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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Lethal234(m): 4:48pm On Feb 27, 2020
The two guys up there are quite something else,
Anyway I believe omonnakoda is mistaking his assumption to the writer's words.

The Sculpture (comma) from the place(with description)

Note; reason for the description best known to the writer. But the 6th century was clearly referring to the place.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by geosegun(m): 4:54pm On Feb 27, 2020
GreenRose22:
I know but you won't get any response.

Have a nice day

OK, then, so be it.

However, Feel free to get in touch, whenever your curiosity comes back hunting again (just in case, don't forget to mention GreenRose22 from NL ). It is worthy to say it is not everyone you meet online that is interested in amorous relationship of any kind. A good stranger may be your angel. You just never can tell!

All the very best!
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:03pm On Feb 27, 2020
baby124:

Because they have not found older sculptures does not mean there is none. History is an ongoing process and effort. This world is older than we know and we of recent have only begun to seriously document history.

It is an ongoing process, but that's not really the point, is it ?

The lil ethnic jingoist was getting a bit too excited. Best the facts are laid out to him eh... if we r to go along the lines of potential new discoveries, the most likely outcome would be the discovery of artifacts from proto West African groups. Overarching ppls with no direct links to our present tribal groupings.

More like proto settlers who over time would have fathered various Niger-Congo groups. Ones that nobody could really claim.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by MetaPhysical: 5:11pm On Feb 27, 2020
LegendHero:


Oh I am Ndibo Muslim too, but in my next life I want to come back as a Yoruba.

May Allah bless all the Yoruba people (Muslims, Christians, Traditionalists, and Atheists).

grin grin

Cc
Immhotep
Lzaa
Dedetwo
Gidgiddy
Rekhina
Adaibeku I
Adaibeku II
Adaibeku III

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by HitSong: 5:14pm On Feb 27, 2020
sotall:



You want to shake table abi undecided

The only thing those people have is hairy flat chest.

Chest beaters
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by LZAA: 5:17pm On Feb 27, 2020
MetaPhysical:


grin grin

Cc
Immhotep
Lzaa
Dedetwo
Gidgiddy
Rekhina
Adaibeku I
Adaibeku II
Adaibeku III

Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by ThatFairGuy: 5:21pm On Feb 27, 2020
What are you insinuating

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:33pm On Feb 27, 2020
geosegun:


OK, then, so be it.

However, Feel free to get in touch, whenever your curiosity comes back hunting again (just in case, don't forget to mention GreenRose22 from NL ). It is worthy to say it is not everyone you meet online that is interested in amorous relationship of any kind. A good stranger may be your angel. You just never can tell!

All the very best!

smiley

My angel is on NL and has full access to my devices and emails. You won't see me complaining or looking for another.

Thank you!
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:40pm On Feb 27, 2020
sotall:



You want to shake table abi undecided
He's not shaking any table,he probably wasn't an history student back in school, If he did,he'll know about igbo-ukwu arts
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:41pm On Feb 27, 2020
sotall:



You want to shake table abi undecided
He's not shaking any table,he probably wasn't an history student back in school, If he did,he'll know about igbo-ukwu arts.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:43pm On Feb 27, 2020
tartar9:
I've never read of anytime an artifact was returned or asked to be returned to the South East.
Our white exploiters through the ages couldn't find anything worth stealing there.
IGBO-UKWU CIVILIZATION Google is your friend

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Dcaliphate(m): 5:59pm On Feb 27, 2020
SonofDevil:
When ooni said ife was the cradle of world civilization people never believed.this sculpture left in the 6 century now we re in 21st century meaning it left ife almost 2000 years ago
that's how u used 'almost' to throw away 500yrs, just to feel right. Welldone sir
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by chewwie(m): 6:17pm On Feb 27, 2020
tartar9:
I've never read of anytime an artifact was returned or asked to be returned to the South East.
Our white exploiters through the ages couldn't find anything worth stealing there.

Then you definitely don't read. Haven't you heard of the Nri and Igbo-Ukwu bronze artifacts from the 4th and 9th centuries in the British museum? So many ignorant fellows on Nairaland
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by chewwie(m): 6:19pm On Feb 27, 2020
HitSong:

The only thing those people have is hairy flat chest.
Chest beaters
Flat, hairy chest... Learn proper placement of adjectives. Illiterate.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by valentinos22(m): 6:20pm On Feb 27, 2020
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by chewwie(m): 6:21pm On Feb 27, 2020
blowjohn:


In so many ways na.
U know how much that thing is worth? Billions!
Imagine selling it and using the money for short term loans or to revive our refinery or complete Niger bridge
Look at this one... You don't really know anything
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by chewwie(m): 6:21pm On Feb 27, 2020
SCORPION1902:
I love Mexican Milfs.
Courtesy of Xvideos.. grin grin
I swear! Those people can whine waist sha
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by geosegun(m): 6:27pm On Feb 27, 2020
GreenRose22:


smiley

My angel is on NL and has full access to my devices and emails. You won't see me complaining or looking for another.

