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Why is Eko called 'Lagos'?

Are we Portuguese?

Why is our biggest city Portuguese named?

Is there anywhere in Portugal named Abakaliki or Akure or Sokoto?

NO.

So why is our biggest city Portuguese-named?

What has Portugal ever done for you to have you name your biggest city after them?

The Eko State Government needs to wake up from its colonial slumber, STOP calling it 'Lagos' and call it by its REAL NAME, EKO.

Dem no use oyinbo swear for una.

My biggest problem right now is APC not all this one

^^^Don't do that here.

If you want to discuss APC, start your own thread. Don't derail this one.

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Another useless name that must go is 'Port-Harcourt'.

Very useless colonial name belonging to some guy that was reportedly a drunken rapist.

Go and find the original name of that place and name it its REAL NAME, not named after colonial plunderers and mass murderers who slaughtered your ancestors to loot your resources for a century.

You should be demanding REPARATIONS from them, not naming your cities after them.

According to ChatGPT, Britain owes Nigeria $50 Trillion from its plunder of the country.

Our ancestors were comfortable eating bush meats, drinking palm wine and marrying multiple wives. Cos the farm land was fertile and provides for everyone.
Everything was abundant, great warm weather, Almost no naturally disasters. so therefore our IQ in Africa didn't develop much higher. Cos we didn't have much reasons to stress our brain.

We didn't think of how to get better, we didn't get curious about the world,the universe etc.
We just took one look up the sky and concluded that the gods created the world and everything in it. End of the story...

We kept getting more and more mentally lazy...

But on the other side of the world outside Africa, Food weren't abundant. The weather was freezing cold, so many natural disasters. So all they did was think and think all the time for better ways to survive and get better.. So therefore their IQ got higher and higher to 95 IQ. They started asking questions about the planet, about the moon, the stars, the universe... They got curious and curious... they built ships and started exploring the planet. And when they got to Africa they found our ancestors chilling with 62 IQ, eating bush meats and drinking Palm wine.

And that's how we got colonized... And that's why Eko is named Lagos and not the other way around.

I hope that helps...

The state “Lagos” is a collection of several small towns put together, Isale Eko inclusive. Eko itself is a town in the entire state, just as Badagry, Amuwo Odofin, Ikeja, Magodo etc are.

Eko is used to refer to Lagos because it’s the most common and most bustling.

Like this your thread go change the name back to Eko...we can as well change port harcourt's name.

HITsquad:
Our ancestors were comfortable eating bush meats, drinking palm wine and marrying multiple wives. Cos the farm land was fertile and provides for everyone.
Everything was abundant, great warm weather, Almost no naturally disasters. so therefore our IQ in Africa didn't develop much higher. Cos we didn't have much reasons to stress our brain.

We didn't think of how to get better, we didn't get curious about the world, the universe etc.
We just took one look up the sky and concluded that the gods created the world and everything in it. End of the story...

We kept getting more and more mentally lazy...

But on the other side of the world outside Africa, Food weren't abundant. The weather was freezing cold, so many natural disasters. So all they did was think and think all the time for better ways to survive and get better.. So therefore their IQ got higher and higher to 95 IQ. They started asking questions about the planet, about the moon, the stars, the universe... They got curious and curious... they built ships and started exploring the planet. And when they got to Africa they found our ancestors chilling with 62 IQ, eating bush meats and drinking Palm wine.

And that's how we got colonized... And that's why Eko is named Lagos and not the other way around.

I hope that helps...

What a disastrous appraisal of your history.

This is so depressing.

You Nigerians need COMPREHENSIVE REORIENTATION.

Right now, mentally, in terms of how you see yourselves and your racial identity, you are a complete embarrassment to the black world.

You reason EXACTLY how the British colonialists want you to reason.

If EVER an African country needed an IBRAHIM TRAORE, it is Nigeria.

Why God sent him to tiny Burkina Faso, I have no idea.

Your history you don’t know.

Your ancestors you spite.

You need serious healing.

If Africans are of ''IQ of 0'', HOW were they able to invent mathematics, writing, architecture, medicine, astronomy (which you think whites invented), mining of minerals, iron-smelting (without which there would be NOTHING made of metal from cars to planes to phones to fridges?)

