₦airaland Forum

JASONjnr:
Leaving the country in a complete mess while roaming around to enjoy good serenity of other well built countries....

Get rid of your inferiority complex.

Brazil slums:

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CharleyBright:
Did you ask if:
1. Narenda Modi was imposing all manner of endless Taxes on the people of India after removing fuel subsidy?
2. Did you ask AI if Narenda Modi gave a timeline with which he will use monies he will derive from subsidy removal to achieve economic benefits and was accounting for the monies utilized?
3 Did you ask AI if Narenda Modi was using monies derived from Subsidy removal to buy Presidential Jets and fleet of luxurious cars or use the monies to service himself and his family?

Op both you and AI are werey trying to compare ogbologbo Ole with modi

OH SHUT UP......

Did you see the massive plane Modi arrived Nigeria on?

But when Tinubu travels he should use okada or keke for you.

YES, MODI has imposed taxes across India especially for businesses.

THAT IS HOW COUNTRIES MAKE MONEY. THROUGH TAXATION.

Bright12660:
God bless you. No more DEI hire and all those things. The best hands should do the job irrespective of the colour.

So THERE ARE NO BLACKS in America that can do the job?

You need to bury your head in shame.

Disgusting wretched slave.

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Look at the nasty, worthless people drowned in inferiority complex that we share the same country with.

SPIT.

Noblechykk:
Early morning is a time to ponder on how to better your life no matter how good it presently is, assuming your are Ribadu's son, not time to write rubbish. You think you are in Nigeria where Igbos will cry that Tinubu didn't appoint Igbos or Yoruba will complain that Jonathan marginalised the Yoruba. If Trump do bad it will affect both the white and black Americans. He does well, both will benefit.

What a filthy, disgusting comment.

You would say anything to justify your slavery to a white racist, won't you?

ACTUALLY NO, IN AMERICA FAIR REPRESENTATION IS A BIG DEAL.

It is not acceptable to appoint an all-white cabinet in a multiracial society.

NOT JUST IN AMERICA. ALL OVER THE WORLD.

It is not only in Nigeria that people insist on FAIR REPRESENTATION.

See how he even made it out to be a bad thing, so he can remain a slave to Trump.

Disgusting.

HgAkpobomeEr:
They will be back to crying for reparations in 2025.

Self-hating black man.

See where his self-hating slave mind went to...

TUFIAKWA.

The kind of im.be.ciles we have on this Nairaland is shocking.

gidgiddy:
If what you're saying were true, long time ago Nigeria would have offered the South East referendum since "one Nigeria" is not by force. Nobody is annexing anyone if ypu are using democratic referendum. As for what you are calling South South, the constitution of Nigeria does not recognize anything called Region's, South South or South East

Nigeria cannot “offer you” a referendum without your Igbo leaders in the House and Senate raising a Motion for secession.

So far they have done and said NOTHING.

Do you think Nigeria will “offer” you a referendum because IPOB illiterates are carrying out their bush savagery on the streets?

Damn mor.on.

gidgiddy:
After saying this, he will still be looking for 'one Nigeria' with the same Igbo

Nobody is looking for any One Nigeria with you. If you want to secede, go with your 5 Igbo states and nobody will touch you.

Trouble only starts when you start trying to annex the south south and other non Igbo regions.

Then you will see trouble.

Ole.

SpartaOfLagos:
This man is a fool and a very big one

The herdsmen are killing and kidnapping your people and Obas in large numbers but it's the Igbos that are your problem .

This so called Aare kakanfo is the biggest fool on earth

Whataboutism - the first refuge of the guilty.

Rather than address what he is saying, they’ll say “oh don’t look there.. Look here.”

And they think they are so wise doing that, and nobody can see it.

Naija people, can you see?

The guy don run.

He can’t say where he is from.

They are foreign demons who come here pretending to be our people.

This type of thread bites them like scorpion, and they always rush in to attack it.

I can smell them from miles away.

The guy don run.

Oyinbo?

Don’t joke with them.

Criminal deceivers.

ZekeYeager:
These are all valid points backed up by real (and not imaginary) history. Watch how they will resort to the hurling of insults and personal invectives because they have no answers when they are confronted with the truth.

WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM AND WHY ARE YOU HERE ON THIS THREAD?

ZekeYeager:
You can believe whatever you want. I am 100% a black man and I am not ashamed of the color of my skin. Unfortunately, I don't think the same can be said for a pathological liar like you.

LIAR. WHAT PART OF NIGERIA ARE YOU FROM?

ARE YOU CLAIMING TO BE NIGERIAN?

I DARE YOU TO LIE.

^^THIS DUDE IS NOT A NIGERIAN.

ASK HIM WHY HE IS HERE AND SO TRIGGERED BY THIS THREAD?

THESE ARE WHITE GUYS.

THEY ARE NOT OUR PEOPLE.

I THINK SOMEONE PAYS THEM TO COME HERE AND ATTACK ANY NON-EUROCENTRIC OUTLOOK.

ZekeYeager:
I am a black African and a Nigerian, just like you. But unlike you, I don't suffer from a low self esteem, a low IQ and a need to appropriate another culture's historical and cultural achievements as my own.

YOU ARE NOT A NIGERIAN.

YOU ARE NOT EVEN AN AFRICAN.

WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU HERE?

I KNOW YOUR TYPE.

WHITE SUPREMACIST DEMON.

WHO SENT YOU HERE AND WHY DOES THIS THREAD BOTHER YOU SO HEAVILY?

ZekeYeager:
Of course you will never consult any credible source that exposes your lies and self deception. You will keep circulating your moronic narratives within yourselves because none of you will ever have the guts to publicly stand by the absurdities you believe in.

I'm beginning to suspect there is a case of undiagnosed mental delusion to be made for you quasi historians and flat earthers. After all believing in something that doesn't exist is the living definition of mental delusion and you are over qualified to be a prime specimen of how that delusion manifests.




Yes, you were forced to backtrack on Cleopatra after your fellow quasi historian Jada Pinkett Smith was globally slammed for her idiotic rendition of Cleopatra as a black West African woman on her Netflix Show! I really enjoyed seeing the quasi historians around me wail as the global backlash against the Cleopatra series swallowed them up.

Where are you from?

You’re not a Nigerian.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON NAIRALAND?

ZekeYeager:
Honestly, my brother, I am fed up with these charlatans and their lies. They make Africans look irredeemably stupid the way they keep fabricating fiction and presenting it as historical fact. And if you point out their lies, they will either say you have a colonised mindset or that you have a slave mentality.

It's really worrying how they have been given a free hand on almost every platform to propagate their lies at will without anybody attempting to fact check them.

This guy is a white guy pretending to be African.

I can swear it.

They are many of them on this forum.

Snakes who hate topics like this.

Who are you?

Where are you from?

Demon.

LandMann:
As in eh! Nigeria is filled to the brim with the dullest of black people. They can't read to understand. They can't make intelligent comment or contribution to any discussion. Just very brainless group who have been mentally enslaved through years of religious indoctrination.

Nigeria's problem is we are trying to live as a whole when each atom that makes the whole is vibrating at totally different frequencies.

The igbos have their natural culture that instills discipline and right morality on Igbo children.

The Yorubas too have their own culture and traditions that prevents the growth of vices in their children.

The Hausas and Fulanis equally have a culture and religion that will instill discipline and moral uprightness in the worst of their children, if they're left alone.

But Nigeria as a whole has non of these. Nigeria as a whole is where thieves, bandits, corrupt people and the worst of society run to for survival and protection. The Igbo person can be an outcast and punished for deviating from the moral teachings of his people but once he runs to Nigeria, he'll get protection. Likewise the Yoruba and Hausa Fulani.

This is why I say that Nigeria ought not to be, and if Nigeria must be, then the arrangement of the relationship between the constituent parts must be such that allows each to function and operate at their own frequency without any interference from an outsider.

Honestly it’s tragic.

Look at the very simple logic of the OP’s argument that even a kid should grasp, and you have these low IQ cretins arguing against developing a philosophical basis for societal development based on our history.

Something that every other serious country has done.

I mean, it’s incredible.

Many people are just dumb in this country. No brain at all.

Big loud mouths but nothing upstairs.

