Here are some of the ancient pavements of Ife, Ilorin, Benin etc dating back thousands of years before Europeans knew what a pavement was.

Our ancestors paved roads as well as their own houses and compounds, using broken potsherd edges and stones.

WHY CAN'T AREAS OF THE COUNTRY THAT HAVE NO ROADS OR SIDEWALKS, DO THIS TODAY USING OUR TRADITIONAL PAVING TECHNOLOGY?







Typical Paved Courtyard In Ancient Ife

But no.

We must wait for JULIUS BERGER of Germany, or CCECC of China before we can have paved roads or sidewalks today.

Why?

It's just terrible.

Colonialism just cut us off completely from our ancient technology which we could have developed to world class standards by now.

Instead, today we look for toxic materials to pave our surroundings, and after 3 years or less, they deteriorate with potholes everywhere.

But these ancient pavements dated thousands of years old have stood the test of time, because they are of indigenous innovation, and therefore suited perfectly to our territory and climate.

I understand we also manufactured GLASS in industrial quantities for export many hundreds of years ago, or even thousands of years ago.

Researchers have found evidence of large ancient glass factories in southwest Nigeria.

THEY KNOW OUR HISTORY, BUT WE DON'T, AND DON'T EVEN SEEM TO CARE. WHY?

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Independent Newspapers UK

Glass was Made in Africa Centuries Before Arrival of Europeans, Says New Evidence

Chemical analysis of beads found at a site in Nigeria reveals a composition entirely unique to the region

Josh Gabbatiss
Science Correspondent

''Glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa long before Europeans arrived, according to scientists studying beads found in Nigeria.

Chemical analysis of glass found at a Nigerian archaeological site revealed a distinct composition entirely unique to the region.

The finding contradicts a long-held assumption that glass was brought to sub-Saharan Africa by traders from the Mediterranean or the Middle East...''






Igbo Olokun, the site where the beads were discovered, is in the north of an ancient city and regional centre of power called Ile-Ife – the ancestral home of West Africa’s Yoruba people.

“This area has been recognised as a glass-working workshop for more than a century,” said Dr Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, an anthropologist at Harvard University who led the research project.

The abundance of glass beads found in Ile-Ife has been associated with the many shrines and sculptures historically located there – however, archaeologists have presumed they were evidence of trade with distant nations.

“The glass-encrusted containers and beads that have been uncovered there were viewed for many years as evidence that imported glass was remelted and reworked,” said Dr Babalola.

There have been suggestions over the past decade from researchers that the glass production in Ile-Ife was in fact an entirely local affair, but evidence for such an industry was lacking.

Now, the beads and glass working debris found and analysed by Dr Babalola and his collaborators appear to resolve the matter.

“The Igbo Olokun excavations have provided that evidence,” Babalola said.

Of the 12,000 glass beads found at the site, the researchers analysed 52 and found none matched the composition of glass produced anywhere else.

Two groups of glass were found at Igbo Olokun, one with high levels of lime and alumina, and one with low levels of lime and high levels of alumina.

Both were identified as unique to the region, and Dr Babalola and his team noted their composition reflected the local geology and raw materials that were available.

Notably, the glass found at Igbo Olokun was also dated to between the 1100s and 1500s, centuries before Europeans established trade networks in West Africa.

“We are now confident beyond reasonable doubt that both the high lime-high alumina and low lime, high alumina groups of glass represent a glass produced in early Ile-Ife using local recipes, raw materials and technology,” wrote the researchers in their paper documenting the findings.

Their results are published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

The occurrence of similar beads in other West African societies, as revealed by other archaeological excavations, indicated the glass produced at Igbo Olokun was part of a wider regional trading network.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glass-africa-made-before-european-arrival-colonialisation-advanced-technology-a8168601.html

I always laugh when I see these colonial brainwashed Nigerians looking down on their ancestors, simply because of how the British colonialists misrepresented and slandered them.

But our ancestors knew chemistry.

You cannot produce glass without a deep knowledge of chemistry.

How many of you now, if you were asked to produce glass, would have the slightest clue how to do it?

This is is why I have decided that EVERYTHING our ancestors did in the past deserves full respect and investigation to see if we can LEARN something from it.

INCLUDING THEIR RELIGION, which we were forced and brainwashed to abandon, in order to worship a white man we now call our ''saviour''.

TUFIA KWA.

