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Lizzysamuel:
The clown below me doesn't even have common strength to confirm if this is 1937 by just doing a little search about the author of the book.

No wonder Tinubu is the best thing after pepper jollof for you guys.. Too lazy and arrogant.

You can say that again.

Hausa:
I have to agree with you on this one. As onye Anambra through-n-through, I doubt that picture is anywhere from the 30s.
The books of the time never even mentioned a torchlight or an Umbrella. One way or another Chinua Achebe would've mentioned it in his many books.
Again, the many Umbrellas there and the hook of the Umbrella does not suggest the 30s.
Although the man seems to be with no shoes like Goodluck Jonathan at the time, the little boy's well cut hair also does not suggest the 30s.
One wonders why he has no shoes but sells many umbrellas and other interesting items.

Another thing is if they were imported, who was importing them? Igbo history has no one from the 30s doing an importation like this.
Most of the popular names of the 30s for Igbos were those who went to acquire education abroad. And it was around the late 30s to early 40s that they returned back to Nigeria. Zik, Sir Louis Mbanefo, and some few.

Give or take, that picture will be the 60s.

Next, you'll say there were no cars in the 1930's . Nigerians have been trading with the Portuguese even before the trans Atlantic slave trade kicked full gear..... Let's be historically conscious please.

mightyhaze:
who be this guy?


Growing up in the 80s everybody owned battery torches in my neighborhood.. I've read 20s and 30s American novels where use if torch lights were mentioned.. life didn't just start with your birth in the 90s

Na indomie generation.

Magnumproperty:
You are not getting the gist; nobody is arguing that those items can't be found then. But you sef look the shade where the man was selling the imported items naaaa. An ordinary person can't just gather money and import those items inside hut as that year. Who wan buy am for him village as at that year? How many wealthy men were living in his community that will be able to afford such items during that era? But if it is around 1960s, 70s or 80s it's reasonable.

I understood. But the bamboo roofs had validated the era. That's what you find in most towns in Nigeria in that era. Even in lagos, except some areas on lagos island. Only ibadan had a handful of houses covered with galvanised iron sheets which had now turned brown today.

They weren't importing those items displayed in that photo in that era rather, they'd go to departmental stores in the cities like John holt who entered Nigeria in 1897 and Peterston Zochonis(PZ) which opened their outlets in Nigeria for the first time in 1884 to buy and resell, same way many states come to lagos nowadays to buy things for resale in their various states. Shall we say those resellers in their states also imparted the items they came to lagos to buy? No!

mightyhaze:
why mention tribe


Who's a tribalist now?

See? I told u I know how to bring out inner notions

So igbo people been d live for caves ?

richmond500:
No, I was born in the 90s and I know the kind of cup we used, they are not nearly as fine as those ones in the pic.
Also electric torch came to Nigeria early 2000s, we used one kind lantern with glass gloves, in the 90s before battery torches. electric torch was recent.
Also 1930's pictures are not this sharp, the white colours of 1930 pics are tanned

That you grew in the very remote area doesn't mean that your limited exposure represents the reality of that time.

G0Oodharddick:
The little kid on that picture probably would have been dead by now. That's life for you!

Take care of yourself, eat well and live healthy. No dey give Woman your money again, spend that money on yourself and upgrade yourself. Wear good clothes, shoes etc. Why would a normal guy buy clothes, bags, phone for a girl only to make her look attractive for other men to have her while he looks unkempt like a fuuul?

Nobody really cares about you. If you die today the world will simply move on, and so would that girl you're killing yourself to impress

..
Arre you talking indirectly to PELLER ...?
Bcus I c no reason y you are saying things off key .

tishbite42:
The Igbos were already urbanized since the 20s
On to the next one

why are mbaise people of Imo still cannibals in this 21st century?

richmond500:
That doesn't look like 1937 items.
I'm seeing stainless steel instead of calabash
That doesnt look like the kind of things u find in a mud house.

I don't think everyone is from a bush community just like yours

AmalaAtiEwedu:
why are mbaise people of Imo still cannibals in this 21st century?

Because your head is not correct that is why you have this thought. A psycho mad man has spoken and should not be taken seriously by anyone. Mbaise ko ogbomosho ni .. mtchew

Goodlyhrt:
Because your head is not correct that is why you have this thought. A psycho mad man has spoken and should not be taken seriously by anyone. Mbaise ko ogbomosho ni .. mtchew

cannibal spotted

nedekid:
Na indomie generation.

that guy is a disgrace to indomie generation people, I didn't know he was that daft till I read one other comment of his about being born in the 90's and torch lights what a donkey

AmalaAtiEwedu:
cannibal spotted

Ugly baboon.

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richmond500:
That doesn't look like 1937 items.
I'm seeing stainless steel instead of calabash
That doesnt look like the kind of things u find in a mud house.

okay afj bozo we dn hear

richmond500:
No, I was born in the 90s and I know the kind of cup we used, they are not nearly as fine as those ones in the pic.
Also electric torch came to Nigeria early 2000s, we used one kind lantern with glass gloves, in the 90s before battery torches. electric torch was recent.
Also 1930's pictures are not this sharp, the white colours of 1930 pics are tanned

Stainless cups were en vogue before 1990s, rampant than these days, 1937 not fat

richmond500:
Oga, do u know what electric torch mean?
It's a torch that needs electricity to operate, not battery

Don't mind am
He dey whine em papa

LegendHero:
You better no let me show the picture of your people in those period. Some of you never still dey wear cloth even as late as 1940s.

