No way, he didn't but when current affairs question comes for promotion exams you will know that mungo Park actually did.

Same thing on my mind, how can someone discover something that's naturally there, it wasn't hidden. I believe people as of then do use it as their water source. I have always find that mungo park discovery funny sha

He didn't discover shiii



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Ademola47:
#FactCheck

Who Actually 'discovered' the River Niger?

It's widely believed that Mungo Park 'discovered' the River Niger.

However, there are some unanswered questions to the 'discovery'.

Firstly, history had it that he 'asked' the locals (villagers) for direction to the river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the river, how come some people directed him there? Have they not been there before him? How can some people direct him to where he wanted to 'discover'?

Secondly, the locals are believed to be bathing, fishing and fetching water from the 'undiscovered' river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the River first, he should be the one to first bath or swim in the river. But this is not so.

Lastly, while some people believe that he discovered the River 'mouth', others believe he discovered it for the British. Why is there no generally accepted direct answer to the question "What did Mungo Park discover"?

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Mungo Park discovered natin! This is the kind of thread I like making front page this MOD go skol

thebosstrevor1:

Kworra...that is the native name.
Also Jeliba

thank you

AsawanaDgreat:
No way, he didn't but when current affairs question comes for promotion exams you will know that mungo Park actually did.

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Who still de ask this MUMU question, when "when did Abacha died plenty 4ground?"

No! I did

Ademola47:


Publicity in what sense?
Because the villagers knew it was in existence already.

So if I come out one day and say I discover one River in Abeokuta or Osun, and then tell the British about it, I will be credited as its discoverer.

He said "publicity"

Nigerians confusing themselves from time immemorial. The narration says Mungo Park embarked on a journey to know where River Niger ends after knowing its source. It is right to say he discovered the river,because at time Africa was a wilderness. There were no road network to ease exploration up North. European Penetration of Nigeria areas was mostly done through Lagos shores. So discovering where the river leads to, was a great breakthrough. Thus began the domination and exploitation of Niger areas. In summary Mungo Park discovered river Niger and its areas. Pls note that the arears include the environments and inhabitants.

Khayceeofficial:
Burna Boy already gave an answer...


They lied to us that mungo discovered River Niger.

was he the first man to tread on the river or walk past it?

I'd say NO!

what bout the locals way back?

The same way they lied to us through the Bible

CandyOps:
That shii still sounds funny to me. No be only discover na Discovery Channel.

You come person village from Yankee say you discover their river. So all the people wey done de use am since na recover dem recover am. Ode mugoyor

no be small thing they could have said he invented it

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Yes. Mungo Park discovered River Niger because the history books we read were written by oyibo people who like to tell stories the way that benefits them. Likewise, Christopher Columbus discovered America even though native Indians were living there before he arrived. They even fought to take the land away from the Indians. But Christopher discovered it! We forget that the perspective of the history we read was that of an explorer reporting back to Her Majesty. But we also ran with the storyline.

While at it, don't forget that everything black is bad and everything white is associated with good. Most of you are still running with the narratives because of brainwashing that started from kindergarten. Satan is a blackman with two horns while God is a white-bearded grandfather. Go figure!
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Ahmed0336:
Nope, he met the river there. He only gave it publicity.

Lol my ancestors has been farming and fishing there for centuries but well what do I know

Ademola47:
#FactCheck

Who Actually 'discovered' the River Niger?

It's widely believed that Mungo Park 'discovered' the River Niger.

However, there are some unanswered questions to the 'discovery'.

Firstly, history had it that he 'asked' the locals (villagers) for direction to the river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the river, how come some people directed him there? Have they not been there before him? How can some people direct him to where he wanted to 'discover'?

Secondly, the locals are believed to be bathing, fishing and fetching water from the 'undiscovered' river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the River first, he should be the one to first bath or swim in the river. But this is not so.

Lastly, while some people believe that he discovered the River 'mouth', others believe he discovered it for the British. Why is there no generally accepted direct answer to the question "What did Mungo Park discover"?

