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Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore?

Can someone give me ONE COGENT REASON why we don't dress like this any longer?

https://youtube.com/shorts/72U5TurVFP4?si=kcV0Uxcj-2ARwlqu

Like you've killed all the tigers and lions and can't wear their skins anymore, or you've become more humane and value the lions and tigers more than to kill the ones left to wear their skins?

Why do you think you don't dress like that no more?

That’s definitely a warrior's outfit, but they were mostly fighting with swords and spears back then. You definitely wouldn't want an army wearing that against the kind of heavy artillery we have today. Plus, with how things are changing, I can't imagine wanting to dress like this in this age.

Shay the dressing dey give money ni?

I wouldn’t mind. It helps with the heat. T-shirts and jeans expose only your arms and head. Such dressing exposes 82% of your body, reducing the need to perspire. Imagine walking around wearing only loose boxers on a sunny afternoon as opposed to a three piece suit.

budaatum:
Like you've killed all the tigers and lions and can't wear their skins anymore, or you've become more humane and value the lions and tigers more than to kill the ones left to wear their skins?

Why do you think you don't dress like that no more?

Mr Humane that eats meat every day.

How is eating your SHAKI AND KPOMO AND COWFOOT AND BEEF more ''humane'' than wearing the same animal fur for body cover?

Colonised hypocrites talking rubbish.

SpencerForbes:
That’s definitely a warrior's outfit, but they were mostly fighting with swords and spears back then. You definitely wouldn't want an army wearing that against the kind of heavy artillery we have today. Plus, with how things are changing, I can't imagine wanting to dress like this in this age.

NA SO.

If white people start wearing it tomorrow and make it a fashion, you people will follow.

You don't have minds of your own. Even for your own traditions. When whites permit you, then you'll adopt it.

Kemetian:
NA SO.

If white people start wearing it tomorrow and make it a fashion, you people will follow.

You don't have minds of your own. Even for your own traditions. When whites permit you, then you'll adopt it.

You opened this thread. Do you dress like that? Have you dressed like that before? If yes, what made you to stop?

Kemetian:
Mr Humane that eats meat every day.

How is eating your SHAKI AND KPOMO AND COWFOOT AND BEEF more ''humane'' than wearing the same animal fur for body cover?

Colonised hypocrites talking rubbish.

I rear the cow and the goat that I eat for my "SHAKI AND KPOMO AND COWFOOT AND BEEF", and wear, since I do have one cow leather jacket, which is rather too expensive to wear that one every day. I do not however just go into the bush to kill a leopard because I want to wear it like those worn in the video you posted. And even if I did want to go in the bush to hunt the leopard so I can wear it, my forebears have already hunted them into extinction, so I should not just stupidly be hunting the few that are left in the name of decolonisation! And that's apart from the ignorance of not realising the leopard is worth far more to me alive than if I stupidly killed it!

Besides, I can bet top dollar that supposed non hypocrite you have never worn leopard skin in your entire life, and are likely wearing the clothe of the coloniser too, just as you are not using drums to communicate with me and are using the language and the tools and devices mostly created by the colonisers to communicate here, so here's looking at hypocrite you talking without your drums!

Also, do note that it is rude and barbarically backward and uncivilised to insult and call people names just because they disagree with you, and it is not colonisation that teaches one to be better, but just simple pure good manners that one learns from one's parents and society.

KosiGee:
You opened this thread. Do you dress like that? Have you dressed like that before? If yes, what made you to stop?

Thank you for asking him. He'd hopefully respond with images of himself wearing that, and will also explain why he is using the language and technology of the coloniser to post on Nairaland that is run on coloniser technology.

Kemetian, for your information, my Yoruba forebears were making clothes from non-animal products long before the colonisers arrived, and the fact you think we where wearing animals until they arrived just shows how little you know and should go and educate yourself!

Kemetian:
NA SO.

If white people start wearing it tomorrow and make it a fashion, you people will follow.

You don't have minds of your own. Even for your own traditions. When whites permit you, then you'll adopt it.

Since you're the one making this about race, are you ready to stop using all the technology they’ve developed?

