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Fabrepass: The truth is that there was no Adam and Eve. The two figures were invented. Human origin is black. Almost all scientists, historians, Archaeologists, both black and white agree to this.Well spoken. Of course it goes without saying that the first inhabitants of Africa and the world were black people. This must have been the case for thousands of years before any genetic mutations to white, yellow etc occurred. It is conceivable that the world was at peace and progressing just fine until those colour/race mutations occurred. Such developments may have created serious psychological insecurities among those affected, giving rise to vices like fear, guilt, hatred, greed....war, racism etc etc.... ![]() |
AlfaSeltzer: randy1, a black man is your president. How do you sleep?It must drive him absolutely crazy to see a Black Man in the White House. He probably should emigrate, to retain the little that's left of his sanity. |
wirinet: It is as clear as day and night that the whites (by whites i mean caucasians and asians) are more advanced than we the Negroids. They are more advanced scientifically, technologically, socially and even spiritually. This can easily bee seen in their literacy, mathematics and achievements. In fact they taught us every thing we know, they taught us alphabets, numbers, geometry and even writing. Without our contact with the white man, most black societies would still be in hunting and gathering stage.You're an ignoramus typing horse manure through your self-hating anus. Go and read history before embarrassing yourself further with this colonialist rubbish. For your information, BLACK AFRICA gave the world writing, mining, speech, law, religion, architecture, medicine, mathematics, geometry, the arts and the sciences. Right here in Africa lie the ruins of some of the world's oldest cities, built with stone and geometry THOUSANDS OF YEARS before the first city in Europe was built. Have you heard of Kerma? Of course you've never heard of it. It's in Sudan. A city that was built TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO. It's ruins still lie there. The sharp geometry of its fallen stone temples and monuments visible even in its ruins. HOW DARE YOU claim that the race that gave the world CIVILIZATION is inferior to those who were brutes, running around in caves when black Africans were studying the stars, inventing mathematics and building pyramids? By the time the last of the pyramids were already ancient relics, Europe had given the world not ONE civilization. Not one written language. They were stagnant and backward for thousands of years, as Africans led the world in science, trade, commerce, and learning. Of course it was never going to be the case that black dominance would persist indefinitely or forever. As humans, they were always bound to decline at some stage, and be replaced by others. That is the way the world works. No civilization lasts forever. This same Europe you think is ''superior'' will one day come crashing to the ground like a pack of cards. It's even happening already. Asia is taking their place. Meanwhile 6 of the world's 10 fastest growing economies are in Africa. So Africa too is rising again. THE LAST THING WE NEED IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU drowning in colonial mentality and inferiority complex, fouling up our space with your putrid, ignorant, slave-minded garbage. Do us all a favour. Go and read history - African history especially. Right now, you are a lost, ignorant, colonized, brainwashed drone. This quote is from Lady Lugard, wife of the first British Governor-General of Nigeria: THE COLONIALISTS KNEW what YOU don't know, ie that Black Africa civilized the world. They KNEW that without black Africans, the world, including Europe and Asia, would still be in the stone age. Excerpts: Flora Shaw's (alias Lady Flora Lugard) book, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of The Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing with detail and descriptive power, the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that: "When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Ethiopians) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt. For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come." "The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favorites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor are full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than that at that remote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race." Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, Black Classic Press (1900) Long before Lugard, the French writer Constantin-François Volney (1757-1820), in his important work, The Ruins of Empires, extends this point of view by saying that the ancient Egyptians, (who were black Africans) were the first people to "attain the physical and moral sciences necessary to civilized life." In referring to the basis of this achievement he states further that, "It was, then, on the borders of the Upper Nile, among a Black race of men, that was organized the complicated system of worship of the stars, considered in relation to the productions of the earth and the labors of agriculture; and this first worship, characterized by their adoration under their own forms and national attributes, was a simple proceeding of the human mind." Volney's Ruins; or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires, Boston, J. Mendum, 1869. Volney visited Egypt, were he encountered the Great Sphinx (Date of construction: PRE-HISTORY) The Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt https://famouswonders.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sphinx.jpg He wrote: ''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. ..." 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 Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of peoples.'' Volney adds: ''Just think 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 peoples 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!'' {endquote} {endnote 7: C. F. Volney, Voyages en Syrie et en Egypte. Paris, 1787, I, 74-77.} ......... In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), German 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, (the Greeks referred to all Africa south of Egypt as 'Ethiopia') 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 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 ... ''Black man know yourself, be confident. Our ancestors civilized this world. Black man know yourself. Don't forget your past'' - Femi Kuti |