You have to understand that when white people say "discovered" that's white supremacy statement. But in reality they're not talking to us, rather they'retalking to themselves about THEIR achievement. The natives all the way from Gambia, Mali, Benue, Anambra to Niger Delta had been fishing along the river Niger thousands of years before Mungo Park was born and as you pointed out, he (Mungo Park) employed the service of the natives to show him along the river. But because British people gave us education (which was part and parcel of colonialism) they removed us from history and instead superimposed their achievements on top of African achievements. If we weren't colonized, you'll have had a different version of the history about how our African ancestors discovered the river and not Mungo Park.

Nothing on this earth was discovered by white people until relatively recently. They couldn't have discovered anything because they were the most backward people on earth.

Munamu:
Nigerians confusing themselves from time immemorial. The narration says Mungo Park embarked on a journey to know where River Niger ends after knowing its source. It is right to say he discovered the river,because at time Africa was a wilderness. There were no road network to ease exploration up North. European Penetration of Nigeria areas was mostly done through Lagos shores. So discovering where the river leads to, was a great breakthrough. Thus began the domination and exploitation of Niger areas. In summary Mungo Park discovered river Niger and its areas. Pls note that the arears include the environments and inhabitants.

colonisation has really dealt with this one. Guy the explanation here is that , there were some people at that souce and using the rivers before ur God came all the way from where ever. I've found a river in Africa called Niger. But has been called oshimili long before the 35 year old man came around. Am sure that if they told u that he invented it ,u will still believe it. Emancipate urself from slavery. Gradually Africa will re discover and assert herself

Nigeriabiafra82:
Omambala river have been in existence that before a white man came and forcefully change the name to River Niger which means RiVer Black,this name was coined from slave trade ,as a river popularly used for slave trade on blacks
It was named after black which means black river,
They end up naming Nigeria after the black river
NIGER Area,which means black area
Las las they removed history and now shouting Minho pack discovered river Niger
So those fishing on that river for years before mungo park great grandfather was born discovered sand abi?
Niger=nigga
Nigga=black
River Nigga =black (slaves )river
Niger area =black area

Omambala river isn't river niger.

That river flows into river niger....the omambala river name is still intact

Ademola47:
#FactCheck

Who Actually 'discovered' the River Niger?

It's widely believed that Mungo Park 'discovered' the River Niger.

However, there are some unanswered questions to the 'discovery'.

Firstly, history had it that he 'asked' the locals (villagers) for direction to the river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the river, how come some people directed him there? Have they not been there before him? How can some people direct him to where he wanted to 'discover'?

Secondly, the locals are believed to be bathing, fishing and fetching water from the 'undiscovered' river.

A river had a source and it's endpoint.
He traces it from the source to the endpoint, no one has ever done that before, and that was why he was the one who discovered it.

Aaronsrod:
Mungo Park was the first true Christian to enter that part. So he indeed discovered the land and its people in the eyes of God for the first time.

Nairaland needs an unlike button ......

thebosstrevor1:


Omambala river isn't river niger.

That river flows into river niger....the omambala river name is still intact

So omambala river start and end in omambala
River is strait that run through the valley ,you can call it omambala river
While another village gives it another name
River Niger,is also called omambala river same way
Ahaba/Asaba people calls it oshimili
Ogbaru also have a name for it
So ask your elders around

Brainless commentators, Mungo Park actually discovered the River Niger from source to end in the 17 to early 18th century from the Guinean High land to the Delta Areas(called Nigeria Niger Delta areas)of the Atlantic ocean with a distance of more tha 2957 miles from source to end. so for you to say a local man or woman living in a village around the river area is the discoverer shows brainless lack of knowledge.

Nigeriabiafra82:

So omambala river start and end in omambala
River is strait that run through the valley ,you can call it omambala river
While another village gives it another name
River Niger,is also called omambala river same way
Ahaba/Asaba people calls it oshimili
Ogbaru also have a name for it
So ask your elders around

Different rivers flows into river niger...omambala is just one of them.