It goes both ways—haven’t you seen white people wearing Ankara or adopting our culture? Thinking we shouldn't embrace advancement is the same backward logic groups like Boko Haram use. The world is moving forward, and we should move with it.

If you’re so against 'white civilization and have a mind of your own,’ I’d expect you to be living in a mud house, completely off the grid.

SpencerForbes:
Since you're the one making this about race, are you ready to stop using all the technology they’ve developed?

It goes both ways—haven’t you seen white people wearing Ankara or adopting our culture? Thinking we shouldn't embrace advancement is the same backward logic groups like Boko Haram use. The world is moving forward, and we should move with it.

If you’re so against 'white civilization and have a mind of your own,’ I’d expect you to be living in a mud house, completely off the grid.

JUST LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF PITIFUL IGNORANCE THAT CAUSES YOU ALL TO FEEL SO INFERIOR.

SUCH A DISGRACEFUL POST.

TECHNOLOGY MY FOOT.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGY?

DO YOU KNOW THAT BLACK AFRICA IS THE ORIGIN OF TECHNOLOGY?

IRON SMELTING, THE FOUNDATION OF ALL TECHNOLOGY, WITHOUT WHICH YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THAT PHONE TO TYPE YOUR IGNORANCE ON, WAS INVENTED IN LEJJA, NSUKKA, NIGERIA.

AI SAYS THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGAN IN NIGERIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HqQfvvPYsY

TODAY'S very digital computing system and AI that you think are ''white inventions'' ARE OF BLACK ORIGIN. Both ancient and modern, with numerous black (including NIGERIAN) scientists responsible for many breakthroughs and innovations that make modern computing and AI possible. (see video below)

For instance, do you know it was a NIGERIAN, Kunle Olukotun, who invented the multichip processor without which AI couldn't exist?

THE VERY FOUNDATION AND CONCEPT OF DIGITAL COMPUTING IS BASED ON ANCIENT YORUBA IFA BINARY MATHEMATICS FEATURING 256 ELEMENTS OR LOGICAL POSSIBILITIES, SAME NUMBER OF BINARY ELEMENTS USED IN DIGITAL COMPUTING TODAY.

In fact, the ''IFA computational system is now used as AES-256. And it is an advanced means of encryption that is used for top data security. It is used in Web browsers ( HTTPS), messaging apps like WhatsApp, VPNs, WI-FI security ( WPA2 and WPA3), Operating Systems, online banking, payment systems, medical records, password managers, Digital Rights Management (DRM) and so many others..'' according to experts.

So what ''TECHNOLOGY'' are you referring to? Africans are the ORIGINATORS of technology.

Here's the stunning, eye-opening video.

THE BLACKS WHO BUILT AI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wQV6bU95Y

budaatum:
Kemetian, for your information, my Yoruba forebears were making clothes from non-animal products long before the colonisers arrived, and the fact you think we where wearing animals until they arrived just shows how little you know and should go and educate yourself!

DON'T BE RIDICULOUS. Of course I know we had thriving textile industries before colonial invasions.

I was simply responding to that dude that was talking off point.

Kemetian:
JUST LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF PITIFUL IGNORANCE THAT CAUSES YOU ALL TO FEEL SO INFERIOR.

SUCH A DISGRACEFUL POST.

TECHNOLOGY MY FOOT.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGY?

DO YOU KNOW THAT BLACK AFRICA IS THE ORIGIN OF TECHNOLOGY?

IRON SMELTING, THE FOUNDATION OF ALL TECHNOLOGY, WITHOUT WHICH YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THAT PHONE TO TYPE YOUR IGNORANCE ON, WAS INVENTED IN LEJJA, NSUKKA, NIGERIA.

AI SAYS THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGAN IN NIGERIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HqQfvvPYsY

TODAY'S very digital computing system and AI that you think are ''white inventions'' ARE AFRICAN.

EVEN NIGERIANS ARE INVOLVED.

See another stunning, eye-opening video.

THE BLACKS WHO BUILT AI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wQV6bU95Y

We need to be honest: Your own grandfathers were busy selling their brothers for mirrors and umbrellas long before the West officially took over. You love shouting "we were colonized" but you don't see anything wrong with the greed of your ancestors who sold their own blood for cheap toys. The first step to sense is to acknowledge our own part in the mess.

