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CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 1:43am On Nov 10, 2021
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 1:33am On Nov 10, 2021
Anonymous Weaver Balthazar, the Black Magi France (c. 1550s) Tapestry Height: 75 cm (29 ½ in) Width: 80 cm/ (31 ½ in) Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame The Image of the Black in Western Art Researchhttps://i.pinimg.com/564x/0a/df/06/0adf063a63819bf7c7225e0ff16749ee.jpg

Noms, armes et blasons des chevaliers de la Table Ronde, France, ca. 1500.
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Black Aristocracy, France, 1500s
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CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 1:15am On Nov 10, 2021
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op):
In underground European history circles, there are allegations that the Moors were oppressive to the European populations they dominated.

A famous allegation is that the Moors killed some of their white captives and subjects, and used their skin for leather sandals and bags.

Supposedly, there was an actual industry based on this activity.

Another allegation is that they built many 'harems' - huge villas in which they screwed hundreds of white women at will.

Modern white racism they contend, is karmic payback for what the Moors did to them.

Because Moorish presence in Europe was for 700 years (between the 1100s and 1700s), it is not inconceivable that some atrocities were committed by the African elite there at one point or the other.

That is the nature of man's inhumanity to man, in situations of dominance.
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op):
godofuck231:
The 13 castles of Spain were built by the moorish princes and kings , they were held under siege and they endured for months and years till they came to a truce , to take their wife’s and properties and leave unhurt, this was how the white started building castles and fortresses , those castles still have records showing the timeline and when the moorish princes rules and built the castles , they still stand till today , that’s why the Portuguese are dark skinned ,
The invasion of Africa started when one king mensah musa visited European kindles and gifted them bullions of gold , that was when Africa’s problem started , they began expeditions till they raped Africa dry especially the Gold Coast,
The king solomon story (the richest man ever ) and his mines being sort after trails to king mensah musa
Some great points. But it was fundamentally the European adoption of 'gunpowder' - a native Chinese mixture traditionally used in festivals for fireworks, which the Europeans then used to build firearms, which led to their military conquest of the whole world, not just Africa.
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 12:14am On Nov 10, 2021
godofuck231:
I know mathematics originated from yuroba land meaning what is added to and the word eror in Yoruba means error today in English meaning wrong ,
These guys attacked Africa , killed our scholars , priests and Diviners, warriors and sages , killed our kings then destroyed or looted artefacts with historic encryptions on them and so we lost records , we had an agrarian culture of sharing information and knowledge, Socrates even came to mali in Timbuktu to school under scholars, he even stole scrolls and was caught , he was banished from returning to Africa , he’s the first man in the history of the world for his visa to be revoked. Black men have since stopped reading
When Europeans arrived Benin City in the 15th century, they described it as one of the most beautiful cities on Earth.

According to the UK Guardian Newspaper, ''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.”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 11:43pm On Nov 09, 2021
To see much more of these ancient paintings and artifacts, simply type 'Moorish Kings' in Google Images. smiley
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 11:42pm On Nov 09, 2021
Englandboy:
My first time of hearing about this.
Many European aristocratic families have Moorish ancestors, including the British Royal family.

Those European families still honour their Moorish ancestors today, with family plaques and crests like these below:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1c/fa/95/1cfa959cdd1fedcda717cedc0ae5f82b.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bd/6f/7c/bd6f7c2c4c2dcd29d8e0067c3c18bda1.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b6/f6/cc/b6f6cc834ef9ad09d870b99119a30663.jpg
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op):
NwaNimo1:
Oyibo refer to that time as the 'dark ages'.......they don't like discussing the matter,

very crafty people!
It was the Moors that rescued them from their 'Dark Ages', which was characterised by mass poverty and illiteracy in Europe. It was the Moorish influence in administration, education, art, architecture, and science, that led to the European Renaissance, which was the springboard for the Industrial Revolution.

Funnily enough, we have no idea that WE contributed heavily to the Industrial Revolution.
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 11:29pm On Nov 09, 2021
A boss
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Nicklaus Glockenden I Saint Maurice and His Companions Germany (1524) Page height: 385 mm. Page width: 280 mm. Illumination. Missal of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg (572 ff.). Folio 437
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A Boss
Gregorio Lopes Adoration of the Magi Spain (c. 1514) Oil on Panel, 122 x 66.5 cm. Collection of the Countess de MARÇA. The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B Dubois Library
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f2/c1/58/f2c1588ab69f90be2b70959c7235a76c.jpg
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 11:17pm On Nov 09, 2021
This man ruled Spain.


https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a7/1c/23/a71c23960b9e72610b0a4913440e0e40.jpg
- Juan Batista Maíno Adoration of the Kings (bigger) Spain (c. 1612) This gorgeous (and massive) Adoration by Spanish painter Maíno is on loan to the National Gallery for the first time in the UK

Monuments to the Moors are still seen all over Europe
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/02/2c/dc/022cdcd193712303cebcaacc4103219c.jpg

Another African king of Europe
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/9d/c3/3a/9dc33a8b8eb90f0a71d7e9123153c917.jpg
CultureRe: Did Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op): 11:08pm On Nov 09, 2021
CultureDid Nigerian Kings Rule Europe Centuries Ago? by Reflect7(op):
Are you people aware that as recently as 300 years ago, we had black African monarchs in Europe?

