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Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 2:23am On Feb 23 |
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Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 2:26am On Feb 23 |
When we tell you people that without AFRICA and AFRICANS, there would be nothing like CIVILIZATION today, una no go hear. Keep worshiping oyinbo and looking down on yourselves. Na una ignorance cause am. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 2:30am On Feb 23 |
The first empires of China, Japan, Korea, Europe, were BLACK AFRICAN EMPIRES. Our ancestors went there and taught them writing, mathematics, administration, religion, architecture, medicine etc etc. That so-called Chinese medicine for instance, is just our African medicine that our ancestors took there and taught them. Today they are exporting it to us, and we snub our own traditional medicine! Even Buddha was an African man that took our African religion there. And they call it Buddhism today! They just packaged it and gave it a nice name! While WE look down on our own religion, and instead of packaging and modernising it, we call it ''barbaric, backward, primitive, juju'' etc etc.. And now we worship some European INVENTED white man as our ''saviour''? Can you imagine? In fact the British messed up our heads big time. THEY FCKD US UP. How do we recover and become WHOLE again? And you wonder why there is corruption and all this stuff? Why will there not be when you people don't know who you are? You are like a tree disconnected from its roots. How will such a tree stand solidly on the ground? Impossible. You will be shaking and wobbling and fumbling all over the place. That's why we're like this today. No other reason. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 2:33am On Feb 23 |
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Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 2:36am On Feb 23 |
This amazing video delves into it all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oy_XT4JDLU&ab_channel=AfricanHistoryStation 2 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 2:48am On Feb 23 |
Ajanta Caves, India. The first Indians were black Africans from Ethiopia 2 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by AsaBlackheart(m): 3:10am On Feb 23 |
So we should focus on "past irrelevant glories" instead of pushing for a better future? Who tf cares if Africans were in china 15 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 3:23am On Feb 23 |
AsaBlackheart: Can you see the dumb, ignorant attitude they have? Unlike a thoughtless air head like you, the likes of China, Japan, and the UK, built their societies to become places were ETHICS ensure that corruption and vices are MINIMISED for the progress of their society. How did they do it? The British rallied around the Protestant Ethic of their heritage. The Chinese rallied around the principles of Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucianism is taught to Chinese kids from age 3. By the time they reach 18, nobody needs to tell them that they must not steal national resources, or prefer foreign made over Chinese made, or kidnap their fellow Chinese to make quick money, or traffic drugs, or loot the treasury once they get into power. The Japanese rallied around Nihonjinron (ancient Japanese values). WHAT DO YOU RALLY AROUND? Don't use your brain and see how other societies lifted themselves by drawing on their history, you hear? Keep seeing your history as ''irrelevant''. In the next 200 years, your descendants, if they remain as dumb and thick as you, will still be attacking their leaders for corruption and mismanagement and looting. Mumu people brainwashed to self-hate. The South and Eastern Africans are actually smarter, and it shows, by their adoption of UBUNTU principles. That's why they are far more organized and far less corrupt than Nigeria. Ghana's NKRUMAIST principles has led them on a more progressive, far less corrupt trajectory, in addition to their adoption of the name of the Ghana empire. It is all about drawing inspiration from your glorious past to build a better future. THAT IS WHAT SOCIETIES WITH BRAINS DO. 13 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by AsaBlackheart(m): 3:33am On Feb 23 |
Reflect7: The fact that you have to write such an epistle just to justify your narrow point of view says a lot. Cheers 🍻 5 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 3:35am On Feb 23 |
AsaBlackheart: You have FOAM where your brain ought to be. Low IQ. I'm done discussing with school dropouts. Please, can some INTELLIGENT forumers come in here and contribute? How do we leverage our GLORIOUS PAST as INSPIRATION to move forward as a people? 9 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by jackie111(m): 5:26am On Feb 23 |
Go and read Black Papyrus. You will find more interesting information about Africa civilising the world. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Reflect7: 5:30am On Feb 23 |
jackie111: Who wrote it? Interesting. 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by jackie111(m): 5:40am On Feb 23 |
Reflect7:Al-Bishak Mohammed Basheer 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Seunpapa65: 6:26am On Feb 23 |
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Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Broveens42(m): 6:50am On Feb 23 |
Reflect7: That guy has nothing to say. Every society has something that works for them, and when you change those principles, the society becomes directionless. There was a time traditionalists urged governors to swear with juju dring their swearing in ceremony, but they declined the offer One would think they declined because it's against their faith, but we know they are not true practicers of their so called foreign religion. Imagine how developed a state would be when a governor is conscious of an Amadioha or sango; this is not different from Capital punishment used in some Asian countries to check corruption. The whites dread prisons more than instant execusion, it messes up their psyche and that's why prisons are used to discourage criminality 5 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by johnog4sure: 7:21am On Feb 23 |
AsaBlackheart:God bless u, u took it out of my mouth, Dear Africans what is holding you back to be great now if you claim you were great before 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Napata77: 7:28am On Feb 23 |
