motymop:
You would have compared those so called developed black countries with developed white countries.

I HAVE. I enjoy myself in Jamaica far more than I do when I visit the USA or UK.

I will visit Trinidad too one day, hopefully.

You should TRY visiting some of those ''so-called developed black countries'' instead of relying on your colonised, white-obsessed dunderhead to feed you negativity before even trying.

Port of Spain, capital city of Trinidad and Tobago

illicit:



The question is why do we remain at the receiving end


Those African countries you mentioned are tourist sites, nothing else

Where do you get the idea that they are all ''tourist sites''?

Botswana is not a tourist site, and its economy is based on trade, mining, and manufacturing.

Neither is Namibia.

Jamaica?

''Major sectors of the Jamaican economy include agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism, petroleum refining, financial and insurance services.''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica


Trinidad and Tobago is not a ''tourist site''.

''Trinidad and Tobago has the third highest GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP) in the Americas after the United States and Canada. It is recognised by the World Bank as a high-income economy.... the Trinidadian economy is primarily industrial with an emphasis on petroleum and petrochemicals''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago


Plus WHAT EXACTLY is wrong with tourism being a nation's main earner?

Nobody says ''Oh Dubai is only rich because of oil, so no big deal''.

Or ''Oh America is only rich because they invade and bomb countries like Iraq based on lies about WMDs, and corner their oil resources.''

So why is it an issue if a nation has arranged itself to the extent of being an attractive destination for tourists? 

You think that is an easy thing to do?

Think again.

illicit:
Wow, very great inventions



Look at where it got us


No wonder we left the Europeans behind

We DID ''leave them behind'', for thousands of years.

When we were building the world, they were mostly in caves.

But as humans, no race is perfect or can remain dominant forever.

It is turn by turn. Europeans have barely been dominant for 500 years, and they are already in decline, and Asia is rising, with AFRICA widely projected to be the next 'Asia', so chill.

Aconomist:


Why did you leave your door unlocked? ie, why haven't you developed defenses against invasion?

Before some crazed Europeans stole gunpowder mixing methods from the Chinese, which the latter were using for religious ceremonies, and proceeded to build mass killing weapons like guns and bombs, the ENTIRE WORLD had used iron weapons for defense for 5,000 years prior.

Nobody knew that anyone could be so evil as to create GUNS and BOMBS!

Weapons of mass murder!

The Europeans caught the entire world by surprise, not just Africans, which was why they were able to invade and loot all the earth, killing countless billions in the process, and making Europe the richest place on Earth.

Don't go blaming their victims!! Saying ''they should have known''.

No. They should NOT, and could NOT have known, and they didn't know!

Aconomist:
A superior culture will never be conquered by an inferior one.

What a load of raw IGNORANCE.

So if I storm your house now, and shoot you, steal your money and loot your furniture after raping your wife, it's because I'm superior to you?

You need a refund on your education, because you must have been schooled by animals, not humans.

When these whites go to villages in Africa, you worship them -- singing and dancing like fools.

Not sure which village you are referring to. When a white comes to my village, nobody sings and dances and worships him, or even notices his presence in any significant way.

I think you watch way too much CNN and National Geographic for your own good . They pay villagers to perform, and who wouldn't dance for a few dollars in a village if some dumb white guy wants to drop dollars? I would.

I would even invent new dance styles on the spot.

googi:
It is a learned stereotype repeated many times that Africans repeat, even when they lived in a rich nation.

Actually, Nigeria used to pay salaries of most countries you listed.

Till today, Nigeria sends trained nurses and doctors to Jamaica and other Caribbean nations through our Technical Aid Corps, and has done so for several decades now.

Most Nigerians are completely unaware of this.

BLACK COUNTRIES WITH HIGH LIVING STANDARDS:

Living standards based on the UN's Human Development Index (HDI), 2021.


