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Politics › Re: El Rufai's Accidental Public Servant by Tochi3(m): 9:57pm On Dec 14, 2013
Pls send to:
pepi12djuna@gmail.com. Thanks.
Politics › Re: Africa With The Lowest Average IQ In The World - Study (picture Map)!!! by Tochi3(m): 1:54am On Nov 17, 2013
I am humbled by the comments here. It gives me some hope that one day we will appreciate the need to take time to learn and understand our history .
The so called IQ test is the biggest fraud perpetrated by insecure racists ever to walk the face of the planet. The human race have always been intelligent for the fact that we have been able to adapt to our natural environment for thousands of years. Adaptation is the oldest form of intelligence known to mankind and every race possess it.
My point is that such test should be totally ignored.
It's of no use.
Politics › Re: Africa With The Lowest Average IQ In The World - Study (picture Map)!!! by Tochi3(m): 10:22pm On Nov 16, 2013
ROSSIKE: 9:52pm

So there we have it: The lowest of the low, now suddenly having appropriated, mostly through foul means, the fruits of thousands of years of human ingenuity, now place themselves above mankind, claiming ''the highest IQ'', and claiming for those who civilized them from grunting cave dwelling brutes, ''the lowest IQ''.
It's really pathetic.
Politics › Re: Africa With The Lowest Average IQ In The World - Study (picture Map)!!! by Tochi3(m): 7:57pm On Nov 16, 2013
@ba7man, Now you are asking a good question- what happened?
That should be what we should be looking at. From there we can know where ,when and what we did wrong.
But to say that we are still living in the past is not correct, for the past holds the key to our future.
Politics › Re: Africa With The Lowest Average IQ In The World - Study (picture Map)!!! by Tochi3(m): 7:45pm On Nov 16, 2013
@ba7man, That is not the issue.
He should start by telling us how he was able to become rich ,when and how it got bad. Remember he is not the only one today poor but many of his kind. If he does not share his knowkedge of how he was able to make it then,(anyway he lost all the methods and procedures he employed in attaining greatness) how can he help other ones?
Politics › Re: Africa With The Lowest Average IQ In The World - Study (picture Map)!!! by Tochi3(m): 7:14pm On Nov 16, 2013
@Rossike, I am glad that there are people like you who are interested in the true history of Africa.
It is very worrisome to hear from africans that our history happened in the past and we should not dwell on it. History is never old but provides an insight into current happenings and how to shape future occurence.
Pls continue to educate the ignorant ones. Thx
Politics › Re: What Is Nigeria's Greatest Problem? by Tochi3(m): 4:54pm On Nov 13, 2013
When we read the bible, it tells us that Adam and Eve were the first humans on earth. Anthropologists have long ago discovered that the first human on planet earth was found in Africa.
When someone apply critical analysis and logic reason to the statement above, it will tell the type of education we have been receiving. I rest my case.
Politics › Re: What Is Nigeria's Greatest Problem? by Tochi3(m): 4:33pm On Nov 13, 2013
Good! We have many elites and pundits, many professors, academicians etc. Are we not educated enough? Or what type of EDUCATION do we really need?
Yes you are correct. We have many of those. But the education I am talking about is much more than that. It must involve a lot of analysis and logic. For example, we all know that 2 plus 2 equals 4. We accept it because the world has accepted it.
In critical analysis, it must be proved that 2 and 2 is 4. But we forget that not only the number 2 and 2 can give u 4, but also 0 and 4, 1 and 3.
Politics › Re: What Is Nigeria's Greatest Problem? by Tochi3(m): 4:07pm On Nov 13, 2013
''Poor leadership'' is an aftermath of lack of crittical analysis and logic thinking.
So also is tribalism, corruption ,etc.
Arosa already said the encompassing solution- EDUCATION. I totally agree with him 100 percent.
Politics › Re: PHOTOS: Tony Blair Hosts Ex-nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo In London by Tochi3(m): 3:47pm On Nov 13, 2013
Case of a slave mentality.
Politics › Re: Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo Visits Ex President Tony Blair by Tochi3(m): 3:41pm On Nov 13, 2013
A typical case of slave mentality.
Politics › Re: Dino Melaye’s Anti-corruption Conference Sealed-off by Tochi3(m): 3:18pm On Nov 13, 2013
Nigerians, our politicians lack the intergrity, skills and foresight to fight corruption. Those in government and outside it makes no difference. The press is so unprofessional that their aim is non-existent thus the objective is long ago defeated.
Politics › Re: What Is Nigeria's Greatest Problem? by Tochi3(m): 2:32pm On Nov 13, 2013
Lack of critical analysis and logic thinking.
Politics › Re: APC To Boycott National Dialogue by Tochi3(m): 7:23pm On Oct 23, 2013
This is not a political conference of Political Parties but a conference to discuss and navigate the future of Nigerians by Nigerians. The outcome of such a conference should never be underestimated or be seen by any political party as a strategy to hold on to power.