This John whatever his name is said I’m blaming white people for our problems!

That’s what he deduces from the whole debate!

Can you imagine?

johnog4sure:
Just read the nonsense you typed, have you said anything? What stop you from moving on now? the white still stumping you? they stop you from developing agriculture? education? science? medicine? technology? even your so-called religion? but we should join you in blaming them instead of getting busy developing ourselves? while you continue in the blame game those who are willing to advance are already advancing.

Shut up and use your brain to understand the thrust of this thread or GET LOST.

Low IQ.

johnog4sure:
My brother, the way they propagate their lies is nauseating, I had stopped watching their stupid videos on youtube, and this idiot on this forum keep insulting people calling people "inferiority complex" when he is the one suffering from it, I am not bragging many whites(other races inclusive) listen to me when I talk, its all about how you develop yourself as a person that matters not by BLAMING PEOPLE WHO WERE WISE ENOUGH TO HAVE IMPERIAL AMBITION EARLY ENOUGH.

What lies, you little Asswipe?

Every single point I have raised is backed by SCHOLARSHIP, and is well referenced.

So SHUT UP, you Tool of imperialists desperate to see Africans mentally colonised to Eurocentrism.

Africa will not rest until she dismantles the tools of imperialism and self hate blocking her progress, and if you don’t like to hear that, go eat cow dung.

johnog4sure:
I keep warning kids on this forum, DO NOT INSULT PEOPLE ON A FACELESS FORUM, you will learn the hard way soon. Back to the topic, first I will correct you; I have been irreligious for years(this is why you dont talk anyhow when you dont know who you are dealing with), I don't do any of your religious bullshit wether imported or indigenous, also I have been opportune to interacted with many people from different races, and I can PROUDLY say I consider myself superior to all them all, maybe with a little exaggeration, not because I am black skinned, but because I developed myself.
You foolishly rant without answering the question I asked earlier, many races suffered from others imperial ambitions, they moved passed it, why can't you move on? its 2024 you are still blaming the white? let me remind you, black DID NOT SUFFER HALF of what the JEWS suffered, banished from their land, history burnt, suffer numerous persecution, only have a country I think in 1943, even if personally the Israelites are not so-much my favorite people I will not ignore TRUTH and FACTS.

Or is the Japanese that gave themselves just 20 years target to move from being called "under developed" to becoming an industrialized nation, they even surpass their own expectation, during the world war 2, they refused to be called small, they dear to battle where the European powers dread(Pearl harbor, let me remind you that America was not yet considered a world power then).

I can go on sighting several examples, but let it not be that I am re-educating a nonentity on a faceless forum, Thomas Sowell has several books where he talked about race and inequalities go and get some education. NOBODY OWE YOU ANY APOLOGY, THE BLACK AFRICAN RACE AS AT NOW! HAS ALL IT TAKES TO BUILD THE GREATEST NATION. BUT CHALATANTS ARE STILL BUSY PLAYING THE BLAME GAME.

This one is just ranting nonsense.

You don’t care about religion.

But the JAPANESE do.

And they observe their TRADITIONAL faith of Shintoism and TRADITIONAL philosophy of Nihonjinron which serve as a basis for their solidity.

Development doesn’t occur in a vacuum.

It must be rooted in the grassroots of your society, and watered by the wisdom of your history.

Without that, it will flounder.

That is the thrust of our argument.

Nigeria NEEDS that.

Desperately.

So stop ranting and tearing your hair out over simple common sense.

This isn’t rocket science.

Even American solidity is encapsulated in the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom.

ShoeGetSize:
Africans and Indians/Dravidisns have zero genetic similarities that would suggest any sort of kinship between two people outside of their common humanity.

There is mitochondrial or other genetic
markers which support your theory that Dravidians are African descendants.

This kind of desperate falsification of history to boost the low esteem of Africans is not uncommon. I mean you guys desperately tried to make Cleopatra a black woman until historians called you out for falsifying Cleopatra's history as a Macedonian and Persian woman.

I'm beginning to think that Africans love being at the bottom of everything, including intellectual honesty.

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DId you just use ChatGPT as your source of historical information?

