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BKayy:All quotes made here are well sourced and referenced to respected historical sources. None of the above is a subject of historical dispute, except in your own head. Feel free to manufacture your own history. |
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.” At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed. “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 ''The upper storeys''. Meanwhile we have Nigerians proudly posting British-built storey buildings from 400 years later in the 1900s as being the ''first storey building in Nigeria.'' Lost people. |
Homeboiy:The Benin City we are discussing was invaded, attacked, burnt down and looted by the British in 1897. |
McTominay:This alone is the start of your miseducation. This statement is symptomatic of how DISGRACEFULLY IGNORANT you and so many Nigerians are about your history. Are you aware that the entire southern and northern Nigeria was a vast textile manufacturing hub before the whites invaded? And that the colonialists destroyed the industry so we could buy textiles from Europe instead? Are you aware that We exported soap to Europe before colonisation, because THEY had no soap industry? Are you aware that Italy had to BAN imported Nigerian SOAP in the 1800s in order to protect the young Italian soap manufacturing industry? Are you aware that BENIN CITY had street lights and underground drainage a full 300 years before London? Are you aware that the Benin Empire exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as the late 1490s? Are you aware that in BENIN today sits the largest structure ever constructed by man, the Benin Earthworks and Military Ramparts? Described by the Guinness Book of Records 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”. 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”. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace Are you aware that BENIN CITY, which was essentially the capital of ancient southern Nigeria, was described by European visitors from the 1500s as one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world? A city where crime was non-existent, and people saw no need to build front doors to their houses? ''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”. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace You see, until you NIGERIANS are mentally decolonised and RECONNECTED WITH YOUR HISTORY, and remember who you really are, rather than who the colonialists told you you were, you will continue to wallow in ignorance, self hate, pessimism, racial inferiority complex, and moral debasement. |
Alexclem:Speak for yourself, SLAVE. Point to ONE infrastructure the whites built that you can see around you. Zero? So what makes you think they will build it today if they come and rule you again? Can't you see you are brainwashed? |
chaloskyx:Look at this ignorant oaf typing balderdash. Just say you have NO CLUE what the colonialists looted from Nigeria, because you are too lazy to study and research. ''slave artifacts''? What are those? Dumbass cretin. You think the colonialists came allllllll the way from Europe to fight and kill your ancestors and rule your land for 80 years, just to collect 'slave artefacts'? Who did this to you people to make you so blind, ignorant, and thoughtless? The facts: Between 1897 and 1960, the colonialists LOOTED from Nigeria, commodities which were the OIL of their day and highly prized on the international market. - Coal - Tin - Iron Ore - Bauxite - Limestone - Zinc - Lead - Cocoa - Rubber - Palm Oil - Timber - Groundnuts - Plus many other minerals and cash crops These fetched them cumulatively over their 80 year rule, TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS in today's money. |
McTominay:This alone is the start of your miseducation. This statement is symptomatic of how DISGRACEFULLY IGNORANT you and so many others are about your history. Are you aware that the entire southern and northern Nigeria was a vast textile manufacturing hub before the whites invaded? And that the colonialists destroyed the industry so we could buy textiles from Europe instead? Are you aware that We exported soap to Europe before colonisation, because THEY had no soap industry? Are you aware that Italy had to BAN imported Nigerian SOAP in the 1800s in order to protect the young Italian soap manufacturing industry? Are you aware that BENIN CITY had street lights and underground drainage a full 300 years before London? Are you aware that the Benin Empire exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as the late 1490s? Are you aware that in BENIN today sits the largest structure ever constructed by man, the Benin Earthworks and Military Ramparts? Described by the Guinness Book of Records 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”. 