Quintessence44:


If Nigeria imports toothpick, what stops you from starting a toothpick manufacturing business in your backyard?

Is it the government's job to manufacture toothpicks for you?

Lazy thing typing rubbish about ''toothpick''.



''The west'' does not own technology. Nobody is ''copying the west''.

Technology began thousands of years ago, not during the 'Industrial Revolution' of 1800s Europe. All they did was build on THOUSANDS OF YEARS of African and Asian ingenuity, after looting resources and amassing great wealth from regions they captured with the firearms they built for the purpose.

So countries that are moving forward today are not ''copying the west'', any more than the west is ''copying Africa'' by using the mathematics, writing, iron smelting, astronomy, the calendar, architecture, medicine, philosophy, religion, international trade and seafaring, and other things PIONEERED BY AFRICANS.

If you want details, let me know, I will post them.

So ALL RACES are contributors to our modern civilization.

lies !!!!! Mention any scientists outside WEST ? Go on.

In the field of science/tech , who discovered what outside WEST . Mention them . I dare you

Quintessence44:


If Nigeria imports toothpick, what stops you from starting a toothpick manufacturing business in your backyard?

Is it the government's job to manufacture toothpicks for you?

Lazy thing typing rubbish about ''toothpick''.



''The west'' does not own technology. Nobody is ''copying the west''.

Technology began thousands of years ago, not during the 'Industrial Revolution' of 1800s Europe. All they did was build on THOUSANDS OF YEARS of African and Asian ingenuity, after looting resources and amassing great wealth from regions they captured with the firearms they built for the purpose.

So countries that are moving forward today are not ''copying the west'', any more than the west is ''copying Africa'' by using the mathematics, writing, iron smelting, astronomy, the calendar, architecture, medicine, philosophy, religion, international trade and seafaring, and other things PIONEERED BY AFRICANS when THEY were in the caves of the Caucasus mountains of Russia, their original home.

If you want details, let me know, I will post them.

So ALL RACES are contributors to our modern civilization.

you didnt produce any either. So , keep following the west and stop complaining and selling your useless African idol worship

Brainwashed religious fanatical fools.

Eagleways:
lies !!!!! Mention any scientists outside WEST ? Go on.

In the field of science/tech , who discovered what outside WEST . Mention them . I dare you

Let's start from the beginning, and show you that WITHOUT BLACK AFRICANS, there would be nothing like ''tech'' today.

And that AFRICA IS THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATION.



12 Great African Inventions That Changed The World



1 Speech

The first words by humans were spoken by Africans.

''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.''


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language




2 Writing


In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia."

Who were these original Egyptians?

The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair."

Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml

In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]."

''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.''

(1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html

To summarise:

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world."

- Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation.



3 Medicine

''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors..

Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine



4 Architecture

The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza

The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture



5 Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY

''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time.

The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar.

Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics

''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.

The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics



6 Mining of minerals

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining



7 Iron Smelting

Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind.

Early iron smelting:

''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting


8 Religion

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract.He wrote about the ''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt.

"They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Aithiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity,"


9 Laws

Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says:

"Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws."
Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62.



10 International Trade


In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed. He thinks that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says: "From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians [ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara] have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found. The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished."

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html


11 Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy

Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy

''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy


12 Art

The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

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CONCLUSION: Africa is the Cradle of Civilisation.

WITHOUT AFRICA, there would be NOTHING like cIvilisation or the modern world we enjoy today.

EVERYTHING STARTED HERE.

So NO RACE OF MEN CAN CLAIM SUPERIORITY OVER AFRICANS.

ReubenE:

While it is a stupid act by the state government. Are you trying to equate burning down, killing, rape and renaming of other peoples ancestral lands to replacement of a statue?

If you believe there is a symmetry between replacing a statue and invaders killing and renaming lands, you are a danger to society just like the people doing it

This is what happens when you read AND don’t understand. I know you can read. But you are just reading to respond.
I didn’t address the act of the government in my comment. I responded to someone issuing a fiat declaring SS as a Christian land.
The greater danger to society is those who can read but refuses to read.

Babangidapikin:
They took your ancestral pride away . Does the Lord Jesus know you ... People always forming as if they're more

religious

than the Pope.

Catholic

Dennisochampa:


I leave you and God to settle that.. E no concern me

I leave you and Dog to settle it. E no concern me.

alpharoyalty:
I am so angry right now.
Some people have made themselves slaves to Western and Arab religion while neglecting and unappreciative of their ancestral religion.
That governor is fvck men! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Fvck that pastor governor

What do you expect. The western and Arab religion seems to be more beneficial to their people than our ancestral religion

Oakenshield:
those monoliths are casted ones not original and hence were easily broken. Monoliths are carved upon hard rocks and go to Ikom today you will see the originals

It's not about being original or not it's about replacing them with Jesus, why replace them with Jesus?

Quintessence44:


YOUR ''JESUS'' STORY IS A FAIRYTALE BASED ON A LIE.

HE NEVER EXISTED.

AND NOBODY ACTUALLY KNOWS WHO WROTE THE SO-CALLED 'NEW TESTAMENT'.

oga , Christianity is not by force. The only sad thing is that by the time you discover who wrote it , you may not need it because it would have been too late to make a u turn by then

Opmic:

What do you expect. The western and Arab religion seems to be more beneficial to their people than our ancestral religion

How will you know how beneficial your ancestral religion is to you when you don't practise it?

