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There have been several threads on art in the culture forum already, but many of them are only for specific groups or have basically ignored lots of African art which is abstract or which intentionally does not attempt full realism or semi-realism . Some of these non-realistic, very stylized or abstract pieces are extremely creative and I figured I might as well make a thread on here showing some of the most interesting/beautiful ones.

Ileke-IdI:
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https://cascadejudgment.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Statue_of_Justice-WilliamsburgVA-1jpg.jpg


When does it stop?

I have to agree. It's a pretty bad statue no matter what style they're attempting. It'd be better if it wasn't even there.

BlackPikiN: If you read your link, you would see where it clearly stated He's in the reserve or you got something to show?

I read my link. Did you miss the part where I said "unless I'm missing something" or did you not understand that? Turns out I missed something! It happens.

I asked him (Wallie) for an explanation which he gave. As far I could tell he was an army officer, and the army was his career, but Wallie clarified.

Wallie: Paragraph 7 of the linked article you posted - "member of the active Guard and reserve."

Ahh, thanks.

violent: There's actually a way for an ordinary citizen to obtain license for guns. In the snipped attachment below, the 1990 constitution states that individuals can own fire arms if granted a license by the President or the Inspector General of Police.

Having to beg the president for a license is unrealistic/impractical and probably wouldn't amount to anything even if one's requests actually managed to reach the president so that can definitely be ruled out.

Now as for the IGP, that's useful information that I may need to verify sometime in the future if Nigeria still exists as a country. Thanks.

Wallie: Actually, he's not a "career" army officer because he's in the army reserve. In the reserves, you only serve part-time as opposed to active-duty soldiers who serve full-time.

?

I'm not getting this. How did you deduce that he was in the army reserve?

He does seem to be a career army officer unless I'm missing something. Anyway, like you said, I hope he gets a good lawyer that can get this 10 years nonsense overturned quickly.

Wallie: What some of you fail to realize is that the guy might have been trafficking arms illegally! When you're on leave from the military and off military barracks, you're just like any other US citizen and as such, will only be afforded the same diplomatic access to the US embassy that every US citizen gets.

He's not an arms trafficker. He's actually of (Benin) royal descent and is a career army officer in the U.S.

Ironically enough, he had initially wanted to join the Nigerian army:

http://www.stripes.com/news/captain-gives-troops-iraqis-the-royal-treatment-1.34116

He's more or less a good guy in a bad situation.

Kenyy: ...I guess the table would have been different if the person in question was to be a White American US ARMY MAJOR...A case of let them jail him, he is their son...Mind you, that name above must definitely be from Edo State; in fact, HE IS A BINI MAN! I hope this is not the continued conspiracy OF THE SOUTH WEST against the SOUTH SOUTH?

Leave tribalism out of this. There's no conspiracy. Just a weird law. He shouldn't get 10 years, at most he should be fined and made to do some kind of community service since he's clearly not a criminal and not engaged in any real criminal activities. The punishment is way out of proportion.


@ post, I don't know if there's any way for an ordinary citizen (not a soldier, policeman, security operative, etc.) to obtain a license to carry guns in Nigeria but I got the impression that one couldn't just do that anyhow so I'm a bit puzzled by the way the story makes it seem like he could have obtained a license. Does anyone know if just anyone can get a license?

and smh @ being arrested just because he wanted to feel safe.

odumchi: This is PhysicsMHD. The only man who's every ready to lecture on Benin Kingdom.

lmao

I look nothing like that, but funny

Bald, huge forearms, gigantic glasses, and a bow tie

and rofl @ walking around holding scrolls . . .

nanos: Nigerian students dazzle the world in USA
For five secondary school students from schools in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states, it was an unforgettable experience to behold the hallowed precincts of the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, USA, where they joined 3,000 other students from 23 countries for a week-long conference in March, 2012. Africa was represented by two countries, namely: Nigeria and The Gambia.

Then maybe the article's title should be "Nigerian students dazzled by the UN headquarters in USA."

Anyway, good for them.

Good development.

Not everything important should be concentrated in one place.

