₦airaland Forum

Blake755:
It is Time we go back to our origin

Cantonese:
“ In pre-colonial Nigeria and Africa, children were seen as SACRED”.

If children were sacred in Nigeria and Africa, why twins, triplets, etc killed because they were seen as evil?

Can you respond please?

MasterJayJay:
A religion that allowed another religion to destroy it is a useless religion.

MasterJayJay:
whitemen invented 'Ole' and 'onye ohi', Yoruba and Igbo words for 'thief' respectively. Clap for yourself

Tallesty1:
You say?

MasterJayJay:
Ask am if it was the colonial masters that introduced tribal marks. Some people are still using tribal marks to design the faces of their children.

renderme:
You are right about the bolded. This was the same in yorubLand. My mum said even in the 50s stealing was unheard of. Farmers kept their goods in fromt of their farm wt the amount written. You pick ur foodstuff, leave the money and go. People were so spiritual then too. They believed if someone cursed U, the curse will come to pass, so everyone maintained their lane.

From the old buildings in Oyo, before the colonials came, they didn't have doors in their buildings too.

Tallesty1:
I didn't refer you to that book for us to question Okonkwo's mental health. I referred you to the book because you said that beating a child was a practice introduced by British colonialists, and I would appreciate it if we could stick to that topic.

In that story, there are laws for everything. In fact, certain words were forbidden, and anyone who broke the laws faced instant punishment. Okonkwo was punished for beating his wife on a sacred day, not for the act itself, but for doing it on the wrong day. He was never punished or even cautioned for beating his children. If beating one's children was foreign, Okonkwo would have been punished or at least made to appease the gods.

Furthermore, in that story, there was a man whose wife ran away after enduring numerous beatings from her husband. The husband was made to pay a fine for breaking one law or so, but nothing was done to him for beating his wife. I'm not even sure if he was advised to stop.

I'm sure you must be wondering where I am going with this.

Here is my point:

Okonkwo wasn't the only one beating people in the story.

What does the beating of a child mean in a community that is silent on beating wives?

Africans have their own flaws and should stop blaming the whites for everything. They can be terrible people in their own way

MasterJayJay:
Let us demolish all prisons. Prison was introduced to us by colonial masters.
Lets beg criminals, they will change their behaviour.

ivolt:
When you started your post, I thought maybe this one will be different.
But here you are displaying your inbred slavishness by bringing up Sweden.
You probably also believe that the white man teach you how to speak.

Corporal punishment is universal and natural among humans, that is why laws are needed
to combat it.
It has nothing to do with religion.

Now to the issue of Swedes, the Swedes of today are the product of yesterday.
At no time did the Swede sat down and say let us stop beating our kids so they can
be incorruptible.
Nope. Swedes beat kids when other Europeans did and stopped when their neighbours did.
It was even outlawed until 1979.
Are you saying the Swedes became "incorruptible" by then?
BTW, your perfect Sweden is the rape capital of Europe, yes, you
read that right. Maybe it due to lack of beating?

The vices and crimes in a society are a product of income and poverty.
Beating or lack of it is irrelevant.

You are confused about cause and effect.
You need to review whatever is giving you such a ludicrous idea.

Tallesty1:
Have you read things fall apart?

Toluwanise247:
You forget rod of correction. Is biblical instruction

psucc:
When you have your own don't beat them o!

For me that form of discipline worked well and had mede me the man every society desires. Not me alone. But for all of us who went through it. Even the secondary school own was more than that of the home.

Danisaint112:
An atheist spotted. It's your choice if you decide to be an atheist. But don't shove your damn opinion on other people throat.

The act of disciplining a child responsibly saved Africa from a lot of shit like same sex marriage which you atheists believe in. Keep your f**cling opinion to yourself.

donbachi:
Spare the rod and spoil the child

Staphylococcus:
Gibberish, Bunkum and balderdash!

gidgiddy:
This is real music, not the electronic music that is everywhere today

You are never truly a great musician unless you can play a musical instrument live on stage

michlins:
Poking full here honestly cause nothing go make you talk this kind thing if not youthful exuberance.

FYI this music genre is forever in vogue as it speaks to a particular audience

ipobarecriminals:
u mean he dey do rehearsals in police custody ;? Make we dey observe

swaggerjack:
100%... fantastically corrupt failed state with zero rule of law. Even the jungle has rules the animals abide by.

ipobarecriminals:
with those people in overall black . Hope u read wetin Delta state Police PRO vows :. He go gentle wen he comot from this wahala

Bridget95:
shatap.

Have you been to other parts of Gombe ? Abi na monument be development?

ipobarecriminals:
when he cum out of this present wahala,he won’t slap again

Bridget95:
This music pattern and genre is no longer in vogue.


You gat what i mean?

flokii:
Peter Obi should come and look at how a State ought to be governed, not the glorified slum Anambra that he governed. onye iberibi claiming New Nigeria.

God bless the good people of Gombe State; Jewel of the Savannah