Barbados


0.814 Annual Increase 0.23%



Trinidad and Tobago


0.796 Increase 0.17%



Seychelles

0.796 Increase 0.46%



Grenada

0.779 Increase 0.36%



St Kitts and Nevis

0.779 Increase 0.48%



Antigua and Barbuda

0.778 Increase 0.22%



Saint Lucia

0.759 Increase 0.43%



Dominica

0.742 Increase 0.03%



Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


0.738 Increase 0.31%



Botswana

0.735 Increase 1.15%



Jamaica

0.734 Increase 0.03%



Gabon

0.703 Increase 0.84%



Guyana 0.682 Increase 0.55%



Namibia 0.646 Increase 1.03%




Countries with similar or LOWER Living Standards than the Above:



Pakistan

0.557



Bangladesh

0.632


India

0.645



Tajiksitan

0.668



Phillipines

0.718



Indonesia

0.718



Moldova

0.750



China

0.761



Ukraine

0.779



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

undisputed25:
Good morning nairalanders
There's this question always bothering my mind maybe because have visited some countries in Asia, Europe and few in Africa
Africa to the world is seen as black continent
But countries like Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt are mostly white and I noticed they are not going through this type of mess like a pure black African countries are experiencing

My curiosity grows when I see how Jamaican lives their life even they are not in Africa but majority of them are people of color and they live in fear and poverty

Some opined that it's as a result of Noah's curse
While some believes that blacks are generally mentally weak of which I won't agree cos a lot of blacks have done greater things in the past and till now

I'll be glad if I could get a meaningful contributions
At least to solve a problem, we need to identify it first
Mynd44

BLACK COUNTRIES WITH HIGH LIVING STANDARDS:

Living standards based on the UN's Human Development Index (HDI)


Barbados


0.814 Annual Increase 0.23%



Trinidad and Tobago


0.796 Increase 0.17%


Seychelles

0.796 Increase 0.46%



Grenada

0.779 Increase 0.36%



St Kitts and Nevis

0.779 Increase 0.48%


Antigua and Barbuda

0.778 Increase 0.22%

Saint Lucia

0.759 Increase 0.43%


Dominica

0.742 Increase 0.03%



Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


0.738 Increase 0.31%


Botswana

0.735 Increase 1.15%


Jamaica

0.734 Increase 0.03%


Gabon

0.703 Increase 0.84%




Countries with similar or LOWER Living Standards than the Above:



Ukraine

0.779


China

0.761


Moldova

0.750


Indonesia

0.718


Phillipines

0.718


Tajiksitan

0.668



India

0.645


Bangladesh

0.632

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index


SO, OP, YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU ARE A LIAR.

OOzz:
Buhari is evil

There is more to life than 'Buhari'.

Free your mind to reach other things and topics.

engrchykae:
are they humans?
Do they reason?
Now let me show you somethings that will make you see reason with me .
The portuguese do buy 7 able bodied Africans with one horse from subhuman African chiefs.
An African chief who hunts his people and sell them to the slave merchants is a human to you?
We talked about aburi,where confederacy will be practiced,every region will rule themselves and no one will feel cheated,gowon came back and started creating states as if he is dividing his father's estate.
Do you know that the British have to fight the oba of Benin to stop slave trade?
Do you know that if buhari wants to make Nigeria better which is against the interest of the West,atiku will run to the West to seek their support as in the boy is good stuffs.
Do you know that apart from Ethiopians that fought for their Independence after the partition of Africa,the rest especially Nigeria have been an enforcer of the outcome of the Berlin conference?
The war in Congo was fought on behalf of Belgium but led by Nigeria.
The war in liberia was fought on behalf of USA but led by Nigeria.
Nigeria partook in both world wars 1 and 2 but only for British interests not for our own interests.
Why will 3 million biafrans and Nigerian soldiers perish because of British economic interest during the civil war?
Why will Arabs clean out our civilizations from north africa and middleeast if not because we are subhumans.
Where is the wisdom in awolowo being put in jail by tafawa balewa and when tafawa balewa was killed and about to declare oduduwa republic made a u turn and became a finance minister when he can be the president of oodua nation?
Where is our wisdom when the whites brought us God and started buying our idols and satans?

So, as you are right now, you believe yourself to be subhuman?

You believe your father, mum and kids (if you have them) are subhuman?

Here's a book I suggest you read, to deprogram yourself, because you are a seriously, tragically lost person.



Oh, and by the way, you little, repulsive cretin, military defeat by Arabs or whites, does not mean that one is ''inferior'' any more than my smashing into your house right now and raping your wife, shooting you, and seizing your money and furniture makes me ''superior'' to you.