Yeah ok, whatever.

tpia@:
no need for long story.

when making appointments, please put people whose names are identifiably benin/edo.

end of discussion, to whom it may concern.

If putting someone there whose name was identifiably Edo was the issue, the Edo people there (Uselu) wouldn't have been protesting for the retention of an Igbo man (Charles Ikeji) as the hospital medical director.

This story was never about tribalism except to incompetent journalists. If you want to read a story about tribalism read about the Unilag VC saga in the 60s when Saburi Biobaku replaced Eni Njoku.

dave.emuobo:
Every uniben student as at 2008/2000 should know that this is true.....annoying

But does every uniben student know that that person was appointed illegally? The outrage should be against probable ethnic nepotism in appointing someone illegally, not the imbecilic complaints by people who think the VC position of uniben was not previously determined on an ethnic basis.

lol @ this salty bastard de Klerk

He's late:


"A Johannesburg newspaper, also called the Sunday Times, quotes from an unpublished autobiography on which much of “Conversations with Myself,” is based. It speaks of his concern the world had a false image of him as a saint.

“I never was one, even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

Mandela, 92, has largely retired from public life. His 1995 autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,” is known worldwide."

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/madiba-i-m-not-a-saint-1.685083




"Nelson Mandela’s New Book To Be Launched in 20 Languages

A new book by famous anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, Conversations with Myself will be released tomorrow and launched in 20 languages worldwide. The book is a collection of personal archive of letters and journals giving more glimpses into the heart, soul and spirit of one of the greatest leaders in modern history.
The forward was written by U.S. President Barack Obama.

“One issue that deeply worried me in prison was the false image I unwittingly projected to the outside world; of being regarded as a saint,” Mandela said in an extract.
“I never was one, even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps trying,” he added."

https://www.nairaland.com/529685/nelson-mandela-new-book-launched


http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/146156.html

@ Dudu Negro


Tafawa Balewa's father was from a minority group in the North and his mother was Fulani, right? If so, why did you list him as Hausa?
Also, I'm pretty sure Murtala Muhammed was of Fulani paternal ancestry.

nedu210: Not indigenous to bini/edo but indigenous to area or land known as bini/edo land now.

Are you still on this stuff?

Have you actually read Egharevba or are you just quoting some junk you read in articles online?

He claimed they met an inferior people in the land and adopted their language. That's what he wrote. It was his way of explaining how the supposedly superior "Egyptian" Binis became Edo speaking Binis. What Egharevba wrote would have no relevance to your claims. Binis don't speak any kind of Igboid language and the story as told by Egharevba doesn't involve any mystery groups to be conjectured about - it involves the supposedly "Egyptian" Binis and the group they supposedly hijacked their language from and incorporated into their group. Obviously that story is without any basis/support and is just an attempt on Egharevba's part to tie the Edo to Egypt while also explaining why the Edo no longer speak Egyptian. Claiming Onitsha were Igbos that were indigenous to Benin on the basis of Egharevba's work is laughable. And as I said earlier, there are Edoid groups whose languages are separated from Bini by millenia south of the Bini area.

ikennahill: bini people tire me oh.even for church they are so tribal.the people striking are the real lunatics

tpia@:
can they please stop sending non-indigenes to these areas for goodness sake.

didnt we go through the same scenario the other time when they said they didnt want a non-indigene as uniben vice chancellor?

abeg put their own people there and let us hear word- who has time to be reading recycled news every day?


whoever is in charge of these things should use wisdom in such cases nah? Is it by force to send outsiders there?

PhysicsQED: Apparently few people are bothering to read past the first post in the thread. Nobody was rejected on tribal/ethnic grounds and the information in the opening post is extremely inaccurate.

Wow. Fukk Allafrica news. They fukked up this story so massively and people are just running with it. Part of the blame should also go the OP as well, for not correcting that crap.

shymmex: @PhysicsQED]I'll like to know if you consider yourself to be Afrocentric, Eurocentric, or something in between?

I'm honestly just interested in knowing what's true whether it's popular or not. And I couldn't be Eurocentric. Euronuts think civilization started in Greece! I honestly hope more evidence can be found supporting the thesis that the roots of Greek civilization were mostly Afroasiatic.