Do you know there over 250 pyramids in Sudan, our neighbour, older than any building in Europe or America?

Do you know iron smelting was invented in Lejja, Nsukka, Nigeria?

They found a massive smelting site there, and carbon-dated it to 2650 BCE.

Without that invention, you and 'oyinbo' would be sitting in a cave right now, dodging wild animals.

How were Africans able to rule Europe for 800 years between the 7th and 15th centuries?

Do you know it was Black Africans who led Europe to its 'Renaissance', the springboard for the Industrial Revolution?

Do you know there are STATUES all over Europe of these Black African kings?

Do you KNOW that in Europe they have FESTIVALS till today where they dress up in West African costumes and paint their faces BLACK in honour of their former black kings and queens?

Europe barely colonised Africa for a century.

Africa colonised Europe for 800 years.

So it's not the IQ of AFRICANS that you need to check.

Video. Europe Celebrates the Moors in BLACKFACE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCbjRLvPfs

Kemetian:
Why is Eko called 'Lagos'?

Are we Portuguese?

Why is our biggest city Portuguese named?

Is there anywhere in Portugal named Abakaliki or Akure or Sokoto?

NO.

So why is our biggest city Portuguese-named?

What has Portugal ever done for you to have you name your biggest city after them?

The Eko State Government needs to wake up from its colonial slumber, STOP calling it 'Lagos' and call it by its REAL NAME, EKO.

Dem no use oyinbo swear for una.

Not everywhere in Lagos is Eko, and who cares? Portugal is Roman for Gaulic Port. Roman is Etruscan for 'Teat'.

Kushites:
What a disastrous appraisal of your history.

This is so depressing.

You Nigerians need COMPREHENSIVE REORIENTATION.

Right now, mentally, in terms of how you see yourselves and your racial identity, you are a complete embarrassment to the black world.

You reason EXACTLY how the British colonialists want you to reason.

If EVER an African country needed an IBRAHIM TRAORE, it is Nigeria.

Why God sent him to tiny Burkina Faso, I have no idea.

Your history you don’t know.

Your ancestors you spite.

You need serious healing.

If Africans are of ''IQ of 0'', HOW were they able to invent mathematics, writing, architecture, medicine, astronomy (which you think whites invented), mining of minerals, iron-smelting (without which there would be NOTHING made of metal from cars to planes to phones to fridges?)

Do you know there over 250 pyramids in Sudan, our neighbour, older than any building in Europe or America?

Do you know iron smelting was invented in Lejja, Nsukka, Nigeria?

They found a massive smelting site there, and carbon-dated it to 2650 BCE.

Without that invention, you and 'oyinbo' would be sitting in a cave right now, dodging wild animals.

How were Africans able to rule Europe for 800 years between the 7th and 15th centuries?

Do you know it was Black Africans who led Europe to its 'Renaissance', the springboard for the Industrial Revolution?

Do you know there are STATUES all over Europe of these Black African kings?

Do you KNOW that in Europe they have FESTIVALS till today where they dress up in West African costumes and paint their faces BLACK in honour of their former black kings and queens?

Europe barely colonised Africa for a century.

Africa colonised Europe for 800 years.

So it's not the IQ of AFRICANS that you need to check.

Video. Europe Celebrates the Moors in BLACKFACE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCbjRLvPfs

you just write rubbish just to prove a rubbish point, we Africans are too full of ourselves, we think everything is about us, person pass you and you dey see clear evidence but becos you felt your continent should be on top then you start creating unnecessary history

Kennyfancy:
you just write rubbish just to prove a rubbish point, we Africans are too full of ourselves, we think everything is about us, person pass you and you dey see clear evidence but becos you felt your continent should be on top then you start creating unnecessary history

So...When BLACK AFRICANS were ruling Europe for 800 years, what does that say about European intelligence? Tell us.

Because the world did not start today.

It did not start when you were born.

The technology you enjoy today is as a result of the work of BLACK AFRICANS by 95%, IF NOT MORE.

Work that started THOUSANDS of years ago.