And if Africans (supposedly) engaging in selling 12 million other Africans over a 400 year period amounts to Africans being ''subhuman'', you'll have to explain what Europeans who slaughtered (not sold, slaughtered) over 100 million of themselves in just a 50 year period in the last century's European tribal wars, deceitfully called 'world' wars, should be called.

Perhaps ''semi-sub humans''.

Dolt.

valentineuwakwe:
avtwr all this great inventions, they are still the worst backwards continent in the world!

History goes around in circles.

Civilizations rise and fall.

No region remains forever dominant.

Africa and Asia are on the rise presently, and the west is falling.

6 of the world's 10 fastest growing economies are in Africa.

Thousands of African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans are returning home to AFRICA as we speak.

x

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12 Amazing African Inventions That Created The Civilized World



1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


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




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.



3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

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



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

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

Sudan (Ancient Nubia) is also a site of MORE pyramids than Egypt, many older and smaller-sized.

Sudan has 255 pyramids in total, dated several thousands of years old.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2015/4/5/pictures-of-sudans-forgotten-nubian-pyramids



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

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



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

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


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the ''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Aithiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity,"


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."
Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed. He thinks that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says: "From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians [ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara] have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found. The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished."

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

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

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

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


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

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

josh123:
the black race is the true race

12 Great African Inventions That Changed The World



1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


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




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.



3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the "father of medicine", Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

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



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

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



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

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



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

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


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract.He wrote about the ''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Aithiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity,"


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."
Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed. He thinks that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says: "From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians [ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara] have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found. The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished."

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

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

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

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


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

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

kettykin:
I have a feeling this post is true, Nigeria is an enactment of the old Egypt with a Pharoah in the person of Buhari in power and marginalizing the Jews in the land of Goshen and God will miraculously deliver the Jews out of the land of Egypt and slay Pharoah and his military and drown them in the Atlantic. How this will happen, I don't know yet

Intriguing analysis to say the least.

However, there is considerable dispute as to whether the events relayed in the Bible regarding the Hebrews being slaves in Egypt, are indeed, accurate.

The Great Sphinx at Giza. Construction date: PRE-HISTORY.



In 1787, Count Constantine de Volney -- a French nobleman, philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician -- embarked on a journey to the East in late 1782 and reached Ottoman Egypt were he spent nearly seven months.

"All the Egyptians," wrote de Volney, "have a bloated face, puffed-up eyes, flat nose, thick lips – in a word, the true face of the mulatto. I was tempted to attribute it to the climate, but when I visited the Sphinx, its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. On seeing that head, typically Negro in all its features, I remembered the remarkable passage where Herodotus says:

' As for me, I judge the Colchians to be a colony of the Egyptians
because, like them, they are black with woolly hair...

"When I visited the Sphinx, I could not help thinking that the figure of that monster furnished the true solution to the enigma (of how the modern Egyptians came to have their 'mulatto' appearance)

"In other words, the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Greeks and Romans, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold.

"Just think," de Volney declared incredulously, "that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery, and questioned whether Black men have the same kind of intelligence as whites!

"In other words the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same stock as all the autochthonous peoples of Africa and from the datum one sees how their race, after some centuries of mixing with the blood of Romans and Greeks, must have lost the full blackness of its original color but retained the impress of its original mould."

M. Constantine de Volney, Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 (London: 1787), p. 80-83.

More notable artefacts...





Queen Tiye, grandmother of Pharaoh Tutunkhamun


Pharoah and Queen

Artefact from circa 3500 BC showing our people pounding fufu in Ancient Egypt, the land known to Africans as Kemet.

No other race on Earth engages in the art of pounding fufu, except black Africans.

Proftowin:
Na yeye dey worry dem, u for bring them back to life na. Let dem rest in peace

Because deep down they KNOW that it is not their ancestors whose tombs they are desecrating. That is is black AFRICANS.

That is why they don't care.

STOP POSTING FAKE, DRAWN IMAGES OF WHITENED FOLKS AND CLAIMING THEY WERE THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

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The people of the land of KEMET, the real African name for ancient ''Egypt'' looked like THIS:

(original tomb artefacts)








I mean, we have ancient artefacts and art showing them POUNDING FUFU.

WhIch other race on earth pounds fufu?

No one else. Just BLACK AFRICANS.

So stop posting those fake, white/Arab images, OP, ok?

