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CultureRe: Benins Were The First Educated Nigerians. Dr Okafor by TAO12: 6:07pm On May 06, 2020
lawani:
you are right but in the 19th century or so, the edo from the suburbs overwhelmed the capital and Benin princes are now edo.
Being a Yoruba is a blood thing. So, no matter how many Edo tribes from the suburb troop into the capital, the royal dynasty still retains its Ife patrilineal blood.
CultureRe: Benins Were The First Educated Nigerians. Dr Okafor by TAO12: 5:59pm On May 06, 2020
gregyboy:
Lol, my first degree indeed lol i guess we only havr degrees in uniben....

You thought that was mr anoda big lie
Go and learn manners
Oh you're not in university yet, okay?

Now everything is making sense.
CultureRe: Benins Were The First Educated Nigerians. Dr Okafor by TAO12:
OgboAto:
These cats are a stupid set of Bini people.
They have an inferior argument with a mind wired shut to be anti-Yoruba. I'm not interested in their monarch having Yoruba origins but all of the literature before the 20th century indicate they themselves informed the writers they had connections with Ife. They have so much to put up against and they're handling it so badly that they're speaking ill of a man that spearheaded the writing of their history.
Very soon the English dictionary will be updated to accomodate new words in relation to the term "inferiority complex".

We'll soon see something like:

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inferiority complex

Definition: ...

Related terms: Bini people of southern Nigeria.
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CultureRe: A Reconsideration Of Ife Artwork by TAO12:
gregyboy:
[s]Yea yea, claims......

Thats is a poor work stop quoting ir abeg he was reporting what he was told by orao account which we have confirmed to be false.....

But u know am not buying into that writeuo u still post it lol speechless[/s]
Wake me up whenever you've translated all these [i.e. the words and the delusions] into English language please. Thank you! smiley
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 6:34pm On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
[s]Aged come back, I was enjoying our conversation. Don't tell me you have died so soon? undecided[/s]
CultureRe: A Reconsideration Of Ife Artwork by TAO12: 6:33pm On Apr 23, 2020
gregyboy:
(1) Not because it was large alone


(2) Ife art is made of head alone ...

(3) ... accompanied by another inferior artworks from the west.

CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 6:16pm On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
[s]Lol aged one has gotten tired, can't keep up with my stupid debunked repititionsgrin[/s]
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 6:14pm On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
[s]Lol aged one has gotten tired, can't keep up with my stupid debunked repititionsgrin[/s]
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 6:12pm On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
[s]Aged one where are you putting your corpse. I thought the aged people don't brag and lie like you. Aged one go to old people's forum grin[/s]
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
valirex:
Aged one where are you putting your corpse. I thought the aged people don't brag and lie like you. Aged one go to old people's forum cheesy
He obviously can't muster an intelligent come-back.

#TeamBeninFuelExhausted grin grin grin
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
gregyboy:
[s]We sold you guys for slave.......

In the whole of africa, benin art served as presentation while showing casing African artworks

If number two options was to be considered it wont be ife art, ife art is too ugly and scary. How would 98% artwork artwork from the ife people only represent head


Ife art looks so disgusting no wonder you guys are head slammers, youruba artworks depict that fact with no argument,
Thseame reason you guys are so eager to rewrite history saying our oba heads were buried in ife,

I guess after defeating the yorubas rebellious kings we cut off thier head and send it to benin....

Nevertheless am still waiting for a document of benin ife relationship from you[/s]
Evidence for your pain-induced rants, or shhhhh! grin grin

From the tone of your rants here, it appears like you were seriously crying as you type. tongue tongue

Reminds me of what I did to your brother yesterday.

Anyways, refer to the link below for your refutation:
https://www.nairaland.com/5802327/name-benin-not-gotten-ife/3#88770766
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 6:02pm On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
Aged one where are you putting your corpse. I thought the aged people don't brag and lie like you. Aged one go to old people's forum cheesy
This same lines again?? cheesy

Obvious your brain can't muster any novel come-back.

Very typical of ins@nely idi0tic sl0w little Benin mor0ns. grin cheesy grin cheesy

Fvck off here! cheesy
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
valirex:
Aged one where are the millions you make in a month when your fellow slaves are dying and turning into 1 million boys. Come to think of it, it would be great if you could sponsor those 1 million boys to kwara to retrieve it from your slave masters grin
Or sponsor them to lay siege on "the Benin-Italy trade route" in search of fleeing worshippers of Yoruba gods?? wink

What do you think little boy?? grin

CultureRe: A Reconsideration Of Ife Artwork by TAO12:
gregyboy:
I know I am slow embarassed
(1) Benin art was chosen not for quality, but for quantity.