Hearty congrats to our Queen of Tracks, Blessing Okagbare. You did us very proud. Well done for smashing the Commonwealth record as well! |
obisage: you quoted everything I wrote except for one.The colonialists did not use your resources for anything meaningful. They simply extracted and sold them, and then pocketed the proceeds which were diverted to England to enrich their country, leaving you starving, so what are you talking about? You do realise your ancestors similarly engaged in trade before the colonial era, and built functional and thriving societies, or you don't know anything about your history? being a critic doesn't mean you can do better.Dude, use your brain. In the 1850s when the English started invading here, everywhere on earth was in the "stone/dark ages", including England. Barely a century prior, millions died there of the Plague. In the Victorian era life was " nasty, brutish and short" for the average Englishman. Disease and poverty were the order of the day, as a tiny elite monopolised all wealth. Go and educate yourself. Read Dickens. the rails they built could not be maintainedWhy do you think they built those rails? They built two lines both running from north to South for the simple reason that they needed to evacuate the billions of dollars worth of minerals and cash crops they were extracting yearly from the country down through the southern ports. It's the reason why Lagos was the capital. Why the other capitals of West Africa are coastal cities. The railway wasn't built go integrate this economy. If was a tool of exploitation which naturally, lost its viability the minute an indigenous govt came into power, who felt more beholden to the peoples' welfare than did the colonialists. Hence the development of the vast road network we have today connecting every nook and cranny of the nation. the schools they built sameYou are beyond deluded. What schools did they build compared to the vast number of schools, colleges, universities and specialist institutes we have today? Name the schools they built. What hospitals did they build in remote areas? Name one! Hospitals running on what? Where was the electricity to run hospitals in remote areas? Do you know they did not build a single power plant in the entire country? The little power generated, 270 mw in total, came from huge generators they imported to service a few choice areas like Ikoyi. Our first power plant was Kainji Dam, built by the indigenous govt from 1964. So please stop imagining phantom things that the colonialists supposedly did for you. Most of what you are enjoying today is because of black rule. If not for black rule, you'd be in your village hut right now, cracking palm kernels, so thank your lucky stars. |
Germannig: It's factual not tribal.You're tribal not factual. |
Gaius667: Back then, there was free education, the teachers were sound, classes were't super congested like now; diligence and brilliance paid off quite well and so that generation produced pioneers in virtually several fields and profession. In comparison, now we have so many militating factors and we have not consolidated what men like Awo and the like strove for and were passionate about. We have an advantage in this generation because science and the computer world has evolved but yet the management of the country's resources even under indigenous rule have been grossly disappointing.You're wrong. Education was NOT free and was only available to an insignificant few in Nigeria in 1952. You know, it's really not difficult to offer a ''high standard of education'' with ''sound teachers'' when you've built only a tiny number of schools for a few lucky ones, with the vast majority illiterate. And there were no universities. So I've no idea where you get these ''pioneers in virtually several fields and profession''. Who were those ''pioneers''? Name them. Like I said earlier, Awo, Zik, Balewa and co were not educated in Nigeria, as they were no universities here until 1962 after independence. |
obisage: why won't I thank Oyibo? when they left their home country just to come to educate and bring us out of bondage and diseases.Actually they came to loot your resources. They were also banking that enough thick dunderheads like you would believe they came for the reasons you listed. You proved them right. if your present government can do just half of what your colonial masters did, Nigeria would have become a paradise by now.Akwa Ibom state alone has done more for its people in the last 7 years than the colonialists did in all of Nigeria in 63 years. how many new roads has the government build for the past 20 yrs. (I don't means rehabilitation) how many new schools have they constructed??Enugu State alone has constructed more miles of roads in the last 7 years than the colonialists built in the entire Nigeria in 63 years. Can you name a single dual carriageway built anywhere in Nigeria before 1960? As for schools, thank your lucky stars your were born after independence, or you would have been in the village now, tilling the soil with a hoe and matchete, or hunting rabbits, or tapping palm wine like your forbears, illiterate as a brick. guy you simply an ingrate!And you are simply a hopelessly uninformed, ignorant colonial lapdog, and dunce to boot. |