Some were possibly of Nigerian origin.

They were West Africans, and were the famous Moors of history.

''History confirms that the Moors ruled in Europe -- primarily Spain and Portugal -- for almost 700 years. They were known for their influence in European culture, but not many people know that the Moors were actually Europeans of African descent.


Moors were usually depicted as being "mostly black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for negro," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/90/25/f7/9025f7b0042c173d4254bdb6e83019b4.jpg

Several written works at the time also confirm that. The 16th century English playwrights William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African and Christopher Marlowe used Moor and African interchangeably.

Author and historian Chancellor Williams said "the original Moors, like the original Egyptians, were black Africans." An Arab chronicler also described Moorish Emperor Yusuf ben-Tachfin as "a brown man with wooly hair."

In European Art, Moors are also often shown with African features: pitch black, frizzled hair, flat and wide face, flat-nosed, and thick lips. The Drake Jewel, a rare documented piece of jewel from the 16th century, seemed to show a profile of a Black king dominating the profile of a white woman.

Moreover, Moors were known to have contributed in areas of mathematics, astronomy, art, cuisine, medicine, and agriculture that helped develop Europe and bring them from the Dark Ages into the Renaissance.

Generations of Spanish rulers have allegedly tried to abolish this era from the historical record. But recent archaeology determined that Moors indeed ruled in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years -- from 711 A.D. to 1492.''

- https://www.blackhistory.com/2019/08/moors-black-kings-queens-ruled-europe-almost-700-years.html#:~:text=African%20Americans...-,Black%20Kings%20(and%20Queens)%20Ruled%20Parts%20of%20Europe%20For%20Almost,actually%20Europeans%20of%20African%20descent
Foreign AffairsRe: Slaves Room In Ancient Roman City Unearthed By Archaeologists (Photos) by Reflect7: 11:00pm On Nov 09, 2021
Do you people know that as recently as 300 years ago, we had black African monarchs in Europe?

Some were possibly of Nigerian origin.

They were West Africans, and were the famous Moors of history.

''History confirms that the Moors ruled in Europe -- primarily Spain and Portugal -- for almost 700 years. They were known for their influence in European culture, but not many people know that the Moors were actually Europeans of African descent.


Moors were usually depicted as being "mostly black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for negro," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/90/25/f7/9025f7b0042c173d4254bdb6e83019b4.jpg

Several written works at the time also confirm that. The 16th century English playwrights William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African and Christopher Marlowe used Moor and African interchangeably.

Author and historian Chancellor Williams said "the original Moors, like the original Egyptians, were black Africans." An Arab chronicler also described Moorish Emperor Yusuf ben-Tachfin as "a brown man with wooly hair."

In European Art, Moors are also often shown with African features: pitch black, frizzled hair, flat and wide face, flat-nosed, and thick lips. The Drake Jewel, a rare documented piece of jewel from the 16th century, seemed to show a profile of a Black king dominating the profile of a white woman.

Moreover, Moors were known to have contributed in areas of mathematics, astronomy, art, cuisine, medicine, and agriculture that helped develop Europe and bring them from the Dark Ages into the Renaissance.

Generations of Spanish rulers have allegedly tried to abolish this era from the historical record. But recent archaeology determined that Moors indeed ruled in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years -- from 711 A.D. to 1492.''

-https://www.blackhistory.com/2019/08/moors-black-kings-queens-ruled-europe-almost-700-years.html#:~:text=African%20Americans...-,Black%20Kings%20(and%20Queens)%20Ruled%20Parts%20of%20Europe%20For%20Almost,actually%20Europeans%20of%20African%20descent.
Foreign AffairsRe: Slaves Room In Ancient Roman City Unearthed By Archaeologists (Photos) by Reflect7: 10:30pm On Nov 09, 2021
donnie:
The only reason they would lie that those are slave rooms is the obvious presence of African artifacts and remains.

Bunch of idiots who don't know that we are already woke and aware of the fact that Bantus/negroes (Israelites) from Africa were present in Rome, and actually civilized Europe.
Don't mind these ignorant Nigerian youths. No wonder they are filled with self-hate and racial inferiority complex.

