buffalowings:


You see what I'm talking about

Didn't he take the contract

Aigbofa:


You can interpret it whichever way you want. Mimicry, copy, inspiration......

YourNemesis:


Not interested in all your to and fro.
What is the relationship between a new Moremi statue and Ife-Ibadan express?
And where is your proof that road contract what awarded to the Oba?
Do you think a road that lasts 10 years in a place like Sokoto will last 3 in a place like Ibadan-Ife... Use your sense here.

buffalowings:



I'm talking of development in all ramifications

After all Ife is the cradle of yoruba race.

YourNemesis:


Not interested in all your to and fro.
What is the relationship between a new Moremi statue and Ife-Ibadan express?
And where is your proof that road contract what awarded to the Oba?
Do you think a road that lasts 10 years in a place like Sokoto will last 3 in a place like Ibadan-Ife... Use your sense here.

Funnicator:


Tourist destination? Where is the infrastructure on ground to accomodate the tourists? Village Ife with its delapidated roads and hotels? Little power supply? Zero shopping malls?
Abeg go sleep.

YourNemesis:


You are one incoherent human being.
I am still waiting for your proof that Ife-Ibadan road was awarded to late Ooni.
The new Ooni is obviously doing his bit.... get out there and do yours.

Funnicator:


Delusion grandeur. Deceive yourselves.

SirShymexx:
I don't know why people are spamming Statue of Liberty all over the thread when the idea of the statue was inspired by ancient Nubia monuments and the original statue was a Nubian/black peasant and the statue was originally built for the Suez Canal in Egypt before it found its way to America.

Art always imitate art and the fact that this statue represents a black woman shows it's more original than the current Statue of Liberty cos the original one was a Nubian woman.

Some of fvckers need fresh air - no one wants to read about some fraudulent Statue of Liberty here. This is about Ife.

AreaFada2:
I hope this will remind our pseudo feminists who parrot Oyinbo's idiocy that African women are oppressed & were always. Africa has always produced great women. Like Moremi, Idia, Amina, Efunroye (Tinubu) and many more lost to history now.

For our independence struggle we have Funmilayo, Eniola (Soyinka), Margret (Ekpo), Mary (Okezie), Hajia Gambo Sawaba, etc.

I deliberately use their first name because I think they ought to be popular and household names and be instantly recognisable even by first name. The name they were called playing around & growing up as little girls. Much like Beyonce is known everywhere even by just first name.

thesicilian:

One word: Tourism. People troop in to see the statue from all over the word, and these people spend millions of dollars yearly in the process of buying food, staying in hotels, transport, etc. Not to talk of the aspect of exposure to other peoples cultures and ideas, which is a fast track to economic and infrastructural development.

thesicilian:

One word: Tourism. People troop in to see the statue from all over the word, and these people spend millions of dollars yearly in the process of buying food, staying in hotels, transport, etc. Not to talk of the aspect of exposure to other peoples cultures and ideas, which is a fast track to economic and infrastructural development.

Funnicator:
How will this provide jobs for the unemployed villagers of Ife?
How will it improve their standard of living and provide affordable and standard education?


Infact, who statue epp?

SirShymexx:


Don't waste ya time on that illiterate faggit, he is an Eboe cannibal (I just checked his post history). Apart from cannibalism; sodomising little kids like the thread on FP; molesting little girls; and pure phaggotry - these flat headed monsters don't have a culture.

These clowns just erected a big statue of white Mary last year when all over Rome and in the Vatican, they pray to a black Madonna. They're an accursed people lol. But they want to hate on a great statue that represents history and can be used for tourism.

Eboe cannibals are just useless and primitive. They're the real homo habilis from the Hominini tribe.

YourNemesis:
Woow!... Its beautiful.
Yorubas are synonymous with true African culture.
A real African people who are both inward looking and world embracing.

All of you saying this statue is a copy of the liberty statue in New York, are all Wrong, because Yorubas don't copy anybody when it comes to cultural stuff. This is the original and much older statue, located within the Ooni of ife palatial complex.



Some EP.s are so silly. The only similarity between the moremi statue and that silly caucasian woman in NYC is that they are both raising their hands. Nothing more. Always wanting to link everything in Africa to external influences.

buffalowings:
Meanwhile, the only road that runs through it is riddled with potholes

If you talk dem go say na federal road

thesicilian:

One word: Tourism. People troop in to see the statue from all over the word, and these people spend millions of dollars yearly in the process of buying food, staying in hotels, transport, etc. Not to talk of the aspect of exposure to other peoples cultures and ideas, which is a fast track to economic and infrastructural development.

Funnicator:


People never go toursim for Calabar wey get better tourist sites na to enter flight come see this one statue inside a village?


Ogbeni, oyibo no dey dat mumu. Abi u think they dnt have beta statues for oyiboland?

Aigbofa:


Besides, Moremi was a real historical figure and her torch has a real historical meaning.

olutosfem:
Alayeluwa ikubabayeye

YourNemesis:


A mumu will always remain a muuuuumu.
So all those Oyibos who go to thailand and cambodia to see buddha statues and hindu temples don't have statues in their countries abi?
In case you don't know, the Yorubas have the largest African diaspora community in the Atlantic world, (North America, The Caribbean and South America + Coastal West Africa)