baby124:

Actually the houses the Yoruba built back then were quite impressive. They were not mud huts but very big architecturally distinct dwellings. I will look for a picture and post here. This is not a good picture. But notice it's not a small round hut for sleeping. Not being bias because I am Yoruba but we had a better standard of living that was purely Yoruba. Before the influence of any religion. We made our own clothes, dyed the clothes into beautiful designs, smelted iron and made use of it and made glass beads. We also had the exposure to create terracotta statues that are well advanced and cannot be replicated today. Also farmed and fished.

Nahwao:


Don't you know? Stay there and be ignorant of the facts. Yorubas were far more advanced than Oyibos.

panditocracy:


Are you a half wit? Or an 1mbecile?
Don't you know that most pictures taken then we're in greyscale ie black and white.

I tire for all these kids in nairaland. Mtcheew.

AlphaCentauri:
nah, it is because of your chest-beating that everyone brings up stuff on you. FACTS. you never hear people bringing up issues on hausa or benin or fulani people who are lightskin because they never make it an issue. but i have seen millions of igbo chestbeat about how they are lightskin and better looking because they are lightskin. if you agree with me press LIKE

betterABIAstate:
nri monarchy of Igbo saw the emergence and annihilation of Oyo empire

somegirl1:



Light skin or no, Igbo features are relatively easy on the eyes.

AlphaCentauri:
oduduwa people have being classy since we dropped from the sky down to earth. oduduwa always keeping it classy.

Danfuster:


Yes we have bro. Class and swag defines Yorubas. Even Jimmy Carter was humbled

AlphaCentauri:
why dont you walk around naked today seeing as you are afrocentric ? lolzzz

Omagzee:


1500 BC? waooo so with whose camera was the photo taken with then, if the white men were very much uncivilized then?
ohhh the Yorubas invented the photo camera in 1500 BC too i guess.

somegirl1:


It's only a matter of time.

AlphaCentauri:
you are correct

AlphaCentauri:
start the trend. oduduwa will follow. let me hit da gym first. gotta have 6 pack before i walk around nekkid

AlphaCentauri:
scroll back up, most of the pictures posted are of butt nekkid ndigbo men and women. go to the first page of this thread

somegirl1:


I am and you posting pics of some Igbo women can't prove otherwise. It's a well known fact.

AlphaCentauri:
you are correct. you are easy to look at

Ngozi123:


Fair enough. The one picture of the completely naked woman seems to be some sort of ritual or something as I've not seen anything like that before. Most men and women tended to cover up below the abdomen area and not above it. it was perfectly normal at the time and not something that should be sneered at.

somegirl1:


Ditto

somegirl1:


Ditto

Nahwao:


Yes the results of Yoruba finese are as obvious as the great Wall of China taken from outer space.

The greatest empire in Africa, Oyo:

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AlphaCentauri:
we are not sneering at it. simply telling you other tribes wore clothes back then. nothing malicious. just stating facts

somegirl1:

And they invented carpets too.

Ngozi123:


No, you were being condescending towards the Igbos as if wearing more clothes= being more civilised. You know what you were doing.

I'll repeat what I said before, if the Igbos became civilised "very late", as you put it, but they managed to 'catch up' and even supersede other Nigerians just 30 years after this picture was taken, what does that say about these Nigerians who were supposedly 'civilised' at an early age?

AlphaCentauri:
the question here is which other nigerians have they superseded. i will need you to name the tribes that got superseded by the igbos before we can continue this conversation

Ngozi123:


They were the leading ethnic group in the civil services in the 1950's and 1960's. This was just 20-30 years after those pictures were taken. Read of that what you may...

AlphaCentauri:
when you say you are easy to look at ? are you saying compared to other tribes or you are just speaking strictly about the igbo with no comparison to others ? just tryna see where you are coming from

AlphaCentauri:
that is very correct. however the civil service was not where the big dawgs were. its like in america where the civil service is filled with negros. the civil service is a medium level status thing. the high powered people back then were yoruba businessmen.