Quality was never a Benin thing. Quality is for Ife.


(2) The kingship and bronze casting tradition of Benin kingdom comes from Ile-Ife.

Reference:
Your own attachment!


A classic example of shooting yourself. grin Dvmb gregyboy! cheesy

CultureRe: A Reconsideration Of Ife Artwork by TAO12: 4:31pm On Apr 23, 2020
gregyboy:
I gregyboy need to be flogged to rest my brain
Why are you mad at me, little boy??

Your own attachment betrays you, and proves my point. cheesy grin cheesy
CultureRe: A Reconsideration Of Ife Artwork by TAO12:
gregyboy:
I gregyboy am dvmb.
"Fagg emphasised that the kingship of Benin and Benin bronze casting was imported from Ile-Ife"

Source: Your own attachment. Look closely. cheesy


Moreover, quality beats quantity any day, anytime.

See link: https://www.nairaland.com/5802327/name-benin-not-gotten-ife/3#88770766

CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 4:06pm On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
[s]Aged one where are you putting your corpse. I thought the aged people don't brag and lie like you. Aged one go to old people's forum cheesy[/s]
Hahahahaha!

Okay, let's strike a deal, if you tell me your Yoruba name, your Italian name, and your favorite Yoruba god, then I will stop exposing Benin Kingdom.

Deal?? cheesy grin
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
gregyboy:
Ife art looks too disgusting
1(i) I would have been worried if you had said the opposite. Experience has shown that you've never gotten anything right.

On the other extreme of the sanity scale, however, scholars have the following to say about the unmatched superiority of the Ife artworks:

(a) Frank Willett writes:
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"Here unquestionably were art works of first importance ... They were so very different from any works of negro art, and so very sophisticated in a European manner that they stood apart from the rest of African sculpture."

Reference:
Frank Willett, "Bronze and Terra-Cotta Sculptures from Ita Yemo, Ife", The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 56 (Dec., 1959), p.135.


(b) In another publication, Frank Willett writes:
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"The heads were unlike any known African art, and being in a style of quasi-mensurational naturalism, had an immediate appeal to those trained in the canons of European taste. These heads could be judged without condescension as works of art in their own right; they would stand comparison with anything which Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe had to offer."

Reference:
Frank Willett, "Ife and Its Archaeology", The Journal of African History, Vol. 1. No. 2 (1960), p.239.


(c) Leo Frobenius (the first European to sight them in 1910) remarked that they were:
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"eloquent of a symmetry, a vitality, a delicacy of form directly reminiscent of ancient Greece."

Reference:
Leo Frobenius, quoted in Ekpo Eyo: Two Thousand Years, p.100.


(d) William Bascom (for the Illustrated London News in 1939) writes:
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"How on a comparatively obscure corner of this vast and backward continent could an art and a technique have flowered that take their stand beside the best ever evolved by the elaborate civilizations of Europe and Asia?"

Reference:
William Bascom, The Illustrated London News, 1939.


1(ii) Even the respected scholar, William Fagg whose words you attached makes it clear that the only reason why Benin artworks represent the festival is because of their quantity, not quality.

Quality is always reserved for the Ife arts as you've seen above again and again in the words of scholars.

In fact, despite your deceptive attempt to trim it out, it is still very obvious that your attachment (your own attachment) says the following:

"Fagg emphasised that the kingship of Benin and Benin bronze casting was imported from Ile-Ife"

Source: Your own attachment
. See a closer shot attached for a reminder. grin cheesy

(2) Regarding the royal insignia of the metal scepter called Ada, Ida or Agada, I have demostrated yesterday beyond a shadow of sane doubt that this royal scepter was first disseminated around Yorubaland (and to Benin Kingdom) from Ile-Ife.

We see a similar picture of this Ada (a more antique Ada actually) not only in connection with Oba Okunade Sijuwade (see: 2nd attachment), but also with his predecessor, Oba Adesoji Aderemi (see: 1st attachment), and with their successor --- the reigning Ooni --- Oba Adeyeye E. Ogunwusi (see: 3rd attachment).