The things you take for granted today and assume they've always been here - writing, mathematics, the calendar, architecture, law, mining, metallurgy, international trade and shipping, were invented, pioneered and spread around the world by BLACK AFRICANS, and their statues and paintings are found all over the world today from China to India to Cambodia to the Americas to Russia. You even have PYRAMIDS in China that were built by the first African settlers there. The Chinese cover them with trees and plants to disguise them. They allow no one in there. Because they KNOW it will show evidence of Black African rule in ancient China.

If you don't know your history as an African, you will learn it by force.

Black Africans ruled Europe and even enslaved Europeans for centuries.

TRANSLATION: White people are not superior to Black people.

That they are are 'ahead' today, does not mean they have supernatural powers that YOU don't have, or that they will always be 'ahead'.

They only got 'ahead' because they stole Chinese gunpowder mixtures to build firearms in a world that had AGREED for millennia to use iron weapons in combat to limit casualties.

They conquered the whole world, not just Africa. They are NOT your superiors.

They were (and remain) just extremely greedy, selfish and ruthless. A mentality that's led the world to its current nuclear and environmental precipice.

Rather than simply trade and 'innovate', they decided to ROB the Southern Hemisphere with guns and bombs, enriching their societies beyond measure.

That does not make them 'superior beings' unless you worship the Devil.


The Moors in Ireland
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Europe
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https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a2/14/b5/a214b5f54591ca0bd799ae2e2cbd4f32.jpg

Black Kings of Europe

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AFRICA CIVILIZED EUROPE (Or TRIED to)

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6d/33/89/6d33895f36495bc2013f0efe167c03da.jpg

These are the people who civilised the world. Without these kings... THESE BLACK PHARAOHS..... who pushed out African mathematics, alchemy, astronomy, architecture, science, and philosophy, the entire world would be living in caves today.

So HOW DARE YOU call Africans 'inferior'?

Inferior to WHOM?

You might as well call GOD inferior.

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https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e4/ee/86/e4ee86bf6e101453a39215a5b2f374a8.jpg

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Lagos is a derivative of the LAGOON.

Kemetian:
Why is Eko called 'Lagos'?

Are we Portuguese?

Why is our biggest city Portuguese named?

Is there anywhere in Portugal named Abakaliki or Akure or Sokoto?

NO.

So why is our biggest city Portuguese-named?

What has Portugal ever done for you to have you name your biggest city after them?

The Eko State Government needs to wake up from its colonial slumber, STOP calling it 'Lagos' and call it by its REAL NAME, EKO.

Dem no use oyinbo swear for una.

Did yorubas , the owners of Lagos colonize Portugal?
By the way, it's name in Yoruba remains Eko

Kushites:
So...When BLACK AFRICANS were ruling Europe for 800 years, what does that say about European intelligence? Tell us.

Because the world did not start today.

It did not start when you were born.

The technology you enjoy today is as a result of the work of BLACK AFRICANS by 95%, IF NOT MORE.

Work that started THOUSANDS of years ago.

The things you take for granted today and assume they've always been here - writing, mathematics, the calendar, architecture, law, mining, metallurgy, international trade and shipping, were invented, pioneered and spread around the world by BLACK AFRICANS, and their statues and paintings are found all over the world today from China to India to Cambodia to the Americas to Russia. You even have PYRAMIDS in China that were built by the first African settlers there. The Chinese cover them with trees and plants to disguise them. They allow no one in there. Because they KNOW it will show evidence of Black African rule in ancient China.

If you don't know your history as an African, you will learn it by force.

Black Africans ruled Europe and even enslaved Europeans for centuries.

TRANSLATION: White people are not superior to Black people.

That they are are 'ahead' today, does not mean they have supernatural powers that YOU don't have, or that they will always be 'ahead'.

They only got 'ahead' because they stole Chinese gunpowder mixtures to build firearms in a world that had AGREED for millennia to use iron weapons in combat to limit casualties.

They conquered the whole world, not just Africa. They are NOT your superiors.

They were (and remain) just extremely greedy, selfish and ruthless. A mentality that's led the world to its current nuclear and environmental precipice.

Rather than simply trade and 'innovate', they decided to ROB the Southern Hemisphere with guns and bombs, enriching their societies beyond measure.

That does not make them 'superior beings' unless you worship the Devil.