Thank you!

Good to know, Cheers.

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by blissmandate(m): 7:22pm On Feb 27, 2020
OfoIgbo:
Clearly looks Yoruba.

But there is something fishy about this..
I am not aware of any 6th century collection of Ife art works. It is much more likely to be a 16th century stuff that a sixth century work.

Also bronze work came much later. Around the 6th century, it would have been brass sculpture
shitigbo we understand your pain.its really suck to be from a place where they know not their history..

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by dazzlingd(m): 7:22pm On Feb 27, 2020
6th century.....

Our history has been corrupted....no wonder an average black man is senseless and suffering from confused identity to think they are descendants of Noah
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by blissmandate(m): 7:25pm On Feb 27, 2020
tartar9:
I've never read of anytime an artifact was returned or asked to be returned to the South East.
Our white exploiters through the ages couldn't find anything worth stealing there.
there ancestors are jumping from one tree to another then.they gat no history to be proud of.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by firfinch(m): 9:00pm On Feb 27, 2020
thatigboman:
that's possibly benin bronze
If it's bronze it's got to be Benin
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 9:50pm On Feb 27, 2020
tartar9:
I've never read of anytime an artifact was returned or asked to be returned to the South East.
Our white exploiters through the ages couldn't find anything worth stealing there.
Hate speech
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by tartar9(m): 10:51pm On Feb 27, 2020
FemiMaduka:


You and everybody that gave you a like are idiots. You obviously have never read about the famed Igbo-ukwu artwork and civilization; just like the Nok, Benin and Ife. Bloody nonentity.

P.S.: I didn't insult you really. You made a buffoon of yourself and the folks that liked your post bought into it.
sotall:



You want to shake table abi undecided
Judybash93:


Have you heard of the igbo-ukwu art collection? Dope stuff, you should check em out.
CsRockefeller:


You definitely haven't come across the phrase "Igbo-Ukwu"
Hermionegranger:
Fun fact :Did you know the people of Igbo Ukwu in Anambra State started casting copper and bronze works even before Ife and Benin?

The white men never met an igbo-ukwu "civilisation" what they met were unclad and primitive igbos who lived as barbarians
The so-called igbo-ukwu "civilisation" was only discovered by chance later on in the 20th century as an archeological sites of just one town(hardly representative of the Igbo race) whose advanced image making occured and ended eons ago.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by TUANKU(m): 12:11am On Feb 28, 2020
SonofDevil:
When ooni said ife was the cradle of world civilization people never believed.this sculpture left in the 6 century now we re in 21st century meaning it left ife almost 2000 years ago
If ife is the cradle of world civilization, what then do we say of Egypt?
Don't get carried away oga.
Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by TAO11(f): 12:21am On Feb 28, 2020
rabzy:


Oga it didn't leave ife 2000 years ago, ife bronze work are 15th to 17th works and this particularl sculpture was recently bought and the person wanted to smuggle it into Mexico but was impounded at the airport

Many Ife art works in bronze, terracotta, quartz, stone carvings, etc. are actually centuries older than the 15th century.

For example, the screenshot attached below is of a picture (of an Ife bronze head) which I personally took at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.

Its description reads:

"Ife Head of the Yoruba --- This sculpture reveals the artistry and metalworking expertise of the Yoruba people. It was cast from a 12th-century sculpture excavated at Ife in Nigeria in the 1930s. On loan from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkely, 5-3867".

Moreover, I have in fact read on Ife artworks which are older than the 12th century.

Let's be guided!

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:05am On Feb 28, 2020
The crown worn by that bronze statue shows that it is a statue of an Ooni of Ife.

That crown is similar to the one worn by Ooni in the picture below.

Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by Nobody: 5:18am On Feb 28, 2020
osuofia2:
wrong move, we have poor maintenance culture here, i know wan here say the art decay o

This is where it is going bro. It is in safe hands.

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Re: Mexico Returns Ancient Yoruba Bronze Sculpture To Nigeria by omoluka: 6:47am On Feb 28, 2020
Yoruba! what a great tribe that has refused to see the future

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