Aigbofa: It is NOT about the clothes, not then not now. Nigerian children today have a bleaker future than those naked.d kids in that picture.What ''standard of education'' are you talking about? At 8% literacy rate? In 1952 primary school was available only to a tiny few, not to mention secondary. Forget university. Why do you think most of our grandparents were illiterates? Peasants? They were born under British rule. Why were they not lawyers, doctors, bankers, professionals like many of us are today? I doubt up to 1 in 20 of us on NL had a grandparent who was a professional in any modern field of endeavour. In 1952 no real institution of higher learning existed in Nigeria (after 55 years of continuous white rule). Zik, Awo and co were not educated in Nigeria. There were no universities here. They had to go abroad. So what is this 'high standard of education' stuff? What education? it is now that we are seeing education. Yes we know the standards could be higher, BUT if given a choice between 'low standard' schools and 'no schools at all' I know which I'd take in an instant! Thousands of Nigerians who attended those so called 'poor schools' are excelling today in various fields of endeavour throughout the world from medicine to engineering and rocket science!! |
anonimi: Firstly I don't think Rossik posted the picture.My brother how could he say those nake.d kids in a Nigeria with 8% literacy rate in 1952 ''had a better chance at success'' than a guy like me that grew up under indigenous rule with clothes on, and where education is available to virtually everyone? Some people's thinking is just upside down with regard to this colonial era. People have forgotten the reason Awo, Zik, Enahoro and co fought so hard for independence. If the whites were ruling well, using our resources to build schools, hospitals, roads etc like they were doing in South Africa, nobody would have bothered fighting for independence. It was because of the abject neglect of the country even while making billions from exports, that the founding fathers were driven to fight British rule. That picture up there tells you everything you need to know about the colonial era, and how far we've come under indigenous rule, despite our much vaunted problems. |
Aigbofa: I can worship anyone or anything I choose to worship. The truth is that he stood out amongst his peers. Posting pictures of naked kids who most likely had a better chance at success in Nigeria than you will ever have is silly.I have no clue what ignorant nonsense you're typing, especially with regard to the highlighted. |
Aigbofa: It is the truth, this is not about any nostalgia. He built schools and universities like no one before him. Yes, it is obvious that we have more lawyers and doctors etc today but his efforts did not stop when he left office did it?The problem is that you are trying to narrow down the post independence efforts of Nigerian leaders to one single man, which is wrong. Even when Awo was building schools in his region, were other regions not also establishing schools and other facilities? Stop individualising the whole thing or turning it into a hero worshiping exercise. See yourself as a Nigerian, not a south westerner or whatever. |
Aigbofa: The future is not limited to having nice clothes alone. Though clothes are necessary but he sought to develop their minds and history has proved him right.We have thousands more great lawyers, architects, doctors, scientists and writers today based in Nigeria and overseas, than the mere handful we had in the 50s and 60s. You just need to get rid of your baseless nostalgia for the colonial past. As for Awo, kindly stop praising him for merely snapping pictures with malnourished kids. If you wish to praise him, there are more than enough reasons to. This isn't one of them. |
tit: yes!Why don't you get an education and a proper job so you don't have to be a parasite and prostit.tute looking for whom to buy you gifts and chocolate? |
lebienconnu: YES, unfortunately.Speak for yourself you bastar.d. |
Aigbofa: At least someone showed interest in their future. The same can not be said of children today even though they have nice clothes and shoes.They wouldn't have "nice clothes and shoes" if no one had an interest in their future. Nice clothes and shoes do not drop down from the sky. Snapping pictures with malnourished, nake.d kids is NOT necessarily a sign of interest in their welfare. |
obisage: I can't stop thanking our colonial masters for bringing us out of darkness.You are the dumbest compound he-goat on this forum. Look at butt nak.ed, malnourished kids standing there, after a full 60 years of uninterrupted British rule of the country, a clear testament to the massive corruption of the British rulers and their utter and complete disregard for, and neglect of the citizenry, even as they exported resources worth countless billions in today's money year on year uninterrupted from 1897 up to that 1952. And you are THANKING them? THANKING them? I mean, some of you are definitely cursed to be dumb and stup.id wherever it concerns white people. I don't know what jazz the whites did on you people. Even when they are killing and strangling you, you profess love for them. Instead of you to thank your lucky stars for independence, and the consequent massive progress we've made under indigenous rule compared to this nasty, ugly image of colonial failure and neglect, you're talking illiterate nonsense "thanking" your "colonial masters"? The colonialists built not one university in the entire country in their 63 year rule. When they were driven out in 1960, our literacy rate was less than 8%. Today that figure stands at 74% thanks to indigenous rule, which saw the building of thousands of schools across the nation, plus 135 universities at last count. In other areas like infrastructure, health, etc, the story is the same, ie only after the colonialists left did we start to see reasonable development. |
