Ibrahim mr fish: I think the problem with this somali and ethopian guys is ignorant.They have zero knowlagde of west Africa.Image,someone say,that somali fall in the hand of european by 1900,so that make them better than us,stupid boy,sokoto empire fall under british control in 1903,do u see us jumping up and down.Edo and ashanti empir gave the british more fight than,somali.Try and check the history of somari tore,Oyo empire and borno empire.

sambos994:

Now I wonder why...

Jayvarley: I don't consider Somali's black as most claim they are not however when they go to Arab countries they are RACIALLY abused. I wonder WHY

lepasharon: Somalia,where are you now?..come nd talk to us

nkemdilem:

Guys, this "girl" is no Ethiopian. I can tell from "her" writing that "she" just copied some words from forums or social websites. "nnati" "Abati" "nkula"
This "girl" must be a scammer. Remember this post from 2011?
So The Beautiful Semira22 Turns Out To Be A Lagos Boy From Ajegunle?

KidStranglehold:

Yet the multiple sources disagree with you.

In 1889 the Italians colonised the south of the territory which is now part of Somalia. This area became known as Italian Somaliland.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/so-itso.html

The Italians only helped you guys out of vengeance for the Ethiopians whooping their white @$$es and embarrassing them in front of their white bretherns. Italy tried another attempt to colonize Ethiopia, but it was short lived. The British and Ethiopians together easily defeated them. Italy was getting their @$$es kicked all throughout Africa not only by the British but some Africans.

Also...Doesn't Ethiopia still control Somali land I believe you don't know your facts and neither do you know how to spell.

rigormortis:


oh my word!!!! naija and ghana are talking and somalia whose president rules from a foreign country is talking.....you ppl who cant survive a day without foreign aid....

KidStranglehold:


Former Italian colony, eastern Africa. It extended south from Cape Asir to the boundary of Kenya, occupying an area of 178,218 sq mi (461,585 sq km). Italy obtained control of it in 1889 and it was incorporated as a state in Italian East Africa in 1936. Britain invaded in 1941 and retained control until it became a UN trust territory under Italian administration in 1950. In 1960 it was united with British Somaliland to form the independent Republic of Somalia.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/297357/Italian-Somaliland


Stop kidding yourself.

Horus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzVX_OHnOE

white man tells truth about black egypt

Kingmojo:

Keep talking in past tense, we had, we had. When one looks a somalis and Somalia we see misery, skinny people with deform head looking like Et with bad dental work, illiterates, malnourished people who can not perform in sports. Exactly what are somalis good at. Heck y'all can't even feed yourself, the whole world has to feed y'all or y'all will all die. Heck you don't even have mental capacity or the strength to swat flies away when they start buzzing around your face.

Name one thing somalis are good at.

Scratch that, let me rephrase that name one positive thing that somalis are good at becasue the only thing that comes to mind when I think of somali, chaos, famine, malnutrition people with bad teeth, pirates, illiterates. Not a single positive thing

KidStranglehold:

Stop with the lies you Kumayo!

You dont even know your own Somali history! The Italians came to Somalia well BEFORE the 1930s during the scramble of Africa. They failed to colonize Ethiopia, but they colonize Somalia along with the British. Come on son...


Are you serious nigga? Meanwhile Haiti was independent!

birdman: somalia11 nairaland is driving you crazy. i advize you to take some time off. seriously

KidStranglehold:
1. Somalis were enslaved by the weak@$$ Italians. How pathetic. How can you lose to the Italians?
2. Somalis never controlled all the East coast. What are you even talking about? They only controlled part of the horn. Before the Portuguese and Oman take over of the Swahili coast, the Swahili were the ones who had a significant influence on trade and interactions with non Africans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InkYI9Bvua8
^^Go to 29:06


And Mansa Musa had Ethiopian slaves. Big whoop.

KidStranglehold: One misconception people have about Africans is that Africans never used ships and sailed from Africa whether its been for trade or discover. That could be put to rest, because East Africans such as the Swahili have used ships and sailing was one of their main practices(See my thread East African sailors/traders in Asia)
https://www.nairaland.com/1290580/east-african-sailors-traders-asia

Swahili people were able to sail to Arabia, India, Malaysia and even as far as China. Sailing was important among Muslim Africans and the Mali Empire was an Muslim empire. So the misconception about Africans not being able to sail is a false one, Africans such as the Swahili have soon to be master sailors.

Some Swahili ships...



Many West African kingdoms utilized the rivers, especially the Niger to establish economic and military power. West Africans mastered riverine travel very early and eventually developed seagoing ships that they used not only around the coastline but even to settle islands off the coast. The Bijagós Archipelago near the coast of Guinea-Bissau was settled very early long before European contact. All of this contradicts the widespread misconception that Africans never ventured into the seas. It also makes sense of the data you and others provided about Europeans contending with native West African naval fleets off the coasts.

KidStranglehold:

Now...Let me list mines.

1. My ancestors defeated three world superpowers...The French, British and Spanish. With their independence they put a dent in slavery but worse...Put a huge injury on the French. They made it possible for the USA to purchase Luisana. Not only that but they allowed free slaves to enter their country. Barely any black group has been able to do that!
^^^Real contribution

2. The people in Djenne of Mali during the Mali Empire were skilled enough to perform Cataract surgery. Do you know what cataract surgery is This video should explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go82c4f1emc
^^^Real contribution

3. The Mali Empire under Mansa Musa was the RICHEST in the world. And I mean richest. They had a complete monopoly on gold and salt which was VERY important. Mansa Musa imported many people from the Near East and North Africa to build mosque and universities and further making the Sahel region of South Africa the richest place. Mansa Musa was noted to be the RICHEST MAN OF ALL TIME!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali

Also Malian gold financed the European Renaissance.
^^^REAL CONTRIBUTION.

