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We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by jazzman7711: 3:08pm On May 08
BAN Christianity, BAN Islam and other foreign religions from this country and continent.

The RACIAL INFERIORITY COMPLEX most of our people have STARTS WITH THIS FOLLOWING OF THESE WORTHLESS FOREIGN RELIGIONS THAT TEACH OUR PEOPLE TO FEEL INFERIOR TO OTHER RACES, AND ELEVATE THEIR CULTURE AND HISTORY OVER OURS.

I HATE CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM WITH A PASSION BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID TO THE AFRICAN MIND.

DISASTROUS, FILTHY, GUTTER RELIGIONS THAT ARE UTTERLY WORTHLESS.

BAN THEM ALL.

If we must have a religion, we must return to, and update/rebrand our AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION.

UNTIL YOU DO THAT, YOU REMAIN CONQUERED SLAVES OF ARABS AND EUROPEANS, AND AN UTTER DISGRACE OF A PEOPLE.

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Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by Quintessence44: 4:58pm On May 08
Real talk.

Enough of the ‘follow follow’.

It’s so demeaning that an African thinks he has to fly to Mecca, Israel, Rome etc, to meet God, when Africa was actually known as the Land of the Gods in the ancient world.

In Homer’s famous poem, The Iliad, the Greek god Zeus traveled frequently to “the land of the blameless Ethiopians” to rest.

“Ethiopia” was the Greek name for all of Africa south of Egypt, and the “Ethiopians”, were said to be noble, upright, and favoured by the Gods.

So how has the teacher turned student?

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Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by Everyday247: 7:16pm On May 08
Question boss, who is this "WE" that is going do the banning?

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Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MrBrownJay1(m): 8:40pm On May 08
jazzman7711:
BAN Christianity, BAN Islam and other foreign religions from this country and continent.
The RACIAL INFERIORITY COMPLEX most of our people have STARTS WITH THIS FOLLOWING OF THESE WORTHLESS FOREIGN RELIGIONS THAT TEACH OUR PEOPLE TO FEEL INFERIOR TO OTHER RACES, AND ELEVATE THEIR CULTURE AND HISTORY OVER OURS.
I HATE CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM WITH A PASSION BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID TO THE AFRICAN MIND.
DISASTROUS, FILTHY, GUTTER RELIGIONS THAT ARE UTTERLY WORTHLESS.
BAN THEM ALL.
If we must have a religion, we must return to, and update/rebrand our AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION.
UNTIL YOU DO THAT, YOU REMAIN CONQUERED SLAVES OF ARABS AND EUROPEANS, AND AN UTTER DISGRACE OF A PEOPLE.

why ban something that is not detrimental to others? when did religion teach that any race is inferior than other and/or elevate a culture/history over others? if xtians/muslims want to worship an invisible god, how is that a problem to others? isnt it that same African juju that people use to do ritual killings? have you ever heard of any of these xtian killing lately?

as much as i dont believe in this Religion mambo jambo, who are you thinking that you can decide what others do with their own life?
to each their own misery in life.

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Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MaxInDHouse(m): 3:05am On May 09
MrBrownJay1:

as much as i dont believe in this Religion mambo jambo, who are you thinking that you can decide what others do with their own life?
to each their own misery in life.

The blind man heard bus conductors shouting each call the destination of his own bus told the man holding his hands:
"Why can't these noisemakers be stopped?"
Abeg without the conductor's utterances how will the person guiding the blind man know the right bus to enter? smiley

Some people just wake up from their slumber only to start making demands without thinking is it religion that's affecting you or foreign policies that's totally against your culture and traditions?
Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang:
" When we first start school~teacher be teacher#
For university~Lecturer be teacher#
When we start work~government be teacher#
Who be government teacher?~Culture and tradition#
"

You trash your language, Culture, Tradition, Policies even mode of dressing only to start calling for the ban on religion that people chose freely!
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by jazzman7711: 11:35pm On May 14
MaxInDHouse:


The blind man heard bus conductors shouting each call the destination of his own bus told the man holding his hands:
"Why can't these noisemakers be stopped?"
Abeg without the conductor's utterances how will the person guiding the blind man know the right bus to enter? smiley

Some people just wake up from their slumber only to start making demands without thinking is it religion that's affecting you or foreign policies that's totally against your culture and traditions?
Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang:
" When we first start school~teacher be teacher#
For university~Lecturer be teacher#
When we start work~government be teacher#
Who be government teacher?~Culture and tradition#
"

You trash your language, Culture, Tradition, Policies even mode of dressing only to start calling for the ban on religion that people chose freely!

You did not choose foreign religion ''freely''.

It was IMPOSED on you by foreign invaders after slaughtering your ancestors.


The British invaders seized the resources of the land and made it such that in order to earn a good income, you had to pass through their 'missionary schools', get a 'western' education, and get a job as a clerk or whatever.