The Moors in Ireland
https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/f0/f3/0a/f0f30aedf791df3d868caf42593b9976.jpg

Europe
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/85/c8/2e85c8583a023d8dc04944f5ec1529d2.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a2/14/b5/a214b5f54591ca0bd799ae2e2cbd4f32.jpg

Just like China suffered the Century of humiliation in the hands of Europeans (Russia) and Japan, it bounced back and is now on the path to reclaiming it's lead role in the world trade..... China has always dominated until the 17th century when it was defeated and humiliated
Africa on the other hand has refused to bounce back and reclaim it's place, maybe it still will in the future.
One wise man put the issue of life originating from Africa this
"You can get white from black due mutations but you can never get black from white.
The whiteman today is African ancestors that have mutated and became white.

Difrent:
Just like China suffered the Century of humiliation in the hands of Europeans (Russia) and Japan, it bounced back and is now on the path to reclaiming it's lead role in the world trade..... China has always dominated until the 17th century when it was defeated and humiliated
Africa on the other hand has refused to bounce back and reclaim it's place, maybe it still will in the future.

You are WRONG about Africa. One thing most of you never do is travel around Africa. Every small money you get, you rush to LEAVE Africa for Europe or America or 'Dubai'.

Even the Caribbean you don't visit.

So you know next to nothing about Africa and black countries. How will you know?

From CNN? BBC?

They will only show you poor village people and conflict, ignoring all the progress and development across the continent.

So TRAVEL or use YouTube to learn. When you have money, instead of travelling to London or Dubai on vacation, travel to Zanzibar, Tanzania. Travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Travel to Nairobi, Kenya.

Travel to Luanda, Angola, and you will be amazed. The place looks like Miami.

Luanda
https://suetravels.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Angola-0022-650x363.jpg

Today, 12 or 13 of the 20 fastest growing economies are African. The continent is moving forward!!

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fastest-Growing-Economies-in-2025_WEB.jpg

Kushites:
You are WRONG about Africa. One thing most of you never do us travel around Africa. Every small money you get, you will rush to LEAVE Africa for Europe or America or 'Dubai'.

So you know next to nothing about Africa. How will you know? From CNN? BBC? They will only show you poor people and conflict, ignoring all the progress and development across the continent. So TRAVEL or use YouTube to learn.

Today, 12 or 13 of the 20 fastest growing economies are African. The continent is moving forward!!

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fastest-Growing-Economies-in-2025_WEB.jpg

. So how am I wrong?
Didn't you see where I stated that African may get there one day?

Difrent:
. So how am I wrong?
Didn't you see where I stated that African may get there one day?

Because you said ''Africa on the other hand has refused to bounce back and reclaim it's place''.

That is simply not the case. Africa is moving. It's not an overnight thing.

You guys need to visit some of these African countries and Caribbean countries. You will be amazed.

But no. You will sit there thinking everywhere black people are must be like Ajegunle.

Visit even Republic of Benin next door here. You will know immediately that you are in a different country. Talk less of when you enter Ivory Coast or Senegal.

Africa is not your backyard. It's a massive continent with 54 countries that are developing fast.

Kushites:
But no. You will sit there thinking everywhere black people are must be like Ajegunle.

Bold of you to make all these claims when we can't even be sure you also have travelled all over Africa. Just assuming you know it all.

Weldone.

Africa on the way but not yet there and still a long way to go

Difrent:
Bold of you to make all these claims when we can't even be sure you also have travelled all over Africa. Just assuming you know it all.

Weldone.

Africa on the way but not yet there and still a long way to go

You don't need to travel all over Africa to know that Africa is developing fast. A YouTube video can show you cities and places in Africa you never even thought of.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsZdBRzH80E&t=326s

As you can see from that video, there is nothing in Europe or America or Dubai that you will not find in Africa, plus more, when you factor in food, women, vibes, etc..!!!!!

Kushites:
What a disastrous appraisal of your history.

This is so depressing.

You Nigerians need COMPREHENSIVE REORIENTATION.

Right now, mentally, in terms of how you see yourselves and your racial identity, you are a complete embarrassment to the black world.

You reason EXACTLY how the British colonialists want you to reason.

