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Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by zelnababa(m): 8:54am On Oct 16, 2024
tishbite42:
The Igbos were already urbanized since the 20s
On to the next one
with hut shop. lolz
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by IyfeNamikaze(m): 8:59am On Oct 16, 2024
ceejayluv:
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.
Lol... Nigerians to be historically conscious? That's like asking a dog to learn how to solve algebra.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by sreamsense: 9:03am On Oct 16, 2024
Realtruth2023:
But DMGS Onitsha was a fully built secondary school in the 30s and Onitsha main market was built from an old trading post in the late 20s.
Dude try and have sense.
How has this your submission disputed the fact that that picture was not taken in 1930s? How does building school translated to people were still not naked and knew the value of education then? Did you check the link I gave you earlier? If you did you will see that as at early 60s, people were still being naked. Many did not know the value of education then, they were just trying to enforce civilization then. Many schools were still empty then.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by FatimaAbubakar(f): 9:17am On Oct 16, 2024
CommonSense1967:
My papa na big idiot
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by FatimaAbubakar(f): 9:17am On Oct 16, 2024
CommonSense1967:
My shameless mother is a harlot
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by historic: 9:24am On Oct 16, 2024
franchasng:
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
You just said it all! Apt!
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by mightyhaze: 10:31am On Oct 16, 2024
sweetjohn:
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?
wake up



There's sth called local parlance... In local parlance na electric torch them dey call all of them..don't be too thick between the ears just to show solidarity to your townsmen
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by mightyhaze: 10:32am On Oct 16, 2024
sreamsense:
Stop telling lies! Accept when you are corrected with sensible proves. Many igbos were still naked as at 1960 as Reno onced proved that to you in a convincin. This can not be 1930 picture.

https://www.nairaland.com/7929053/reno-omokri-replies-iwuanyanwu
you and your Reno deserve a space in a goat pen grin
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by mightyhaze: 10:34am On Oct 16, 2024
careidon:
These are goods manufactured somewhere else.
What development? Which is being made in Nigeria currently?
That's not the issue..the issue be say your tribesmen no believe say shops don dey east as at 30s
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by mightyhaze: 10:37am On Oct 16, 2024
AmalaAtiEwedu:
So igbo people been d live for caves ? grin
before them came out with a surge of energy and dwarfed your hundreds years headstart
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by IbeOkehie: 11:07am On Oct 16, 2024
franchasng:
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.

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
That's interesting because that's the same way the Igbo became Christians. They converted for money and colonial government jobs.

Most Igbo don't deep down believe in Christianity same as most Nigerian Muslims don't believe their own religion.

The easiest way to get compliance from a Nigerian is to make them swear on their Native Tribal shrine.

The reason for the massive corruption and impunity in Nigerian government is that officials are sworn into office on Bibles & Koran.

Good Luck to Nigeria.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by djon78(m): 11:11am On Oct 16, 2024
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
Don't mind them

They talking all those lies were they even developed

Especially that Reno omokri guy

True there people were first to relate with the Europeans

But what did they achieve with it

Ordinary education they couldn't read

While the igbos that were last to interact with the Europeans

Still pursued education in the then old Nigeria that intellectuals like Azikiwe, Micheal okpara, mbonu okike, ajah Nwachukwu, Sir mbanefo, Sir Louis Odumegwu ojukwu, Akweke Nwafor Orizu etc still got educated in the 1920s
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by LOVEALAIGBO: 11:29am On Oct 16, 2024
Realtruth2023:
Zik was already in America at that time. There was DMGS already existing at that time.
CKC Onitsha also….1935!
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by LOVEALAIGBO: 11:31am On Oct 16, 2024
mightyhaze:
you and your Reno deserve a space in a goat pen grin
The goats would probably protest!
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Abufo: 11:41am On Oct 16, 2024
RealTalkNoBull:
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.
We still live in the rain forests sir..............Igbos were working iron and metals over 1000 years ago ,,,,,,google lejja and igbo Ukwu metal artifacts! Missionaries and explorers who visited igboland some 300 years ago where surprised that Igbo blacksmiths could repair and forge parts of their muskets or rifles! Igbo blacksmiths were repairing yoruba rifles used in the kiriji wars with screws and nuts instead of the nails the yorubas were using............Technology was not absent in ancient igboland! can you produce a rifle today on your own but igbos and even hausas were already making guns 200 to 300 years ago!
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by ajailer(m): 12:02pm On Oct 16, 2024
Realtruth2023:
Dude you are highly ignorant walahi. When did the departmental stores begin in Nigeria with UTC and the likes? Before then you had Syrians, Lebanese and Nigerian traders
So 1937, those foreigners u mentioned were already coming to Nigeria, even when WW2 was yet to fully start? If you want to deliberately deceive others by wanting to rewrite history in a way that suits you, count me out of those people. This is obvious insecurity for you guys.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by sweetjohn(m): 12:16pm On Oct 16, 2024
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Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by OfoIgbo: 12:16pm On Oct 16, 2024
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.
My dad studied in the UK. When he got back to Nigeria in 1972, that was when he saw a cassette tape for the first time. He didn't see any cassette tapes in the UK as he lived there for about 5 years before returning.