Dude, this stuff is WAY over your head. We African researchers DO NOT rely on mainstream Eurocentric falsification and whitewashing of history as exemplified by ChatGPT for our historical research.

And please don’t pulll that Cleopatra nonsense on me. I have not mentioned Cleopatra and do not consider her to be a major figure in Egyptian history.

ZekeYeager:
Go to China, Japan, Korea, Europe and spit out this nonsense for them. Let us enjoy the privilege of watching you turned into a global laughing stock overnight.

Why are Africans such pathological liars?

Look at this mumu.

Did you even watch the videos posted?

This is all based on documentary and DNA evidence provided by the Chinese and other international scientists themselves.

Just because their media doesn’t talk about it doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Watch the videos and quit being a mor.on.

ZekeYeager:
Those people are Dravidians, not Africans. Dravidians are the people of Southern India and they have always been dark skinned. They are not African. Africans are not the only race of dark skinned people on the planet.

The ancient black settlers of China were NOT Dravidians.

The Dravidians were PURE 1000% AFRICANS from Ethiopia who settled in India, replacing the PRIOR short statured black Hottentots, also known as Pygmies or Negritos who were the first settlers in every continent on Earth.

The black Dravidians from Africa ruled India for thousands of years before Aryan hordes from Iran invaded and fought them for centuries, and finally subdued them and created the nasty racist caste system currently being suffered in that country by the dark skinned population.

This is a great video on the ancient African presence in India, titled “When India Was African”.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFMcfG46_34?si=dP4-Cvwt57DLV7L9

DWickedLandLord:
So na yesterday's news you want to use brag?

The World works on Evolving Scale

Just look at the LEAP Asian countries made in the last 50 years. Meanwhile your Africa....

The reason they made that leap is because they did not abandon their religion and cultural philosophies which undergird their development.

Development does not happen in a vacuum.

It must come from the activation of YOUR heritage, not by its abandonment and the wholesale adoption of a foreign heritage.

There are NO PEOPLE ON EARTH who have prospered by abandoning and shunning their traditional religions, philosophies and cultural heritage.

Until this simple fact permeates your mentally colonised heads, you will make no serious headway on this Earth.

You will just be going round in circles, wobbling and fumbling ad infinitum.

johnog4sure:
First of all, you do not have to insult anyone to make your point, I can bet none of you is more pan-African than I am, as matter of time I am writing a book on that subject, and that is why I had done and still doing heavy research on how we(Africans got to where we are today) presently I am re-reading some books I have read before and I will recommend you read them before you insult your PAPA.
"How Europe under develop Africa". 2. "Wretched of the earth-by Frantz Fanon" Even after consuming this anti-colonial materials, if we must be sincere we were not the only race who suffered from imperial ambition of some other people, the Americans, China, Japan, India even the Europeans had same experience from the old Roman empire. Why is it that its only Africans that won't move on?
The attached pic should help u put on your thinking cap instead of insulting person wey pass u

You people are CURSED with inferiority complex.

It is a spiritual CURSE you are suffering.

The REASON that palm wine tapper is still tapping palmwine the same way is because YOU MORONIC slaves to whites ABANDONED him, and forgot and trashed you own traditions of production to chase after everything white.

You shunned him and his practices just like you shunned your ancient religions and philosophies to chase “Jesus’’ and other FOREIGN NONSENSE, and then you have the TEMERITY to post his picture to mock whom?

Who are you mocking?

If you weren’t so busy trying to be white men in in black skin, by now you would have developed a more modern, efficient way to tap palmwine.

BLAME YOURSELVES FOR YOUR SELF HATE AND INFERIORITY COMPLEX THAT MADE YOU ABANDON THE PALMWINE TAPPER whom you shun today as ‘primitive, backward’ and even laugh at him, because you’re THICK.

Colonised cretins.

Is he supposed to be the one to innovate new ways of tapping wine?

Did you support or educate them?

You SHUNNED THEM same way you SHUN everything about your heritage.

THAT IS WHY HE IS STILL TAPPING WINE LIKE HIS ANCESTORS.

That is why your traditional religion is practiced in dirty, poor bush shrines, while you build beautiful churches and mosques in honour of FOREIGN TRADITIONS.