They have near ZERO knowledge of their African history, including the fact that what we call civilization today, was the work of their forbears.
Foreign AffairsRe: Slaves Room In Ancient Roman City Unearthed By Archaeologists (Photos) by Reflect7: 10:26pm On Nov 09, 2021
osuofia2:
smiley
OYIBO REALLY DO BLACKS STRONG THING SHA
You are ignorant.

Go and study history, you thick skull.

Slavery was a universal institution on Earth, and white slaves existed and were the slaves sold in Rome.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:24pm On Nov 06, 2021
PrinceOfLagos:
You've proven countless times on here with your comment that you cannot be trusted with money and everyone cannot be like you
Yawwnnnn. I'm sure Nigerians are way smarter than to ''trust'' you with their multibillion dollar budget.

Mr Saint (Until you see power, then na siren everywhere plus trips to Milan for wifey on Gucci shopping. THIEF.)
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:18pm On Nov 06, 2021
PrinceOfLagos:
Why do you always think that everyone is as corrupt as Tinubu
Who mentioned Tinubu?

I mentioned YOU.

If YOU were appointed to high public office, YOU would use that position to enrich yourself.

I know it, You know it. Now shut up and run along.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:15pm On Nov 06, 2021
dasparrow:
That is good if they are able to start and finish the project.
They've started and finished other rail projects, so they will start and finish this one too.

There is no room for 'abandoned projects' in the Buhari administration.

You dull-headed people should have learned that by now.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:13pm On Nov 06, 2021
SILVERLINES:
Na today

Another project to be abandoned

Now they are about to go they approved such huge project

Useless government
Olodo. It will only be abandoned if you PDP crooks are allowed back into office. Which won't happen, so we will see it to completion, just like the other railways lines that have been completed by this govt.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:08pm On Nov 06, 2021
PrinceOfLagos:
I am law abiding

I am not corrupt like our oga at the top
Abeg get lost.

You people come online pretending to be saints and angels.

Let them give you state governorship for one week, and you would turn a multi-millionaire in dollars.

I know it. You know it.

Now run along and let me hear word jare. Rubbish.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:03pm On Nov 06, 2021
PrinceOfLagos:
Oga at the top's "Kickback" must be in billions
If YOU were that 'oga at the top', will YOU not collect the same billions?

99% of you that moan about Nigeria are just as corrupt and corruptible as any official out there, and would likely do worse if you held their positions. Without a doubt you would all grease your palms and enrich yourselves. It's the Nigerian way. So kindly spare us your holier-than-thou BS.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 11:00pm On Nov 06, 2021
KingOfBoyz1:
Another scam..
How is it a scam? The contract has been awarded. I'm sure people like you said 'scam' when Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Kaduna, and Warri-Itakpe-Ajaokuta lines were being built and are now working perfectly. We really don't need your type in Nigeria. You're useless.
PoliticsNigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar High Speed Rail Line by Reflect7(op): 10:54pm On Nov 06, 2021
Nigeria Approves $11.2 Billion Lagos – Calabar Coastal Line

The government of Nigeria has approved the $11.17bn Lagos – Calabar coastal standard-gauge line, and confirmed contracts for the Kano – Jibia and Port Harcourt – Maiduguri lines.

https://img2.chinadaily.com.cn/images/202106/11/60c31cc6a31024adbdcd7d2d.jpeg

The projects were announced by the minister of information and culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, who briefed local journalists following a Federal Executive Council (FEC) chaired by vice president, Mr Yemi Osinbajo, on August 4. Mohammed said two memos were approved during the meeting, including the ratification of the president’s approval for the award of contract for the Lagos – Calabar line.

“This particular route is very important because after the Lagos – Kano route, this Lagos – Calabar Coastal route will link all the coastal cities in the country,” he says.

The government announced in July that the London-based Standard Chartered Bank had agreed to provide $US 11bn in financing for the line, after an earlier agreement with the Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China fell through. The Federal Ministry of Transport signed an agreement with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) in May 2014 to build the line.

The line will run from Lagos – Sagamu – Ijebu-Ode – Ore – Benin City – Sapele – Warri – Yenogoa – Port Harcourt – Aba – Uyo – Calabar – Akamkpa – Obudu Ranch, with branch lines from Benin-City to Agbor, Ogwashi-ukwu, Asaba, Onitsha and Onitsha Bridge and from Port Harcourt to Onne Deep Sea Port. The project will be constructed in two phases, with the first phase running between Calabar and Port Harcourt, while the second phase will run between Port Harcourt and Lagos through Onitsha.