Because if our ANCESTORS were smart enough to build paved roads, glass, and even beautiful, crime-free cities with streetlights, underground drainage and multi-storey buildings as was reported by European visitors to 15th century Benin, then THEY MUST HAVE KNOWN WHAT THEY WERE DOING WITH THEIR RELIGION and SYSTEMS OF ADMINISTRATION AS WELL.

Oh, one last thing. Our ancestors built the largest man-made structure existing on EARTH today.

Only visible in its entirety from OUTER SPACE.

The Benin Wall and Rampart system.

It was recorded in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records as being 4 times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consuming a hundred times more material than was used to build the largest pyramid in Egypt, the Pyramid of Khufu.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Today, we are prominent in the Guinness Book of Records for winning the longest cooking contest in a kitchen.

Just to show you the heights from which we have fallen.

This would have been a painstaking process with a noble outcome. Engineering is as old as you can imagine.

Dronedude:
This would have been a painstaking process with a noble outcome. Engineering is as old as you can imagine.

Indeed, my brother. We have so much to learn about our past, it's unreal.

The town of the discovery of one of the largest glass factories is called Igbo Olokun.

Very interesting name.

I read that there were places in Yorubaland that were once settled by ancient Igbos.

Is this place one of them?

Honestly, we are more intelligent than these white people... I don't know what went wrong with the black race. We didn't believe in ourselves

Rexymania:
Honestly, we are more intelligent than these white people... I don't know what went wrong with the black race. We didn't believe in ourselves

Ya, igbos were the first to identify the concept of chromosome through the igbo-ukwu artifact

The west came to underdevelop us

Rexymania:
Honestly, we are more intelligent than these white people... I don't know what went wrong with the black race. We didn't believe in ourselves

The problem was, they got carried away by foreign religion. People may deny this for all they care, but it's only indoctrination that can make a man believe a religion of double standards

Broveens42:


Ya, igbos were the first to identify the concept of chromosome through the igbo-ukwu artifact

Hmmm can you imagine?

ridwanlawal:
The west came to underdevelop us

Ya, a society that breeds injustice(religious double standards) will eliminate conscientious peace of mind.
That's why a typical Nigeria will spend all his money building a fence, with little or none to make his home comfortable.(underdevelopment)

Today, most homes abroad still use ornaments/plants to demercate their compounds, something that was very common in Igbo land

ridwanlawal:
The west came to underdevelop us

You expected those that took millions of slaves from Africa to develop you!

Rexymania:
Honestly, we are more intelligent than these white people... I don't know what went wrong with the black race. We didn't believe in ourselves

I was a deliberate programme of colonial brainwashing after the military invasions with firearms.

It started with their forcing their christian religion on us. They did this by seizing the resources of the land by military force, and then insisting that access to those resources was possible only by graduating from their English missionary schools, and getting a job as a clerk, teacher etc.

To be admitted into the schools you had to relinquish your religion, get baptised, and get an English name.

Eventually the most powerful chiefs and merchants felt obliged to send their kids to the schools, so they would not midd out in the new dispensation, and their kids went there, and were forced to abandoned their traditional knowledge, technology, religion etc, which was subjected to the most vicious vilification and slander in those schools, such that anyone who attended them began to look down on everything African.

Till the point we are at today, where anything suggestive of ancestral intelligence and knowledge is scorned and dismissed by ourselves.

Pure colonial brainwashing.

These ancestors we are talking about did not see God as a white person. They did not see their 'saviour' as a white man.

God to them was BLACK LIKE THEM.

When you have that kind of mindset, how can you lack self belief or feel inferior or incapable?

Anything you want to do, you will just do.

Imagine ordinary road construction, we rely on foreign companies. What a shame of gargantuan proportion. There's almost no road commission today where you don't see white people dragging seats with our governors.

How many people get car that time? Dangote truck go scatter this one

Have always said that the problem of Africa is the Blackman of today not our ancestors

Beautifulday:
How many people get car that time? Dangote truck go scatter this one

You don’t KNOW that, so shush.

You have NO CLUE.

Plus the way technological development works is that had we needed the roads to be stronger in order to carry vehicles, we would have found a way to strengthen the roads with the same indigenous technological mindset that we used in creating the pavements in the first place.

Nothing was beyond our ancestors once they put their minds to it.

RenaissanceGuy:
Imagine ordinary road construction, we rely on foreign companies. What a shame of gargantuan proportion. There's almost no road commission today where you don't see white people dragging seats with our governors.

It’s a pity.

