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shymexx: Odumchi, don't lock this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/1056701/why-everyone-obsessed-shymmex-nl

I missed the drama and I want another laugh today...

Bwwahahahahaha

It's been relocated.

CAMEROONPRIDE: why did u lock the thread instead of banning the people who derailed it ? do you have to wait so long before taking any actions ?

If you reported it here then I could've taken action a long time ago. You're thread isn't going to be trashed it will just be locked until it I finish cleaning it.

Ileke-IdI:
Seriously, this is frightening.

"Beeni" is one word, with "doh" tone marks on all the vowels. Stop rubbishing my language, thank you.

Maybe I'll do so when you stop "rubbishing" the Queen's language.

Shollypopz: Ma binu, Mi o ni fa wahala mo

I have no clue what you said; I'm not Yoruba o.

Shollypopz: Before I blink, my post is hidden...WOW!! Odumchi well done ooooo

btw, I did not see it, I guess it's a warning rit??!!

Bẹẹ ni.

Shollypopz: Did u PM me?? I can't see ppl's PM in my mail box...Why is that??

Yes I did. Maybe it's in your spam.

Antivirus92: since the first day i met you here, i have been understanding 98% of your dialect. That's why i doubt seriously that what chinenye use to write here is igbo. Any way ur aro dialect resemble awka dialect to a great extent. And maybe aro and awka may have somethings in common. Nri as a town is where nri himself settled. From ancient nri town is where almost all communities in anambra and some part of delta started their migration journey to where they are today. Aguleri/umuleri is where almost all the communities in enugu started their journey. Then these two states enugu and anambra then scattered all through igbo land founding almost all the towns in igboland today with little mix up with other neighbouring ethnicities.

Ndeewo maka ihe i vogbaara m. Aro na Awka di icho nani ihe mere wo ji yikota wu aga a wo na asukota 'v'. Kafee ihe ohu wo di icho.

Biko ka anyi hapu uka Chinenye ka anyi kpaa ihe kwesiri anyi, ka anyi awu umu nwanyi avia na akpakata asiri?

O di nma na I na-aghosa olu m. Onyenye kwesiri ivaka nvaka ka o vu na o ghosara okwu ibe ya.

Shollypopz: Why was my post hidden in the Describe ur country in one word thread?? Blyss started it!! Why was his post not hidden? That's complete ojoro!! After coming up with a beautiful reply, u mods just come and hide it for no reason, mtcheew!

That thread has been seriously derailed and will be locked until further notice.

This thread will be locked until further notice.

bilms: hi, i feel the need to discus this issue because am worried that we are fast loosing most of our beautiful cultural heritage to religion due to ignorance. I am very sure that religion doesnt prevent one from observing their culture,provided it is not worshiping idol and associating anything with God. But Some clerics have label most of our cultures as bad even though it is not in the holy books,this has lead many people to abandone our culture to adopt foreign cultures in the name of religion. We have to seperate the traditional religion from our cultural heritage. Lets list out culture and seperate it from religion. Thanks

I understand where you're coming from. Colonialism has forced many people into thinking that anything indigenous is contrary to the beliefs of Christianity and is therefore wrong.

Personally, I believe that the same God that my ancestors worshiped (Chukwu/Obasi) is the same God that exists in Christianity; the only difference is the name. When people pour libations to Chukwu, they are worshipping the same God as thee Bishop of Canterbury; the only difference is the method.

Kobojunkie: Europeans, and Asians did cross the Sahara. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara

You just gave me the wiki link to the Sahara desert; I didn't see anything there that said anything about Europeans/Asians crossing the Sahara. By "Asian" who are you referring to (since historically Arabs aren't referred to as Asians)?

Kobojunkie: I don't see the relevance of this information here. We all know that that same "dark continent" Was colonized from the horn in the north, down to the south by the very Europeans you speak of.

Now let us get back to the topic which I believe you know has nothing to do with 99% of what you have presented on this issue so far.

The relevance is that knowledge of sub-Saharan Africa was only possible with the development of ocean-going vessels; Europeans knew little to nothing about anything below the Sahara.

Kobojunkie: Soooooo . . . . the same sahara did not make it difficult for those in Europe, Asia, Arabia to cross over to the same areas into and out of Africa? The same Sahara, in which many African tribes were found then, and today, made it near impossuble for those living in those zones to freely explore even the horn of Africa and beyond? They were essentially stuck in Africa because of the Sahara? Is that what you are saying? The same Sahara that even today Africans cross in about the same way as they did 1000s of years ago . . that Sahara? The Sahara is to blame?

You're choosing to ignore the significance of geography in world history. The Europeans and the Asians never crossed the Sahara. The Arabs (to the best of my knowledge) never crossed it either. The only people to cross the Sahara were indigenous merchant caravaners who served as middlemen to the Arabs in the north and the Africans in the south.

The reason why Europeans called Africa "the dark continent" was because they didn't have any knowledge of anything south of the Sahara. It wasn't until European seafarers began sailing down the West Afrifan coast that the West learned about sub-Saharan Africa.

Kobojunkie: Europeans were re-discovering the Roman and Greek Technologies in the 17th Century? Do you realize how absurd that is given that Rome has been at the very heart of European civilization even through to the 17th century and beyond? You do know that the Roman Catholic Church essentially ruled much of Europe till even the 17th century?

After the fall of Rome in 476 AD, Roman and Greek advancements disappeared from Western Europe and were not seen again until the cultural and scientific revival known as The Renaissance (15th century - 17th century). For nearly a thousand years (5th century - 15th century) Western Europe was plunged in stagnant darkness.

