To help all you guys here is a picture of a touch light/flashlight in the 1930s...a stainless steel touch light like in the picture was not present untill the 60s .. likewise the curve umbrella handle of those make..that picture ain't 1937 in n way anywhere in Onitsha,calabar, Lagos,Accra ,abijan Dakar..yes but not in the hinterlands has of that time..it's extremely rare.

richmond500:
That doesn't look like 1937 items.
I'm seeing stainless steel instead of calabash
That doesnt look like the kind of things u find in a mud house.

showing how SE has been way advanced than many places

MadPolitician:
But the eternal propogandists said that the easterners were walking around naked and were behaving like the Hadeze tribe at this time in history? Thanks to the Internet for all the revelations

No be only Chu Chu chu ,easy money,hate,steal and borrow dem know well.

Their brother T-Pain talked and talked and talked. To walk the talk na challenge today

mightyhaze:
who be this guy?


Growing up in the 80s everybody owned battery torches in my neighborhood.. I've read 20s and 30s American novels where use if torch lights were mentioned.. life didn't just start with your birth in the 90s

is it because data is now cheap and China came to the rescue. Which day papa of the guy you mentioned , saw a car? Forget nairaland. Na where everyone just dey claim woke

richmond500:
No, I was born in the 90s and I know the kind of cup we used, they are not nearly as fine as those ones in the pic.
Also electric torch came to Nigeria early 2000s, we used one kind lantern with glass gloves, in the 90s before battery torches. electric torch was recent.
Also 1930's pictures are not this sharp, the white colours of 1930 pics are tanned

oga, as at early 70s my papa already lived in a flat at Enugu town, owning what is called a Radiogram, a Renault car, glass electronic divider, as a young man in his mid twenties.

He didn't even have the time to tell me this but our town men, including our town ruler, who happened to be like a senator then. Forget, men see road on time in the SE

mightyhaze:
and gaining developmental momentum as at early 30s.. a big smash to the notions handed down to you

These are goods manufactured somewhere else.
What development? Which is being made in Nigeria currently?

YOU ARE A FOOL AND A LIER,TORCH LIGHTS USING BATTERIES WERE NOT IN AFRICA IN 1937 PLS JUST CHECK THE HISTORY OF BATTERIES IT GOT TO THE UNITED STATES EVEN IN 1946 IT DID NOT BECOME COMMON TILL THE 1950'S,THE PICTURE WAS MARKED 1930--1970 ,I, BATTERIES WAS INVENTED AMD PATENTED IN SWEDEN ,THIS PICTURE WOULD PROBABLY BE IN 1970,THE TORCH LIGHTS IN THE PICTURE GAVE YOUR LIE AWAY CHECK OTHER PICTURES FROM THE SAME AUTHOR OF OTHER PLACES IN NIGERIA AND THE NARRATION

mightyhaze:
who be this guy?


Growing up in the 80s everybody owned battery torches in my neighborhood.. I've read 20s and 30s American novels where use if torch lights were mentioned.. life didn't just start with your birth in the 90s

Stop telling lies! Accept when you are corrected with sensible proves. Many igbos were still naked as at 1960 as Reno onced proved that to you in a convincin. This can not be 1930 picture.

https://www.nairaland.com/7929053/reno-omokri-replies-iwuanyanwu

Armaggedon:
battery torches are essentially electric touches. How an adult advertises his ignorance publicly in the face of concrete evidence needs to be studied. What I see is beyond obsessive tribalism. The weakness of your tribalism motivated argument reflects poorly on the standard of education in the southwest.

My brother ehh, if u see as I dey shake my head, I can't even type. Is this how had eaten deep?

richmond500:
Oga, do u know what electric torch mean?
It's a torch that needs electricity to operate, not battery

You are completely mistaken in your assertion.
Back then what we call battery torch light was actually called electric torch by the Europeans.
Electric torch is a torch powered by batteriee and not the way you are saying it.

richmond500:
u just added tribalism to it.
This is very sick bruh, nobody said igbos were living in a cave in 1930, so just enjoy the thread as it is

Was enjoying the thread until it somehow became tribalistic.
Not surprised though. The op is quite popular for bashing other tribes then claiming to be the victim if you dare contradict her lmfao.

Just walk away lol😂

Onitsha the greatest Igbo city

LegendHero:
Most of Duckworth work are usually tagged 1930 - 1972

I doubt if that picture up there was taken in the 1930s. Duckworth himself was comer inspection of education in Nigeria between 1930 and 1953.

Some probably just took the photo and slammed a 1937 date on it to mislead the unsuspecting public.

Dude try and be sensible for once. That is the date range of all their collections. The picture clearly is a 1937 picture. Stop fooling yourself with lies.

LegendHero:


You better no let me show the picture of your people in those period. Some of you never still dey wear cloth even as late as 1940s.

Let this thread just remain informative like this make we no derail am.

But Zik and Mbadiwe and the Eastern argonauts as they were called were already schooling in the US in the 30s. So why the revision of history and the lies from you?

AmalaAtiEwedu:

long before Ojukwu corrupted their tiny brain

You don't have sense

richmond500:
All I am saying is that doesn't look like items u will find in Nigerian homes in the 30's.

Dude you guys are so irredeemable. These items existed in the 30s. I don't know what you guys gain from helping politicians in your region to cause divide and rule through tribalism? Go and show this to your grand father and he will tell you they existed.

GeneralPula:

They didn’t lie..

That’s not 1937. Op is just being Mischievous. Even the image didn’t include 1937..

As at 1937, your forefathers never dey wear clothings..