My ambition is go to my village and recreate these pavements in areas that need them, like our village square and some inner roads.

I will find elders who still retain the knowledge of how to do it, and we’ll learn from them and do it.

I fit use am start business self, helping folks to pave their courtyards, compounds, schools, etc.

Where are relics of those pavings today? It was not consistent.

Broveens42:


The problem was, they got carried away by foreign religion. People may deny this for all they care, but it's only indoctrination that can make a man believe a religion of double standards

The whitemans religion killed our self belief. What we could do for ourselves, we rather pray to god to do for us.

The government should fix our roads. All these thread won’t solve anything.

Rexymania:
Honestly, we are more intelligent than these white people... I don't know what went wrong with the black race. We didn't believe in ourselves

Study both histories you will understand better, nothing is wrong with the black man that is why you do better than them when you are put in the same situation. Quote me if you really want to know what gave them edge over us

Ddeliverer007:
The government should fix our roads. All these thread won’t solve anything.

“Government should…”

Na im dey kill una.

Before the whites came and taught you rubbish, EVERYBODY was “government”.

Communities took independent decisions and built up, and maintained their environment without waiting for something called “government” to wipe their butts.

Today, even to pick up the trash in front of your compounds is something “the government” must do for you.

Otherwise your neighbourhood becomes a slum.

Useless generation.

Topman7:
The town of the discovery of one of the largest glass factories is called Igbo Olokun.

Very interesting name.

I read that there were places in Yorubaland that were once settled by ancient Igbos.

Is this place one of them?

Igbo Olokun
Igbo Ora

Igbo Awaye.....etc

Igbo in this case stands for Forest/Woods

babasolution:
Have always said that the problem of Africa is the Blackman of today not our ancestors

Our ancestors were actually the problem. They thought the white man was superior. They sold their brothers and sisters to the Arabs and Europeans in exchange for rabble ( beads, knives, gin, clothes, gunpowder, etc)

The same mentality continues today across Africa.

predictor1:
Our ancestors were actually the problem. They thought the white man was superior. They sold their brothers and sisters to the Arabs and Europeans in exchange for rabble ( beads, knives, gin, clothes, gunpowder, etc)

The same mentality continues today across Africa.

Who sold their “brothers and sisters”?

Which history book did you read that one?

Ignorance.

War captives who would normally have been exiled or killed were simply sold off when there was demand by foreigners for labour.

Nobody went about “selling their brothers and sisters”.

In Europe at the same time they would fight wars and simply massacre their captives, so which was better? Selling or killing?

jazzman7711:


“Government should…”

Na im dey kill una.

Before the whites came and taught you rubbish, EVERYBODY was “government”.

Communities took independent decisions and built up, and maintained their environment without waiting for something called “government” to wipe their butts.

Today, even to pick up the trash in front of your compounds is something “the government” must do for you.

Otherwise your neighbourhood becomes a slum.

Useless generation.

The problem is y’all all Sub-literate. You think you know but you know nothing. The government doesn’t give us light, they don’t give us water, they don’t give us anything. We benefit nothing from the government. Absolutely nothing…but fools like you want us to start building roads while the government wine and dine and travel the world with our common patrimony.
Our roads are death traps, you hail the government for leaving it that way but tax paying citizens should pick that up too and start building and constructing roads. You think you are wise, but you are indeed very foolish.
No light, na we buy gen.
No water, we run borehole.
No jobs, we created businesses.
No security, we secured ourselves.
Now we should start building roads and bridges too??
Fools.

jazzman7711:


Who sold their “brothers and sisters”?

Which history book did you read that one?

Ignorance.

War captives who would normally have been exiled or killed were simply sold off when there was demand by foreigners for labour.

Nobody went about “selling their brothers and sisters”.

In Europe at the same time they would fight wars and simply massacre their captives, so which was better? Selling or killing?

The African slave trade, both transatlantic and trans Saharan was the worst form of slavery in the history of the world. You are the ignorant one.

The Africans didn't just wage wars to subdue their neighbors, they waged wars to capture slaves who were sold to Arabs and Europeans! The Europeans encouraged them in the beginning but later joined in these slave raids.

In the end it was the same Europeans who had to force the Arabs and the African kings to stop the trade. King Gezo in Dahomey was particularly wicked, same with the Niger Delta kings and the fulanis.

Artscollection:


Study both histories you will understand better, nothing is wrong with the black man that is why you do better than them when you are put in the same situation. Quote me if you really want to know what gave them edge over us

Would like to know