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El Guapo:
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Bro i grew up to be with Whiteys,  [/color]

dragnet:
his father denied that claim. . . . So that isnt a certified reason yet.

"We wanted to make the point that nobody, when they learn European art history, studying Italy and Renaissance in the fourteenth, fifteenth centuries, is taught that at exactly the same time in West Africa, artistic production of the same level and the same quality is going on," he said during a talk on Nigeria at the museum.

The sculptures depict human figures from a cross-section of Ife society and provide a fascinating insight into local customs and beliefs of the time.

However, not much is known about the origins of the Ife casts or who they were made for or for what purpose.

4ee:
The issue to me here is not that the boy is a muslim but that he filled Muslim/Anglican on his form-that is an integrity issue and if you cannot be truthful while filling an ordinary form,why should the school admit you?

I work in an institution where people's data are checked before approvals are given, and such 'simple; mistake is what make us decline the request of many applicants.

Bottom line-be careful in what you do -you never know what the mistake will cost you.

My advise to the parents of the boy:Since your son was not given admission in CU and you are for quality eduction(which you do not think other schools in Nigeria can offer) ,send the boy abroad if other schools in Nigeria do not meet your standard. It is not by force to attend CU.

An unusual tradition within African sculpture is the cast-metal work done from about the 12th century in what is now southern Nigeria.

It reaches a peak of perfection among the Yoruba people of Ife. Between the 12th and the 15th century life-size heads and masks, and smaller full-length figures - all of astonishing realism - are cast in brass and sometimes in pure copper (technically much more difficult). These figures have an extraordinary quiet intensity.

Read more: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa39#ixzz1ZfScDVHA

what talented peoplec the Yoruba were in the past

Calm down. Nobody could possibly claim Benin took precedence in lost wax casting, and I have seen other Ife art that actually was radiocarbon dated, so that's not even the point. There's a Benin thread and I'm not interested in diluting this thread with material or information that I've already seen. I was just pointing out that that particular piece hadn't been dated to a specific time, so seeing something as specific as "12th century" as it's label doesn't make sense and is almost arbitrary. I only even mentioned Benin to admit that the same was true of many of the Benin pieces, which are also undated, other wise I wouldn't have mentioned Benin. The basis of the assigned dates for most of them both was basically Frank Willett and William Fagg's ideas about the artistic progression of certain styles over centuries; there were few radiocarbon dates.