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Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by jaxxy(m):
Racoon:
Nice one for them. No wonder the were better countries comparable to those colonized. Ethiopia has the oldest and biggest carrier in the whole African continent - Ethiopian with many A380 in its fleet.

The unfortunate ones conquered by the western imperialists were simply exploited and treated as their fiefdom vassals with political crisis in their aftermath.
Kingosytex:
While the spineless, treacherous, greedy, and selfish men who ran things in the northern and southern regions fell cheaply to the British invaders.
It's pathetic.
Being colonised or not has very little to do with the trajectory of a Nation or people in terms of National development abd advancement in the next 30/50 year projection.

Nepal wasn’t colonised I'm surprised but yet is struggling. Egypt was colonised and is doing very well probably better than Ethiopia.

It is what u do at every given point in time when or after responsibility has been given or passed onto u for ur own governance and independence.

Some colonised Nations are better for it I might say. Dubai was a British protectorate until 1971.

Nigeria got independence in 1960.

Japan who was never colonised but yet colonised others.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by shadrach77: 1:50pm On Oct 19, 2025
ruggedtimi:
The list missed out one west african country.." Liberia"
Liberia was colonised by the US.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Amotolongbo(f): 1:51pm On Oct 19, 2025
musicwriter:
How do you define "better"? And why not square them up using countries with same population?

But, of course, you have no idea of the damage done to you by colonialism.
Do we even have two countries with same population at all?

I could only blame ignorance for this.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by shortgun(m): 1:56pm On Oct 19, 2025
Godfullsam:
The evil they did to us can not in any way compared to the evil we did to ourselves.

We refused to part ways after they parted ways with us.

The worst evil was done by certain region who ensured we remain together for this long by removing the secession clause for the constitution and introduced a f^cking unitary government.
The region you are referring to once left you in your evil British contraption to exist on its own but you and the evil British Empire declared war against that region for leaving.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by 3kay945(m): 2:01pm On Oct 19, 2025
koladata:
When I tell people colonization is not the reason why all African countries are poor. The only countries in Africa that are not poor have a mixture of whites. The black nations are poor because our mentality was created poor by God's. We are designed this way. Africans and whites are not the same type of human.
I don't know how you arrived at this conclusion but I have for recent times concluded that African especially the black do not have what it takes to effectively and efficiently governed themselves.

It is a fact! grin

Until superior fact shows it face in future.. it will continue to be. cool
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by HenryWilliams(m): 2:02pm On Oct 19, 2025
Apcnewrecruit:
Who colonized British people
The Romans
The Vikings
The French
At different times during their history
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by HenryWilliams(m): 2:03pm On Oct 19, 2025
Ayodele1987:
What of Egypt
To numerous to count.
The Greeks
The Romans
The Ottomans
The French
The British
Etc
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Porksupplyib: 2:04pm On Oct 19, 2025
koladata:
When I tell people colonization is not the reason why all African countries are poor. The only countries in Africa that are not poor have a mixture of whites. The black nations are poor because our mentality was created poor by God's. We are designed this way. Africans and whites are not the same type of human.
You are unfortunately very correct.
I have always preached this gospel.
We are same species HUMAN, but not the same breed.
And with breeds we have differences. Starting with Morphological differnces (physical), behavioural, and so on.
The way the black breed of human reason is way different from the way the whites do. These differences set them clearly apart.
You can't fight this, you just have to accept it as it is.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by HenryWilliams(m): 2:05pm On Oct 19, 2025
thatigboman post=137177380:
which country colonized england? Which country colonized France?
They are the colonizers. Forget ancient history of wars and invasions, no country colonized France and England.
Even Afghanistan has never been colonized
It's good to go school and learn something.
France waa taken over by the Romsns. Same with England
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by koladata(m): 2:11pm On Oct 19, 2025
Science told us what we wanted to hear with all the "amount of brain cells" thing... it's all lies, they had initially told us the truth by comparing us to apes and monkeys, but we contested it. How do you explain that president of the largest producer of oil in African goes to France for medication because he couldn't build a world class standard 20 bed capacity hospital that could be built with less than 15 billion naira, but a militant just donated 10billion naira at an event. He's not even the only Nigerian president who travels to another continent for medications, are you saying from 1960 all the presidents are not intelligent to do this simple math. Are you saying the over 50 African presidents can't add 1 plus 2. Check the lives of black Americans who have equal right to the whites after the slave trade ended, what have they done with their lives aside athletes and music which is less than 1 percent of their entire population. Which of them created vaccination, airplane , computer ,electricity ,internet ,printing, A.I

okay oya , how do you explain that our forefathers sold us for a cup of tea and mirrors, does that not sound like what a monkey would do?