If EVER an African country needed an IBRAHIM TRAORE, it is Nigeria.

Why God sent him to tiny Burkina Faso, I have no idea.

Your history you don’t know.

Your ancestors you spite.

You need serious healing.

If Africans are of ''IQ of 0'', HOW were they able to invent mathematics, writing, architecture, medicine, astronomy (which you think whites invented), mining of minerals, iron-smelting (without which there would be NOTHING made of metal from cars to planes to phones to fridges?)

Do you know there over 250 pyramids in Sudan, our neighbour, older than any building in Europe or America?

Do you know iron smelting was invented in Lejja, Nsukka, Nigeria?

They found a massive smelting site there, and carbon-dated it to 2650 BCE.

Without that invention, you and 'oyinbo' would be sitting in a cave right now, dodging wild animals.

How were Africans able to rule Europe for 800 years between the 7th and 15th centuries?

Do you know it was Black Africans who led Europe to its 'Renaissance', the springboard for the Industrial Revolution?

Do you know there are STATUES all over Europe of these Black African kings?

Do you KNOW that in Europe they have FESTIVALS till today where they dress up in West African costumes and paint their faces BLACK in honour of their former black kings and queens?

Europe barely colonised Africa for a century.

Africa colonised Europe for 800 years.

So it's not the IQ of AFRICANS that you need to check.

Video. Europe Celebrates the Moors in BLACKFACE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCbjRLvPfs

Here we go again, More and more sentiment.
People like you always claim Africa invented everything but the west claimed it all and took all the credit... and the rewrite our history.

If we were actually as Superior as you want us to believe, If they gotten here and met a more advanced civilization they wouldn't have been able to do all that to us. Or maybe it would have been the other way around.

Let's put all that side..

We claimed to have invented everything in the past. But still when you look around you today. The people we claimed that stole our inventions are still the only ones inventing new things everyday, while we are just there consuming.

It didn't add up.

And mind you, I don't hate being black! I love being black, I'm proud of being black. Bro I bleed black! That won't make me shy away from reality. We can never better as a race until we acknowledge the main source of our problem, and maybe starting working towards fixing it.

Someone woke up one morning and this is the best they can do. What does "lagos" mean in Portuguese?

There's new Mexico in US, why not go ask them the same question as well as other places named after other countries? What's the obsession with Lagos?

HITsquad:
Our ancestors were comfortable eating bush meats, drinking palm wine and marrying multiple wives. Cos the farm land was fertile and provides for everyone.
Everything was abundant, great warm weather, Almost no naturally disasters. so therefore our IQ in Africa didn't develop much higher. Cos we didn't have much reasons to stress our brain.

We didn't think of how to get better, we didn't get curious about the world,the universe etc.
We just took one look up the sky and concluded that the gods created the world and everything in it. End of the story...

We kept getting more and more mentally lazy...

But on the other side of the world outside Africa, Food weren't abundant. The weather was freezing cold, so many natural disasters. So all they did was think and think all the time for better ways to survive and get better.. So therefore their IQ got higher and higher to 95 IQ. They started asking questions about the planet, about the moon, the stars, the universe... They got curious and curious... they built ships and started exploring the planet. And when they got to Africa they found our ancestors chilling with 62 IQ, eating bush meats and drinking Palm wine.

And that's how we got colonized... And that's why Eko is named Lagos and not the other way around.

I hope that helps...

You have a very simple mind

HITsquad:
Here we go again, More and more sentiment.
People like you always claim Africa invented everything but the west claimed it all and took all the credit... and the rewrite our history.

Mr Man, Go and educate YOURSELF on YOUR AFRICAN history.

There are BOOKS you can read. Have you heard of Cheikh Anta Diop? Chancellor Williams? Basil Davidson?

NO. Is it not your job to learn you HISTORY as an educated person?

Nobody is begging you to learn about your past.

But you will NOT come in here and make out that Africans are inferior to any race simply because you can't be bothered to study your African history of Accomplishment, without which there would be no modern world to speak of.

If we were actually as Superior as you want us to believe

What do you mean by ''superior''? I never said we were 'superior'. I said we are not 'inferior' to any race.

If they gotten here and met a more advanced civilization they wouldn't have been able to do all that to us. Or maybe it would have been the other way around.