4. Sunni Ali Ber made the Songhai empire the LARGEST AFRICA HAS EVER SEEN! Under Askia it became even larger. Askia increased trade and many people from Europe, Near East and North Africa came to Timbuktu to trade because Timbuktu was so successful.
^^^Real Contribution.

5. The Bantu Swahilis linked China, India, Near East and Malaysia to Africa. The Swahili were basically the middle men. Meanwhile the Sahel kingdoms such as Mansa Musa linked the Mediterranean and Near East to Africa. Again because the Mali Empire had a monopoly on gold.

6. The Western "Sudan"(West Africa) were able to keep the Muslim world as a whole dependent on Trans-Saharan trade.

"Trans-Saharan Trade and the West African Discovery of the Mediterranean World" by Pekka Masonen

http://www.smi.uib.no/paj/Masonen.html

The principal reason why the North African traders were willing to accommodate in the local conditions in Western Africa, was the same as in the case of Europeans in China: it was the only way to continue the profitable trade. Before the European discovery of America, West African mines were the most important single source of gold both for Northern Africa and Europe; it is estimated that two-thirds of all the gold circulating in the Mediterranean area in the Middle Ages was imported across the Sahara. This made the uninterrupted continuity of trade more important for North African rulers than their West African counterparts. The demand for salt, for which the Arabs bartered the gold in Western Africa, is usually overemphasized in the historiography. Contrariwise, the Saharan rock salt was an expensive luxury product and available to the wealthy people only. Furthermore, it could be quite easily substituted by locally produced salt from plants and soil, whereas the North African rulers could not obtain gold for their coins elsewhere.

However, the position of the powerful states of the West African savanna was not based on the possession of the gold reserves, but on the control over the principal trade routes leading from the desert edge terminals to the gold fields in the south. In this way, the rulers of northern savanna could monopolize the trade, and they strictly prevented the Arabs to establish any direct contacts with the actual producers of gold. Inside Western Africa, the trade was carried on by local brokers, or the Dyula.

^^^REAL CONTRIBUTION

7. The Senegalese were one of the only Africans to constantly visit a European country and not only that speak the language! WELL BEFORE COLONIZATION!
Similarly, it was another channel for West Africans to the outside world: in 1594 a Portuguese navigator reported that he had in Senegal met many blacks who were not only capable of speaking French but have even visited France. It was only during the age of imperialism that the encounter of West Africans with other civilisations turned definitely from controlled relationship to collision.
http://www.smi.uib.no/paj/Masonen.html

8. The Swahili and Malians were one of the few Africans to have an advanced toilets with drains leading to the sewage!

9. West Africans were one of the first Africans to smelt iron(independently). The Bantu people spread this technology to other parts of Africa and civilized those pats also.
^^^Real contribution.

10. Timbuktu was one of the richest and most educated cities in Africa. It was larger than medieval London. It was basically the African version of Athens what I like to call it. It was so educated that many non Africans like Europeans and Middle Easterners(including Jews) wanted to study there!!!

BEAT THAT!

Black Kenichi:
............Yawn!


Yet still dirt poor and suffering from famine! Still, I can't take away the low HIV rate!


So what!?


Somalis have been enslaved. As for Somalis looking better, NO WAY. Somali women are way overrated and Somali men are just so scrawny. Compare the likes of Usain Bolt to Mo Farah in terms of overall sex appeal.
Usain wins hands down!

lepasharon: Ok..im glad you know about the fulanis..the resemblance between you two is uncanny,i knew there must be some connection.

Let me again say..black are labelling u guys so,because of ignorance ... I personally know you guys are distinct from us, culturally ,linguistically and spiritually..so calm down.

lepasharon: hwo do you feel about negros who are muslim?

lepasharon:




beauty is in the eye of the beholder ! Negros are light skin too,our hair comes in difeerent textures too. We dont need that

anyway..how do you feel about negros who do accept that cushites are not black?

and cushites who want to identify with being negroid?


Ohh..nd ur women straighten their hair

KidStranglehold: This Tutsi is Bantu and related to other Bantu speakers, yet does not look Negroid?


Funny Tutsi were thought to be Hamtic like Somalis, yet modern DNA shows they are closely related to their Bantu bretherns who look like this!!!



Again why is that

KidStranglehold:


You say you don't believe in race yet you use outdated terms like Negroid. SMDH...Be consistent please.

And you still have no even any valuable reasons why African Americans or West Africans would want to claim horners other than the way horners looks.

KidStranglehold: Still waiting for those five contribution.

lepasharon:

cos blacks beleive that cushites are black thats why they want to claim u guys

KidStranglehold:

Name me at least 5 contributions Somalis made to Africa(or even the world) and I'll name you 10 contributions blacks(whether they be West African, Bantu or diaspora) made.

This should be really fun...

Adamskuty: un suri maka beru ni e dey plentiii kuji maro dam bu rur wazobia?

lepasharon: @ somalia...im pretty sure that balcks are not aware that there is no link between ancient egypt nd w.africa. U are making it sound like a conspiracy that blaks want to accept horners to claim egypt...not so.

yousuf12: Marka aa dadka daftit ban ku daafi abaha isha ka wase

tyson55:

Are you really this stûpid or you create all this nonsensical thread just to rile people up?

You come across as imbecilic and mentally deranged nincompoop, you need to be locked up for good.