The project will include the construction of 1402km of line, as well as 22 stations and ancillary facilities, administrative space, and level crossings. Other works include the installation of safety systems, electrical systems, lighting systems, and signalling systems, as well as the laying of tracks and electricity lines.


The second memo approved the funding for work on the Kano – Jibia and Port Harcourt – Maiduguri lines, construction of which is underway.

https://www.railjournal.com/infrastructure/nigeria-approves-us-11-17bn-lagos-calabar-coastal-line/
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Navy Host Exercise Grand African NEMO by Reflect7: 10:43pm On Nov 06, 2021
Drsnives:
Giant of Africa my foot
Your view is irrelevant.
CultureRe: Myth Or Real Btw Aku/jacob And Edo/edomites by Reflect7: 12:58am On Nov 06, 2021
macof:
That the video you shared is lazy and ignorant.
1. Non of the ethnic groups in Nigeria are semitic. The Yoruba, Edo, Igbo, Idoma, igala mentioned in your video are a Niger-congo people not a semitic people
2. "Hamitic" is not a real racial category and cannot be remotely stretched to imply such. "Hamito-Semitic" is an obsolete term used to refer to what we now call the "afro-asiatic language group". "semitic" being the only branch found outside Africa in Western Asia
3. Edo people of Benin city are not Edomites. There is no linguistic, historical, genetic or cultural evidence to suggest so. This claim is solely based on the names "idoma" and "Edo" looking like the name "Edom"

All this is based on an unhealthy obsession with where your religions come from. It is inferiority complex
You are a crook and you've been on this site for years with an agenda to confine Africa to the 'jungle' of colonialist historical deceit.

Nobody should take YOU serious, because any research that remotely suggests Africans were anything but primitive hut dwellers in the bush is quickly and always attacked by you as 'lacking evidence'. Even when the evidence stares you in the face, you belittle, ignore, or vilify it.

You are a truly sick, disgusting person.
PoliticsRe: The North Wants The SE To Remain In Nigeria Because Of Its Huge Gas Deposits by Reflect7: 10:16pm On Nov 05, 2021
gartamanta:
The world is gradually turning away from fossil fuel. In just 9 years time, 2030, most countries in Europe will ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars. In less than 20 years time, crude oil will be a worthless product. As the world turns to alternative sources of clean energy, gas is set to be a gold mine

The South East of Nigeria is sitting on top of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, making it it an area with one of the largest gas deposits in Africa.

Northern Nigeria is already thinking about that gas money and they want a chunk of it. As calls to secede increase amongs Igbos in the South East and South South, gas is going to play a major role in the decision to secede or allow secession

One of the biggest reasons why the North will stand against secession is the gas deposits in the South East
YOU ARE A THIEF, PROJECTING YOUR GREED UNTO OTHERS.

If your headline is true, why did the Buhari govt offer Kanu the 5 SE states to form his 'Biafra'?

An offer he refused because it did not include Rivers State! Benue state too!

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/rejected-biafra-5-igbo-states-nnamdi-kanu/

THIEVES.

MAKE UNA COME CARRY NIGERIA'S OIL THIEF NA.

Of course Kanu knows that it takes billions of dollars of investment over many years to develop gas infrastructure to commercial levels. That's why he doesn't value those ''huge gas reserves'' as much as the Niger Delta crude oil, which is 'Money Now'.
Foreign AffairsRe: Tigrarian Forces March Towards Ethiopian Capital, State Of Emergency Declared by Reflect7: 12:16am On Nov 04, 2021
allcomage:
It's over for Ethiopia, oromo liberation front joining forces with Tigrarians is the last straw,the tide has really turned. If these people have the balls, they would have joined forces with Biafrans to end this mess called Nigeria. I support Africa being broken up along ethnic lines. It will bring a lasting peace and development.
You are ignorant. The so-called 'ethnic groups' were actually created by the colonialists.

Africa never had language-based ethnic blocs. Identity was based on lineage, NOT language spoken.

This is why even today within our 'ethnic groups', we have deadly conflicts over land and resources.
Foreign AffairsRe: Tigrarian Forces March Towards Ethiopian Capital, State Of Emergency Declared by Reflect7: 12:10am On Nov 04, 2021
bobowaja:
What kind of weak country is Ethiopia? Imagine a minority tribe holding it to ransom.

Negotiation is the biggest skill anyone can acquire. Always negotiate. Aggression should be the last weapon in any conflict resolutions cos it quickly escalate situations. The PM should have negotiated when he had the chance. You don't kill people and expect them not to fight back.
But where is the Ethiopian miitary? Where is their air force?

Naija has its problems, but this kind of thing can't happen here.
Foreign AffairsRe: Chinese Scientist Proves The First Inhabitants Of China- Were Black! by Reflect7: 9:32pm On Nov 02, 2021
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