You are WRONG. If you are sitting in your house and somebody storms you with guns and bombs, destroying your house, shooting people there, does that mean the person is 'superior' to you?

Who told you that military defeat spells racial inferiority?

Does that mean Europeans were racially inferior to Africans when Africans ruled them for 800 years?

They suddenly developed supernatural intelligence after 800 years of African dominance of Europe?

YOU NIGERIANS must rid yourselves of the tragic belief that somebody being in a position of greater economic prosperity or technological development over you makes you racially inferior to them.

It is because you don't know or study your HISTORY that you reason like that.

If you know your HISTORY, you would know immediately that no race is superior to the black race.

That all other races are much later genetic mutations of the original Black Race, and therefore cannot be 'superior' to the original Black race that covered the earth for tens of thousands of years before any other races existed.

Let's put all that side..

We claimed to have invented everything in the past.

''We'' didn't 'claim'.

It is a FACT that Black Africans invented AND INNOVATED the very foundations of the modern world.

Go on ChatGPT now and ask ''Which race invented Mathematics?''

It will tell you, ''Black Africans''.

Go on there and ask it now. Do the same for writing, mining, metallurgy. The calendar. Iron smelting.

Same answer: BLACK AFRICANS. With details.

Okay?

So it's not about ''we claimed''.

It is FACTS. Without Black Africans, the entire world would be living in CAVES today.

But still when you look around you today. The people we claimed that stole our inventions are still the only ones inventing new things everyday, while we are just there consuming.

You are wrong. The computer you are using was co-invented by an African-American, Mark Dean. He holds several patents for the invention of the IBM Personal Computer in 1981.

The LIGHT BULB you use was perfected by an African-American, Lewis Latimer.

Thomas Edison, a white man, 'invented' the bulb, but it could only last a few minutes before extinguishing.

Lewis Latimer, the black man, invented the filament you put inside the bulb that makes it last for months and years.

So EVERY TIME you switch on your light, REMEMBER that that's the work of a black man's brain.

Same applies to numerous inventions you think were from ''white people'', but were actually the world of black scientists working behind the scenes even till today!

Latimer even invented the forerunner of the air conditioner called "Apparatus for cooling and disinfecting".

That’s where AC came from. A black man.

This same black genius invented the automatic elevator door. For years they were using lifts for which you had to open the door yourself and enter. Good luck if the lift was on the ground floor when you stepped in!

Many fell in into the abyss screaming to their deaths.

Then Lewis Latimer invented the Automatic Elevator Door System. So the door would open only when the lift reached your floor.

Even a black man, Garret Morgan, invented the traffic lights the whole world uses today.🚦

In more recent years we have seen numerous inventions from Africa proper.

A quick AI inquiry shows some important innovations you will NEVER see on CNN:


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AI

Here are 10 recent/ongoing African inventions & innovations (or near inventions) that are especially important, showing tech, health, language, and infrastructure. Some are fully deployed, some research / proposals, but all have strong promise.

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1. Cheetah: NLG for 517 African Languages
A new natural language generation model that supports 517 African languages and varieties. Helps address the under-representation problem in NLP (Natural Language Processing), enabling coherent generation of text in many more African tongues.

2. 1000 African Voices / Afro-TTS
Speech synthesis system that can generate speech in **86 African accents**, with 1,000 different “personas” (voice profiles), for use in things like public health, education, and content creation. Makes tech feel more local & inclusive.

3. AfroDigits
Community-driven spoken digit dataset covering 38 African languages. Useful for very simple, foundational tasks (e.g. recognizing spoken digits, phone numbers, etc.) but important for low-resource settings to build more complex speech interfaces.

4. African Light Source (AfLS)
A pan-African initiative to build the continent’s first synchrotron light source facility (powerful beams of X-rays / UV / infrared) for scientific research. This provides infrastructure for advanced materials science, biology, physics research. Africa is currently the only continent without such a facility.

5. Guided mRNA-based cancer treatment / vaccine innovations (Uganda)
Dr. Matthias Magoola (Uganda) and his company Dei BioPharma have patented an advanced cancer treatment using guided mRNA technology (guided by Cas9) that aims to target mutated cancer cells while sparing healthy ones. Also working on vaccine compositions for HIV and HPV. This is cutting edge in medical biotech in Africa.

