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lawani: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. |
gregyboy:Oh you're not in university yet, okay? Now everything is making sense. |
OgboAto: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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ inferiority complex Definition: ... Related terms: Bini people of southern Nigeria. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
gregyboy:Wake me up whenever you've translated all these [i.e. the words and the delusions] into English language please. Thank you! ![]() |
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valirex:He obviously can't muster an intelligent come-back. #TeamBeninFuelExhausted ![]() |
gregyboy:Evidence for your pain-induced rants, or shhhhh! ![]() From the tone of your rants here, it appears like you were seriously crying as you type. ![]() 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 |
valirex:This same lines again?? ![]() Obvious your brain can't muster any novel come-back. Very typical of ins@nely idi0tic sl0w little Benin mor0ns. ![]() Fvck off here! ![]() |
valirex:Or sponsor them to lay siege on "the Benin-Italy trade route" in search of fleeing worshippers of Yoruba gods?? ![]() What do you think little boy?? ![]()
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gregyboy:(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. Dvmb gregyboy! ![]()
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gregyboy:Why are you mad at me, little boy?? Your own attachment betrays you, and proves my point. ![]() |
gregyboy:"Fagg emphasised that the kingship of Benin and Benin bronze casting was imported from Ile-Ife" Source: Your own attachment. Look closely. ![]() Moreover, quality beats quantity any day, anytime. See link: https://www.nairaland.com/5802327/name-benin-not-gotten-ife/3#88770766
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valirex: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?? ![]() |
gregyboy: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: ------------------------------------- "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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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. ![]() (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
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valirex:And you think I must be older than you considering what appears to you to be my vastness ?? ?? If only this lad knows!!!! ![]() Anyways, regarding Covid-19: I literally stay at home to get paid millions of your ₦ bi-weekly. ![]() I pray your corpse wouldn't eventually litter the street from the virus, though ... Ase! Amen! Ameen! |
valirex: valirex:Oh Edo boy, you still haven't mentioned your Yoruba and Italian names. ![]() C'mon Edo boy! You've got to be proud of your Yoruba and Italian heritage. You can do this. ![]() Okay, did you worship your Yoruba god this morning?? ?? ![]() And you think I must be older than you considering what appears to you to be my vastness ?? ?? If only this lad knows!!!! ![]() Anyways, regarding Covid-19: I literally stay at home to get paid millions of your ₦ bi-weekly. ![]() I pray your corpse wouldn't eventually litter the street from the virus, though ... Ase! Amen! Ameen! |
valirex: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 ?? ?? ?? ![]() I won't say a word! ![]() |
valirex:Well, I read what I reply to, unlike you. You keep proving my point on the m0r0nic thing. |
His desperation and, more importantly, his disconnection from the actual discourse at hand, is sufficient evidence that he is crying somewhere at the moment. ![]() 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. I will gladly move on to the next one about Lagos once you meet this condition. I am so glad this is happening PUBLICLY ![]() |
valirex:Omg! I'm scared!! /s ![]() 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. |
gregyboy:This is very, very controversial. Yen yen yen. ![]() I think calling you dvmb is actually an insult to dvmb people. ![]() |

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