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Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by dnex(m): 8:58am On Apr 29, 2009 |
As long as you agree that they are white and you are black, they are good and you are bad. They are right and you are wrong. They are rich and you are poor. They are kings and you are pawns. |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by wirinet(m): 9:52am On Apr 29, 2009 |
dnex: I think you put too much meaning in appellations, black and white is just an appellation to distinguish the most divergent colour skin tone. Because a "white" man has the lightest skin tone, while a "black" man has the darkest skin tone. There is no other connotations to it as far as i am concerned and i as a person have no problem with it. Since all humans have brown colouration (due to the degree of melanin in their skin), would you be more comfortable with very dark brown and very light brown to describe skin differences? What do you want the Asian people who are classified as yellow people when their skin is also a shade of light brown and not yellow to do. What about others like the Indegenous Americans who are called RED, when also their colour is a light shade of brown. Some people put too much attention on irrelevances. |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by ikeyman00(m): 10:00am On Apr 29, 2009 |
^^^ im lost |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by AjanleKoko: 2:09pm On Apr 29, 2009 |
Na wa o. Enough analysis of AjanleKoko's reasoning. In fact, somebody is even comparing what we're discussing to body odour. Well, what would you think of a dirty homeless wino coming to tell you that you have BO? No wahala, Believe what you will, guys, but know that you always become what you believe. |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by dnex(m): 9:28am On Apr 30, 2009 |
@wirinet have you asked yourself why these caucasians have rejected the name gringoes given to them by south americans? Yet they want the whole world to accept the name Latin Americans or Red Indians. People that have no idea what Latin is or have no relationship to Indians. What is wrong with calling them what they really are: AMERICANS. Why don't they accept the name Oyibo (which simply means a person from another place) there's nothing derogatory about that. See, there is no shade of brown that should be described as black and no shade of pink that should be described as white. The designation of black and white were not given by Oyibos to signify skin colour but superior and inferior, good and bad, progressive and backward. When the British colonised India and China, the colonial officers wrote many letters condemning these black people. When the Romans colonised the rest of Europe, they met Nations such as the Barbarians and the Brutish. Are those tribes still referring to themselves by those names today? They got civilised and realised that such names would make their generations to come barbarians and brutals till the end of time. Now we have the Germans and British and today they call us blacks and we want to agree. Why is the word nigger or negro derogatory when it translates simply into the word black person? If a person can be angry for being called a nigger, I wonder how that same person can be black and proud. I wonder how that same person can say it doesn't really matter being labelled black. When your mates in America are moving from being called Black Americans to African Americans, you Africans are happy to be called blacks. The day you see anything being tagged black to connote goodness, that is when black people will be better. Be it magic, lie, heart, leg, sheep, mail, eye, once it becomes black, it becomes bad. Once it is tagged white, it becomes good. You do the math. 1 Like |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by sage(m): 4:05pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
This thread has deviated Only wirinet discussed the actual merits and demerits of the assertions Lugard made. |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by AjanleKoko: 5:10pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
sage: Sage, You should have indicated when you posted the thread, the shade of opinion you wanted to capture. It's allowed, abi? |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by mazaje(m): 6:03pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
sage: so true. . . . .lugard unfortunately made some VERY valid points, but as some one has said earlier on we love living in denial. . . .White people are what they are because they made themselves what they are. . . we are what we are(at the bottom) because we made ourselves what we are. . . . |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by jona2: 7:12pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
AjanleKoko: |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by ikeyman00(m): 8:50pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
yes brainless[b] fumi [/b] prove him wrong!^^^ |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by 2dmax(m): 9:18am On Feb 16, 2011 |
To all, there is no way a white man is better than me, no way! If he tends to disagree, we just have to trade places, so he can fully realise. Then again our culture is ours and must be kept. Climbing an oil palm tree, pounding yam/peppers, eating with our hands, its ours. at least we can claim originality to that. |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by tobi197(m): 9:41pm On Jan 12, 2015 |
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it in the future. |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by akigbemaru: 6:41am On Sep 13, 2016 |
lord lugard 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by cbravo(m): 9:41am On Apr 20, 2017 |
Environmental ethics and the African perspective http://www.bravoprojecthelp.com/philosophy/environmental-ethics-african-perspective/ |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by starlingbawa(m): 4:03pm On Jun 08, 2017 |
sage: So true of the Nigerian Cum African man..... |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by Patrioticooduan: 6:49pm On Jul 06, 2018 |
Kobojunkie:Lolz! Nine years after this thread |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by Patrioticooduan: 6:56pm On Jul 06, 2018 |
The African man truely doesn't have a foresight. If truely he has, why won't he know Nigeria won't grow right from the day of independence? The aggravate matter, they replaced regions with states. Africans truely have no foresight |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by Ayobami7(m): 10:33am On Nov 16, 2018 |
This is my Comment |
Re: Lord Lugard And His Impression Of Nigerians And Africans In General by nlPoster: 3:00pm On Oct 17, 2019 |
Do u realise that we as a people seem incapable of self examination? We always get defensive, personalize the issue and qattack whoever makes any observation without addressing the validity of the observation. We seem 2 look for somebody else 2 blame for everything. It's not something that can be fixed, it's the Nigerian character. |
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