Omo forest reserve. Indigenes know to stay away. Any hunter that kills one will b arrested. I have interviewed the conservationists there some years ago... Me ma i was surprised that elephants still remain in Nigeria esp in South West
Enkay is a loony for what she did to.Cindy. So unkind especially as Cindy is still coming out of her shell. Joe an Vernita should have called her out. Joe only asked Enkay why and Verny said for once we've seen Cindy's claws.
Sorry i misquoted the wrong prsn..as relates to sir d getting so suddenly close to Diana...u I thought i was the only one to notice it i. I've been ignoring all the calls of him being an.asslicker but this is nauseating. I was shouting at my tv... GO AND SIT DOWN.,... YOU DEY FOLLOW AM TALK BEFORE? Now u dey apologize for past things wey she ma no remember..com dey try reverse pshycologize am. Very annoying. I believe she's smarter than that
XXML33: As much as I'm a strident critic of imperialism and slavery, I don't agree with your position.
The English language is a very beautiful language and it's way more sophisticated and nuanced than the languages of our people. I'd actually prefer to speak English than to speak my tribal language Igbo, simply because not much philosophical thinking can be achieved with Igbo as can be achieved with English. Also, I am a very expressive person and the Igbo language lacks nuance and has a very limited vocabulary. The English language however has a word for almost every form of expression, feeling and characterization.
Secondly, our people are to blame for their enslavement. During the era of slavery and colonialism, it was a norm for powerful nations to conquer weaker nations. Genocides and pogroms were actually common place. In such an era wisdom demanded that pockets of small tribes aggregate to form powerful centralized empires that could withstand outside opposition. But our people went the route of living as isolated pockets of tribes and mini-empires that weren't as powerful as the empires across the Atlantic and north of the Sahara and couldn't match their pace of technological development, hence why they were vulnerable to being easily conquered and exploited.
Our people didn't even have a sophisticated form of writing. An indication that they didn't value knowledge much less care about it's preservation. They lived close to the Atlantic ocean yet they couldn't even build ships to tranverse it, something the Romans and Vikings had perfected hundreds of years before. They were selling their own people for cheap Europeans goods, when they could easily have perfected the art of making those goods themselves before hand, and hence not fall prey to the exploitative strategy of the Europeans. What stopped them from travelling up north and north of the Sahara to gain knowledge from the empires there and bring it back home?
I'm ashamed of my ancestors and I think they deserve what they got.
Well said. I'm no white asslicker but i feel the English.language is so powerful. Its probably the most spoken language in the world and that in itself is a powerful unifying factor for mankind.
We should not however let our native languages die and i'm not sure i agree with you that ibo doesnt have nuance. Our languages are beautiful and poetic as well.
Yea African fathers of the past really f@4d up and it continues today in almost all parts of Africa. We need to do better