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olatade:
i still respect them nonetheless. some of you can criticize as much as you want to, but let it be known that they're out there sacrificing their lives so me and you can live to see another... or i forgot, and conveniently criticize them on NL

Which nonsense sacrifice?

Do they not get paid for the job?

Do they not collect the promotions and attendant perks it comes with?

Do they not know what it entailed before signing up?

Can they choose to quit & work other jobs elsewhere like regular people?

Abeg, miss me with that 'sacrifice'. It is a job like every other, to make economic ends. Stop sounding 'ignant' with that sacrifice BS.

DarkLover:
I have lot to contribute here but my laptop is bad. Too lazy to type for long on phone.

Many misrepresentations, tweaked facts and few truth here.

like someone had rightly pointed, cultural names play a lot in identification, with my Yoruba name I could obtain indigeneship from Lagos or any southwestern states, during my stay in ondo state I met few people from akoko edo who speak Yoruba and bear the name, that's why many people refers to them as Yoruba without them refuting it.

Do not deceive yourself sir, every LG in S/W has a log of family compounds [Agbo Ile] of early settlers of every hamlet under it [LG] as well as a list of the lineages under each family compound [Agbo Ile].

This is among every other layers of insulation to LG declaration acquisition - the last of which is to collect a letter from your Baale.

Even Yoruba people can not claim citizenship of towns that are not theirs maternally or paternally. And in fact, the ancestry of one's father or mother are often considered by family compouds along the lines of the history of the father or mother's town; the inter-group relations between the parents' towns [for instance towns that have been at each others' necks fighting wars]; and if any of the parents are non-Yoruba see Akeredolu for instance & people that married outside Yorubaland]

This is not to say LG officials won't grant you indigeneship if you can part with good money but then, all of these factors & more play solid roles in indigeneship acquisition from LG & legitimacy from the family compound.


Cheers.

X.

Olu317:
Certainly, there were reason before white researchers claimed connection to East. Diop assertion was East Africa, origin connection. Mind you, circumcision of both male and female was prevalent in ancient Ethiopia but their burial system was anciently different.

Obalufon, this is why everyone seems to have a problem with your friend. He does not understand the things he read. He has no analytical skills and he is very naive - he takes things as is instead of critiquing first.

Mr Olu, since you did not know, I would like to educate you again like others have been doing.

What Europeans wrote was that you, a black man, were too dumb & at the base of human existence.

They wrote that you were very unintelligent, your brain capacity could not have invented indigenous monarchy; you were too crude to do the Ife & Esie artworks; you were equals with monkeys that you could not organize a village. So they invented the Hamitic hypothesis that everything of value in Ife/Africa was created/invented by Arabs, Hebrews, Europeans who were early occupants of Africa and you the black man only came into the picture from nowhere and met these artworks & civilization on ground.

Everyone from Fobrenius, Dierk Lange, Mundo Park to Christian missionaries like Bowe nthe founder of Baptist Church held the same view.

Look at what Bowen the founder of Baptist had to say about you, a black man:

The true or typical negro, as every one knows, is distinguished by his low organism.

His jaws are prognathous or monkey-shaped, his forehead retreating, his face larger than his hairy scalp, his feet broad and flat, his heels long, and his legs almost without calves.

He is athletic, has a strong but harsh voice, is more capable of enduring fatigue and exposure to heat and moisture than other men, is more easily affected by certain drugs, and yet suffers less pain from blows, wounds, or surgical operations than others.

His intellect, and especially his reasoning faculties are weak, his moral perceptions low, and his animal feelings strong.

He appears to be a stranger to modesty, doing and allowing things with brutal apathy, which other races can not tolerate. I doubt whether any negro of this class has ever felt disgust, or ever will.

They are naturally incapable of refined feelings.

- Bowen, T. J. (Founder, Nigerian Baptist Convention) in 'Central Africa: Adventures and missionary labors in several countries in the interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856'

In essence, Olu, your pursuit is misplaced. The whitemen said those who created what makes you proud as a Yoruba today were not back men but those with caucasian phenotype. And that you, Olu, only came from where no one knows & occupied a civilization that existed before you.

Europeans tried the same thing with Bini when they claimed Bini artworks were done by Portuguese. They disagreed wit te fact that Bini people could do such wonders. They even invented a story around this to say Bini kings had some Portuguese backgrounds/connections.

Today, in our very eyes, the history of Egypt is being whitewashed daily. They are trying so hard to push a narrative that old Egyptians were not negro but caucasia looking. I am guessing if Olu reincarates in next few centuries he will begin to disturb everyone then with claims that old Egyptians came from Caucasus mountains.