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”. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace Are you aware that BENIN CITY, which was essentially the capital of ancient southern Nigeria, was described by European visitors from the 1500s as one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world? A city where crime was non-existent, and people saw no need to build front doors to their houses? ''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”. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace You see, until you NIGERIAN SLAVES are RECONNECTED WITH YOUR HISTORY, and remember who you really are, you will continue to wallow in ignorance, self hate, racial inferiority complex, and moral debasement. |
So..... the oyinbos ruled us and exported our resources for 80 years and built not one single university. Not one industry of note. Near zero infrastructure. And a 5% literacy rate (compared to 72% today) Look around you. Virtually 100% of the infrastructure you see was built after independence. Before that, everywhere was bush. Thank goodness for independence. Our leaders may be corrupt, but nowhere near as corrupt and thieving as the white rulers before them, who built NOTHING in their 80 year misrule. |
daveP:Lying devil. If they siphoned less than 15%, why were we an undeveloped nation with near zero infrastructure, mass illiteracy and malnutrition in 1960, a full 80 years after they began ruling? You must be an absolute knucklehead to not see they engaged in gargantuan looting of our resources. |
jaxxy:The ''rest of the world'' was NOT ''on another level'' you uneducated dunce. The industrial revolution took place in Western Europe, not ''all over the world''. Ignorant little twerp typing rubbish. Your failed leaders indeed.. Without those 'failed leaders' you would be an illiterate palm wine tapper like your grandpa was under colonialism, so shut up and be grateful for little mercies. |
chukwuemekaduke:iF THE COLONIALS DID NOT TAKE 1/10TH how come we had zero electricity at independence? No power grid. No power plants? How come our FIRST power plant was Kainji Dam (1964)? Zero industries. Zero expressways/flyovers etc. Zero major hospitals. Literacy rate at 5% compared to 74% today. Malnutrition and children/adults walking around barefoot and naked in some cases. All this despite ruling for 80 years and exporting our resources? |
jaxxy:DUMB SLAVE. I SAID GO AND READ THAT THREAD AND STOP BEING A SLAVE. WHAT PART OF THAT CAN YOUR DUMB HEAD NOT GRASP? OR THE WHITE BRAINWASHING IS PREVENTING YOU FROM LEARNING YOUR REAL HISTORY? https://www.nairaland.com/6256624/nigeria-technologically-advanced-before-european |
leofab:I KNOW YOU ARE A BRAINWASHED SELF HATER WHO PROBABLY BLEACHES HER SKIN TO LOOK WHITE, SO MY POSITION WILL MAKE YOU FEEL NOT VERY GOOD. EMANCIPATE Y0URSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY, SO YOU DON'T INFECT YOUR KIDS WITH YOUR SLAVE COMPLEX. |
OmoManU:Thank goodness for someone like you that has come in here and shown INTELLIGENCE. |
jaxxy:Go and read the thread. We were advanced for that period, and making headway, and colonial invasion INTERRUPTED our progress. I know the colonialists brainwashed you to think you were primitive and lived on trees in the jungle before they arrived to 'civilize' you.. BUT THE REALITY WAS VERY DIFFERENT, AND THAT THREAD EXPOSED IT ALL, SO READ IT AND STOP BEING A BRAINWASHED, SELF-HATING SLAVE. |
DubaiLandLord2:What an ignorant RETAR.D this is. Is Benin Republic even up to 1 million population? Togo? How many people are in Togo? I know you have a dead brain, but try not to compare 210 million - strong Nigeria with its multiplicity of competing problems and rivalries, with tiny villages like Togo and Benin. Failed, lazy youth blaming Nigeria for his uselessness. Was it not in this same Nigeria that a young guy in Lagos - YOUR JUNIOR - formed a startup that was acquired by Stripe for 200 million dollars? LAZY YOUTH. Don't go and learn a skill and make something of your useless life. |
Eastlink:Na true na!!! LOOK, IN 1960, NO ROADS LED TO THE VILLAGE. AFTER 80 YEARS OF BRITISH RULE. YOU WOULD ENTER A BUS AND STOP AT THE NEAREST ROAD TO YOUR VILLAGE AND THEN WALK ON FOOTPATHS FOR 1 TO 3 DAYS BEFORE ARRIVAL. TODAY ROADS LEAD EVERYWHERE COURTESY OF BLACK RULE, AND WE EVEN CURSE THE GOVT WHEN THE ROAD IS NOT FULLY TARRED AND PAVED! THESE KIDS HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR WE HAVE COME. |