Anybody that accept that the proposed conference is mere diversionary and a waste of time is not being honest and lacks the intelligence to tap in to the numerous opportunities that will be available after such dialogue.
What is politics without the voice of the masses being respected. What is the essence of having political parties who do not even know what the masses are yearning for.

The National Conference that is being proposed by this administration have provided a great avenue to have an idea what Niigerians are expecting from them and in the long run establish an unbreakable bond of friendship and trust between them and the masses.

The voice of the masses are thesame. From the East to West, North to South , the masses are singing thesame song. Who says that the masses in the Northern part do not want to be involved in a National dialogue. In these regard, I must say that we must make a clear distinction between the Northern elites and the Northern masses. The opposition to the conference from this region comes only from the oligarch and NOT from the masses who are afraid to forfeit the political and economic powers they have attained over the years using thesame masses as tools for their selfish interest.
If there are oppositions to the conference from the West, East and South, thesame reason as stated above is attributable.

I am not a fan of PDP, APC or any other Party but someone with a lot of interest in the development of Nigeria as a whole. I believe the oppostion Parties have a lot to gain especially APC being the biggest opposition as at the moment if they for once look at the other side of the coin. No?
Power lies with the people but most are not aware of it. Make them know these fact. If only the opposition Parties are critical and logical and above politics, the masses will look up to them.
Politics › Re: What Has Rochas Done With The 211Billion Loan+Federal Allocation+13% Derivation? by Tochi3(m): 7:43pm On Oct 07, 2013
Sometimes, I wonder who we are trying to run down and lift up by defending shit as can be seen in almost all the South East states. Who are we defending and who are we crucifying .Criminals who have hijacked the system in the name of democracy and forced the Igbos to defend shit while the other Igbos are forced to leave their region in search of better means of livelihood. Shame.
I think we the Igbos have lost it totally.
Politics › Re: What Has Rochas Done With The 211Billion Loan+Federal Allocation+13% Derivation? by Tochi3(m): 7:07pm On Oct 07, 2013
I am very disappointed with what I have seen and read on this tread. How can you Igbos support and defend shambles, be it in Imo, Anambra, Abia, and other south east states. You Igbos have totally forgotten how we came to this point. Even after all that happened to us, so the best we can do is to compare failures with failures.
Shame. Other Nigerians do not feel comfortable seeing us in other parts of Nigeria and we come here to compare shit with shit.
Politics › Slave Mentality by Tochi3(op):
Despite all the suffering Africans have past through starting from the destruction of Egypt to slavery, to colonialism, imperialism and again to neo-colonialism, I thougth African governments will at a point in their life promote programmes that will uplift the pride of the black race.

But i was wrong. African Governments rather than come up with ideologies and philosophies which will help the african people to promote and strengthen the pride of the race making them economic and political independent, African governments continue to perpetuate misery on thesame race whose psych have been damaged. And I wonder what it means other than African Governments with a SLAVE MENTALITY.