Some of these goods tend to make it into Nigeria, before the various certification agencies start allowing their sales in the US or European countries, or before they become widely available in the west
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Laurene: 12:18pm On Oct 16, 2024
richmond500:
No, they are not nearly as fine as those ones in the pic.
Also electric torch came to Nigeria late, we used one kind lantern with glass. electric torch was recent.
Also 1930's pictures are not this sharp, the white colours of 1930 pics are tanned
Sorry your wrong about picture quality.
I've pictures Jim Corbett took when he hunted down the Tigress of Champawat back in 1907...It was clear abs sound; beforehand hand after his expedition.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Doylestown92(m): 12:26pm On Oct 16, 2024
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
Can't you see he's putting on a European dress? Can't you see he's putting on a European hat? Can't you see he was snapped with a European camera?
You're not intelligent.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by richmond500: 12:26pm On Oct 16, 2024
Laurene:
Sorry your wrong about picture quality.
I've pictures Jim Corbett took when he hunted down the Tigress of Champawat back in 1907...It was clear abs sound; beforehand hand after his expedition.
let me see the picture
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Realtruth2023: 12:35pm On Oct 16, 2024
ajailer:
So 1937, those foreigners u mentioned were already coming to Nigeria, even when WW2 was yet to fully start? If you want to deliberately deceive others by wanting to rewrite history in a way that suits you, count me out of those people. This is obvious insecurity for you guys.
Oga stop trying to play smart. i never said they were not coming to Nigeria, do not misquote me. What i am saying is that we had these items already in the country and we had Nigerians trading in them. We had Nigerians and Igbos trading with GB Olivant as far back as the early 30s.
You guys should stop trying to twist facts. it doesn't work anymore
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by stasius: 2:06pm On Oct 16, 2024
IyfeNamikaze:
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.
In the olden days you dont even need battery for light.
DYNAMOS used in bicycles generate electric current for illuminating the environment. This generation
Won't know all that. Lols
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Juniorangel(m): 2:55pm On Oct 16, 2024
Ado n'idu...
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by djon78(m): 2:58pm On Oct 16, 2024
Realtruth2023:
Zik was already in America at that time. There was DMGS already existing at that time.
These guys take us for what self

Nnamdi Azikiwe wa already in America then

DMGS Onitsha started 1925
Lux Fiat!!

Will be hundred years next year

It was that fake news promoter Reno omokri that was deceiving them

He claims we igbos were backward

True his people interacted with the Europeans first

But they didn't achieve anything with that interaction

School they didn't go

While igbos they claimed backwards had intellectuals like Azikiwe, Micheal okpara, Mbonu Ojike, Ajah Nwachukwu, Sir mbanefo, Sir Louis Odumegwu ojukwu, Akweke Nwafor Orizu, Dr Akanu Ibiam then

Dr Michael Okpara and Dr Akanu Ibiam
Were Medical Doctors
Trained overseas

This people should just go and get sense walahi
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by G0Oodharddick: 3:20pm On Oct 16, 2024
ukaface:
How did this historical reminder eventually lead to you attacking women?

If you wan stay and die single, do you na. Must you be bitter to the point of guilt tripping women over an innocent post?? Nawa o
The girl wey show you shege really show you better shege o
Notice how you left out the message and started attacking the messenger?

I hope you'll advise your sons and brothers to spend lavishly on women while u and their parents.

How does advising men to be careful with their money and to invest and spend on themselves instead of wasting it on women, equates to being or dying single?
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Obaaderemi2: 3:55pm On Oct 16, 2024
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.
Slave trade ended in 1940, this man should tell us what he exports from Nigeria for him to import things that only our slave masters could buy.
That's probably late 60s or early 70s Onitsha. Nowhere was it written on the picture itself that that was 1937. Long handled electric torch in the interiors of Nigeria in 1937 and stainless cups too. These people are funny. 😄😄😄
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Hausa(m): 3:59pm On Oct 16, 2024
Realtruth2023:
Dude stop trying to fake that you are igbo, the truth is you are not.
Onitsha started having street lights in the early 40s. Main Market opened in the late 30s. Most igbo traders of old started trading with the British during WW2 when it started in 1938.
Zik had already competed his schooling in the 30s alongside Sir Louis Mbanefo and Co. Mbadiwe was already schooling in the late 30s.
DMGS opened in the 30s, so it shows you are not igbo and lying for you to say what you said.
Blud, chillax. I'd like to focus on the topic at hand.
Now, as long as we cannot determine the true year of the picture, see it as conjectured analysis.
And to make it make sense, I already put up a couple of reasons why I don't think the image was in the 30s.

N.B. WWII started in 1939 and ended in 1945.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Mrexcell(m): 4:19pm On Oct 16, 2024
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.
We already know the narrative u are trying to portray here.
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by richmond500: 4:26pm On Oct 16, 2024
Bigkoko:
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...
there is a difference between battery torches and electric torches
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by franchasng: 9:33pm On Oct 16, 2024
IbeOkehie:
That's interesting because that's the same way the Igbo became Christians. They converted for money and colonial government jobs.

Most Igbo don't deep down believe in Christianity same as most Nigerian Muslims don't believe their own religion.

The easiest way to get compliance from a Nigerian is to make them swear on their Native Tribal shrine

The reason for the massive corruption and impunity in Nigerian government is that officials are sworn into office on Bibles & Koran.

Good Luck to Nigeria.
cheesy grin
Re: Picture Of A Market Stall In Onitsha In 1937 by Magnumproperty: 9:44pm On Oct 16, 2024
Eriokanmi:
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!
Now let's agree with your point. Who were his customers that year? Or you mean peasant farmers living in his community can buy afford those items?
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