6. Charging Shoe (Kenya)
Invented by Anthony Mutua. The idea is that your shoe generates electricity when you walk, which then can charge a phone. Useful in places with less stable electricity infrastructure.

7. Portable solar lamps / solar-powered smallholder irrigation
Youth in West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal) have built portable solar lamps and solar-powered irrigation systems. These inventions address very practical constraints: lack of power, unreliable water for farming.

8. Inclusive AI / Language tools
Projects that develop speech recognition, translation, and other tools for African languages so digital assistants etc. can serve people in their own languages. These are foundational if “AI gods” or deities ever speak—or AI systems ever speak—in local tongues.

9. M-Pesa & mobile money innovations
Originally Kenyan, but now spreading widely. Mobile money platforms are older but still among the most transformative, continuing to evolve with new fintech features. They changed banking in Africa, financial inclusion, remittances. While not “brand new,” still one of the most important ongoing inventions.

10. Large-scale solar water pumping / clean water / infrastructure projects
Projects like solar-powered clean water pumps to bring reliable water to remote communities (often with real-time monitoring, sustainable maintenance). These may not be flashy, but they change lives at scale, allowing communities to focus on growth rather than survival.

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So YOUR job as an African is to EMULATE the innovation and drive of your fellow Africans as shown above, instead of peddling discredited, unscientific, disgusting colonial myths about African capacity.

Kushites:
So...When BLACK AFRICANS were ruling Europe for 800 years, what does that say about European intelligence? Tell us.

Because the world did not start today.

It did not start when you were born.

The technology you enjoy today is as a result of the work of BLACK AFRICANS by 95%, IF NOT MORE.

Work that started THOUSANDS of years ago.

The things you take for granted today and assume they've always been here - writing, mathematics, the calendar, architecture, law, mining, metallurgy, international trade and shipping, were invented, pioneered and spread around the world by BLACK AFRICANS, and their statues and paintings are found all over the world today from China to India to Cambodia to the Americas to Russia. You even have PYRAMIDS in China that were built by the first African settlers there. The Chinese cover them with trees and plants to disguise them. They allow no one in there. Because they KNOW it will show evidence of Black African rule in ancient China.

If you don't know your history as an African, you will learn it by force.

Black Africans ruled Europe and even enslaved Europeans for centuries.

TRANSLATION: White people are not superior to Black people.

That they are are 'ahead' today, does not mean they have supernatural powers that YOU don't have, or that they will always be 'ahead'.

They only got 'ahead' because they stole Chinese gunpowder mixtures to build firearms in a world that had AGREED for millennia to use iron weapons in combat to limit casualties.

They conquered the whole world, not just Africa. They are NOT your superiors.

They were (and remain) just extremely greedy, selfish and ruthless. A mentality that's led the world to its current nuclear and environmental precipice.

Rather than simply trade and 'innovate', they decided to ROB the Southern Hemisphere with guns and bombs, enriching their societies beyond measure.

That does not make them 'superior beings' unless you worship the Devil.


The Moors in Ireland
https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/f0/f3/0a/f0f30aedf791df3d868caf42593b9976.jpg

Europe
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/85/c8/2e85c8583a023d8dc04944f5ec1529d2.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a2/14/b5/a214b5f54591ca0bd799ae2e2cbd4f32.jpg

keep deceiving urself, everything was stolen from you yet you can't even build the simplest of things, abeg who is ur weed plug ?

Kennyfancy:
keep deceiving urself, everything was stolen from you yet you can't even build the simplest of things, abeg who is ur weed plug ?

Who is ''You''?

Are you not referring to yourself?

If YOU have not 'built anything', it doesn't mean OTHER Africans have not built or are not building.

It is YOU that has done NOTHING.

Don't project your inertia unto other AFRICANS.

Okay?

You have AFRICANS doing all sorts of brilliant things YOU know NOTHING about, because you don't read or research anything. Just like 95% of people on this forum. Allergic to knowledge.

A hill in Enugu called Milliken because an assistant coal engineer from Scotland organised local people to build a road across the hill.