Since the white man left, what has your "beloved" country achieved? Nothing. We say colonization was evil (and it was), but look at the four fingers pointing back at you. It was our greed that built the foundation for them to enter.

You claim your ancestors invented iron smelting—okay, if the foundation was there, why haven't you created a common smartphone? Why are you living in a brick house with an Aluminum roof instead of the "original" mud houses your fathers created? if your ancestors were so ‘glorified’

If you truly hate the West, then be original. Renounce everything and go back to your "ancestral pattern." But no, you’ll wear the modern clothes and hate it, then use the modern phone and love it. You claim your father invented the iron that made the phone, but you can't even produce a needle today.

Classic hypocrisy. We love the gadgets but hate the people that refined the technology. If you're tired of the West, go back to the forest. Simple.

Kemetian:
DON'T BE RIDICULOUS. Of course I know we had thriving textile industries before colonial invasions.

I was simply responding to that dude that was talking off point.

So why are you suggesting we go and kill leopards to wear, I wonder?

You quoted me, so I presume you were talking to me when you said "Colonised hypocrites talking rubbish" for eating cow and not wearing leopard.

SpencerForbes:
Since you're the one making this about race, are you ready to stop using all the technology they’ve developed?

It goes both ways—haven’t you seen white people wearing Ankara or adopting our culture? Thinking we shouldn't embrace advancement is the same backward logic groups like Boko Haram use. The world is moving forward, and we should move with it.

If you’re so against 'white civilization and have a mind of your own,’ I’d expect you to be living in a mud house, completely off the grid.

I needed to make that red so it stands out and is not missed!

Kemetian, Stop shifting the goalposts, my friend. Answer the question directly.

You’re here shouting about "Ancient Zulu costumes" and how we need to embrace our roots. Okay, if you love the ancient ways that much, why are you still living in a modern house built with Western technology? Why aren't you inside a mud hut like your ancestors used?

You can’t pick and choose. If you want the "Original Ancient Pattern," then take it in full. Don’t try to pivot and say "the West just modernized what my fathers started." No! The question is simple: Will you renounce the new ways and go back to the ancient ones? Yes or No?

It’s funny how you love the ancient dressing for the "culture," but when it comes to sleeping in a hot hut without AC or using a stone to grind pepper, you suddenly remember "modernization."

If the Western way is so "corrupt," be bold enough to drop their inventions completely. Anything else is just performing "woke" on top of a 5G network. Stop the hypocrisy and answer the question.

Op can’t engage respectfully without resorting to insults.
I’m outta here.

Rossike will never change.

Kemetian:
Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore?

Can someone give me ONE COGENT REASON why we don't dress like this any longer?

https://youtube.com/shorts/72U5TurVFP4?si=kcV0Uxcj-2ARwlqu

Show by example we go follow.

SpencerForbes:
We need to be honest: Your own grandfathers were busy selling their brothers for mirrors and umbrellas long before the West officially took over.

SLAVERY IS A UNIVERSAL PHENONEMON, WHICH IS NOT LIMITED TO ANY ONE RACE.

BLACK AFRICANS KNOWN AS THE MOORS WHO RULED LARGE SWATHES OF EUROPE FOR 800 YEARS BETWEEN THE 7TH AND 16TH CENTURIES, BOUGHT AND SOLD WHITE SLAVES. THE VIKINGS RAIDED THEIR FELLOW WHITES, CAPTURED THEM , AND SOLD THEM TO THE BLACK MOORS FOR CENTURIES BEFORE THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.

I KNOW YOUR COLONIAL EDUCATION DID NOT TEACH YOU THIS. GO AND CONFIRM ON AI CHATGPT.

Since the white man left, what has your "beloved" country achieved? Nothing.

REALLY?

CONSIDERING YOUR BELOVED WHITE MAN LEFT NIGERIA A BIG FAT BUSH AT INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT A NATIONAL GRID, WITHOUT A SINGLE POWER PLANT, OR A SINGLE UNIVERSITY, OR EXPRESSWAY, OR INDUSTRY WORTH THE NAME, AND A 5% LITERACY RATE WITH MASS MALNUTRITION IN 1960 AFTER 80 YEARS OF HIS COLONIAL LOOTING SPREE, I'D SAY WE'VE COME A MIGHTY LONG WAY.

