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Aah thanks mate

How did the nok people got horses?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/A_man_ride_a_horse%2CNok_terracotta_figurine.jpg This picture is said to be 1400-2000 year old. Where did the horse come from?

"The Nok culture appeared in Nigeria around 1000 B.C. and mysteriously vanished around 500 AD in the region of West Africa. This region lies in Central Nigeria. The culture’s social system is thought to have been highly advanced. The Nok culture was considered to be the earliest sub-Saharan producer of life-sized Terracotta. It is suggested that the society eventually evolved into the later Yoruba Civilization of Ife.[citation needed]
The refinement of this culture is attested to by the image of a Nok dignitary at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The dignitary is portrayed wearing a "shepherds crook" affixed with an elastic material to the right arm ([3], [4]). The dignitary is also portrayed sitting with flared nostrils, and an open mouth suggesting performance. According to some accounts, based on artistic similarities to both early Yoruba art forms and Nok forms, there are connections between them and the contemporary Yoruba Race. Later brass, bronze, soapstone and terracotta sculptures of the Yoruba Ife and Yoruba Esie civilizations show significant similarities with those found at Nok."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture

tpia@:
only muslims meaning. . . . .?

I'm not muslim and I do consider the arabian peninsula migration story as a possible source of yoruba history, only that of course whoever left there passed through sudan.

however, this is no way means nigerians are descended from arabians unless any such claimant has concrete proof linking him/her to arab ancestors eg a mum, dad, grandma, grandpa, etc.

ie recent origin. And case by case basis.

my point is I'm not discounting it even if i also consider other stories and historical legends addressing the issue of origins.

We yoruba got nothing to do with arabian peninsula. We are descendent of Nok civilization. who probably migrated from northern part of Africa.

Lets people be what they want.

tpia@:
How are they true muslims if they have the best of wines.

Just curious,lol

what do you mean by that? We're living in 2011, time to wake the fvck up.

Happy Birthday, may Obatala grain you a long life . I still hate you though.

You can do it GEJ! Haters gonna hate https://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/05/haterafrican.jpg

exotik:
negro, the deluded yoruba hebrew israelite , if you dont know, igbo-ukwu had brass/bronze that ife had too. and some words have same meaning in igbo and yoruba. eg the word for stone. yorubas may have a different spelling for it or diff pronounciation for it due to their loose tongue wey dem nor sabi control like what your dumbazz has potrayed here, but it is the same word.

Im pretty sure that your igbo brothers are the one crying to be descendent of the jews

Negro_Ntns:
Rgp, were you blindfolded when this question came up?  

I dont know about Edo, but yoruba are descendent of Nok. I did answer him though  

I cant belive hausa people want to be like them.

How Nigeria culture is interiority to that of europe.

Buhari must die too.

Good job Kenya.

I support! Hausa or swahili or Yoruba or igbo

exotik:
well, im only using the same logic you used of how ife founded bini. im yet to see any proof apart from some dated art forms.

yeah, and not only that, jesus was also conceived by a virgin  and he died a virgin only to wake up three days later and then disappeared again. sounds like a "true" nollywood home video

haha 

i made a mistake by saying bini was founded by ife. i already said that.

What if Oduduwa fell from heaven? Jesus christ woke up from death after 3 days.

Give me a fvcking prove Are you trying to say igbo ukwa founded ife? https://www.city-data.com/forum/members/jill61-603505-albums-emoticons-pic41850-laughing-hysterically.gif

Teach me more about igbo ukwa please!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture

Mate, it was nok to ife people. Ye you're right. Bini are not descendet of Nok. There is not evidence that suggest that igbo ukwu influenced ife, if you have any plese share Dont you think im a tribalist. Show me proff, then ill accept it

According to some accounts, based on artistic similarities to both early Yoruba art forms and Nok forms, there are connections between them and the contemporary Yoruba Race. Later brass, bronze, soapstone and terracotta sculptures of the Yoruba Ife and Yoruba Esie civilizations show significant similarities with those found at Nok.

exotik:
and so are the others. so since it is age u are using, it is:


----------->Oyo and many yoruba groups
Nok ---> igbo-ukwu ----> ife---->
----------->Bini

Dude, you're wrong. Yoruba people are descendent of Nok. It was Nok -> then Ife -> then yoruba and bini. Im not using age. Nok Used iron, it was passed down to Ife and later the rest. Learn history mate.!!1

"Bronze and terracotta art created by this civilization are significant examples of realism in pre-colonial African art.
In his book, "The Oral Traditions in Ile-Ife," Yemi D. Prince referred to the terracotta artists of 900 A.D. as the founders of Art Guilds, cultural schools of philosophy, which today can be likened to many of Europe's old institutions of learning which were originally established as religious bodies. These guilds may well be some of the oldest non-Abrahamic African centres of learning to remain as viable entities in the contemporary world."

Wrong.
                       -->Yoruba
Nok->--> ife-->
                       -->bini


Nri kingdom-->igbo ukwu---> igbo, 

Ife and igbo ukwu are completely different.

Fascist is not a bad thing, maybe thats what Nigeria and many African country need.

damn.