Refer to the full comment at the link below to remind you of how you and your brother were flogged beyond recognition yesterday when you brought this up:

https://www.nairaland.com/5761595/benin-kingdom-edo-state-remained/45#88739883

CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
valirex:
Aged one, like we were saying don't die during this period cos your body won't be released to your fellow slaves grin
And you think I must be older than you considering what appears to you to be my vastness ?? ?? If only this lad knows!!!! grin cheesy

Anyways, regarding Covid-19: I literally stay at home to get paid millions of your ₦ bi-weekly. tongue

I pray your corpse wouldn't eventually litter the street from the virus, though ... Ase! Amen! Ameen!
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
valirex:
[s]grin good you know where am from. And I know you are from the land of skull mining. And you still remain a patriotic fool to your Fulani slave masters cheesy. You said am a lad and you are an aged one grin. Don't let it hurt you am at my prime and I plan to enjoy it you aged one. Try not to die this covid period cos your aged body will not be released for burial grin[/s]
valirex:
[s]Look at this patriotic Idiot telling a people what is and what is not in their language grin you have really proven to be an idiot a patriotic one to the myth of oduduwa. With all your Idiotic research you still haven't collected kwara back from your Fulani masters grin soon they will collect Lagos and Oyo grin and all your so called acclaimed knowledge ain't gonna help you grin[/s]
Oh Edo boy, you still haven't mentioned your Yoruba and Italian names. cheesy

C'mon Edo boy! You've got to be proud of your Yoruba and Italian heritage. You can do this. grin

Okay, did you worship your Yoruba god this morning?? ?? grin cheesy grin cheesy



And you think I must be older than you considering what appears to you to be my vastness ?? ?? If only this lad knows!!!! grin cheesy

Anyways, regarding Covid-19: I literally stay at home to get paid millions of your ₦ bi-weekly. tongue

I pray your corpse wouldn't eventually litter the street from the virus, though ... Ase! Amen! Ameen!
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12:
valirex:
[s]Go and prove you intellectual knowledge by collecting your fallen kwara before Oyo will be overran by your Fulani masters cheesy and stop rewriting another people's history. Patriotic idiot[/s]grin
No one is re-writting your history lad!

I am only dispelling the falsehoods that have been force-stuffed into your thick empty skull ab-initio.

Lastly, I know you're Edo, so can you tell us your Yoruba name and your Italian name ?? ?? ?? cheesy

I won't say a word! grin
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 9:54am On Apr 23, 2020
valirex:
And you don't use effort to type your replies because they are as senseless as you. cheesy
Patriotic Idiot grin
Well, I read what I reply to, unlike you.

You keep proving my point on the m0r0nic thing.
CultureRe: Benin Kingdom In Edo State Remained Part Of The Expansive Yoruba - Ooni Of Ife by TAO12:
His desperation and, more importantly, his disconnection from the actual discourse at hand, is sufficient evidence that he is crying somewhere at the moment. grin grin grin

Very satisfying!!!

Anyways, I am more than happy to move on to the new topic you've just tried to save face with, only on the condition that you publicly accept defeat on the current discourse.

Every Benin delusion is gradually being dispelled one after the other. grin

I will gladly move on to the next one about Lagos once you meet this condition.

I am so glad this is happening PUBLICLY cheesy grin wink
CultureRe: The Name Benin Was Not Gotten From Ife But Itsekiri by TAO12: 10:26pm On Apr 22, 2020
valirex:
Don't insult me again, you would hate me if I go ballistic. A word they say is enough for the wise
Omg! I'm scared!! embarassed embarassed /s undecided undecided undecided undecided

I remarked that it makes you appear m0r0nic when you put in effort to type up replies to something you never read.

Now, you interpreted that to mean that I already deemed you a m0r0n.

Your interpretation just confirmed my earlier doubt and hesitation.
CultureRe: A Reconsideration Of Ife Artwork by TAO12: 10:19pm On Apr 22, 2020
gregyboy:
The ife-artworks has has always been a controversial topic for most anthropologist and authors on the originality of the artworks, but most times the controversy are always short-lived, anthropologist believe the ife artworks were not originally of ife orgin, they believe the yoruba people had migrated to the location ife were they found the artworks and began worshipping them and even began practicing the facial scarification on the artworks, some authors believed believed the ife people had found it somewhere the original people left it and they took it to ife and from ife it got to other yorubas areas
This doubt had risen from the lack of adornment of the artworks by the ife people likewise the lack of information of the people who had made the artworks in ife, the regalia had been also different from the regalia of the yoruba people when they first originally came in contact with the yoruba people,
Unlike the benin artwork which was adorned by the oba and benin people and it showed by historical details of thier past that made more sense that thse artworks were originally the artworks of benin peole

This are just reconsideration of ife artworks, the quest of tracing the ife artworks has been impossible believing the original people had gone extinct


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This is very, very controversial. Yen yen yen. grin cheesy

I think calling you dvmb is actually an insult to dvmb people. grin

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