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EzeNri:Garbage. I don't think you know what 'ambition' and 'wickedness' really mean. Unbridled 'ambition' has led to a world in which we stand at the precipice of destroying all life on earth. Are you aware there is an Armageddon clock which is adjusted according to the state of world affairs? Right now it is something like 2 minutes to midnight, the highest it's EVER been, even higher than during the Cold War. I think those who invented guns and bombs, using them to invade and colonise the rest of the world, killing billions of people in the process, in order to corner their resources, and then built nuclear weapons to destroy the planet, are, by a magnitude of 2000, more ''wicked'' than any people of AFRICAN descent. |
EzeNri:Bodyguard for white man. You should be in Icheoku. I can just see you now, in khaki shorts and singlet, grinning from ear to ear like a dunce as your white colonial massa calls you racist names. |
Aconomist:You are black, aren't you? So if blacks are monkeys so are you. Go try telling a white supremacist that ''hey. those blacks are monkeys, but I'm not a monkey even though I'm black'', and see how fast they string you up to a tree and lynch your black behind. ''Dumbass air head wanna say he different'' https://cdn.britannica.com/35/192835-050-55FFB94C/Rubin-Stacy-body-tree-Florida-Fort-Lauderdale-July-19-1935.jpg |
EzeNri:Shut your dumb lips. What ''pandemic'' are ''the whites busy fighting''? MUMU. Don't go and read about their Great Reset agenda. Be falling for their stupid tricks about a ''pandemic'' like the dunce they hope you are. They should not have 'bred' you either. What makes you more worthy of living than any other black person? I bet you never saw it that way. Air head. |
djevino:It could be because he doesn't trust his political enemies not to try something like poisoning or whatever. In fact in most cases, that is why they go abroad for treatment. Trust issues. |
Aderr:Never mind 1945. What about today? Any slight disagreement between these so called ''superpowers'' and the entire Earth is toast. It would make WW2 seem like a tea party. They've built weapons to destroy the world a gazillion times over, and they've managed to brainwash people that THEY are the ''smart and intelligent'' ones, while those who don't produce such things are ''stupid and backward''. Can you see how the ancients were right when they prophesied that in the last days everything would be turned upside down, and that bad will become good and good bad? Intelligence? I think Masai tribesmen are 1,000 times more intelligent than westerners. The former have not devised a weapon to destroy all life on Earth (the ULTIMATE SAVAGERY). The latter have. |
Aconomist:Your prostitute, free coc.k-sucking mother is the world's ugliest ape, who fu.cked a dirty street dog, and the result was you, a repulsive, stinking ape/dog mongrel. Now kindly depart to the monstrously stinking cave you emerged out of, you horrible, filthy specimen. |
Aconomist:Get lost. I've nothing to say to a vile animal like you. Have you finished calling your prostitute mother a ''monkey''? Just leave here and go start your own nasty threads. Vile satanic being. I hate you with a passion. Get out. |
motymop:Resorts symbolize economic activity, tourism, and employment, and if you were not an economic illiterate, you wouldn't dismiss them as frivolous. So what if blacks ''live there''? Are US blacks not Americans? You want to blame the poor for being poor? Ok, why blame Buhari for poverty in Nigeria? If you are poor it is your fault, according to your dumb and stupid logic. You wanna see poor white folk? Welcome: Romania https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/32859500316_fdbf501c28_z.jpg https://i0.wp.com/charityibonus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/romania-poverty.jpg?fit=736%2C495&ssl=1 https://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/04/09/cf71d4d4-9be1-4cb2-9a20-1d3ad15f474c/resize/620x465/8faf5bede27ded61f409847fd7378b41/rcb-20110321-romania-2794-cbs.jpg |
capitalzero:Dumbo said, ''In any war, level of destruction is directly proportional to level of development.'' Err no. Level of destruction is directly proportional to the destructiveness of the weapons you bring to the table. If, out of greed and moral emptiness, you DECIDE to build weapons of mass destruction which you use to massacre millions of people and steal their wealth, whereas before, simple iron weapons killed people in hundreds, and now you are killing in millions, you don't go telling God, ''Oh dear Lord, I didn't intend to kill so many of your people and loot their wealth, even though I invented guns and bombs precisely to do just that!'' |
capitalzero:EGYPT which was a black African civilization, had more books written than all those countries you named combined, because EGYPT, a black African civilization, existed, and dominated the world for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Without black Africans and ancient Egypt, those countries you mentioned, whom we civilized and taught even speech, wouldn't exist today. But you are free to suck their nuts like the self-hating, brainwashed slave and bodyguard for white people you've been raised to become. Papyrus of Maiherpri, Egypt - 4,000 BC https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Maherperi.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiherpri |
capitalzero:Ignorant nonsense. Africans INVENTED writing. Today, there exist over 700,000 manuscripts by black Africans detailing the continent's history and vast knowledge in every field imaginable, from mathematics to astronomy. They are called the Timbuktu manuscripts, and are dated from the 9th century. We DON'T KNOW that the Benin kingdom ''had no writing system''. We know they had a ''highly sophisticated bureaucracy'', which had various departments dealing with various countries and trade issues. We know they exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as 1491. It is INCONCEIVABLE that they had no writing knowledge to store trade agreements and other documents. There would have been literacy at leadership and administrative levels without a shadow of doubt. There were NUMEROUS forms of written communication and calculation among Africans, and Benin city was burned down and looted by the British in 1897, so we have no idea what they stole and what sits in their museums, hidden away. |
capitalzero:Mosquito brain and little kid of yesterday, I am not a muslim. NAME one HISTORY BOOK A RETA.R.D LIKE YOU HAS READ. We are talking of RESOURCE THEFT ON A CONTINENTAL SCALE, not mere military conquest of one by another. In the ancient days, the conquered would only send yearly tributes of a few crops or animals to the conqueror for the benefit of coming under the conqueror's protection. That is totally different from the mass murders and mass looting of continents by Europeans using weapons of mass destruction. Your problem is LOW IQ and racial self hate. You will always find an excuse for those you consider superior to you. So bye bye. Get lost. Angry little airhead. |