When you abandon your own, it stagnates, and regresses.

So who are you mocking?

Thoughtless person you.

SHAME ON YOU, WHITE WORSHIPER.

It is your sick slave mentality to whites that caused the end of local indigenous creativity.

Xx

I mean...according to the whites you think are soooooooo superior to you, because some dirty colonial officers brainwashed your grandpa.

To summarise.

''BENIN CITY WAS ONE OF THE BEST PLANNED CITIES IN THE WORLD WHEN LONDON WAS A PLACE OF THIEVERY AND MURDER.

THE CITY WAS SO SAFE AND CRIME-FREE THAT THEFT WAS UNKNOWN, AND THE PEOPLE LIVED IN SUCH SECURITY THAT THEY BUILT NO FRONT DOORS TO THEIR HOUSES.

BENIN CITY HAD STREETLIGHTS 300 YEARS BEFORE LONDON.

THEY USED AFRICAN MATHEMATICAL FRACTAL DESIGN TO BUILD THE CITY.

A FORM OF MATHEMATICS THE VISITING EUROPEANS HAD NOT DISCOVERED YET.

THE BENIN EMPIRE BUILT A WALL THAT WAS 4 TIMES LONGER THAN THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA AND CONSUMED A HUNDRED TIMES MORE MATERIAL THAN WAS USED TO BUILD THE LARGEST PYRAMID IN EGYPT.

VISIBLE IN ITS ENTIRETY ONLY FROM OUTER SPACE, THE BENIN WALL AND RAMPART SYSTEM REMAINS TILL TODAY, THE LARGEST SINGLE HUMAN CONSTRUCTION ON PLANET EARTH''.

Like I said. I have a lot more to educate you people. JUST WAIT.


I WILL SHOW YOU THAT YOU ARE ILLITERATES OF YOUR HISTORY, AND THAT AFRICA IS THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATION.

IGNORANT, LOST PEOPLE brainwashed to self hate.

kenedyx:
You're very quick to scream colonial mentality. What an irredeemable cretin, a lout of magnanimous proportions. Tell me what positive contributions your traditional system brought onto the society. A tradition used by yahoo boys to perform human sacrifices for money rituals. One that promotes polygamy resulting in overpopulation. A tradition that believes in juju and demonic spirits and you dare compare it to such an enlightened religion like Buddhism. Tell me exactly how your traditional religion has contributed to civilization so far.

That black European you call your ancestor will deny you and call you primitive if you come at him with this rubbish. He's far more advanced than you.

There's no shame in saying the truth, especially when the facts abound that you're a third world country that can't even manufacture toothpick. Instead of you to become productive and use your brain you're here spewing trash. What have you produced with your traditional religion, you this hegoat?

All you do is blame the West. Who tied your hands to use your juju to bring civilization to your people? Oh, I forgot, civilization is not your goal, you want to go back to the hunter and gatherer stage. Fool! Any talk of civilization or development that does not involve production, manufacturing and invention but about juju and sacrifices is as stupid and useless as the p in psychology.

Traditional religion kill you there. Idiot!

How does one begin to respond to this lost person who carries his inferiority complex like a badge of honour?

You know what? Let me show you that you are a dunce.

Here's some of your history.

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This is from the UK Guardian Newspaper.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace

With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?


Fri 18 Mar 2016 07.30 GMT

15th Century Portuguese rendition of Benin City, showing large monuments and multi-storey buildings
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This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”.... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them….

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

....The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king’s court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous. The city was literally covered in it.

The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power – the carvings would create contrasting patterns in the strong sunlight. Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles.

At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”

What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations.

.....Then in 1897, the city was destroyed by British soldiers – looted, blown up and burnt to the ground''.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


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I've only just STARTED.

THERE IS A LOT MORE TO EDUCATE YOUR THICK SKULL ABOUT OUR GLORIOUS AFRICAN PAST.

Beverlyjean:
at mr biggs fried rice or jollof with chicken, moimoi , salad and coke goes for 1900...

That's One Dollar and 18 cents.

Or 93 pence in UK. Less than £1.

People from abroad go enjoy Naija sha.

That stuff you listed cannot be less than £20 in UK.