75% LITERACY RATE, 300+ UNIVERSITIES, BRAND NEW CITIES AND CAPITALS WITH MODERN EXPRESSWAYS, HIGH-SPEED AIRCONDITIONED RAIL NETWORKS WHERE BUSH PREVIOUSLY REIGNED.

AND MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES FROM VEHICLE MANUFACTURING TO PETROCHEMICALS, DRONES, AND ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS WHICH WE EXPORT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

HOW DARE YOU SAY WE'VE MADE NO PROGRESS?

IF YOU ARE A NIGERIAN, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS FOR INDEPENDENCE IN 1960 FOLLOWING WHICH THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE BUILT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BY BLACK NIGERIAN LEADERS.

WITHOUT THEM, YOU WOULD BE AN ILLITERATE VILLAGE PEASANT TODAY.

CARRYING FIREWOOD LIKE YOUR FORBEARS UNDER BRITISH SUBJUGATION.

DO YOU THINK THE BRITISH BUILT PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

WHATEVER VILLAGE YOU ARE FROM, IT WAS A FOOTPATH THAT LED TO THAT VILLAGE IN 1960, NOT A ROAD. NOT EVEN A 'BAD ROAD'.

A FOOTPATH.

IF A CAR WANTED TO GO THERE IT WOULD PARK AT THE NEAREST ROAD WHICH COULD BE 20 MILES AWAY, AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO WALK THROUGH THE BUSH TILL YOU REACHED YOUR VILLAGE. NO OKADA. NO BIKE. NO CAR.

WALKIES. OKAY?

THAT'S WHERE WE WERE IN 1960.

GROUND ZERO.

YOU COULDN'T SURVIVE 2 DAYS IN THAT ERA IF THEY PLUCK YOU FROM HERE.

SO HELL YEAH, WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS SINCE 1960.

We say colonization was evil (and it was), but look at the four fingers pointing back at you. It was our greed that built the foundation for them to enter.

THEY PROGRAMMED YOU TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR THEIR SAVAGE INVASIONS. THEY HAD FIREARMS AND COLONISED ANY PLACE THEY WANTED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. FROM INDIA TO THE AMERICAS, NOT JUST AFRICA. THOUGH AFRICA WAS PARTICULARLY PLUNDERED TO THE TUNE OF $5,000 TRILLION, ACCORDING TO AI CALCULATIONS, BEING THE SUM OF REPARATIONS DUE TO AFRICA.

GO AND TELL YOUR WHITE BOSSES THAT THEY WILL KNOW NO PEACE UNTIL THOSE REPARATIONS ARE PAID BACK INTO EVERY AFRICAN'S ACCOUNT.

IN A WORLD THAT HAD AGREED TO USE IRON WEAPONS FOR MILLENNIA, THE THEN IMPOVERISHED, GREED-CRAZED EUROPEANS STOLE CHINESE GUNPOWDER MIXTURES THEY USED FOR FIREWORKS IN FESTIVALS, AND BEGAN TO MASS PRODUCE FIREARMS IN EUROPE FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF CONQUERING THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO LOOT ITS RESOURCES, HUMAN AND MATERIAL.

THE REST IS HISTORY. AFRICANS COULD DO NOTHING TO STOP THEM.

You claim your ancestors invented iron smelting—okay, if the foundation was there, why haven't you created a common smartphone?

YOU ARE A DISGRACE.

SMARTPHONES, COMPUTERS, AND TABLETS HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN NIGERIA FOR OVER A DECADE. BY SEVERAL INDIGENOUS FIRMS, THE MOST POPULAR ONE NOW BEING AFRI-ONE.

DON'T TALK ABOUT NIGERIA. YOU KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT HER.

Why are you living in a brick house with an Aluminum roof instead of the "original" mud houses your fathers created? if your ancestors were so ‘glorified’

YOUR HISTORICAL ILLITERACY IS SO PITIFUL TO BEHOLD.

YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT PRECOLONIAL AFRICANS ONLY BUILT ''MUD HUTS''.

CAN'T YOU SEE YOU ARE DISGRACE?