michelz:It was a thousand times more organized than today's Benin city. Didn't you read where they said the people lived in such security that they never bothered to build doors at their front entrance? Study the first picture. You see any front doors? The idea of entering another person's house to steal or rob was simply unheard of. It was unimaginable. And I'm sure it was the same throughout the entire region we know today as Nigeria. |
capitalzero:Mosquito brain. We are not talking of this minor piece of drivel you posted. That you are not even smart enough to differentiate this minor trash you posted from the wholesale theft, rape, colonisation, enslavement, religious brainwashing and looting of entire continents by one set of people, using weapons of mass destruction, shows you are just demented and utterly bereft of intelligence. Now get lost and stay lost. Dumbo. I owned a slave so that is the same as somebody coming with bombs and explosives to burn down all my cities and loot all resources. Brainless imp. Let me smash into your house with bombs and loot your money and rape your wife, and you better shut up and not moan, because I'm only displaying my ''superiority'' over you, according to your beastly, ignorant mind. |
Ratedgang:I don't get your point. The Portuguese did not claim to 'discover' anything related to this thread. They simply reported on what they saw. |
capitalzero:Stop talking ignorant and illiterate colonialist apologist claptrap. Conquest was NEVER about travelling to other places and looting other peoples' regions, forcing them to change their language, change their religion, change their administrative systems, change their philosophies, change their economic and production systems, just to enrich the conqueror. If you don't know history, go and study history. It was EUROPEANS who introduced that type of 'conquest' after they discovered how to mix gunpowder into weapons of mass murder, out of sheer greed for ALL the world's wealth. Are you aware that black AFRICANS conquered large parts of Europe between the 10th and 16th centuries?? Ever heard of the Moors? The Moors helped drag Europe out of its 'dark ages' and into their Renaissance, which led ultimately to their industrial revolution. They conquered, but they helped those societies to grow, bringing learning, medicine, and architecture, and the sciences to them. Before the Moors, the black African Egyptians and Nubians took civilization to the Greeks, and were largely responsible for the rise of Greek civilization. So conquest does NOT have to be about destroying the existence of other societies. |
backtalkG:Just say u can't afford data. No be by force. ![]() |
This from the UK Guardian newspaper: BENIN EMPIRE ''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. .... https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7a/90/71/7a9071108f5bbacf4fb041af34927835.jpg The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom 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”. Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages. 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 of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”. Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/59/07/8a/59078a476be54c7d50cac271a414a11a.jpg When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. 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”. 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. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/27/9e/14/279e14bf0319884c68486a0bdd7697ff.jpg “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”. The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy. What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king’s court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous. The city was literally covered in it. The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power – the carvings would create contrasting patterns in the strong sunlight. Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles. At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures. “These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace |
TThhoorr:Sorry. You are lost. It's not my job to redeem you. It's your job to redeem yourself. This from the UK Guardian newspaper: BENIN EMPIRE ''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. .... The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom 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”. Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages. 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 of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”. Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/59/07/8a/59078a476be54c7d50cac271a414a11a.jpg When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. 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”. 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. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/27/9e/14/279e14bf0319884c68486a0bdd7697ff.jpg “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”. The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy. What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king’s court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous. The city was literally covered in it. The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power – the carvings would create contrasting patterns in the strong sunlight. Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles. At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures. “These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace |
stonemasonn:4,000 years is a very long time, dude. Civilizations have risen and fallen in a fraction of that time. There is ample proof of black African links to ancient Egypt. Read Olumide Lucas' The Religion of the Yorubas, where he shows abundant linguistic and artefact evidence, and even evidence of hieroglyphs in Yorubaland. |
CivilzedTyger:Read 'The Destruction of black Civilization' by Chancellor Williams. The problem with many of you is that you don't research African history, so you know next to nothing about your past. You simply accept what the colonialists claimed, that your ancestors were running around in the jungle. They LIED to you. GO AND STUDY YOUR HISTORY. Africans were forced to migrate southwards by the twin forces of desertification and foreign invasions over a period lasting thousands of years. It made no sense migrating to 'Spain' which at the time was a barren wasteland peopled by the very people invading Africa. (You see, Europe has not ALWAYS been 'developed'. It is actually very new to civilization compared to Africa, Asia, and the (native) Americas.) |
Talking about monkeys.