Let this thread just remain informative like this make we no derail am.

The areas of Igboland you see people naked, Yoruba in such areas in their region would be stack naked, even today most of their villages their inhabitants look primitive

richmond500:
No, I was born in the 90s and I know the kind of cup we used, they are not nearly as fine as those ones in the pic.
Also electric torch came to Nigeria early 2000s, we used one kind lantern with glass gloves, in the 90s before battery torches. electric torch was recent.
Also 1930's pictures are not this sharp, the white colours of 1930 pics are tanned

?? 90's? No wonder ......

G0Oodharddick:
The little kid on that picture probably would have been dead by now. That's life for you!

Take care of yourself, eat well and live healthy. No dey give Woman your money again, spend that money on yourself and upgrade yourself. Wear good clothes, shoes etc. Why would a normal guy buy clothes, bags, phone for a girl only to make her look attractive for other men to have her while he looks unkempt like a fuuul?

Nobody really cares about you. If you die today the world will simply move on, and so would that girl you're killing yourself to impress

This is almost a PRAYER.......
I say in JESUS NAME....AMEN

richmond500:
battery torches, not electric torch.
That pic said electric torch. How many households had electricity in 1930s. When lots of households lives in small mud hut.

you no get sense.


Battery torch is same as electric torch. Anything that bring light back then was called electric. In Igbo land, they call it "oku electric".


Stop trying to be smarter than your brain capacity.

Lizzysamuel:
The clown below me doesn't even have common strength to confirm if this is 1937 by just doing a little search about the author of the book.

No wonder Tinubu is the best thing after jollof for you guys.. Too lazy and arrogant.

Tinubu is your nightmare. Now if you can't impregnate your wife , irs Tinubu. Grow up. Come back and try 2031. It's ev3n going back to the North

richmond500:
Oga, do u know what electric torch mean?
It's a torch that needs electricity to operate, not battery

Not true. What do you need electric torch for when you will be carrying the torch around?

Electric torch is same as battery torch.

richmond500:
Oga, do u know what electric torch mean?
It's a torch that needs electricity to operate, not battery

So electric cars must be connected to electricity 24/7 to be used?


Educate me please.

richmond500:
The first electricity utility company started in 1929, there is no way u will have electric torches a year after that.

There are gas torches, acetylene torches, kerosene torches, magnesium torches, candlestick torches

All torches including the vintage ones that use batteries are known as electric torches. I don't know the kind of oluwole education they give you guys in the South Wèst. No wonder your region has the highest percentage of unqualified teachers.

AmalaAtiEwedu:
long before Ojukwu corrupted their tiny brain

see dis dirty owomida! better go and continue your philandering with Monsuratu the agbo seller at the bus stop ...you superintend! filty agbado man!

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JikSneh:
But the year was clearly stated there, 1937.....so what's your point actually? If Duckworth work was between 1930 to 1972, isn't it obvious this is one of his works too?

They cringe whenever they hear good news about Igbo land, their dark Moslem hearts cant take it.


The reason Hausa-Fulanis and most Yorubas hate Igbos is because Igbos refused to accept Islam foolishly like them. You know majority of Yorubas are Moslems, it is mostly the Yoruba Moslems that are always hating and attacking Igbos, the Yoruba Christians don't have a problem with Igbos, same with Northerners, it is mostly the Northern Moslems that dislike Igbos, the Northern Christians love Igbos and have no issues with Igbos.



Their hatred for Igbos is simply Igbo refusal to allow pissful religion become a dominant religion in Igbo land. They have been sponsoring some misguided Igbos to become Muslims, they give them money, give them appointments and government jobs, they give them money to go to Southeast to build Mosques and sponsor them to Hajj just to force Islam in Igbo land, but they are jokers cos even the so called 0.00000001 Igbo Moslems are deceiving them cos they do not truly believe in Islam, they are doing it to get favor from them but deep down they are Igbos, I have some of the so called tiny Igbo Moslems as friends, we do laugh at them, they wont understand, an Igbo man can never be completely Moslem faithful, Islamic doctrines cannot thrive with Igbo culture and way of life, we are too western inclined and civilized to be practicing an archaic religion with barbaric doctrines that is focused on women suppression, terrorism, extremism that makes one see others as infidels that ought to be killed, killing, beheading, no forgiveness, an eye for an eye 👀 the bowing to god of sun, Igbos cant

If you don't like what you see go hug transformer!

richmond500:
No, I was born in the 90s and I know the kind of cup we used, they are not nearly as fine as those ones in the pic.
Also electric torch came to Nigeria early 2000s, we used one kind lantern with glass gloves, in the 90s before battery torches. electric torch was recent.
Also 1930's pictures are not this sharp, the white colours of 1930 pics are tanned

Guy, my dad had a torchlight that was almost five years older than me and we had stainless cups in our house. And I was in secondary school when you were born.

richmond500:
That doesn't look like 1937 items.
I'm seeing stainless steel instead of calabash
That doesnt look like the kind of things u find in a mud house.

Don't be stupid there were iron pots in Africa as far back as the eighteenth century

And no, Africans certainly did not transition from calabash to stainless steel, dunce

richmond500:
That doesn't look like 1937 items.
I'm seeing stainless steel instead of calabash
That doesnt look like the kind of things u find in a mud house.

Fake picture.