Zik was already in America at that time. There was DMGS already existing at that time.

richmond500:
The first electricity utility company started in 1929, there is no way u will have electric torches a year after that.

But there was electricity generation before then naaaa. Why are you avoiding that fact.

GeneralPula:

They were mining skulls, they were also eating each other ( cannibalism )..

There’s no region that had mined skull more than SE. Go read more about Clifford Orji..

Where did Clifford Orji mine the skulls? No be SW? For all we know who taught him? No be Una, you guys are the specialists in skull mining.

richmond500:
This is not about Lagos, I am not even a Yoruba man, so calm down and engage me responsibly.
The first electricity utility company started in 1929, there is no way u will start having electric torches in 1930.
Remember 90% of Nigerian homes were mud houses with no electricity.
Also these are the kinds of items found in Nigerian homes in the early 80s, so why will there be stainless steel in the 30s?

There was stainless steel in the 30s and there was even expensive Mahogany in the 30s. Check those who were traders especially during WW2 and those who worked with the railways you will see it.

StUriah:
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Are you sure you are not on drugs?

CommonSense1967:

They were and eating human flesh like they still do today.

You don't have common sense.

CommonSense1967:
More like 1967.

Shut up

StUriah:
Continue to fool yourself and your fake Jewish parents, and your grand forebears who as at 1937 were still walking naked to the market square for Uzombu, zobu gatherings. Yeye dey smell!




Shior!

Guy you need to go to the psychiatric ward walahi. Onitsha already started having streetlights in the 40s. Main Market was already in existence in the late 20s. DMGS Onitsha already started in the late 30s and you are here saying rubbish.

Hausa:
I have to agree with you on this one. As onye Anambra through-n-through, I doubt that picture is anywhere from the 30s.
The books of the time never even mentioned a torchlight or an Umbrella. One way or another Chinua Achebe would've mentioned it in his many books.
Again, the many Umbrellas there and the hook of the Umbrella does not suggest the 30s.
Although the man seems to be with no shoes like Goodluck Jonathan at the time, the little boy's well cut hair also does not suggest the 30s.
One wonders why he has no shoes but sells many umbrellas and other interesting items.

Another thing is if they were imported, who was importing them? Igbo history has no one from the 30s doing an importation like this.
Most of the popular names of the 30s for Igbos were those who went to acquire education abroad. And it was around the late 30s to early 40s that they returned back to Nigeria. Zik, Sir Louis Mbanefo, and some few.

Give or take, that picture will be the 60s.

Dude stop trying to fake that you are igbo, the truth is you are not.
Onitsha started having street lights in the early 40s. Main Market opened in the late 30s. Most igbo traders of old started trading with the British during WW2 when it started in 1938.
Zik had already competed his schooling in the 30s alongside Sir Louis Mbanefo and Co. Mbadiwe was already schooling in the late 30s.
DMGS opened in the 30s, so it shows you are not igbo and lying for you to say what you said.

Magnumproperty:
That picture can't be taken in 1930 Lai Lai. You can only find such items in the homes of wealthy people as at that time simply because they can get them when they travel out of the country. But what will an ordinary person be doing with those items in 1930s? Who wan dash monkey banana?
If that man in the picture imported those items for sale, then he was a multi-millionaire during that period.

Railway mechanics in Nigeria has these items, stop trying to be foolish

Seunfretty:


Seconded ...I ave to say that picture roughly should be around early 60s....taking from your point and again what you all dont still notice is the quality of that picture ...most pictures in the 30s are tan and super blur....u can Google on that for more clarity....I understand the ibos have been around for a long time but that picture definitely wasnt taking in the 30s

Haaaa your ignorance is really loud. So pictures of the 30s cannot be restored is that what you are saying? That picture was in the 30s bro. Main Market started in the late 20s.

ajailer:


Thank you. This is not about tribalism, we are in the internet age where everything you see online should not be swallowed hook line and sinker without reasoning. The belt quality, lots of things does not show 1937. Items in those stall in 1937 wouldn't be sold in a mud store but rather departmental stores. Are you guys trying to tell us that in 1937, those items being sold there was accessible to the common man, still walking without shoes?

That is a 50-60s' vintage umbrella with curved handles. Umbrellas before then had straight handle. Don't know the reason for this obvious intent to deceive others.

Dude you are highly ignorant walahi. When did the departmental stores begin in Nigeria with UTC and the likes? Before then you had Syrians, Lebanese and Nigerian traders

AmalaAtiEwedu:
why are mbaise people of Imo still cannibals in this 21st century?

Why are Osun people and Abeokuta people still mining skulls in this 21st century?

sreamsense:


Stop telling lies! Accept when you are corrected with sensible proves. Many igbos were still naked as at 1960 as Reno onced proved that to you in a convincin. This can not be 1930 picture.

https://www.nairaland.com/7929053/reno-omokri-replies-iwuanyanwu

But DMGS Onitsha was a fully built secondary school in the 30s and Onitsha main market was built from an old trading post in the late 20s.
Dude try and have sense.

AsaBlackheart:


Was enjoying the thread until it somehow became tribalistic.
Not surprised though. The op is quite popular for bashing other tribes then claiming to be the victim if you dare contradict her lmfao.

Just walk away lol😂

Dude stop trying to be smart here. It is the person that made it tribalistic not the poster.

richmond500:
u just added tribalism to it.
This is very sick bruh, nobody said igbos were living in a cave in 1930, so just enjoy the thread as it is

You clearly have not met Legendhero aka Simplyleo and his clique