HAVE YOU EVER READ ANY BOOK ON AFRICAN HISTORY?

This from the UK Guardian about Nigeria's BENIN EMPIRE:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours ...to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, ... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.


African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

.............


SO WHAT WAS THAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT ''MUD HUTS''?

You're lucky you're not in my front.

Those people saying we should go back to tradition and stop white man's religion and bla bla bla are bunch of fooolish hypocrites.

They should be the ones dressing like that.

Kemetian:
SLAVERY IS A UNIVERSAL PHENONEMON, WHICH IS NOT LIMITED TO ANY ONE RACE.

BLACK AFRICANS KNOWN AS THE MOORS WHO RULED LARGE SWATHES OF EUROPE FOR 800 YEARS BETWEEN THE 7TH AND 16TH CENTURIES, BOUGHT AND SOLD WHITE SLAVES. THE VIKINGS RAIDED THEIR FELLOW WHITES, CAPTURED THEM , AND SOLD THEM TO THE BLACK MOORS FOR CENTURIES BEFORE THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.

I KNOW YOUR COLONIAL EDUCATION DID BOT TEACH YOU THIS. GO AND CONFIRM ON AI.




REALLY?

CONSIDERING YOUR BELOVED WHITE MAN LEFT NIGERIA A BIG FAT BUSH AT INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT A NATIONAL GRID, WITHOUT A SINGLE POWER PLANT, OR A SINGLE UNIVERSITY, OR EXPRESSWAY, OR INDUSTRY WORTH THE NAME, AND A 5% LITERACY RATE WITH MASS MALNUTRITION IN 1960 AFTER 80 YEARS OF HIS COLONIAL LOOTING SPREE, I'D SAY WE'VE COME A MIGHTY LONG WAY.

75% LITERACY RATE, 300+ UNIVERSITIES, BRAND NEW CITIES AND CAPITALS WITH MODERN EXPRESSWAYS, HIGH-SPEED AIRCONDITIONED RAIL NETWORKS AND WHERE BUSH PREVIOUSLY REIGNED. AND MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES FROM VEHICLE MANUFACTURING TO PETROCHEMICALS, DRONES, AND ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS WHICH WE EXPORT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

HOW DARE YOU?

IF YOU ARE A NIGERIAN, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS FOR INDEPENDENCE IN 1960 FOLLOWING WHICH THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE BUILT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BY BLACK NIGERIAN LEADERS.

WITHOUT THEM, YOU WOULD BE AN ILLITERATE VILLAGE PEASANT TODAY.

CARRYING FIREWOOD LIKE YOUR FORBEARS UNDER BRITISH SUBJUGATION.

DO YOU THINK THE BRITISH BUILT PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

WHATEVER VILLAGE YOU ARE FROM, IT WAS A FIOOTPATH THAT LED TO THAT VILLAGE IN 1960, NOT A ROAD. NOT EVEN A 'BAD ROAD'.

A FOOTPATH.

IF A CAR WANTED TO GO THERE IT WOULD PARK AT THE NEAREST ROAD WHICH COULD BE 20 MILES AWAY, AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO WALK THROUGH THE BUSH TILL YOU REACHED YOUR VILLAGE. NO OKADA. NO BIKE. NO CAR.

WALKIES. OKAY?

THAT'S WHERE WE WERE IN 1960.

GROUND ZERO.

YOU COULDN'T SURVIVE 2 DAYS IN THAT ERA IF THEY PLUCK YOU FROM HERE.

SO HELL YEAH, WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS SINCE 1960.



THEY PROGRAMMED YOU TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR THEIR SAVAGE INVASIONS. THEY HAD FIREARMS AND COLONISED ANY PLACE THEY WANTED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. NOT JUST AFRICA.

IN A WORLD THAT HAD AGREED TO USE IRON WEAPONS FOR MILLENNIA, THE THEN IMPOVERISHED, GREED-CRAZED EUROPEANS STOLE CHINESE GUNPOWDER MIXTURES THEY USED FOR FIREWORKS IN FESTIVALS, AND BEGAN TO MASS PRODUCE FIREARMS IN EUROPE FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF CONQUERING THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO LOOT ITS RESOURCES, HUMAN AND MATERIAL.

