Seerade029:


You should stop saying what you don't know.

Just list the kings that was appointed by the Benins like Deji Osupa

Rosskivvy:


There's nothing like a ''failed country''.

Countries evolve over time. Every country began as a disorderly scrap of turf in the middle of nowhere.

Was America a ''failed country'' 60 years ago when blacks were being lynched in the streets, and denied basic rights, or when they suffered in slavery centuries before that?

Was the UK a ''failed country'' a century ago when people slept 10 to a room in London and child labour was the norm, while the aristocracy partied?

Countries evolve and develop over time, and so will Nigeria.

One day we will know all this and many other truths about our history.

PericomaNwankwo:



Edo igodomigodo is and will always be and Igboland. You can't do anything to change it. When Onicha people and Ikwerre people claim to be from Edo, do you know what that means?? They are Igbo but they are from Edo, because Edo is Igbo. It may take thousands of years but one day you all will learn your unknown history.

Zeromoney:
This story breaks my heart. So the English man came; killed our ancestors, burnt our glorious Benin city to the ground and carted away artefacts and sculptures that identify us. Now if we want to know more about the ancient Benin kingdom all we have to do is travel to the UK and visit their museums.
Is Nigeria not a failed country? A country that can't preserve its identity or teach her citizens their history shouldn't exist.

Realtalk20:


Well no apologies here

Bye

Seerade029:


You should stop saying what you don't know.

Just list the kings that was appointed by the Benins like Deji Osupa

Uchasa:
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Only God knows why Edo people suddenly developed hatred for Yorubas. I know hundreds of Edolites who disassociate themselves from Yorubas and insult Yorubas on a daily basis as if they are better. A small tribe that is known for crime and prostitution has the audacity to insult Yorubas. You guys must be out of your senses, idiots!.
As for Lagos,though am not Yoruba, Lagos is Yoruba land and no stupid Benin Wizard can claim the city![/s]

Youngjohnosas:
You feel pained knowing that an inconsequential 5 local government empire took your fore fathers as slaves .

Etinosa12345:

So u that know, why is wiki now ur source.?

Because u don't know!!!


Akure was under Benin. Ur wiki says that the Deji were nominal rulers...
Do u understand now

Lol... U've run out of steam...

Clearly the Wikipedia u were using has sold u out...


Now u are clutching at straws

Uchasa:


Only God knows why Edo people suddenly developed hatred for Yorubas. I know hundreds of Edolites who disassociate themselves from Yorubas and insult Yorubas on a daily basis as if they are better. A small tribe that is known for crime and prostitution has the audacity to insult Yorubas. You guys must be out of your senses, idiots!.
As for Lagos,though am not Yoruba, Lagos is Yoruba land and no stupid Benin Wizard can claim the city!

MhisTahrah:
It's sad we Africans don't know our history. If only Africa can return to its roots.

Seerade029:



I'm not an indegine of Akure ..
Whatever rocks you guys boat.

Backwards, witchcrafts people.
5lgs people

Rosskivvy:


Well, as the article said, Benin traded palm oil, pepper etc with them, and in return they sent guns.

And then in 1897 they invaded and burnt down the great city.

They have a lot to answer for, and will receive God's judgement.

Etinosa12345:


See this guy... He cannot prove that Akure was not a colony of Benin so u resort to insults.. that shows that u have accepted to have lost the argument

U called us backward, but the Europeans just praised our culture....

A lot of historians research our tradition daily

Since ur state is not backward, show me a complete European exposition abt ur state

All I see is tears in ur posts

Haywhysat:


Same thing I just said. He is confusing mere jokes on nairaland to real world.

Seerade029:
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I didn't insult you in all my comment.
Calling you inconsequential is not an insult but a fact.

And who cares if Europeans did exposition or not

Akure was under Benin, that was then.
Even America was under British before.


So, you guys should go and learn how to develop yourself and your state.
Stop living in past glory.[/s]

GavelSlam:
Africans, take pride in yourselves.

You have a rich history yet adopting foreign ways make you despise and diminish your culture, your ability and your future.

Wake up.

Abagworo:


There was Igodo and Idu. In Igbo folklore Igodo, Iduu and Oba form part of ancient stories transferred through generations. The chaotic wars of Benin empire around 15th century is known in Igbo as "agha Iduu n'Oba" and because it was brought by people who crossed the River Niger to settle in the East many mocked them as fairytales also known as "Akuko Iduu n'Oba" in Igbo. Ijaw also have similar stories so it cannot be false. The name Odogwu very common among Igbos represents heroic journey of a giant Igbo warrior to fight as a mercenary in Iduu n'Oba.

RemoveKebab:
yes Africa already had enough so they had no reason to seek for resources by all means adding to that, geography also left west and southern Africa in the dark.

The vast desert of north Africa isolated them in time.

Early technology exchange couldn't happen as it was between Europe and Asia.

jneutron4000:
[s]The Edos always want to disrespect the Yorubas but we just choose to let them keep on believing in what they choose to believe. The Ogiso dynasty and the Odionweres system was what they practiced before Oranmiyan came into that land. They do no want to admit that Oranmiyan lineage brought in the Obaship system to them, in order not to feel that Yorubas introduced Obaship to that land, they brought a story of Ekaladerhan with no single proof to back it up. But there are visible evidence that Oranmiyan gave birth to the very first Oba that started the Benin empire, even the heads are buried in Ife. A history fact and evidence that has put a nail to the all those story of Ekaladerhan bla bla bla is the Ekiokpagha treaty. A peace treaty between the Obaship dynasty and the Aborigines of Igodomigodo. That treaty simply show that some Yorubas migrated from Ife, mixed with some Aborigines and created the Benin empire[/s].

Rosskivvy:


Well, as the article said, Benin traded palm oil, pepper etc with them, and in return they sent guns.

And then in 1897 they invaded and burnt down the great city.

They have a lot to answer for, and will receive God's judgement.

Etinosa12345:

If the ekiokpagha treaty is true,how will the conquered be able to negotiate terms of the treaty

If Oduduwa was not a Yoruba person, how is the monarchy now Yoruba

Rosskivvy:


There's nothing like a ''failed country''.

Countries evolve over time. Every country began as a disorderly scrap of turf in the middle of nowhere.

Was America a ''failed country'' 60 years ago when blacks were being lynched in the streets, and denied basic rights, or when they suffered in slavery centuries before that?

Was the UK a ''failed country'' a century ago when people slept 10 to a room in London and child labour was the norm, while the aristocracy partied?

Countries evolve and develop over time, and so will Nigeria.

One day we will know all this and many other truths about our history.

Grandmeister:
It took a white man to tell us this.....when you can’t tell your story then others will tell it for you and shape your ideology and in so doing shape your progress as a people. Nigerians don’t value history that was why they went and elected a man who crushed the young democracy that was handed to them on a platter, and in so doing drove us into decades of military juntas and corruption..Nigerians fought and died to gain back their democracy only to hand it back to the same man who trampled upon in the past! What a people!