TheBizGenius:
If you know how much I am laughing here right now.

But I understand you.

Unfortunately, the whites and blacks are both humans with exactly the same amount of brain cells and capable of doing the same things.

You need to study culture and belief systems to understand how a person's environment determines his or her behaviors and even aspiration levels to understand why the blacks will always be behind...

Again thanks for making me laugh.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by wowcatty: 2:15pm On Oct 19, 2025
There’s no country that wasn’t colonized in Africa, some were just for longer periods than others. Ethiopia was actually colonized twice, first by the Arabs, the only reason the Italians didn’t stay long there was because the Arabs were there.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Sensiblerealist(m): 2:16pm On Oct 19, 2025
Lol. It's a Sunday afternoon jare make I go drink chilled Hollandia with anything catfish as I lay low for beer at the moment. I Noor get mind to engage in any battle before they start asking of my great, great grandfather's contribution to mankind. grin grin cheesy wink


TheBizGenius:
Heheheheheh.

How people who can't stand 5 minutes of reading can endure 12 hours of scrolling still baffles me. Sincerely. That's a lot of information for any normal human to consume.

But then, I am so not going to join up with you on this issue before they start insulting the 2 of us together.

My hand no dey dia ooo.

#running away#
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Emeskhalifa(m): 2:28pm On Oct 19, 2025
Kingosytex:
While the spineless, treacherous, greedy, and selfish men who ran things in the northern and southern regions fell cheaply to the British invaders.
It's pathetic.
See as you dey make mouth wink

People that if you no gree for them, they will invade your region and take it by force.

Meanwhile, remind me who were those selling their people for mirror and biscuits again?
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Emeskhalifa(m): 2:32pm On Oct 19, 2025
shortgun:
Colonialists are nothing but pure evil especially that evil country called Britain. The evils they did in Nigeria is not going away anytime soon.
Britain are actually saints if you compare them to what Babylon, Rome or Greece did when they were colonists o.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by chipet67(m): 2:34pm On Oct 19, 2025
Amotolongbo:
Japan is better than US?
Ethiopia is better than South Africa and Egypt?
Thailand is better than Australia and Canada?
Nepal and Bhutan are better than India and Indonesia?
I like how you point am out?
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Godfullsam(m): 2:34pm On Oct 19, 2025
shortgun:
The region you are referring to once left you in your evil British contraption to exist on its own but you and the evil British Empire declared war against that region for leaving.
It was already too late.

You want to eat your akara and still have it?

Not possible bro.

Your fore fathers created a bottle neck for any region that wants to separate and when the system started failing them, they now wanted to separate.

Not possible bro.

Not possible!
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Iceberg3: 2:38pm On Oct 19, 2025
Amotolongbo:
Japan is better than US?
Ethiopia is better than South Africa and Egypt?
Thailand is better than Australia and Canada?
Nepal and Bhutan are better than India and Indonesia?
Why don't you talk about and compare with ya own kwantiri?! Shebi the master party and master builder are there?!

grin
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Iceberg3: 2:40pm On Oct 19, 2025
Godfullsam:
It was already too late.

You want to eat your akara and still have it?

Not possible bro.

Your fore fathers created a bottle neck for any region that wants to separate and when the system started failing them, they now wanted to separate.

Not possible bro.

Not possible!
Are you not ashamed to say this?!

Attachee by force
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Godfullsam(m): 2:59pm On Oct 19, 2025
Iceberg3:
Are you not ashamed to say this?!

Attachee by force
Your fore fathers started the atachee by force. They made a reason offence for anyone who wants to separate.

You should be ashamed on their behalf.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by blackslayer: 3:02pm On Oct 19, 2025
Amotolongbo:
Japan is better than US?
Ethiopia is better than South Africa and Egypt?
Thailand is better than Australia and Canada?
Nepal and Bhutan are better than India and Indonesia?
Shut up! You are too simple minded to understand the core of what the person you are responding to was saying. Shut the hell up and sit somewhere.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by lordwoz: 3:12pm On Oct 19, 2025
TheBizGenius:
Heheheheheh. I understand why you would think like this but it's actually not true.

