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Nice fable. I'll check out a few more.

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Snake head - 16th-19th century, copper alloy, Edo people, Nigeria (bronze snakes marked the turrets of both inner and outer palace gateways, their heads positioned to dangle over important courtyards)

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Ododua sculpture

Benin Kingdom court style, Edo people, Nigeria, 1700s

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An 1897 picture of members of the Punitive Expedition sitting inside a courtyard (that was undergoing renovation) of the Oba's palace with artwork spread across the ground.

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A close-up of one of the plaques.

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An ivory leopard.

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A Benin soldier.

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16th century, copper alloy, Edo people, Nigeria, war chief, page bearing ceremonial sword, two soldiers provide music with gongs and a trumpet

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16th century, copper alloy, Edo people, Nigeria, high ranking soldiers with leather tunics decorated to resemble leopards' faces and with leopard necklaces and feathered hats

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16th century, copper alloy, Edo people, Nigeria, chief carrying a ring shaped box (gift) meant for a ceremony, four partial Portuguese figures act as decorative motifs

I improved your understanding of the interpretation of one word in the English language. That's a big enough contribution for the day.


Now you know that when one person asserts (A)

and somebody else says it seems (B) is actually the case,

then that person who states (B) is not merely saying that it's possible that (B) is the case, but is actually saying that it appears that (B) is the case.

iwonbaoko:
ona don come which one be it seems?
im get chia or e no get and where??

anyway u dey normally talk sense so i no go too attack you

seem  (sm)
intr.v. seemed, seem·ing, seems
1. To give the impression of being; appear: The child seems healthy, but the doctor is concerned.
2. To appear to one's own opinion or mind: I can't seem to get the story straight.
3. To appear to be true, probable, or evident: It seems you object to the plan. It seems like rain. He seems to have worked in sales for several years.
4. To appear to exist: There seems no reason to postpone it.


There was nothing wrong with my wording there.

As for the university at which Achebe is a professor, a simple Google search would answer that.

SEFAGO:
^ Pretty much intuitive and you also dont have to state the obvious do you?. Its a job and not an academic qualification. I think everyone knows this. Its just Nigerian culture to refer to those who have held academic positions at one point of their lives as Professors. Like people keep calling Soludo professor though he has never been a tenure track professor and has just held mostly visiting positions. Achebe is also a visiting professor.

I think people should also learn to distinguish between the hierarchy of academia in the US and in other countries like Africa/Europe. Professor in the latter could take close to 30 years while full professor in the former could take 5-10 years.

Looked around, and it seems Achebe is an actual professor, with an endowed chair.

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I don't know whether this a modern replica of one I've already posted here, or an older work, but the color of this one is really nice.

^^^

What are the Mongolian army statues? Do you mean the Chinese terracotta army?


And I agree, that sculpture has a distinct beauty about it.

"Nation airline" is a bad name for the airline.

Those countries didn't kidnapped and sell other Europeans, the Africans committed the that heinous act of selling other Africans.  Look I'm not going to keep going back and forth with you and others you refused to accept the truth.  Although some Africans became wealthy by enslaving other Africans, their evil deeds sowed the seeds for poverty, wars, exploitation, colonialism, etc.

http://www.doralacademyprep.org/ourpages/auto/2009/9/7/39528479/King%20Alfonso%20I%20Protests%20Slave%20Trading%20in%20the%20Kingdom%20of%20Kongo.pdf


^^^^^

Read this, and tell me why the Portuguese don't have any curse coming to them. The Portuguese should also pay for buying, and for even taking those who weren't captives.

He himself acknowledged how Africa has been damaged and exploited, he just refuses as you do, to accept the truth about why such a continent as resource rich as Africa remains at the bottom.

Stop twisting people's words for your own theories. I never said the slave trade didn't impact Africa negatively. I was just pointing out that this stuff about a curse made no sense. The Spanish committed all sorts of evil against the indigenous peoples of North, central and south America yet Spain still has one of the largest economies in the world and one of the highest standards of living of any country.

YES!!!!!!!!

If that really is what you're asserting, then you're even more ignorant than I thought.

Ghana "improvements" is still not up on the same level as more advance modernize nations.

You completely ignored the point. Ghana, a place which was a major slave exporter at one point, is doing better than Zimbabwe, which was minor in the slave trade. But since you want to take this line of argument, why is Ghana doing better than Lesotho, Burundi, and Rwanda? So much for that curse.

YES!!!!!! but you failed or refused to admit there is indeed a reason, it is the selling of fellow Africans.  All you guys have to do is apologized for the evil acts of your ancestors and asked for God's forgiveness for their souls and asked for unification with us in the diaspora. Many of you are rightly ashamed by what your ancestors did, and show us in the diaspora nothing the but love and kindness.  But there are too many present day Africans who act as if nothing happen or feel as if we in the diaspora should "get over it".  For the most part we have, but it makes it difficult when present day Africans spew ignorance and hatefulness towards us and our ancestors.

The Urhobos in Nigeria didn't sell any "fellow Africans." Rather, other groups sold them. Yet today, in addition to suffering in the same country with those groups that sold them, they are in a region that has been exploited more than other regions and heavily polluted by the oil industry. Rather than suffering worse than those who are "cursed" for stuff their great great grandparents did, they should be doing very well, if one believed your stories about curses.

Omo_Tier1:
dude no vex oh, d thin be say : "dress the way you want to be addressed"

if not for other things, obj always did niaja proud with his dress sense especially at international conferences. His dress code would tell you from afar that he is not a push over! but this presido - kai! him no try at all. I remember watching him give a speech at the UN in New York last year, I was so ashamed and i had to confess that the presido has bad handlers all around him!

Did his outfit make the speech go badly?

I still like the gown, especially the chain looking design near the collar. I don't think that's what's making people criticize his outfit. It's probably just the British hat he wears that's causing all the negative comments.

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David Mark

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Anthony Enahoro


Did they get that hat from Igbos? Just something that always puzzled me.


Or was the red cap a common phenomenon in parts of southern Nigeria at some point?

Omo_Tier1:
I have since said it that if not for the CBN gov. Nigeria's economy would have completely gone under with the kind of daft president (glorified otu tu with his clown hat from otuoke) and the oyinbo brainwashed finance minister we have currently.

This man Sanusi knows his onions, hence the reason the US congress invited him and that other Mrs Oteh over so they could tap from thier raw knowledge in a bid to clean up the American financial system.

If this guy had a visionary and purposeful president as his boss, He would be giving the Asia tigers a run for thier money with an economy posting double digits year on year with real growth that Nigerians can attest to. Unlike what we are witnessing where the CBN is chunking out policies to drive growth, the president on the other hand is engaging in policy frog jump!

Please, the CBN gov post should not be given to an igbo at least for the next 16yrs! They are to crafty when they see money e.g Soludo and they wil give you a paper based economy that can't stand the test of time.

CONGRATULATIONS TO A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN HARD WORK, TRUTH AND HONESTY. YOU DESERVE THE HONOUR.

You're a pretty hard core tribalist. Did an Igbo man steal your bike?

Omo_Tier1:
Abeg this presido is a clown both in dressing and in style! He reminds me of those men in my social studies textbook in school those dayssss!

I believe the Ijaws have a more respectable and appealing dress sense and style than this always dark en blue colour code of presido.
Oh how come most of his campaign pictures featured him looking young, seemingly purposeful without that "Palm wine tapper of a hat" that makes him looks like a chimmpy on a school runs in South Africa holiday resort!

wtf


calm down


It's not that serious.

And the dark and blue robe is good.

R. I. P.

ekt_bear:
@kuka700: great post.

rofl @ your sig