In Nigeria, there is no independent construction company of repute which can carry out any major construction work without the help of a foreign company. Even if there is one, the SLAVE MENTALITY in government will never allow that to happen. I know that the pride of a race does not lie on a single individual but whole. May be I am wrong.
Politics › Re: Islamization Of Nigeria by Tochi3(m): 6:54pm On Nov 13, 2012
Pathetic cry cry
Christianity Etc › Re: Tunde Bakare Summoned Over Sermon by Tochi3(m): 8:39pm On Jul 23, 2012
What does freedom means to Nigerians and Africans in general? Is the blackman free? We are not yet free when we kill ourselves because of foreign tools of manipulation disguised as religion.

The blackman is not interested to know his history and learn how religion was used to divide and conquer his race but will go further to perpetuate the bondage of slavery through religion upon his very own kind.
Christianity Etc › Re: Tunde Bakare Summoned Over Sermon by Tochi3(m):
It is written in the bible that God created the first man and woman called Adam and Eve. Anthropologist have shown that the earliest remains of man was discovered in Africa undecided
Politics › Re: What Is Africa's Biggest Problem? by Tochi3(m):
A very good topic.

When most parts of Africa is affected by the symptoms listed by the poster, the end of africa is almost at hand. There is no continent in the world that can survive such devastating symptoms unless the study of the past is made a priority. The climax of the symptoms will be when 100 percent of the continent become slaves in their own land without even having a clue.

I think the biggest problem of Africa is not knowing our history. How can one be proud his\her culture without history. History will help Africa a lot and when i say History I mean the History of pre-history dating back 3500 b.c. Those who were part of the destruction of our history claim to be the masters of the world and today they are the champions and teachers of African history

There was a black Civilised and developed city known as Nowe, older as the greek and roman empire. Africans have the right to know what happened to that ancient and civilised city, how, why, what and when it happened. The symptoms listed by the poster was the order of the day after the fall of Nowe. I refuse to see the problems or any other problems listed elsewhere as problems but symptoms that will pave the way for the ultimate destruction of the black continent.

To know the true knowledge of our history africans must take the bull by the horn. Africans have a lot of research to do on their own and only on their own, though a very difficult task, but the will to do it is the most important that Africans much search for.

Africans who are interested to know what happened to that ancient city of Nowe must read the THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILISATION by Chancellor Williams. I have tried my best by posting the whole work of this impeccable blackman and american on this website. It is left for Africans to discover the truth about their history.

There is nothing in this world that is happening today that have never happened in the past. Nothing is new under the sun for the ancient blacks were sun worshipers.
Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 9:03pm On Mar 10, 2012
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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 9:01pm On Mar 10, 2012
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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:59pm On Mar 10, 2012
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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:55pm On Mar 10, 2012
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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:52pm On Mar 10, 2012
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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:40pm On Mar 10, 2012
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


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New York, 1924 .
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1885, ed . by Joseph W. Widney, Race Life of the Aryan Peoples .


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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:32pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]It is also rewarding, though in an unhappy way, to see no end to the

accumulation of examples that further confirm viewpoints I actually

wish were untrue . But as the final chapters here were being written,

Professor Robert W . July's big 650 pages of A History of the African

People came off the press as the latest justification of my indictment of

Western historians . I recommend it for reading because it is a 1970

edition of scholarship skillfully carrying out its traditional work on the

Blacks . Part One : "Ancient Africa" rearranges, omits and misrepresents

many of the well-known facts in order to fit the main racial theory . The

large number of pictures, like the mass of factual data in the book, can

easily disguise its main thrust and theme : The black race is inferior .

In the Bibliography that follows I left out quite a number of secondary

works used because so many of them seemed to be little more than

repetitions of those selected . My decision to eliminate almost all of the

periodical literature used was not easy, especially as regards the special

studies in professional journals ; however, there is a point where an

enough-is-enough conclusion is reached . Those who have a mania for

the latest works published as their guide will miss the boat here, for

some of our most valuable sources were the oldest publications . Some

can be seen only in libraries and special museum collections, others are

microfilmed . Research sources are no longer a problem . During the last

few years there have been many large and comprehensive "Africana"

bibliographies published in Europe and America .

