.

If your preferred leader was in power, YOU would NOT be protesting, and would be attacking others for refusing to give him time to fix the country.

SO THERE IS A LOT OF HYPOCRISY, TWO-FACEDNESS, AND OPPORTUNISM in these scheduled protests.

That is why there is no unity of purpose.