THE REST IS HISTORY. AFRICANS COULD DO NOTHING TO STOP THEM.



YOU ARE A DISGRACE.

SMARTPHONES, COMPUTERS, AND TABLETS HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN NIGERIA FOR OVER A DECADE. BY SEVERAL INDIGENOUS FIRMS, THE MOST POPULAR ONE NOW BEING AFRI-ONE.

DON'T TALK ABOUT NIGERIA. YOU KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT HER.

Oga, I’m highly disappointed you’re typing trash without answering the main question. Why do some of you like to argue blindly?

I asked a simple question, and you're here saying Africans have been building cellphones for a decade. Are we discussing a decade? You’re just trying to rage-bait me this morning. I’ll ignore you and pass because you prefer to shift the goalpost rather than answer a direct question. If I ask another one now, you might write an epistle. I’m talking about Africans, and you’re mentioning China, black moor, Israel and Neanderthal🤦‍♂️

Where’s your Great Wall of Benin today? Go into the forest and check. I'll be expecting you to use a local translator for your next post since you despise the West so much—conveniently forgetting that your first primary school was built by the British. It’s a waste of time arguing with a secondary school student.

Moveittothem:
Those people saying we should go back to tradition and stop white man's religion and bla bla bla are bunch of fooolish hypocrites.

They should be the ones dressing like that.

WHITE MAN RELIGION LOVER.

IF THE ''WHITE MAN'' MAKES THAT HIS FASHION, YOU WILL START TO WEAR IT TOO, JUST AS YOU PROUDLY WEAR HIS T-SHIRT AND SHIRT NOW.

COLONISED HEADS.

Kemetian:
SLAVERY IS A UNIVERSAL PHENONEMON, WHICH IS NOT LIMITED TO ANY ONE RACE.

BLACK AFRICANS KNOWN AS THE MOORS WHO RULED LARGE SWATHES OF EUROPE FOR 800 YEARS BETWEEN THE 7TH AND 16TH CENTURIES, BOUGHT AND SOLD WHITE SLAVES. THE VIKINGS RAIDED THEIR FELLOW WHITES, CAPTURED THEM , AND SOLD THEM TO THE BLACK MOORS FOR CENTURIES BEFORE THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.

I KNOW YOUR COLONIAL EDUCATION DID NOT TEACH YOU THIS. GO AND CONFIRM ON AI CHATGPT.




REALLY?

CONSIDERING YOUR BELOVED WHITE MAN LEFT NIGERIA A BIG FAT BUSH AT INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT A NATIONAL GRID, WITHOUT A SINGLE POWER PLANT, OR A SINGLE UNIVERSITY, OR EXPRESSWAY, OR INDUSTRY WORTH THE NAME, AND A 5% LITERACY RATE WITH MASS MALNUTRITION IN 1960 AFTER 80 YEARS OF HIS COLONIAL LOOTING SPREE, I'D SAY WE'VE COME A MIGHTY LONG WAY.

75% LITERACY RATE, 300+ UNIVERSITIES, BRAND NEW CITIES AND CAPITALS WITH MODERN EXPRESSWAYS, HIGH-SPEED AIRCONDITIONED RAIL NETWORKS WHERE BUSH PREVIOUSLY REIGNED.

AND MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES FROM VEHICLE MANUFACTURING TO PETROCHEMICALS, DRONES, AND ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS WHICH WE EXPORT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

HOW DARE YOU SAY WE'VE MADE NO PROGRESS?

IF YOU ARE A NIGERIAN, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS FOR INDEPENDENCE IN 1960 FOLLOWING WHICH THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE BUILT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BY BLACK NIGERIAN LEADERS.

WITHOUT THEM, YOU WOULD BE AN ILLITERATE VILLAGE PEASANT TODAY.

CARRYING FIREWOOD LIKE YOUR FORBEARS UNDER BRITISH SUBJUGATION.

DO YOU THINK THE BRITISH BUILT PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

WHATEVER VILLAGE YOU ARE FROM, IT WAS A FOOTPATH THAT LED TO THAT VILLAGE IN 1960, NOT A ROAD. NOT EVEN A 'BAD ROAD'.