I expect advanced extraterrestrial civilisations to be keeping a watchful eye on goings-on on earth. And I fully expect them to strike and destroy all those powers who currently threaten the earth. The ignorant, puny, repulsive, wicked, satanic leaders of those countries need to be destroyed for the earth to live, and they will. |
May God save us from the curse of this country called the USA. This monstrous beast that constitutes the biggest threat to the continued existence of life on the planet. This abode of criminals in power. May their evil envelope and swallow the leaders of that country, and may they be prevented from their satanic, wicked plans for humanity. Amen. |
The same people who invented Christianity invented Islam. And they did so in order to create the exact situation we are witnessing today. |
babxe: i think there is a big difference between internal conflict and an external one. the challenges these courageous army are facing is an internal struggle.these boko boys are mostly nigerians~they speak our language(hausa), they live among us, they know our enviroments perfectly~ they know us perfectly because they are nigerians.so it is very difficult for them to fully contain these insurgency.Excellent point. Fact is the military simply cannot go up north and level the place with bombs, something they have the wherewithal to do. They could try such things in Sierra Leone etc, where they were answerable to nobody, but in Nigeria where they are, they can't go full throttle militarily due to the ethnic and political rivalries that will ensure that such drastic moves are capitalised on by enemies of the govt to cry "victimisation", "genocide", "massacres" "ethnic cleansing" etc, with attendant tragic consequences for the polity! |
LastProphet: SIMPLE TRUTH, U HAVE ANSWERED THE QUESTION COMPLETELY CORRECTLY. THE MUSLIMS IN THE ARMY ARE THE PROBLEM, A NEIGHBOUR IN THE AIRFORCE TOLD ME THAT ONE PILOT THAT WAS SENT TO BOMB BOKOHARAM GOT THERE AND TURNED BACK, WHEN HE WAS ASKED WHY HE REFUSED TO CARRY OUT ORDERS HE SAID THEY WERE PRAYING. HE IS CURRENTLY UNDER TRIAL BUT THEY SAID NORMALLY HE MIGHT GET AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE TOP-RANKING MUSLIMS WILL NORMALLY COME TO HIS AID. AND TO SHOW HOW DUMB OUR LEADERS ARE, THEY ARE NOT REVEALING ANY OF THIS TO THE PUBLIC THINKING THAT WILL HELP THE SITUATIONSo, how will revealing "any of this" to the public help the situation, Mr Smart? |
kastonkastrol: Nigeria army is now a capital disgrace. The only thing they know how to do is to harass innocent civilians. I vividly remember what they foolish soldiers did to us on wednesday of last week when a grenade was detonated in the city of kaduna.. We came into the city in the night to execute a project not knowing a coffee was in the state.You're a capital fool and an idio.t. What did you expect the soldiers to do after a bomb went off, which you stup.dly called a grenade? Why should they not stop you? And search you? And ask for some ID? And point their guns at you if you looked or acted suspicious? Going by your stinking attitude, you probably did. The soldiers were doing EXACTLY what they were supposed to do in such an emergency. As soon as you produced your ID they let you go, so pis.s off, idio.t! |
ichidodo: [color=#1980BC] Nigerian Government is always slacking, Saudi Arabia uses AC-130 gunships for ordinary VIP road escort...Why can't we conduct ground bokoharam offensives with Apache AC-130s as air support or better still blanket the Air-space of North Eastern Nigeria with Combat Air Patrols to interdict,intercept or basically search and destroy enemy camps.....??.... [/color]Easy enough to suggest when you're not on the hot seat. You need to understand that Nigeria is a very political country. What you're suggesting will definitely lead to mass civilian casualties, and with it, charges of ethnic victimization of ''one section of the country'', which many would like to capitalize on to deepen and widen the societal mayhem, and threaten the govt itself. So it's not as simple as you see it. The govt must act with more restraint than say, if the theater of operations was in Liberia or Sierra Leone where they answer to no constituents. |
EMANY01: Why are you guys like this?It's this same attitude of unbelief that leads some unwittingly sabotage the government's efforts.''Wilfuly blind''. Perfect description. |
omenka: Anytime economic indices of this country improve on paper, they get worse in reality!!!Liar... For many peeps things are looking up. Unless you gat no hustle.. |
These days the watch word for any savvy business is efficiency. Elimination of waste. If the conductor is not serving an economic value to the driver/owner over and above what his absence would generate, he will not be required, considering his salary and the seat he occupies. These expenses taken up by him are carefully assessed by the driver/owner, and if found exorbitant in relation to the bottom line, his position goes. |
500GP: I LOVE THIS. ROSSIKI, THANKS FOR ENLIGHTEN ME MORE ABOUT MY CULTUREYou're welcome bro.. Thought this would make front page but I guess there's no space there. ''Jennifer Lopez is celebrating her 45th birthday'' afterall. |
FOLYKAZE: Lovely culture.It actually seems to me to be a more advanced form of communication than conventional writing. |
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