Broveens42: I swear na true you talk. If we started swearing - in govt officials with Ogun or Amadioha and make them swear that they will not steal, corruption will end immediately in this country. The reason corruption thrives is because they use oyinbo bible and koran to swear them in, and of course those foreign gods talk about 'forgiveness of sins' and all that rubbish. So you can go and loot billions and then attend church and give money to the pastor or pray to 'Jesus' for forgiveness, and you can go home with your stolen money and enjoy. Amadioha and Shango do not know what 'forgiveness' means. You commit, you pay. That's the African way. Op is right. We can end all this nonsense tomorrow if we decide to become Africans again. It is all this ''I must be oyinbo by force'' that is destabilising us as Africans. The British and Arabs knew what they were doing when they were forcing their religions on us. They knew it would make us corrupt, which would favour them. 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Napata77: 7:30am On Feb 23 |
johnog4sure: Try and use your head and grasp what is being said. You no get brain? You see other countries drawing inspiration from their past to move forward, why can't you do the same? It's not just about saying, ''you were great before, so why can't you be great again?'' You will not be great again if you don't have the recollection of being great before, which is where the drawing of elements from the past and using them as inspiration for society comes in. I know that in China their kids have to recite some of Confucius' philosophies in nursery school all the way to university. They can even recite if from age 5. We need that kind of thing so that people will self-police and self-regulate themselves. In places like Japan and UK, they don't need an 'EFCC' watching everybody because the average person sees it as his duty to be honest and care for his compatriots, and it is such early indoctrination in those ancient principles of their people that gives them that conscience to do the right thing. It's called 'social engineering'. Of course it will not change Nigeria overnight if we do it here. It is a long-term thing. Raise the kids in it and they will grow up more honest than the current generation of useless, corrupt people like you! 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Cassandraloius: 7:54am On Feb 23 |
For the fact that this history cannot wipe away the hardship and hunger in Nigeria, for me it's very irrelevant. We should leave the past and focus on the future. 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Napata77: 7:59am On Feb 23 |
Cassandraloius: Because you know more than the likes of Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, China, Japan, Italy, UK, etc that draw inspiration from their past abi? How does doing this stop you from tackling present-day problems? You cannot walk and chew gum at the same time? Just admit you're mentally colonised to worship whites, and anything from African history they've brainwashed you that it's evil. Stop making excuses. Why have you not all dropped your bibles and korans - ie the history of foreign lands - since there is hardship and hunger? Rubbish. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by kenedyx: 8:03am On Feb 23 |
You're not making any point. There's no civilized nation that acts traditionally. The stone age and the age of civilization are centuries apart and can't mixed. Your ancestors who left to Europe got civilized (black europeans) while those who remained here are still crawling out of the stone age. |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Napata77: 8:13am On Feb 23 |
kenedyx: What stupid nonsense is that? In Japan they have over 100,000 SHRINES, many built and maintained by the government. Well tended. Clean. Well-funded. They practice Shintoism, which if you check, is simply another African religious export rebranded, since the earliest Japanese settlers were Africans. These people are not like you, brainwashed by British colonialists to hate your heritage. They embrace their heritage, and are proud of it. They update it and upgrade it and are proud of it. Same thing in India and China. In India they worship their cows till tomorrow, in large, beautiful temples they build. If you don't like it, go. That's their way. Why can't we be like that in Africa? It is only in Africa that we have buffoons like you, who frown on their heritage and worship Europeans. The same Europeans your ancestors taught to bathe, read and write. You have NO reason to feel inferior to them. WAKE UP! See corruption eating up your society because you have lost the traditional safeguards which kept it at bay. Still you refuse to learn. You must be white by force. Keep trying and failing, because you will always fail. Fela himself said it. ''The African will get nowhere until he allows his culture to guide in the running of the government''. Fela was Nigeria's greatest prophet. The stone age and the age of civilization are centuries apart and can't mixed. Your ancestors who left to Europe got civilized (black europeans) while those who remained here are still crawling out of the stone age. That's your colonial brainwashed miseducation talking. Who civilized the Africans that went abroad when the people there were in the caves as savages? It was Africans who civilized THEM, not the other way round. It is precisely because of your self-hating mentality that we need what is being suggested here. We cannot have the next generation feeling inferior like you. If you don't know the history of great African civilizations which existed prior to the colonial era, ask, and we will teach you. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by AsaBlackheart(m): 8:39am On Feb 23 |
Reflect7: The fact that you have to resort to using insults also says a lot about you. If we can't have civilized conversations amongst ourselves, how can we move forward? You haven't made a single relevant statement yet. Just repeating the same words. 2 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by GreaterFuture(m): 9:14am On Feb 23 |
Reflect7: 🧎🏽♂️🧎🏽♂️ Reality, Knowledge, the human Consciousness, the UNIVERSE around, our History etc... We still know very little... Very very little🧎🏽♂️🧎🏽♂️ 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by kenedyx: 9:27am On Feb 23 |