You are right that different people call river niger different names but river niger doesn't start from Anambra state. It seems you are right, the river flows through onitsha

According to wikipedia.

Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea. It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta (or the Oil Rivers), into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

He discovered it for his country men.

Aaronsrod:
Mungo Park was the first true Christian to enter that part. So he indeed discovered the land and its people in the eyes of God for the first time.

So God no get eyes before? You guys are the ones that give christianity a bad name

Of course he didn't. And we blindly taught that in history in our schools. BS

thebosstrevor1:


Different rivers flows into river niger...omambala is just one of them.

You are right that different people call river niger different names but river niger doesn't start from Anambra state.

According to wikipedia.

Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea. It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta (or the Oil Rivers), into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

River Niger was not discovered by mungo parks
And I never said it started from omambala?that a question
Rather you can say that mungo parked named river Niger on social media
Because people in Mali will give it another name

Nigeriabiafra82:

River Niger was not discovered by mungo parks
And I never said it started from omambala?that a question
Rather you can say that mungo parked named river Niger on social media
Because people in Mali will give it another name

Murgo park discovered river niger for the western people.

River niger has been a source of livehood for the natives right before mungo park.

So they both discovered it.

Na who sabi write em name for history dey win.

Munamu:
Nigerians confusing themselves from time immemorial. The narration says Mungo Park embarked on a journey to know where River Niger ends after knowing its source. It is right to say he discovered the river,because at time Africa was a wilderness. There were no road network to ease exploration up North. European Penetration of Nigeria areas was mostly done through Lagos shores. So discovering where the river leads to, was a great breakthrough. Thus began the domination and exploitation of Niger areas. In summary Mungo Park discovered river Niger and its areas. Pls note that the arears include the environments and inhabitants.

Thank you, i am choking already when i saw that 99.9% of comments here are unreasonable, that's why we are easily enslaved, we lack the ability to use our brain.

THERE ARE TWO ANSWERS IN NIGERIA

THE ONE YOU NEED TO PASS EXAMS


AND THE TRUTH WHICH EVERYBODY ELSE KNOWS

What they told us in primary school was he discovered the source of the river(where it arises from) not the river's existence itself.The indigenes of the area have known the river even before his great grand father was born.

I know he didn't discover the river ofcourse,but the source of the river maybe I can relax my disbelief a little on this part.

Ademola47:
#FactCheck

Who Actually 'discovered' the River Niger?

It's widely believed that Mungo Park 'discovered' the River Niger.

However, there are some unanswered questions to the 'discovery'.

Firstly, history had it that he 'asked' the locals (villagers) for direction to the river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the river, how come some people directed him there? Have they not been there before him? How can some people direct him to where he wanted to 'discover'?

Secondly, the locals are believed to be bathing, fishing and fetching water from the 'undiscovered' river. If he was the one that actually 'discovered' the River first, he should be the one to first bath or swim in the river. But this is not so.

Lastly, while some people believe that he discovered the River 'mouth', others believe he discovered it for the British. Why is there no generally accepted direct answer to the question "What did Mungo Park discover"?

IRC I was never taught Mungo Park discovered the Rivee Niger, that was an absurd idea to me even then in primary school. What we were taught was that he discovered the source of the river and navigated the length much further than others had.

RomeoX:
What they told us in primary school was he discovered the source of the river(where it arises from) not the river's existence itself.The indigenes of the area have known the river even before his great grand father was born.

I know he didn't discover the river ofcourse,but the source of the river maybe I can relax my disbelief a little on this part.

Same here. I keep hearing Mungo Park discover River Niger from people but I never saw that written anywhere.

ofwest47:
Brainless commentators, Mungo Park actually discovered the River Niger from source to end in the 17 to early 18th century from the Guinean High land to the Delta Areas(called Nigeria Niger Delta areas)of the Atlantic ocean with a distance of more tha 2957 miles from source to end. so for you to say a local man or woman living in a village around the river area is the discoverer shows brainless lack of knowledge.

Thank you, i can't believe that non of these people can use their brain.