seunmsg:


Igbos ladies were still dressing naked when the picture was taken.

Ikwereanlion:
Nice pics but the pics is not African enuf


Evrytin for the palace na oyibo give dem even the palace.The pictures did not showcase Africa but colonization.

SlyDev:

It was late 19 century bro, that time Ibos were still naked, they have no understanding of civilization

BKayy:

The Alaafin according to the picture started his tenure at 1914 but you said it was late 19th?
So he time travelled?

As for the naked aspect. You and I know that anklet on one Igbo woman before the white men came can buy the entire Oyo and Ife.
Fact

SlyDev:


Capt. William A Ross was resident of Oyo 1914-1931 not the tenure of Alaafin. The palace was there before the tenure of Alaafin.

Why is that ibos ancestors were naked and could not defend their land against igala and Bini?

BKayy:

The picture is from early 20th century (after Amalgamation).
By then, Igbo businessmen have started developing estates in Lagos.

By the way, I never knew we would get to a level when Yorubas will start celebrating what the white men built as theirs.

Lol. These people are more Shameless than I thought.

damosky12:


The earlier you come to terms with reality, the earlier you escape the bondage of your envy and quixotic history.

BKayy:

Envying what exactly?
The lie?

damosky12:


Lol. You opened a thread on oyo unprovoked by anyone. The next thing is to start a baseless comparison and try to bring "ndigbo" into the thread. Isn't that a thing? Think!

BKayy:

I don't argue nonsense. Everybody wished they had contact with Ndigbo. I am surprised you didn't ask the primitive Yoruba people at that time as part of the people that raided Igboland.


That aside, Pictures speak louder than words.

Between your Alaafin (1st pic) and one man walking on his own in Ogwashi-Ukwu (2nd pic) who looks more dignified or rich?

From the first picture, you don't need me to clarify to you how the original Oyo Palace looked like before the white men built what the OP posted.

SlyDev:


Ogwashi-Ukwu guy look like barbaric ape even tho his pic is more recent

BKayy:

Comparison or I replied one dude and posted the original Palace before the white men built what the OP posted.

You people are not even ashamed of claiming what was built during colonialism as yours?

damosky12:


LOL. Ignorance.

Do a study on the ancient oyo empire. Video documentaries are there with archeological clues. It'll save you this fiasco.

BKayy:

You can as well just type Oyo Palace in Google and be ashamed of yourself for celebrating what the white men donated to you

damosky12:


Don't just search on Google. Building on Google results is a rather immature and absurd approach to sourcing facts. Do an actual study. Read historical materials. Watch documentaries. Do these, and you'll be back to laugh at your posts here.

BKayy:

Buhahaha . What I have you was the easiest method to cure your ignorance without seeing what will depress you more.

Believe me, you wouldn't like to see how they described Yoruba people if I should post it.
You might be ashamed to call yourself Yoruba outside of your house

damosky12:


Man. Enjoy!

BKayy:

Please try and Google at least so that you won't embarrass yourself in public when you post the pictures the OP did as original Yoruba architecture in the midst of scholars.

The feeling stays for life

LegendHero:


Let me translate it for you. I don’t know ami ohun much like that which explained why you might not understand it well. Also, I used a proper Oyo dialect.

—Oyo Alaafin (Oyo, the descendant of the Alaafin)
—Ojo pa sekere omo atiba (Rain must not beat sekere, Son of Atiba)
—Oyo nipe kolowo ko gbowo (Oyo said the creditor should collect his money)
—Oni koni iwofa gba tire (He also went to tell the debtor (Iwofa - a system where people use their family as collateral to borrow money) not to pay his debt)
—Ase kole ba di’ja, ko le ba daapon (Not knowing that the reason why Oyo did this is so that fight can happen)
—Komo oba le ri ‘n muje (So the prince can eat)
—Oyo gbin agbado oran seyinkule elenkule (Oyo planted a wicked mystery maize/corn of trouble at another man's backyard)
—Elenkule o gbodo faatu, be ni ko si gbodo faaya (The owner must not uproot it, and he must not shred it)
__Omo iku, tiku kogbódò pa
(child of death who death cannot kill)
----Omo Arun, tarun kogbódò see
(child of pestilence who cannot be tied down by sickness)
----Omo Ofo, tofo kogbódò see(child of calamity whom calamity can't afflict )

All this eulogy of Oyo is just showing the empire might. Imagine planting a corn/maize of trouble at the back of one’s compound and telling him not to uproot it nor shred it. Like you’re showing your might and power over them.

BKayy:

Settled. At the sight of something more powerful than them, humans lose their senses.

It's like you haven't heard of colorising or probably how Ndigbo dressed looks like the future to you savages.

We were never mates and will never be

Blackfire:




This shows the barbarity of the so called empire...


Imagine..

Blackfire:




This shows the barbarity of the so called empire...


Imagine..

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.

BKayy:

The picture is from early 20th century (after Amalgamation).
By then, Igbo businessmen have started developing estates in Lagos.

By the way, I never knew we would get to a level when Yorubas will start celebrating what the white men built as theirs.

Lol. These people are more Shameless than I thought.

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.

Firroda:


As a yoruba boy who can read and write in Yoruba, I find that very painful to read, had to read very very slowly to comprehend. Oyinbo culture don finish us

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.

sammybest889:
wait ooo in d other side of the picture...is it not a white man am see their seating on one of d chiefpalace chairs

wow so dis White men has been extorting us since time memorial anyway I have nothing 2 say....BT going by history I once heard DAT
..d Alaafin, or The Owner of the Palace in the Yoruba
language, is the title of an emperor of the medieval Oyo
empire down to dis present-day how true is dat

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.