jaxxy:COLONISED DUNCE, READ THIS THREAD TO KNOW HOW ADVANCED NIGERIA WAS BEFORE COLONIALISM. BRAINWASHED DULLARDS IGNORANT OF THEIR HISTORY https://www.nairaland.com/6256624/nigeria-technologically-advanced-before-european |
DubaiLandLord2:Togo, Benin, Brazil...Dumbo.,.. how are those places much differnt from Nigeria? Dumb and dumber. Always blaming northerners and Buhari for your failure and uselessness. Don't go and hustle like your mates. Useless, lazy youth. You have things your grandpa under colonial rule could only dream of. But no. Buhari must drop 5 million dollars on your doorstep before you can be useful in your useless life. |
DubaiLandLord2:Every single word you typed is courtesy of BLACK GOVTS who educated you. THAT ALONE is worth more than gold. Without black govt, you would be a stark village illiterate, barefooted, with splintered hands singing 'God shave di queen'. Now run along and go suck oyibo dic.k, you self-hating slaveboy. Rather black govts loot while giving me education and some infrastructure, than white govts loot while giving me absolutely nothing. |
ken6488:America at 60 defeated Spain and so what? Do you have a working brain at all? Slavery was the law, and mass murder of the millions of Native Americans who owned the land, plus enslavement and brutalisation of your ancestors was ongoing in America at the time, and you consider that ''a country way better''? Ignorant little dunce. Even if oyinbo shiits in your mouth you will find a way to justify it. Brainwashed, colonised dunderheads. Skin bleaching capital of the world. See how they are all lining up to worship their white slave masters. Worthless. |
DubaiLandLord2:Dumbo, the colonial interests in every country was different and level of looting based on that interest varied. They did not behave the exact same way in every country. You people don't know any of this because you don't read or research anything. Go and watch BB Naija. That's your area of expertise. |
DropsMic:DUMBO, the only reason you can even type your slave-minded rubbish is that BLACK GOVTS came to power and invested in mass education. At independence literacy rate was 5% compared to 70% today. Were it not for independence you would be a stark village illiterate. So start from there, dumbo. |
duro4chang:SHUT UP. HE IS SAYING THE TRUTH. Oyinbo asss licker. The British ruled for 80 years, exporting our resources, and at the end we did not have a single power plant or university or expressway or industry. Kainji dam was our first power plant, commissioned by the Balewa administration in 1964. Prior to that the British merely imported a few industrial generators to power the GRAs they were living in, while the rest of Nigeria used lanterns and candles. Nigeria was a near total bush in 1960 at independence with mass illiteracy and malnutrition. What did your 'perfect white man' do with the trillions he made from our exports in 80 years? You are VERY LUCKY we gained independence in 1960 which led to mass education investment by the black govts. Or else by now you would be hunting cockroaches and tapping palm wine in the bush like your illiterate grandpa did under colonial rule. |
greypencils:Premier league don brainwash una. Do you actually watch any other league? |
Emperormartin:Premier league don brainwash this one. |
Freelane33:DUMBO, EVERY NATION ON EARTH BORROWS MONEY. AMERICA IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST DEBTOR NATION OWING 26 TRILLION DOLLARS. NIGERIA OWES UNDER 80 BILLION USD, SO SHUT UP. ''As of August 31, 2020, [US] federal debt held by the public was $20.83 trillion and intragovernmental holdings were $5.88 trillion, for a total national debt of $26.70 trillion.'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States Dumbass illiterates!! |
saaron:We don't CARE what you think. GO TO HELL. AT LEAST IN NIGERIA YOU CAN CRITICISE BUHARI ON NAIRALAND OR ON THE STREET WITHOUT REPRISALS. IN BIAFRA, YOU DO THAT, YOU GET KILLED BY IPOB. SPIT. CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU LOW LIFES TO GET THAT LITTLE BANANA REPUBLIC YOU SO DESIRE. |
guru90:Online noise maker. If you check am now, na only 50 naira dey him pocket. |
Freelane33:Ok. I agree. You are an old PDP LOOTER who is mad that Buhari has closed the way for your looting and raiding of the nation's treasury. Sorry I mischaracterised you as a jobless youth. |
guru90:Shut your trap and go and learn a skill and do business. You employ NOBODY. You are a jobless school dropout taking out his anger on Buhari and northerners. |
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