PhysicsQED:


Yeah, it's been a while. I've been trying to ease out of nairaland by visiting/posting/reading less often so that I spend my time much more productively. So far it's mostly been a success. But I will still post on here for a while longer, as there are still some threads I meant to get around to responding to and finishing posting on.

Nice to see that you're still around somewhat, still creating controversy.

PhysicsQED:

OdenigboAroli:


Broda ,Tommy Sotomayor is the realest black man I know and he is NO coon.

kingston277:
Nigeria's past was where its at.

RandomAfricanAm:


Actually I'm a bit disappointed because there are deep issues no one is hitting. Though I don't really blame anyone here. I actually keep kicking myself because I don't feel like making the contribution I should be making.

I'm trying to cox myself into it right now actually.

GenBuhari:
What year was this book written? was it written in English by any chance?

GenBuhari:
The evidence PapaAfrica presented does not prove that Africa kept and traded slaves.

first it has not been established that the white man had not already entered taken over parts of Africa during the period the of the books. In the absence to clarity that Europeans have not yet entered Africa what prove is there that the author was indeed African?

In any case without being directed to the exact part that slavery was mentioned how can we verify PapaAfrica's evidence? Or is he expecting us to comb through the books searching for that particular mention?

My view is that it is better come to terms with the fact that you do not have records of your ancient history than to accept an unproven and shameful and dishonourable history about us written by European who are our historical enemy.

Do you agree? Or would you rather accept the shameful history written about you by the white man?

GenBuhari:
Can you all tell me which country you are from?

GenBuhari:
Which sources is that?

The question I posed was did slavery exist prior to the advent of Europeans in Africa?
Has the ancient historical documents of our ancestors confirm that they kept and traded slaves before the first Europeans claimed to have set foot in Africa?

If your source does not meet these criteria, then we can not rely on them.

GenBuhari:
Just a question: are you a black African?

GenBuhari:
Yes really!
Provide the ancient historical records of our ancestors to prove your point!
Do not forget Africans have had hundreds of years of Europeans controlling the history we teach in our schools so oral traditions are very meaningless. Can you present "oral tradition" as evidence in a court of law? have you heard of "chinese whispers"?

Because the Mobee family want to make money from tourism they can say whatever they want. Forget their relics, let them produce authentic historical records that show that they kept slaves before the arrival of the first white man.

The accounts of the Africans who were shipped can only be relevant if these account are from the first few shipments of Africans i.e from around the 15th Century. Because if they were from after Africa had been conquered, you cannot say a colonised people can freely sell slaves to their colonial masters.

Who is telling lies? I am simply saying that version of history we have been told must be rejected unless it is coming from our own authentic ancient historical records.

Who allows their enemy to write their history for them?

If you have any authentic source of ancient African historical records kept by our ancestors then drop the link here and let us check it out.

KnightOfLaif:


SMH...

itstpia1:


i wonder where you got your hardcore racism form.

were you taught it by your parents?

Howmanage: really? Never heard this before...

Bacon when describing the work of the Punitive Expedition says bow
and arrows were seen, but never was an arrow fired. The arrows found were
poisoned, but the nature of the poison is unknown (p. 57). Dr. F. N. Roth, how-
ever, mentions an old man using bow and arrows. Fawckner observed two or three
pieces of cannon, of British and Portuguese manufacture ; but they were not
mounted (p. 81), and ''was credibly informed that they could make muskets, with
the exception of the lock, in great perfection."

Nyumba:

mmm, ok. But I think something is still there, it just needs to be digged up