So there was a clamour by folks to get into their schools.

But there was a little problem.

To be admitted into the missionary school, you had to drop your traditional religion, convert to christianity, get baptised, and get an English name!

THAT is why you bear English names today, while carrying bible up and down.

Your indoctrinated forbears passed the habit down to you.

It was pure economic blackmail.

'You adopt our god or you don't eat.'

Now their fcking god has become your ''only personal saviour and lord'', or whatever rubbish you people say.

Awon Zombie.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCISUKgPKRU&ab_channel=n3ph3sh
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:49am On May 15
jazzman7711:

You did not choose foreign religion ''freely''.

It was IMPOSED on you by foreign invaders after slaughtering your ancestors.


Childish thoughts!

I was a Muslim before i converted to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses so nobody imposed any religion on me i freely chose what i know it's benefits.

Secondly if you're thinking something was imposed on your neighbour remember that we grew up to know so many things that we have changed over the years so why do you think people stick to their religion if it's of no use to them?

Guy it's understandable that you feel different from others but you can't impose your opinion on others everyone is free to hold onto whatever opinion as long as they're not hurting their neighbours! smiley
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by HellVictorinho6(m): 10:33am On May 15
MaxInDHouse:


The blind man heard bus conductors shouting each call the destination of his own bus told the man holding his hands:
"Why can't these noisemakers be stopped?"
Abeg without the conductor's utterances how will the person guiding the blind man know the right bus to enter? smiley

Some people just wake up from their slumber only to start making demands without thinking is it religion that's affecting you or foreign policies that's totally against your culture and traditions?
Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang:
" When we first start school~teacher be teacher#
For university~Lecturer be teacher#
When we start work~government be teacher#
Who be government teacher?~Culture and tradition#
"

You trash your language, Culture, Tradition, Policies even mode of dressing only to start calling for the ban on religion that people chose freely!

Both of u dey ment 4 here
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:42pm On May 15
HellVictorinho6:

Both of u dey ment 4 here
Please i don't have ₦1,000 to spare for beggars maybe some other time!
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by HellVictorinho6(m): 2:45pm On May 15
MaxInDHouse:

Please i don't have ₦1,000 to spare for beggars maybe some other time!


Who dash u 1k werey
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MightySparrow: 11:21pm On May 15
Foolish talk of the millennium.

What has the gods of your fathers profit them/us? Oyinbo came with religion, education and improved our quality of life.

What exactly were blacks before Oyinbo came to Africa?
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by jazzman7711: 3:43am On May 16
MightySparrow:
Foolish talk of the millennium.

What has the gods of your fathers profit them/us? Oyinbo came with religion, education and improved our quality of life

How do you know what your ''quality of life'' was like before they came, when you are a historical illiterate?

Have you spent even ONE HOUR of your entire life reading any African history book?

The quality of life when they left in 1960 was mass illiteracy and mass malnutrition after looting your resources for a century, are you aware of that?

Point at one single public school, industry, useful infrastructure, or university that they built between 1886 and 1960.

ANSWER IS ZERO.

The only reason YOU can even read and write today, unlike your illiterate grandparents under colonialism, is because the invaders were driven out in 1960 and black govts began building the nation from Point zero.


What exactly were blacks before Oyinbo came to Africa?

Learn about Benin City, which was essentially the capital of southern Nigeria before colonial invasion. This is from the UK's Guardian newspaper.

THEY know your history and YOU don't.

1836 drawing of Benin City by English artist, Mary Evans, showing multi-storey buildings and large public monuments, 60 years before the British invasion of Nigeria

Benin City was described as ‘wealthy and industrious, well-governed and richly decorated’.


Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace

Guardian Newspaper, UK

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


With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?



This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

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”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. 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.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).

Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:02am On May 16
jazzman7711:


How do you know what your ''quality of life'' was like before they came, when you are a historical illiterate?

Have you spent even ONE HOUR of your entire life reading any African history book?

The quality of life when they left in 1960 was mass illiteracy and mass malnutrition after looting your resources for a century, are you aware of that?

Point at one single public school, industry, useful infrastructure, or university that they built between 1886 and 1960.

ANSWER IS ZERO.

The only reason YOU can even read and write today, unlike your illiterate grandparents under colonialism, is because the invaders were driven out in 1960 and black govts began building the nation from Point zero.




Learn about Benin City, which was essentially the capital of southern Nigeria before colonial invasion. This is from the UK's Guardian newspaper.

THEY know your history and YOU don't.

1836 drawing of Benin City by English artist, Mary Evans, showing multi-storey buildings and large public monuments, 60 years before the British invasion of Nigeria

Benin City was described as ‘wealthy and industrious, well-governed and richly decorated’.


Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace

Guardian Newspaper, UK

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


With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?



This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

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”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. 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.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).

Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

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

You can ban whatever in your own heart, apartment or house but that's where your authority ends not in the public! undecided
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MightySparrow: 12:37pm On May 17
jazzman7711:


How do you know what your ''quality of life'' was like before they came, when you are a historical illiterate?

Have you spent even ONE HOUR of your entire life reading any African history book?

The quality of life when they left in 1960 was mass illiteracy and mass malnutrition after looting your resources for a century, are you aware of that?

Point at one single public school, industry, useful infrastructure, or university that they built between 1886 and 1960.

ANSWER IS ZERO.

The only reason YOU can even read and write today, unlike your illiterate grandparents under colonialism, is because the invaders were driven out in 1960 and black govts began building the nation from Point zero.




Learn about Benin City, which was essentially the capital of southern Nigeria before colonial invasion. This is from the UK's Guardian newspaper.

THEY know your history and YOU don't.

1836 drawing of Benin City by English artist, Mary Evans, showing multi-storey buildings and large public monuments, 60 years before the British invasion of Nigeria

Benin City was described as ‘wealthy and industrious, well-governed and richly decorated’.


Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace

Guardian Newspaper, UK

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


With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?



This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

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”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. 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.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).

Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

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



Ọgá go and sii daun.

I live in Benin now. Nothing shows anything of the description above. No archeological evidence. The only thing we see here today as relics of antiquity are artefacts. No African nation, produced any roofing sheets, sewage system, water distribution, science based agriculture. They all sacrificed to demons for any problems. Common instruments for monitoring time we did not have. The reason for African Time today! Twins were being sacrificed to idols. Superstition, taboos, were esteemed. No one dared question the nature.

Funny enough, we Oyinbo came, our ancestors mistook them for gods.


In Yoruba land you would hear names like Oguntoyinbo, Fatoyinbo! The priced idols are not up to white men.

Be deceiving yourself. Oyinbo and their foreign culture, God, civilization have not done us any evil.

They have come to show us light.
Today, only problems the world has are blacks and Arabs. Arab, without Islam would be heaven on earth. Black race is the dreg of humanity: what has blacks contributed to the world? Olympic games from Italy, football from England, science from Europe.... Algebra and modern nedicine from Arabs .
On
Mention one thing black race has put international table!
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by Aemmyjah(m): 2:50pm On May 17
MightySparrow:




Ọgá go and sii daun.

I live in Benin now. Nothing shows anything of the description above. No archeological evidence. The only thing we see here today as relics of antiquity are artefacts. No African nation, produced any roofing sheets, sewage system, water distribution, science based agriculture. They all sacrificed to demons for any problems. Common instruments for monitoring time we did not have. The reason for African Time today! Twins were being sacrificed to idols. Superstition, taboos, were esteemed. No one dared question the nature.

Funny enough, we Oyinbo came, our ancestors mistook them for gods.


In Yoruba land you would hear names like Oguntoyinbo, Fatoyinbo! The priced idols are not up to white men.

Be deceiving yourself. Oyinbo a d their foreign culture, God, civilization have not done us any evil.

They have come to show us light.
Today, only problems the world has are blacks and Arabs. Arab, without Islam would be heaven on earth. Black race is the dreg of humanity: what has blacks contributed to the world? Olympic games from Italy, football from England, science from Europe.... Algebra and modern nedicine from Arabs .
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Mention one thing black racon the internae has put international table!




So God came from the Oyinbo?
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by MightySparrow: 5:36pm On May 17
Aemmyjah:


So God came from the Oyinbo?


No, God sent them to us. Many of the earliest missionaries died here in Africa. They dedicated their lives for us.

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Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by VIKLEX(m): 3:39pm On May 18
@jazzman it warms my heart greatly to read a post such as yours. Reading through your post bolsters my hope in the awakening of the black race. It will be a long and arduous process because over time we have come to see ourselves inferior to the white race and such thinking is evidenced in some of the replies to your post. However it was necessary that we forget who we are so that the white man will be empowered to rule the world for a time, it would have been utterly impossible for them to do so otherwise. But a seed has been sown nonetheless, and in time an ardent desire to know who we really are will arise within black men and women.
Nigeria is a pivotal point for the imminent change that is about to overtake the black race and the entire world because the time of our spiritual slumber and self forgetfulness is over. If half our people had even just the slightest inkling of who they really are and their true history the change will be instantaneous! Well done brother.

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Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by TheAdvocate(m): 6:09pm On May 18
Great!
Let's also ban every technology and revert back to our stone age and start living in the caves with no clothes on.
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by Jokerman(m): 6:16pm On May 18
So your error filled African religion of idol worship is the way to God the creator??
Re: We Should BAN All Foreign Religions To Move Forward by Iamanoited: 7:46am
RELIGION IS RELATING TO LEGENDS. HERE IN NIGERIA WE STILL RELATE TO AZIKIWE, AWOLOWO AND AHMADU BELLO.

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