Napata77: You're very quick to scream colonial mentality. What an irredeemable cretin, a lout of magnanimous proportions. Tell me what positive contributions your traditional system brought onto the society. A tradition used by yahoo boys to perform human sacrifices for money rituals. One that promotes polygamy resulting in overpopulation. A tradition that believes in juju and demonic spirits and you dare compare it to such an enlightened religion like Buddhism. Tell me exactly how your traditional religion has contributed to civilization so far. That black European you call your ancestor will deny you and call you primitive if you come at him with this rubbish. He's far more advanced than you. There's no shame in saying the truth, especially when the facts abound that you're a third world country that can't even manufacture toothpick. Instead of you to become productive and use your brain you're here spewing trash. What have you produced with your traditional religion, you this hegoat? All you do is blame the West. Who tied your hands to use your juju to bring civilization to your people? Oh, I forgot, civilization is not your goal, you want to go back to the hunter and gatherer stage. Fool! Any talk of civilization or development that does not involve production, manufacturing and invention but about juju and sacrifices is as stupid and useless as the p in psychology. Traditional religion kill you there. Idiot! 2 Likes |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by AsaBlackheart(m): 9:52am On Feb 23 |
kenedyx: Always amuses me when people think nigeria will automatically become great if we return to traditional roots. Lmao. By the time they mine their skulls for Ogun, dem go know. 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Mikespecialone(m): 10:03am On Feb 23 |
Where blacks only created to Africa ?? I remember reading an article about the Bible people being blacks including including Jesus Christ. How true is that ? 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by faceland: 10:10am On Feb 23 |
AsaBlackheart: Just because of skin colour. 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Napata77: 10:21am On Feb 23 |
kenedyx: How does one begin to respond to this lost person who carries his inferiority complex like a badge of honour? You know what? Let me show you that you are a dunce. Here's some of your history. ............. This is from the UK Guardian Newspaper. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now 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? Fri 18 Mar 2016 07.30 GMT 15th Century Portuguese rendition of Benin City, showing large monuments and multi-storey buildings 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”. 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 to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”. 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”.... 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…. “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”. ....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. The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king’s court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous. The city was literally covered in it. The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power – the carvings would create contrasting patterns in the strong sunlight. Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles. At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures. “These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.” What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations. .....Then in 1897, the city was destroyed by British soldiers – looted, blown up and burnt to the ground''. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace ............ ........... I've only just STARTED. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO EDUCATE YOUR THICK SKULL ABOUT OUR GLORIOUS AFRICAN PAST. 1 Like |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Saao(m): 10:26am On Feb 23 |
Hunger everywhere that's the most important here 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by Napata77: 10:28am On Feb 23 |
I mean...according to the whites you think are soooooooo superior to you, because some dirty colonial officers brainwashed your grandpa. To summarise. ''BENIN CITY WAS ONE OF THE BEST PLANNED CITIES IN THE WORLD WHEN LONDON WAS A PLACE OF THIEVERY AND MURDER. THE CITY WAS SO SAFE AND CRIME-FREE THAT THEFT WAS UNKNOWN, AND THE PEOPLE LIVED IN SUCH SECURITY THAT THEY BUILT NO FRONT DOORS TO THEIR HOUSES. BENIN CITY HAD STREETLIGHTS 300 YEARS BEFORE LONDON. THEY USED AFRICAN MATHEMATICAL FRACTAL DESIGN TO BUILD THE CITY. A FORM OF MATHEMATICS THE VISITING EUROPEANS HAD NOT DISCOVERED YET. THE BENIN EMPIRE BUILT A WALL THAT WAS 4 TIMES LONGER THAN THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA AND CONSUMED A HUNDRED TIMES MORE MATERIAL THAN WAS USED TO BUILD THE LARGEST PYRAMID IN EGYPT. VISIBLE IN ITS ENTIRETY ONLY FROM OUTER SPACE, THE BENIN WALL AND RAMPART SYSTEM REMAINS TILL TODAY, THE LARGEST SINGLE HUMAN CONSTRUCTION ON PLANET EARTH''. Like I said. I have a lot more to educate you people. JUST WAIT. I WILL SHOW YOU THAT YOU ARE ILLITERATES OF YOUR HISTORY, AND THAT AFRICA IS THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATION. IGNORANT, LOST PEOPLE brainwashed to self hate. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Our Ancestors In Ancient China! (Amazing Pics) by johnog4sure: 11:06am On Feb 23 |
Napata77:First of all, you do not have to insult anyone to make your point, I can bet none of you is more pan-African than I am, as matter of time I am writing a book on that subject, and that is why I had done and still doing heavy research on how we(Africans got to where we are today) presently I am re-reading some books I have read before and I will recommend you read them before you insult your PAPA. "How Europe under develop Africa". 2. "Wretched of the earth-by Frantz Fanon" Even after consuming this anti-colonial materials, if we must be sincere we were not the only race who suffered from imperial ambition of some other people, the Americans, China, Japan, India even the Europeans had same experience from the old Roman empire. Why is it that its only Africans that won't move on? The attached pic should help u put on your thinking cap instead of insulting person wey pass u 2 Likes
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