The real issue is that our society values and rewards different elements compared to their own. And as the business/management adage goes, "What gets rewarded gets repeated".

We value small thinking, oppressing your neighbors with small money, relationships without depth, the mysterious that we call "miracles" etc.

They value big thinking, legacy (long term) thinking, crowd funding to help others, clear processes for success, education/constant learning etc.

Our results will surely be different.
Nice take
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Iceberg3: 3:16pm On Oct 19, 2025
Godfullsam:
Your fore fathers started the atachee by force. They made a reason offence for anyone who wants to separate.

You should be ashamed on their behalf.
Be very ashamed of yourself cos not everyone is Hausa ibo Yoruba.... If the Zik then made a blunder,does that now chain you to the dungeon?
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by shortgun(m): 3:24pm On Oct 19, 2025
Godfullsam:
It was already too late.

You want to eat your akara and still have it?

Not possible bro.

Your fore fathers created a bottle neck for any region that wants to separate and when the system started failing them, they now wanted to separate.

Not possible bro.

Not possible!
You guys are hilarious. Nigeria was barely six years old when the Eastern Region saw the hatred, lies and betrayal staring it in the face and decided to go its own way. Six years is good enough for anyone to realize a doomed project and walk out.

BTW, the Easterners never removed any secession clause from any Nigerian constitution, contrary to the nonsense many of you keep spreading here.
What happened was that Chief Obafemi Awolowo at the 1957–58 constitutional conferences, argued that a true federation should give any region the right to withdraw only under defined conditions.


But the British colonial office strongly opposed including such a clause,Northern leaders Sir Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa and the NPC also strongly rejected it.
Nnamdi Azikiwe, representing the Eastern Region, opposed the idea of a secession clause with conditions. Yet today you lots go about misrepresenting facts and distorting history.

In the end, the proposal for a secession clause was rejected — the colonial authorities had the final say.
No secession clause ever existed in any Nigerian constitution and therefore, none was ever removed.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by IbeOkehie: 3:25pm On Oct 19, 2025
ruggedtimi:
The list missed out one west african country.." Liberia"
Correct.

Another mistake is Japan...didn't USA colonize Japan after World War 2? I think so, but I might be wrong.

Good Luck to Nigeria.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by TheBizGenius: 4:24pm On Oct 19, 2025
koladata:
Science told us what we wanted to hear with all the "amount of brain cells" thing... it's all lies, they had initially told us the truth by comparing us to apes and monkeys, but we contested it. How do you explain that president of the largest producer of oil in African goes to France for medication because he couldn't build a world class standard 20 bed capacity hospital that could be built with less than 15 billion naira, but a militant just donated 10billion naira at an event. He's not even the only Nigerian president who travels to another continent for medications, are you saying from 1960 all the presidents are not intelligent to do this simple math. Are you saying the over 50 African presidents can't add 1 plus 2. Check the lives of black Americans who have equal right to the whites after the slave trade ended, what have they done with their lives aside athletes and music which is less than 1 percent of their entire population. Which of them created vaccination, airplane , computer ,electricity ,internet ,printing, A.I

okay oya , how do you explain that our forefathers sold us for a cup of tea and mirrors, does that not sound like what a monkey would do?
Hmmmm.

Once again, I accept that your premise for this discussion is very sound especially as you have the practical proofs to buttress your points.

I maintain that culture is the problem though. Unfortunately, culture is like climate, which takes a long time, thousands of years, to be established and it takes a whole lot more to be un-established.

The culture? The black man thinks he is inferior to the whites. He behaves inferior. He will always be inferior.

The hospital issue? The black race subtly, or openly, believes the whites are better in qualitative reasoning. But every scientist knows it's just simple science that anyone can learn and master.

The problem I also noticed with the blacks is that it doesn't take a lot for the blacks to feel they have arrived. We seldom try to compete intellectually globally.

Kudos to Dangote, Oyedepo, Adeboye; people who have chosen to compete globally rather than stop when they became local champions.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by tinnymerit(m): 4:35pm On Oct 19, 2025
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Alamkiir: 4:41pm On Oct 19, 2025
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Kushites: 4:48pm On Oct 19, 2025
EvilMerodack:
Dude,Romans colonized Almighty Britain. Britain colonized the USA
Greece had Rome and other countries under them. Babylon and Persia were once a world power.

