₦airaland Forum

ATLgal:
lemme,  chew gum or have bad breath?  it's only amongst Nigerians that chewing gum is seen as a female thing. it's a breath freshening activity in other places, i bet the OP's mouth STINKS,  like shalanga.

ATLgal:
This is dumb. Nigerians aren't more or less ugly than other folk. We just don't cast well,  In the past beauty in naija was all about the face. now we realize body counts as well,  but nollywood hasn't caught up. it's the same thing with mainstreet American media. they typically cast beautiful white women, but ugly fat and obnoxious black women. given that you would assume all blacks in aMerica are ugly, but thank God for hip hop tv,  on the other hand you see ugly fat women all about town,  but hardly ever on tv

Freiburger:
This kind of replies are new.
Well, i like it.
keep it up.

in the US its natural for a person to work hours far longer than what the a mummy3 is describing

Living and working in Lagos is not the easiest of feats

He was traced to “a neighbouring country”

everyone does it? No not everyone and YES u CAN  change that. YOU can choose to NOT do it. that's how the world changes. it takes ONE person  to start

everyone does it all the tym. aint nothing you can do to change that

Grand father was trying to name the newborn and he brought in the clerics to support his campaign.
What is obtainable these days is for the father to give a name while the Imams only pronounce the name at the 'Aqeeqa'.
It is the father's responsibility to give his child an acceptable Islamic name.
Islamic name here should be alienated from Arabic name.

Islamic name here should be alienated from Arabic name

bears a Maltese (Coptic) cross, similar to one that also appears on the robe of the standing copper alloy figure from the Niger River crossing site of Tada.

I believe that Battuta is describing Ife in his early fourteenth century reference to a kingdom to the west of Mali, notable in part for its extraordinary wealth. Ife in this era seems to have had an international “pulse.” The famous blue-green Ife glass beads were found as far away as Mauritania, Mali, and Ghana. At Ife itself there is evidence of cowries from the Indian Ocean and crotals (an ancient bell form) which have early prototypes in southeast Asia, India, north East Africa (Egypt) and Europe as prestigious decorative items for humans and horses. For other examples of international trade in this broader region one can point to a Nubian work discovered Niger to the north of Ife and Coptic language forms that today are common in the Hausa area. In Ife itself, a stone pendant unearthed by Ekpo Eyo at the royal burial site of Lafogido (along with the famous “royal” animals) bears a Maltese (Coptic) cross, similar to one that also appears on the robe of the standing copper alloy figure from the Niger River crossing site of Tada.

Ray Silverman has documented a sizable number of large metal Mamluk (Egypt, 14th century) basins at sites near the gold fields in Ghana (where they were integrated into shrines and carefully preserved). In Ife specifically, we have visual references to metal crotals. Textiles, alas, have not survived, but at a site of royal retreat near Ife, silk worms were being harvested into the late 20th century, the silk being woven into ritually important fabrics — suggesting to me that Ife may have been part of the Silk Road perhaps as early as the early fourteenth century, i.e. in the decades after Marco Polo’s return. Textiles at Ife are identified with King Obalufon who ruled in this era. At this same time silk factories were being set up in Italy and France among other places. (The only other place in Africa I know where silk worms were harvested is Madagascar; I think there also was silk production at this time in Egypt.)

For books (manuscripts): several Yoruba and other scholars have identified a group of Arabic texts as a partial source for Ifa divination. The authors of these manuscripts are praised by Yoruba diviners and healers today as part of rituals; one of best known of these Muslim authors lived and wrote in the fourteenth century, and his writings are said to show evidence of ties to both Persia and China.