Kobojunkie: Sure, Africans had irrigations and roads prior to the advent of westerners. . . where are those roads and how come they choose to retrogress instead of progressing in 'irrigation and roads prior to the advent of Westerners'? And who are these westerners by the way? The Arabs? the Chinese, the portugese who frequented Africa long before those you term "westerners", today, showed up to the scene?

The advent of the Europeans was generally very destructive to African societies. The Europeans brought about rapid change which resulted in the deteriation of societies, empires, kingdoms, and states. For example, in its day, Timbuktu was more advanced and wealthier than any city in Europe and boasted a population in excess of one hundred thousand; now what is it today?

The term "Westerner" refers to Western Europeans (Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and Belgian). Prior to the advent of Western Europeans, the Arabs, the Indians, and the Chinese all traded with the East African trading states. In the north, the Arabs interacted with North African peoples but were unable to move further south because of the Sahara. In fact, the Sahara is the reason why Islam is predominant in northern and Sahelic Africa. If not for the Sahara, much of Africa would've probably been Islamized.

Kobojunkie: Also are you suggesting that when some parts of Africa is up for discussion, comes to development geography, history, climate should only then be considered as 'inhibiting' factors to development and progress?

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Kobojunkie: How was black Africa "cut off" from other cultures and climes? Please explain to us how.

The Sahara made it very difficult (and nearly impossible) to travel northward. The last great pre-European flow of ideas into sub-Saharan Africa was brought about by the Arabs who brought Islam (and some of the technological advances of the Islamic world) into the Saharan region. Other than that, sub-Sharan Africa has been relatively isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years.

Only East and North Africa had any real contact with the outside world.

Kobojunkie: So, you are saying that in, 1600AD, there was no way for our forefathers to have, maybe copied some of the almost 2000 year old greek/roman ideas?

It would've been utterly impossible for any Nigerian group to have knowledge of Roman and Greek technology in the 17th century. In fact, in this time period, the Europeans themselves were re-discovering these long-lost ideas.

Kobojunkie: I mean the Romans had basic systems like water supply, underground drainage, Road construction etc figured out in about 200 BC. And you are saying that even after more than 1000 years, there was absolutely no way the forefathers in Africa could have learned of this and maybe implemented some of these solutions right in Nigeria?
I am just trying to get an idea of where you are coming from with this.

When analayzing these things, you must consider the situations in which these individual civilizations developed and formed. The factors that drove the Romans to conquer the Mediterranean basin were not the same that drove the Asanti to unite. When talking about things like this, you need to consider geography, history, climate, and etc.

Just to let you know, Africans had irrigation and roads prior to the advent of Westerners.

Antivirus92: anyi bu mba olu. Mba si na agburu nri direct(i don't mean eri cos nri is one of eri's son).anyi bukwa lokal govumenti,(ie idemili north and south)

So you understand my dialect? That's good; not many people do.

Anyway...

Inyi na ndi Nri awukwa mba olu? Maka m ma na enwe "Nri" nwere kwa "umu Nri".

Ndaa eze na achi inyi dum?

Ndi Idenmili, inyi abu mba olu, ka o na inyi bikosara onwe inyi na azakwa ava olu?

ifyalways: Is uma half?

In Aro, 40 is ivu abuo. "Forty something" is "ivu abuo na uma". Uma means remainder/change.

ChinenyeN: We say ohu for twenty.

Same name. Interesting.

ChinenyeN: You going to share with us how Aro says twenty as well?

Lol I see you're mocking my questioning method. Anyway, Aro says oghu (pronounced o-hoo).

Chai, Chineke. O nwe ihe m amaa avuvo na uwa a? Terrorist na ali Igbo kwa?

The funny thing is that the document didn't even mention the South-East.

How do you guys say 'twenty'? I'm not referring to Central Igbo which I know is iri abuo.

After all There was no word like IGBO before this time

I ma kwa ihe i kwuga? Are you sure?

For someone of his level in society, her husband has poor dressing skills. The guy looks like a boy-boy sef. I don't know why he just dressed and went to such an occasion - a fashion one for that matter.

Sijo01: 2nd to the last pics, that guy gat 2right legs.

LWKMD

Congrats to them.

The funny thing is that they went to Anambra of all places when it's most likely that they came from elsewhere. Well, I guess you have to start somewhere.

There's an Efik song that my grandmother taught me that is about kids defecating on plantain leaves lol. Although I can't remember the entire song, I recall that the ending goes like this (excuse my butchered Efik):

Tọ ri nwai tọ nkpọ

I was wondering if anyone knew the full song.

Post revealed. Sorry for the inconvenience, Fulaman.

They're as real as rain itself.

Ileke-IdI:
Now this is a plain lie. Ah ahnn. . . . wetin you dey chop sef?

Is it because he doesnt let you run havoc on the politic section?

Let's direct our hate to odumchi jare. That 53 years old man keeps claiming 16. Fraud!!

*yawn*

afam4eva: Is Nairaland now a secret cult that rituals should be performed quietly? Nwanna, biko, i know you're mod and your thought process on this thread is pre-determined. I really don't expect you to support this course.

Odighi.

I am not predisposed to think/act in any manner; I like to think/act independently therefore I believe that one's status (whether as a moderator or as a member) does not mean that they should be immune to the laws of this forum.

What I'm saying is that if a certain person believes that he has been wronged by a certain mod, then he/she should report the person quietly (via email) so as to maintain the integrity of the moderator's post.

It would look bad if the very people that are meant to regulate law/order on this site were involved in scandalous incidents. If so, who then would respect a mod?

But since we are already here, we might as well continue. . .

If you have an issue with a certain moderator, why not just send him/her an email so that you guys can resolve whatever issues you have quietly?