₦airaland Forum

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

Everyone has ancestors that lived in a mud house like me

Abufo:
Oga.....there was already a telegram service between London and New York in 1865 run by Western Union! There was already 1 million phone lines in New York by 1900................ Nigeria does not want to develop if you ask me.

Hahaha yeah, right! How many people were in the ENTIRE New York state in 1900? In any event, in 1937, most Ibos still lived in the Rain Forests.

Ok

Ok

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[b] kind lantern[/b] 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

Tili!
The upper side of the cone shape glass is open as vent from the heat.

Ok

Ok

One day, you too will die

mightyhaze:
Big man shop..


See umbrellas, torch lights,hand gloves, carpets,bangles,hats ...

See swag na! Lol

Realtruth2023:
Dude you guys are so irredeemable. These items existed in the 30s. I don't know what you guys gain from helping politicians in your region to cause divide and rule through tribalism? Go and show this to your grand father and he will tell you they existed.

batteries got to USA in 1947
So are we sure we had batteries torches in Nigeria as far back as 1930s?

MadPolitician:
But the eternal propogandists said that the easterners were walking around naked and were behaving like the Hadeze tribe at this time in history? Thanks to the Internet for all the revelations

It's true - check out an Igbo lady in the early 1930s. There are numerous evidences to prove that the igbos were actually walking around butnakked as recent as 1930s.

MadPolitician:
But the eternal propogandists said that the easterners were walking around naked and were behaving like the Hadeze tribe at this time in history? Thanks to the Internet for all the revelations

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

Common sense tells us that the picture is fake. As at 1960s, igbos were being fined to prevent them from coming naked to markets.

chopnaira:
Common sense tells us that the picture is fake. As at 1960s, igbos were being fined to prevent them from coming naked to markets.

This is early morning. I dont want to go this part with you lot. I can easily flood here with degrading pictures to show you how your fathers and mothers dress in those years before independence, but for what use? I am not in any mood for those kind of talks this day. You inbreds should stop quoting me with all these sorts of village jibes. Too early for a deluge of agbadorian primitive outbursts

chopnaira:
Common sense tells us that the picture is fake. As at 1960s, igbos were being fined to prevent them from coming naked to markets.

what book was this quoted from,Only Yoruba Muslims will just see any book online,put Markers on it and start sharing online believing it to be true
I searched online for the author or the book itself and the only source I saw was from Reno omokri,the rabble rouser

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.

The 1926, 11 years later is 1937, loads of innovations would have been birthed. Think.

richmond500:
battery torches, even USA started using batteries in 1947, and u want me to believe we are using it in 1930s?
That pic said electric torch. How many households had electricity in 1930s. When lots of households lives in small mud hut.

Is battery not static electricity again?

Before battery torches, there was the hand torch lighted by fire. If you watch European fantasy movies you would see it.

Hatred makes one behave like a mad man.

Hahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 mumu in it's finest display!

Do battery supply what? Hahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣. White powder?

Awon ndi school na scam gang.... The time you lots should go to school and learn basic science, una say na ganja una go dey smoke. Now, seee your life?

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

Till today we are still importing and people de insult Obi.

richmond500:
It is not about the city, Onitsha could be a bustling city back then but those items are not 1930s items.
U can't import what people cannot use.
If the company started in 1929, it means that distribution started later years, so by 1930, 99% of Nigerians may have never seen electricty.
In 1930, many Nigerians were still travelling with carriage. Even the Queen traveled on a royal carriage

The post said 1937 . 8 years is enough time for people to start using it.

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.

Did you read that most of the things in the shop were imported?

I guess you only saw the picture and started your random criticism. Maybe he should have imported the shop too; and clothes for his boy, so that you may believe.

CorrectionFLuid:
Is battery not static electricity again?

Before battery torches, there was the hand torch lighted by fire. If you watch European fantasy movies you would see it.

Hatred makes one behave like a mad man.

But the picture of the torch isn't the one that is lighted by fire

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.

Good day my people,without insulting any tribe as i come in peace, those items in the onitsha market has been in exiting by that period of years from Asian and European countries. eastern Nigeria as at those years comes to buy from Lagos Idumota where we have numerous marchants then. so around that 1937 all these materials were in Lagos already. After years more, the easterners started to utilised their waters oppotunities to order those items direct from abroad and other south west cities travelled to Onitsha to buy from there. my Dad is over 90 years old now who dealing in these items and he took over from his own mother selling at one of the Ibadan market then, I wrote all these because of someone that wrote these items are not in vogue by 1937. Thanks.

mightyhaze:
and battery stores what?

Even the so called electric torch u are referring to now have inbuilt cells to store electric charge... Hence u charge it wen the battery is low

A touch using battery is not an electric device Oga. Are you a science student at all. Do you actually do physics? The cell in the battery may convert the chemical energy to electric energy but that does not mean it’s an electric device. Can you call a generator an electric device also?

Awon ndi school na scam gang.....

This picture is for you!

A simple use of Google search engine would have told you batteries and touch cane about in late 1880s.....

No wonder these miscreants still believe Asiwaju will turn the economy around, the same way they're waiting for Buhari to make 1NGN to $1...

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.

whites really messed up with you guys brains

Where's that man behind that picture now?

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

Don't mind him.
They thought life started with their generation. Lol
People have been using torchlight as far back as 1970.
My grandparents even owned bicycles with lights that flash at night as you ride them according to my dad. Sometimes this generation think things like torch started with rechargeable lanterns.

Maybe you think 1930s is such a long time ago ? people like Wale Soyinka @90 years were born around that period and there are many such people still alive today

LegendHero:
Most of Duckworth work are usually tagged 1930 - 1972

I doubt if that picture up there was taken in the 1930s. Duckworth himself was comer inspection of education in Nigeria between 1930 and 1953.

Some probably just took the photo and slammed a 1937 date on it to mislead the unsuspecting public.

MadPolitician:
But the eternal propogandists said that the easterners were walking around naked and were behaving like the Hadeze tribe at this time in history? Thanks to the Internet for all the revelations

Igbos used loins cloth. I have seen pictures.This pictures must have been in the 19th century or early 20th century.

They Initially wanted to dress the actors in "Things Fall Apart" but decided against it due to the ridicule it would bring.

Truth be told, it was common place in those days.

When the Romans got to England, they indigenes were living in caves.

Wheat is impoetant is that both England and the Igbos have advanced today.

Igbos probably dominate the trade in new western style garments like shorts, trousers and so on.

richmond500:
It is not about the city, Onitsha could be a bustling city back then but those items are not 1930s items.
U can't import what people cannot use.
If the company started in 1929, it means that distribution started later years, so by 1930, 99% of Nigerians may have never seen electricty.
In 1930, many Nigerians were still travelling with carriage. Even the Queen traveled on a royal carriage

There were British colonial officers still in Nigeria back then. And I don't even understand what your argument is, you don't need electricity to use battery torches, all you need is the torch and batteries that stores electric charge.

richmond500:
But the picture of the torch isn't the one that is lighted by fire

You too dull abeg.