₦airaland Forum

omoovie:
hahaha! Na real this one pass JAMB question!

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Scientists: This will require research. I know there are quite a few African scientists but most of them either fly under the radar or are not given as much credence and press as others. I remember there is a lady who around the 19--50s I want to say added a lot of advancements to the field of naturopathy and horticulture. There is also E. B. Alo a scientist and professor of Entomology and Parasitology. There is Bartholomew Nnaji a co-inventor of the E-Design concept. There are more but like I said---under the radar. Slowly but surely we will start getting more recognition as we enter the "global mainstream".

Philosophers: Most of our philosophers tend to be literature inclined. We have people like Chinua Achebe, Bukky Emechete, J P Clark Bekederemo, Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Chris Okigbo and so many more. Most of their literary works whether prose, poetry or plays take the form of philosophical and often political discourses and satires on society.

Inventors: The first person to prove the concept of the Internet was possible is Phillip Emeagwali a Nigerian. He is considered a Father of the Internet although hardly if ever mentioned. He is also a computer scientist/geologist and won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer – a machine featuring over 65,000 parallel processors – to help analyze petroleum fields.
There is M-o-h-a-m-m-e-d Bah Abba, inventor of the Zeer cooling system. There is the guy in Benin who invented the mechanical pounded-yam pounder. You'D put raw yam and water into the container then turn it on. It would boil and pound your yam for you and you'D get fluffy, delicious pounded-yam in about 30 minutes! Unfortunately his name escapes me.

Economists: Onyema Ugochukwu, Charles Soludo who is currently the chairman of the board of directors for the Central Bank of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is now the current MD of the World Bank and was considered to replace Wolfowitz was a previous Foreign and Finance minister for the country of Nigeria (being the woman to have held possibly the highest role in the Nigerian cabinet so far) and mother of Uzodimma Iweala another Nigerian writer and part of the new school (read younger generation) of Nigerian authors and literary geniuses along with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Helen Oyeyemi and so many more. [/b]



[b]As for this question, the reason for our seemingly everlasting obsession with knowledge generated from outside stems from the fact that like many other African countries - which by the way suffer a similar disease - we are recent products of colonialism and the conquest of Africa. It was only a little over 4 decades ago we became independent and had a chance to form a national identity out of a mishmash of cultures and traditions that had no business being lumped together in the first place (250 tribes that we know of not counting the dialects and the ones that are now extinct in Nigeria alone!). With time and a lot of inspired people we will form a national identity. That will in turn promote appreciating our own knowledge because for now there is still a lot of bickering and in-fighting between people of diverse tribes and traditions. As regards to artifacts, this is indeed a sore topic for many Nigerians. Our artifacts and as such our connections to our past were either stolen/duped from us or unknowingly given away. It is a shocking yet common example of an oppressive power exploiting a weaker or divided one for its own benefit. From the Rape of Benin and the Oba's palace during the "Punitive Expedition" to the excavation of the Nok terracotta heads, the artifacts of many other Nigerian tribes and the finds at Ile-Ife most of these artifacts are gone never to be seen or heard from again. Step into the British museum and tell me how many African artifacts you see. Let's not even go into the people that have African artifacts in their private collections. You get the picture? It is highly unlikely (and this is an understatement) we will ever see those treasures and artifacts on Nigerian soil again. [/b]

Lady temi:
There is nothing wrong when the blonde is in a style that works for that particular person. obviously you cannot be black and walk around wit a paris hilton type of blonde hair.

shotster50:
It defeats the whole point of one being abroad,

chessguru:
I HONESTLY THINK [b]most [/b]Nigerians are indifferent about Obama winning or loosing.

MP007:
hAVE You noticed or done it? The way nigerians, even the once in yankee act when it comes to food and drinks at parties espcially weddings? complete disgace,  most akata and africans always complain about naijaa's attitude when "food don land",

I was at nigerian wedding last week friday,  and my God,  i was ashamed to be a naija man that day because the way my country people dey behave. People eat only one plate and left the party,  but naija no!!!!  come see how naija man dey run with 12 packs or DR pepper water go car like bolt wey win olympics, carrying food to parking lots 10 times, drinking like sH6%t, ,    It got to a point that i couldnt stand it no more. I was mad this particular naija dude, The guy first took two 12 packs of dr pepper into his car and next 4 take way plates and then another 3 packs of 7ups and on and on and on, (him dey run up and down like person wey dey run marathon). ,   wetin dey cause am?