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[quote author=khia post=29529824][/quote]Be nice to both.

Wisedomain:
A king was engaged in a war and he was
undergoing defeat, so he decided to run for
safety, thereafter hiding in a cave, while
inside the cave, he saw an Ant trying to lift
an object across a wall which he observed
carefully, the ant failed in all attempt of
lifting the object across the wall, but the ant
never gave up, so the king began to count
the number of times the ant attempted
lifting the object, the King counted to the
sixty-ninth attempt by the ant to no avail,
and by the seventieth (70) attempt, the ant
successfully moved the object. This inspired
the king who boldly came out of his hiding,
organized his already fleeing soldiers, and
later became successful in the fight.

INSPIRATION: What you need to achieve your
dream may be that one more action you
need to take, so go ahead.
switlife

Some people say that king was Alexander the Great

khia:
Yes she carried him for 9 months and hopefully raised him to be a man and not a mommy's boy.
Hmmmm!! What does the bible say about leaving your mommy and clinging to your wife?
A man who lets anyone disrespect/mistreat his wife is not a man at all and shouldn't have gotten married but remained single and continue to be mommy's little boy.

Im not a christian.

Is this the same bible which mistreats women in its verses?

Being respectful to your mother is being mummy's little boy now?

Are you actually being serious?

muafrika:
Hey, are you done with sleep like me or is it day time there?

Its day time

9:33 am

What about you?

muafrika:
...more bantu good looks...

We're doing plaits next.

Who else can do that?

The 2nd girl has to be my favourite.

igbo2011:
http://www.siliconafrica.com/why-african-men-are-so-weak/



Thoughts? Do you think this is true or false?

TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEE

Omarbah:
More than a half century later after the independence movement and more than century after serious contact with European civilization, our beloved continent lags when it comes to technological progress. Superstitions still remain in force even among the African elite. Passion rather than reason is still the norm. Cultural alienation is on the rise. Most Africans living in cities cannot speak their native language without borrowing words from the English or French language.

I've always wondered why were the Arabs after the advent of Islam able to build so much in the 300 years that ensued. Or why was the European renaissance such a success that they rule the world to this day despite being far behind China at the time. Why did the Koreans that had the same level of economic development as Cote d'Ivoire in the 50s and beginning of 60s were able to surpass them. In short why other cultures are able to assimilate science and technology at such pace and why are we failing to do the same on our continent. Even if we are doing it, one has to agree that the pace is really slow and at this rate we will never catch up with the rest of world.

Despite the cultural differences of the Arabs, Europeans and Asians, there is one similarity to the renaissance they witnessed. All of these groups made progress while maintaining their language. The Arabs translated books from Greek to Arabic to spread knowledge as much as they can. It is in Baghdad that Muslims founded their school of translation, every Greek book they could lay their hands on was translated to their language.

The Europeans will do the same. They will build up from the knowledge left by the Arabs and translated thousands of books in Latin. Constantine of Carthage of the Toledo School of Translators translated multiple texts on medicine including the Canons of Medecine of Avicenna. He went ahead and founded a School of Medicine to spread the knowledge. Frederick II of Palermo had in his court intellectuals that translated the work of Arab astronomer Al-Farghini and Ptolemy's Almagest. Some of the books translated to Latin originally came from Greek intellectuals but was lost in Europe and they had to translated them back to Latin from Arab to have access to the knowledge. This is to name of few. For those interested in the influence of Islam of the European renaissance, a simple google research will answer your questions.
And more recently, the Japanese, Koreans translated European books in their native languages. This has contributed greatly to the amazing technological progress they have witnessed.

All of these groups did the same thing, absorb science and technology but retain their culture. They translated works from other languages to theirs not only to ease the learning on their people but also to enrich their culture and language. That in my opinion among others, is something we, as Africans, need to do.
Could you imagine how much we can fight ignorance if learning science in Hausa, Lingala, Swahili, Fulfulde is encouraged?

What is your opinion? Why do you think we still lag behind others in science and technology?

In answer to your question:

You are the source of Africa's troubles

Muafrika, your thread seems to be Nairalands culture hotspot

TerryCarr:
there is nothing to argue about it got derailed

How did it get derailed?

You tried saying somalis are slaves, we argued about it, us somalis were clearly winning, and you ran away from your own trouble-maker thread like a coward.

khiaa:
This is the only real advice, I said be stern/honest with his mother it has nothing to do with being disrespectful.
Let no man/woman put assunder, this includes mothers/mother-inlaws.
Too many mothers/mother-inlaws think they have the right to come and run their childrens home.

Just speaking sternly to his mother, the lady who bore him for nine months and brought him to this earth, is disrespectful. The man who speaks sternly to his mother is not a man at all.

khiaa:
Why isn't she staying in her own home?
The husband should have a stern talk with his mother and remind her that she is in his and his wife's home and should behave accordingly and respect his wife
The husband must remember that he is the king and his WIFE is the queen of their castle/home.

This is bad advice because the husband must be respectful to his mother. There is no excuse to disrespect his mother by being 'stern' with her.

2undexy:
hw can that be done?

Buy her gifts, maket her feel welcome etc.

She probably thinks your taking her daughter away from her or something.

Just be a nice person, it may take some time but she will eventually be a nicer person to you

Kenyan Lady aka Fat Gorilla, I'm not stalking you.

Be like Hansel and Gretel and push the witch into the fireplace

Im just joking. Maybe you should try to be nice to her. Win her over or something

neoapocalypse:
He deserves to die cos he slapped a lady who ran into his car with her car? and some ediotas actually like this comment

Not die, but he doesn't deserve what kind of man hits a lady.

He would have been better off as a eunich, too bad he died

TerryCarr, your a coward.

Why'd you run away from the last argument?

Ill provide you a link to your own foolish thread

https://www.nairaland.com/2070966/being-black-no-joy-somalians

muafrika:
Ohh, thanks dear,

Your welcome

TerryCarr:
http://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2013/08/somali-woman-researches-health-risks-skin-lightening-practices
http://www.cosmeticsdesign.com/Regulation-Safety/US-study-finds-Somalians-go-to-extremes-to-lighten-skin

Thats the one and only post that I've seen every time I come across these kind of arguments and I believe its hoax .

I was in somalia two years ago, and only the promiscuous ladies lightened their skin. Basically saying that anyone who lighten their skin was seen as a hooker. BTW I do not mean this in offense to anyone who has bleached here as this is only in Somali culture.

And its the same thing that Bororojo tried to post.

gallivant:
Typical coward.It's in your nature.

Nope, i live in the land of many kangaroos.

It was 11:48 so I decided to call it a night and head to bed

gallivant:
Lol

Fire away...I am ready with a dose of reality.

TOMMORROW MORNING.

Y

gallivant:
It's the truth.Somalis here need a dose of reality.

You're lucky I have respect for muafrika

Bororojo:
omg.... I wouldn't call her Ugly... but she is well, just average....
Her face is nothing spectacular.

He was referring to her rear end not her face

Nothing