When the Benin Kingdom was practicing traditional religion, its capital, Benin City was described as one of the most beautiful cities on Earth by Portuguese visitors in the 1500s, complete with palm-oil fuelled street lights, underground drainage, straight, wide roads, beautiful, multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments, a sophisticated bureaucracy and a crime-free society in which people did not build front doors to their houses because THEFT WAS UNHEARD OF.

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

Benin City, capital of the Benin Kingdom, as drawn by Mary Evans, an English visitor in 1836, showing multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. This was 60 years before the British invasion of Benin in 1897



According to the UK Guardian, ''When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, .... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

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

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REMEMBER, ALL THIS WAS WHILE THEY OBSERVED THEIR TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION.

So whoever tells you that you cannot prosper and develop when observing traditional African religion is a COLONIAL LIAR FROM HELL.

Colonialism did the worst on us. SMH.

Statue of odin. Vikings/ Norsemen idols. Borrowed gods. Even the real Scandenavians dont worship this anymore.

potent5:
Height of Irresponsibility. Brainwashed people in government.

Educated illiterates with inferiority complex.

Just shut up and rest, please.

If it were a northern state now honouring their Mohammed or Allah, you wouldn't say a single word.

Awon 'paint mixer' oshi

Oakenshield:
it's just redesigning of the roundabout it's been like that for almost 20years,so change is allowed. So around the world even if it gets stolen and sold at the black web(market) it will be returned back to it's original place

20 what? The monolith was built by the Imoke administration. That's less than 12 years ago

ezegenigbonine:
Statue of odin. Vikings/ Norsemen idols. Borrowed gods. Even the real Scandenavians dont worship this anymore.

This is STONEHENGE in England.

Ancient religious centre of traditional worship.

THEY HAVE NOT DESTROYED IT AND PUT A STATUE OF ''JESUS'' THERE.

Instead, it is a tourist attraction that is visited by MILLIONS of people every year, bringing in BILLIONS OF POUNDS to the British economy each year.

THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT INTRODUCED YOU TO ''JESUS''.

KEEP BEING FOOLISH AND THOUGHTLESS.

Stupidity

AnambraPikinSel:
Ogun punish that governor punish the useless jesus join, we're trying to erase jesu and momodu from Africa,some mumu is still forcing it on us.

ogun cannot punish the governor because your ogun has no jurisdiction over the efiks, they don't even know what ogun is.

Quintessence44:


How will you know how beneficial your ancestral religion is to you when you don't practise it?

When the Benin Kingdom was practicing traditional religion, its capital, Benin City was described as one of the most beautiful cities on Earth by Portuguese visitors in the 1500s, complete with palm-oil fuelled street lights, underground drainage, straight, wide roads, beautiful, multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments, a sophisticated bureaucracy and a crime-free society in which people did not build front doors to their houses because THEFT WAS UNHEARD OF.

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

Benin City, capital of the Benin Kingdom, as drawn by Mary Evans, an English visitor in 1836, showing multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. This was 60 years before the British invasion of Benin in 1897



According to the UK Guardian, ''When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, .... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

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

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REMEMBER, ALL THIS WAS WHILE THEY OBSERVED THEIR TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION.

So whoever tells you that you cannot prosper and develop when observing traditional African religion is a COLONIAL LIAR FROM HELL.

. Mary Evans ,A British Visitor who Visited Nigeria in 1836 ,But Wikipedia says She was in 1963.

.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Evans_(artist)

Dicoomoba:


Who told you that , did you have original Aramaic bible and there is nothing like Jesus but Yeshua please if it’s for God you must do his wish not your Church wish and for those fact Christians are not following Yeshua teachings

you are so ignorance

Deepspirituals:
. Mary Evans ,A British Visitor who Visited Nigeria in 1836 ,But Wikipedia says She was in 1963.

.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Evans_(artist)

There's no mention of 1963 on that link.

ZERO.

[quote author=Gistmedia10 post=130232375]The Cross River Government, led by Governor Bassey Otu, has demolished a historic monolith structure.

Reports indicate that it has been replaced with a statue of Jesus Christ as a shepherd leading his flocks. Additionally, the flag of Israel has been hung on the staff of the statue.

The monolith, known as the Ikom monoliths, is part of a series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom. The Ejagham people are believed to have engraved the monoliths around 200 CE.

The monolith stands between 0.3 and 1.8 metres (1 and 6 feet) high and is laid out in some 30 circles located around Alok in the Ikom area of Cross River State.

This change has sparked mixed
Educated illiterate why Israel flag not Nigeria flag

Christianity is not a white man's religion. The early Jews and Christians were brown skinned curly hair and dark eyes.

[quote author=D4gmail1 post=130233584]Chai! And who has ever seen Jesus physically that is alive today? What gives them the assurance that image is an image of Jesus? Africa needs help.[/quote
You are on point

Make dem sha shine eye before pesin go come steal that generator

Slave mentality

GodisStriking:
Christianity is not a white man's religion. The early Jews and Christians were brown skinned curly hair and dark eyes.

What does it matter if it’s black man, white man, yellow man, or purple man’s religion? Nonsense is nonsense no matter the hue and Christianity is arrant nonsense.

Once upon a time a ghost fvcked a virgin…..

KnownUnknown:


What does it matter if it’s black man, white man, yellow man, or purple man’s religion? None sense is nonsense no matter the hue and Christianity is arrant nonsense.

Once upon a time a ghost fvcked a virgin…..

I wonder if 'Joseph' really believed her story.

HABA!!! What sort of brain dead move is this??

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