A FOOTPATH.

IF A CAR WANTED TO GO THERE IT WOULD PARK AT THE NEAREST ROAD WHICH COULD BE 20 MILES AWAY, AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO WALK THROUGH THE BUSH TILL YOU REACHED YOUR VILLAGE. NO OKADA. NO BIKE. NO CAR.

WALKIES. OKAY?

THAT'S WHERE WE WERE IN 1960.

GROUND ZERO.

YOU COULDN'T SURVIVE 2 DAYS IN THAT ERA IF THEY PLUCK YOU FROM HERE.

SO HELL YEAH, WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS SINCE 1960.



THEY PROGRAMMED YOU TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR THEIR SAVAGE INVASIONS. THEY HAD FIREARMS AND COLONISED ANY PLACE THEY WANTED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. FROM INDIA TO THE AMERICAS, NOT JUST AFRICA. THOUGH AFRICA WAS PARTICULARLY PLUNDERED TO THE TUNE OF $5,000 TRILLION, ACCORDING TO AI CALCULATIONS, BEING THE SUM OF REPARATIONS DUE TO AFRICA.

GO AND TELL YOUR WHITE BOSSES THAT THEY WILL KNOW NO PEACE UNTIL THOSE REPARATIONS ARE PAID BACK INTO EVERY AFRICAN'S ACCOUNT.

IN A WORLD THAT HAD AGREED TO USE IRON WEAPONS FOR MILLENNIA, THE THEN IMPOVERISHED, GREED-CRAZED EUROPEANS STOLE CHINESE GUNPOWDER MIXTURES THEY USED FOR FIREWORKS IN FESTIVALS, AND BEGAN TO MASS PRODUCE FIREARMS IN EUROPE FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF CONQUERING THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO LOOT ITS RESOURCES, HUMAN AND MATERIAL.

THE REST IS HISTORY. AFRICANS COULD DO NOTHING TO STOP THEM.



YOU ARE A DISGRACE.

SMARTPHONES, COMPUTERS, AND TABLETS HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN NIGERIA FOR OVER A DECADE. BY SEVERAL INDIGENOUS FIRMS, THE MOST POPULAR ONE NOW BEING AFRI-ONE.

DON'T TALK ABOUT NIGERIA. YOU KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT HER.



YOUR HISTORICAL ILLITERACY IS SO PITIFUL TO BEHOLD.

YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT PRECOLONIAL AFRICANS ONLY BUILT ''MUD HUTS''.

CAN'T YOU SEE YOU ARE DISGRACE?

HAVE YOU EVER READ ANY BOOK ON AFRICAN HISTORY?

This from the UK Guardian about Nigeria's BENIN EMPIRE:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours ...to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, ... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.


African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

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SO WHAT WAS THAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT ''MUD HUTS''?

You're lucky you're not in my front.

First of all, you’re writing in all caps and if you don’t know the meaning of that, I’ll only be wasting my time. I’ll rather watch YouTube videos than engage primitive ideologies.

SpencerForbes:
Oga, I’m highly disappointed you’re typing trash without answering the main question. Why do some of you like to argue blindly?

I asked a simple question, and you're here saying Africans have been building cellphones for a decade. Are we discussing a decade? You’re just trying to rage-bait me this morning. I’ll ignore you and pass because you prefer to shift the goalpost rather than answer a direct question. If I ask another one now, you might write an epistle. I’m talking about Africans, and you’re mentioning China, black moor, Israel and Neanderthal🤦‍♂️

Where’s your Great Wall of Benin today? Go into the forest and check. I'll be expecting you to use a local translator for your next post since you despise the West so much—conveniently forgetting that your first primary school was built by the British. It’s a waste of time arguing with a secondary school student.

SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING RUBBISH.

I JUST DESTROYED EVER PITIFUL 'POINT' YOU MADE ABOVE.

SO SHUT UP. YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY.

''First primary school''.

WHAT NONSENSE.

WE'VE HAD SCHOOLS INCLUDING UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE WHITE PEOPLE EXISTED. OKAY?

ANY ''SCHOOL'' THEY BUILT HERE WAS TO TRAIN LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS FOR THEIR LOOTING SPREE, NOT TO EDUCATE THE NIGERIAN MASSES.