The new interest and work in the field of Oral history are among the

most significant developments in recent times . My own field studies

were largely involved with oral tradition . This fact should be repeated

finally in connection with the discussion of sources because the oral

records played an important role in many aspects of this work.



********[/b]
Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:30pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]If it had been my purpose to mention the early historians on Africa in

order of importance, Manetho, the African historian, would have

headed the list ; for the records of this Greek-speaking native son of the

4th century B.C., are authoritative sources which no scholar on Egypt

ignores . His Annals differ in many respects from other records, e.g .,

those of the great Jewish historian of the period, Josephus, the King-lists,

the Turin Canon, etc . These differences in names, spelling and dates

about which so many scholars sweat and wrangle never did seem to me

to be of earth-shaking importance . Quite the .contrary, it would have

been strange if all of these different chronologies had been uniformly

the same . It should be remembered that all Qf these 4th and 5th century

historians were covering events extending back from four to six thousand

years before their time . The numerous discoveries of relatively recent

archaeology have substantially confirmed their work . Examples are the

inscriptions found on numerous palettes, stelae, the walls of tombs and

temples and the Palermo and Rosetta Stones .

Some of the best histories of the earliest periods were written by

archaeologists such as Petrie and others appearing in the formal

Bibliography below . Coming on the scene over two thousand years after

Manetho, Herodotus, Diodirus, Strabo, et al ., they supplemented the

works of these first scholars with the additional evidence that had been

left in the keeping of the long-since dead and forgotten or recovered

from the sands . Petrie headed a line of investigators and writers without

whose works the world would be intellectually poorer-Breasted, Budge,

Arkell, Africanus, Baikfe, Boas, Delafosse, Garstand, Griffith, Nims and

others . The illustrious role is long . The Bible is one of our richest sources

for many different sidelights on the black world .

With the spread of Islam in Africa and the entrance of France, Arab

and French writers dominated the scenes up to and through the 19th

century . French and Arab sources, therefore, became indispensable in

African research . Indeed, the same may be said of investigators and

writers from all the invading countries . The fact that I reject many of

their unspoken pre-suppositions and the inevitable conclusions they

reach therefrom has nothing to do with the usefulness of their works or

the brilliance of their scholarship . Even some of the authors with whom

I most bitterly disagree, nevertheless, led me to rewarding sources I had

neither seen nor had been aware of .[/b]
Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:29pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]Both Herodotus and Diodorus were outstanding in setting forth for

posterity the attitude of the white world of their day toward the black

world-the extreme reverse of what it is today . The reason is plain : The

early Blacks were the most advanced of all the peoples known to them .

This they did not hesitate to declare, and to acknowledge that their own

European civilization had borrowed heavily from Africa, and borrowed

even more heavily in the field of religion . For this later Western

historians have never forgiven them .

Pliny, the Elder, is a fair example of writers on Africa, referred to

above, where one must wade through a mass of irrelevant matter to find

the bits and pieces of data scattered throughout large volumes . Yet

these fragments are often of the highest importance, as they are in the

case of Pliny's Historia Natural . In this regard Homer's Iliad and

Odyssey are in a class by themselves . Like many other works that give

insights into the early history of Africans, they also have no such

purpose . Moreover, the Iliad and Odyssey are "non-history history," a

myth combining fantasy with facts . Homer's importance in African

history, however, has little to do with the precise truth of any particular

story . Rather, as in the case of the works of Herodotus and Diodorus,

Homer mirrors the very high status of the black world of his day and the

unmistakable deference of the white race to that world .