Thank you.

FrLukas:


I initially wanted to cancel your post and just move on.

I mean, read your post again and tell me exactly how it corresponds to what I wrote.

You definitely have a comprehension problem.

I never said anywhere that Yoruba nation will be like Canada.

Being like Canada is a failure in itself.

Small minded people think that we want self determination so that we can compete with countries like Canada.

I'll advise you to open your mind. Don't be scared. Your mind won't fall out if you do.


The first and major reason to secede from Nigeria is the preservation of the lives of our people.


I'm sure you are living somewhere cocooned in the thought that you're safe from the insurgency about to ravage Yorubaland


I'll bet you aren't concerned about the Yorubas who are now refugees in Benin Republic, after all, your family members aren't affected...yet.


Fulanis are all over in Yorubaland, marking out territories and making plans to conquer the land, but y'all have your heads buried in the sand.


We won't wait for people like you to come around. It is obvious you've been taking a lot of Fulani cow meat so you won't see the problems.


You think Canada is doing great? So why are they poaching and stealing your future from your beloved Nigeria?


Your citizens are running away from the country you so much love. I'm sure if you were given a Canadian visa, you'd jump at it at breakneck speed.


You would rather Nigeria continues like this. Instead of facing developmental strides and breaking western monopoly by the West, we are busy fighting inter-tribal wars, religious wars etc.

Are you so blind that you can't see that your continent and country are being sucked dry of human and natural resources?


All I could reduce from your write up is cowardice. I could almost see you peeing your pants while typing that.


You think because the Western powers have the world economy in their grip, therefore it must continue to be like that?


I'm not surprised. Nigerian educational system doesn't teach it's students how to find solutions to problems but to only cram and pour.


That's what you just did. Regurgitate nonsense.


"The white man is too powerful, so let's just lie down and be their doormat"


Now, I see where you're coming from.


The white man says you must continue in one Nigeria and you all like the house niggas that you are are clapping your feet in glee.

Come on, are you really that naive enough to think that the Western powers and your politicians want good for you, that's why they are shouting one Nigeria by force?

Even Gumi is insisting on one Nigeria and you still think that's a good thing?

Y'all need to stop eating beef for real.

Don't wait until Fulanis conquer you like they did to the Hausas.

I'm done talking.

I'll just do a big fat yawn to this splash of illiterate claptrap.

Confused little boy talking rubbish.

If only your dumbass knew it was the west that are even trying to break up Nigeria.

If your dumbass knew that western intelligence agencies are behind Boko haram, bandits, and other destabilization activities, would you be typing this nonsense? THEY want to see Nigeria break up. Because Nigeria breaking up means West Africa will come under total French cum western dominance.

Your Oduduwa republic, like Biafra, will simply be the new French bit.ches on the block.

You will be answerable to France the same way Togo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso are today.

If you hold elections and France doesn't like the winner, they will send one battalion to change the regime.

They might even insist you convert to French speakers and use the French franc.

If you refuse, they will sponsor one local warlord to start conflict, following which they will come in as your 'saviours', to impose 'peace', and impose Paris' will.

And THAT would be just the start of your indignities.

A visit from the president of GHANA will become to you an earth-shaking event, worthy of national celebration. They will be your masters. As will Uganda, Kenya, and even Senegal. Things for which you were world famous - Nollywood, Naija Afrobeats, Naija fashion, and Naija cultural influence on Africa, will be all HISTORY.

You will be ''Oduduwa republic''.

A nobody on the international scene.

Today when Nigeria talks, the world listens.

In Africa, when Nigeria coughs, everyone catches cold.

In West Africa when Nigeria speaks, all keep shut.

When Oduduwa republic talks, the world won't HEAR the voice, much less listen.

Does anybody hear, when Sierra Leone talks?

Or Guinea?

Or Burkina Faso?

When France flies in, to squeeze your president's balls, only you will hear his whimper.

You will BEG for NIGERIA to be reinstated, as you look around and see you've gone from being part of the world's biggest and most important black nation, to just another small, servile, aid-dependent client of the French, and a carbon copy - not of CANADA - but of Guinea, South Sudan, Guinea-Bissau, and Sierra Leone.

gomojam:
You are fed up, right?

Honestly.

They are very tricky, and think we are stupid.

Jibiti people wey dey find free oil.