The world doesn't revolve around us. These things were perfectly normal and ours wasn't a case of do-om


In 2025, is Greece and Iran better than the UK and USA?


I can correctly guess your tribe by this logic. So negative and soaked in self-loathe
Igbo of course.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by Kushites:
koladata:
Science told us what we wanted to hear with all the "amount of brain cells" thing... it's all lies, they had initially told us the truth by comparing us to apes and monkeys, but we contested it. How do you explain that president of the largest producer of oil in African goes to France for medication because he couldn't build a world class standard 20 bed capacity hospital that could be built with less than 15 billion naira, but a militant just donated 10billion naira at an event. He's not even the only Nigerian president who travels to another continent for medications, are you saying from 1960 all the presidents are not intelligent to do this simple math. Are you saying the over 50 African presidents can't add 1 plus 2. Check the lives of black Americans who have equal right to the whites after the slave trade ended, what have they done with their lives aside athletes and music which is less than 1 percent of their entire population. Which of them created vaccination, airplane , computer ,electricity ,internet ,printing, A.I

okay oya , how do you explain that our forefathers sold us for a cup of tea and mirrors, does that not sound like what a monkey would do?
You don't read, you don't research, you know NOTHING.

Black inventions? THAT COMPUTER YOU'RE USING WAS CO-INVENTED BY A BLACK MAN, MARK DEAN.

He owns 3 or 4 of the 9 patents for the invention of the IBM Personal Computer in 1981.

They hyped Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, but IGNORED the Black inventor. AS USUAL.

The first flying machine was built by a Black man, Charles Page in 1903.

White man Thomas Edison supposedly invented the light bulb.

But it couldn't work for more than an hour before shutting off.

It was a Black man, Lewis Latimer, who invented the FILAMENT you place in the bulb that keeps its light on for months and years.

So everytime you switch on your light, you have a BLACK MAN to thank for it.

7 BILLION PEOPLE around the world have a BLACK MAN to thank, for everytime they switch on their light.

When a white man supposedly invented the Elevator or Lift, it was a death trap.

You would walk up to it and have to open the door yourself. Good luck if you opened and entered when the carriage was on the ground floor. Many fell to their deaths.

Until a Black Man, Alexander Miles, invented the Automatic Elevator system, whereby the door only opens automatically once the carriage is on your floor.

The TRAFFIC LIGHTS of red, green and yellow the whole world uses today for traffic control, was invented by a Black man.

LASER EYE SURGERY was invented by a Black Woman Patricia Rice.

REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT which allows for the shipment of frozen foods worldwide, was invented by a Black Man, Garret Morgan.

So EVERTIME you buy frozen chicken from Shoprite, you have Black Man to thank for it.

Numerous other BLACK INVENTIONS exist which you credit "white people" for.

GO ON CHATGPT AND ASK ABOUT BLACK INVENTIONS instead of perpetuating tired anti-black stereotypes taught you by your British invaders.
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by zendi: 5:49pm On Oct 19, 2025
Softmirror:
Liberia is a country established by America for dumping slaves back to Africa. It has the hand of America in its creation.
They freed slaves sold to them by African Kings and Warlords and resettled them back into their own climes.

Then you called it DUMPING slaves back to Africa.

You must be America-style Antifa
Re: 5 Countries That Were Never Colonised by DeepSight(m): 6:09pm On Oct 19, 2025
Amotolongbo:
Japan is better than US?
Ethiopia is better than South Africa and Egypt?
Thailand is better than Australia and Canada?
Nepal and Bhutan are better than India and Indonesia?
It is contestable to say that Japan was never colonized because the USA held control over Japan for a time after WW2.

AS for the USA itself, it is also contestable to say that it was colonized because what really happened was simply a question of the British in the Americas standing up against the British in the European homeland. One cannot really say that pre-independence America was being colonized in the way that other peoples were colonized, because you are speaking of principally the same people.

Likewise there are problems saying that Australia or Canada were colonized. Australia for example was set up as a far off exile settlement for convicts. British convicts. That's not quite colonialism - even though of course as was done to Native Americans in North America, the Aborigenes were decimated and pushed deep into small enclaves.
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