WHICH IS WHY ONLY A TINY HANDFUL OF ''MISSIONARY SCHOOLS'' WERE BUILT IN THEIR 80 YEAR STAY.

Kemetian:
SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING RUBBISH.

I JUST DESTROYED EVER PITIFUL 'POINT' YOU MADE ABOVE.

SO SHUT UP. YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY.

See how you're spewing bitterness. Can't you argue without using abusive words? 😂😂😂

If you're so proud of the "ancient ways," why are you not in the forest? Your ancestors' tech stopped at the bushes; leave Western civilization for those of us ready for progress.

You're here using Android to complain about the West. Why not use a pigeon to send your post? Or maybe try "Ifa 0.9" and let Seun hire a herbalist to help us interpret your point. 😂

Young man, arguments are won with facts, not by shouting and insults. If shouting worked, MNK (no disrespect) would be a free man today. Come back when you have points.

SpencerForbes:
See how you're spewing bitterness. Can't you argue without using abusive words? 😂😂😂

If you're so proud of the "ancient ways," why are you not in the forest?

AFRICANS INVENTED CITIES.

AFRICANS INVENTED ARCHITECTURE.

OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR SUDAN IS HOME TO OVER 250 PYRAMIDS BUILT WITH MATHEMATICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL PRECISION, AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLDER THAN ANY BUILDING IN EUROPE OR AMERICA.

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON KEMET (EGYPT)

SO IT IS EUROPE THAT IS FOREST, NOT AFRICA.

AFRICA IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF CIVILISATION.

THE BIRTHPLACE OF WRITING AND MATHEMATICS.

You're here using Android to complain about the West. Why not use a pigeon to send your post? Or maybe try "Ifa 0.9" and let Seun hire a herbalist to help us interpret your point. 😂

Young man, arguments are won with facts, not by shouting and insults. If shouting worked, MNK (no disrespect) would be a free man today. Come back when you have points.

DUDE, CAN'T YOU AFFORD DATA?

WHO TOLD YOU BLACKS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN TECHNOLOGY?

WITHOUT BLACK INVENTORS YOU WOULD HAVE NO INTERNET AND NO COMPUTERS.

EDUCATE YOURSELF.

THE TECHNOLOGY YOU THINK IS WHITE IS ACTUALLY BLACK.

THE BLACKS WHO BUILT AI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wQV6bU95Y

Kemetian:
AFRICANS INVENTED CITIES.

AFRICANS INVENTED ARCHITECTURE.

OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR SUDAN IS HOME TO OVER 250 PYRAMIDS BUILT WITH MATHEMATICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL PRECISION, AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLDER THAN ANY BUILDING IN EUROPE OR AMERICA.

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON KEMET (EGYPT)

SO IT IS EUROPE THAT IS FOREST, NOT AFRICA.

AFRICA IS THE BIRTHPKACE OF CIVILISATION.

THE BIRTHPLACE OF WRITING AND MATHEMATICS.





DUDE, CAN'T YOU AFFORD DATA?

WHO TOLD YOU BLACKS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN TECHNOLOGY?

WITHOUT BLACK INVENTORS YOU WOULD HAVE NO INTERNET AND NO COMPUTERS.

EDUCATE YOURSELF.

THE TECHNOLOGY YOU THINK IS WHITE IS ACTUALLY BLACK.

THE BLACKS WHO BUILT AI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wQV6bU95Y

Oga, rest abeg! You built AI and you've been chest-beating since yesterday. 🤦‍♂️ Even the Greeks with all their philosophers and inventors don’t make this much noise. Does that mean you should isolate yourself? Even the West uses inventions built by people from all over the world, like Einstein and Galileo.

You truly dey fall my hand. Look at the clothes you’re wearing—are they the primitive versions from the West? No, they were modernized. Where is your own modernized version of animal skin? Or are you too lazy to build a machine to refine it?

You're thinking backward. Have you improved the Zulu costume and we said no? Instead of being creative, you're here talking down on people who are working daily. If the Benin walls mean that much to you, gather your brothers and go and start the masonry work. Stop making noise here.

that some xenophobic maniac dress style.
No way