In my studies under Professor Hansberry, I had read the works of the

writers discussed above and most of those mentioned in this section

below . But the adverse criticism of a whole school of eminent modern

scholars led me back for a more painstaking re-study and critical analysis

of all the questions under attack . Interestingly enough, almost all of the

statements made by the ancient historians that have been challenged

concern, directly or indirectly, the role of the Blacks in history . My

second approach to Herodotus and the others was with the certainty

that I was just as competent to evaluate their works, see "exaggerations,"

and as capable of separating facts from fiction as Sir Alan Gardiner or

any of the members of his school of thought.

Among other writers who made noteworthy contributions in varying

degrees was Strabo, whose Geographica included history along with its

main subject matter . Plato and Plutarch are reference sources, the

latter's De Iside et Osiride being more directly relevant . Quite a number

of the historians and geographers near the end of the B .C. era drew

heavily on the works of such early writers as Hecataeus, Argatharchides,

Herodotus and Manetho.[/b]
Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:26pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES


Standing alone and isolated in the field for over thirty-five years,

William Leo Hansberry was the teacher who introduced me to the

systematic study of African history and, of equal importance, to the

ancient documentary sources . His massive documentation of early

Greek and Roman historians and geographers of Africa covered several

years of labor, leaving one to wonder how the utterly false teaching that

Africa had no written history spread over the world . For, entirely apart

from the remarkable contributions of archaeology in the 19th and 20th

centuries, there have always been more than sufficient written records

to reconstruct the history of the Blacks from the earliest times .

And I am fully aware that most of the written records have been lost .

The works of Hecataeus, for example, were lost . He was one of the first

Greeks to study and write in Egypt . While much of the most significant

data are fragments scattered here and there throughout many larger

works, as though they were thrown in incidentally, there were some

works devoted wholly to ancient Egypt and Ethiopia . The one to whom

we probably owe the greatest debt is the "Father of History" himself.

Herodotus' History was comprehensive in a sense not equalled by any

of the other early writers . Diodorus, however, if not quite the equal of

the Master, ran a close second . His General History may not have

equalled that of Herodotus in lucidity and style, neither of which is a

matter of too much concern for the researcher, but it is replete with the

kind of historical data without which we would not have the additional

sidelights on the darkened pages of black history .[/b]
Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:25pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]All talk about "Black Power" is empty until we begin to make Black

Power a reality in the only way it can be done, and that is by building,

step by step, a race organization so great that it will not only be the voice

of a united people but will carry on efficiently an economic development

program to assist their advance on all other fronts .

The organization-for-unity PLAN presented in this final chapter is an

effort to answer the question, "Which way, you still enshackled

Blacks?"-to answer in specific terms and in some detail . It sets forth

rather clearly one way out . It will be simply great if someone comes up

with an even better plan for racial unity through action . Whatever is

proposed must be a grand design . Nothing else will serve . It must be

bold, daring ; an effort of unheard-of audacity by Blacks, and one that

will bring forth the enemy's scream of "Utopian," "too unrealistic," or

"just another grandiose dream ." This enemy, and let us not forget it for

a single minute, is deeply entrenched within the race as well as outside .

This means that we must face up to the fact that we have problems of a

kind and obstacles to overcome which no other people have .

The tasks we now face will test this genius of the black race . The

Blacks in the United States are in the best position as a lead-off example

for the rest of the African race . For such a movement would further

change the course of history and inspire black youth everywhere, along

with their elders, with a new vision, a sense of direction, and the kind of

outlook that gives meaning to study as the source of inventions and new

discoveries . The challenge to the Blacks on this continent is to overcome

the centuries of their own American version of tribalism and disunity . It

is their greatest challenge in this era of perpetual crisis. They will accept

it if they have come to understand at last that equal rights and equal

justice will never come from appeals to the mighty, and granted as an

Act of Grace, but only from their own position of power and influence

which develop from a united people engaged in great and vast

undertakings of their own . If we fail to accept this challenge at this

critical turning point in our history, we will have proved ourselves

unworthy of having any descendants, and our very names should be

forgotten by them-or cursed by the farthest generation .[/b]

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