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pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?[/color] Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points Dont go far...just cross the border to the north, Ethiopia "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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murchr wrote:pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?[/color] Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points Dont go far...just cross the border to the north, Ethiopia Ethiopia's Amharic and Hebrew are both Semitic. May thinking would be they share genesis. Same as Japanese and Korean share the same genesis. That's my thinking. What the lack of alphabet for the rest of the Africa means we could not have had a well integrated education systems hence we could not research,compose nor record.
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pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?[/color] Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points The pyramids of Giza were the tallest manmade structures for a whooping 3800 years straight.  As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/4/2010 Posts: 1,668 Location: nairobi
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mkeiyd wrote:murchr wrote:pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?[/color] Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points Dont go far...just cross the border to the north, Ethiopia Ethiopia's Amharic and Hebrew are both Semitic. May thinking would be they share genesis. Same as Japanese and Korean share the same genesis. That's my thinking. What the lack of alphabet for the rest of the Africa means we could not have had a well integrated education systems hence we could not research,compose nor record. Any knowledge is dynamic and starts from a centre point then spreads . In Europe, Greeks were the first to use the alphabet as the rest slept. The info spread sslowly to the rest of Europe, including England. http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html
Quote:The Greeks were the first Europeans to learn to write with an alphabet, and from them alphabetic writing spread to the rest of Europe, eventually leading down to all modern European alphabets. Incidentally, the Greeks tried writing once before. Between 1500 and 1200 BCE, For sub saharan Africa, it was just a matter of time before writting skills spread from Ethiopia, Mali, Somalia or Zimbabwe or direct from India and China through Mombasa. Likewise, there were skills within Subsaharan Africa that would also be passed on to the rest of the world. As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/15/2010 Posts: 167 Location: Kenya
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What is evident so far from this post is that lots of people suffer from a racial inferiority complex(such statements as Africans have low IQs).You can't get anywhere with such an attitude self confidence is A MUST if we are to achieve anything.
Poor political leadership is definitely a contributor,from our founding father's land grabbing addiction to MO1's error.
Has the West contributed?Yes.Remember liberalization and golden handshakes?How did it work for us did it solve all the problems?
Does the West want us to be economic successes/independent?I don't know I think if they could they would engineer a perfect state of poverty/prosperity where we are not too rich to challenge their influence on the world stage but enough to provide a market for their goods definitely too poor to process our natural resources and to provide cheap labour for their factories?
But the West is mostly capitalist and opportunities to make money from us determine what economic status they support.
But looking to the future the most important issues we need solved are:
1.Food/Agriculture
Agriculture should improved so we are food secure.Hunger must end.Can't go anywhere unless we feed ourselves.
2.Education
The greatest enabler,make secondary education free and compulsory.Make admission to University fair and based on merit,better access to student loans.
3.Politics/Leadership
Vote P.K.A look at his competition reveals what exactly is wrong with our leaders.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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mkeiyd wrote:murchr wrote:pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?[/color] Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points Dont go far...just cross the border to the north, Ethiopia Ethiopia's Amharic and Hebrew are both Semitic. May thinking would be they share genesis. Same as Japanese and Korean share the same genesis. That's my thinking. What the lack of alphabet for the rest of the Africa means we could not have had a well integrated education systems hence we could not research,compose nor record. Stop trying to disposses the Ethiopian people of their culture and heritage. They believed in themselves hence the survival of their culture(amharic alphabet). On your other issue....why paintings and not pottery, has it crossed your mind that maybe we never valued pictures as such but valued things (pots, carvings etc) "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/15/2010 Posts: 167 Location: Kenya
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Bush a war criminal? maybe.but the difference between his case and ours.Most of the h/ware used in the war was made in the us and benefited US companies(lockheed martin GM etc.),we used imported pangas.Most of the casualties were foreigners Iraqis,we killed neighbours.American companies got reconstruction deals,we've got IDPs.
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murchr wrote:pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points Dont go far...just cross the border to the north, Ethiopia Hawa si mweusi kama sisi!! Mark 12:29
Deuteronomy 4:16
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/4/2010 Posts: 1,668 Location: nairobi
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http://www.taneter.org/writing.html
Ancient Africa has the world's oldest and largest collection of ancient writing systems. Evidence of such dates to pre-historic time, and can be found in various regions of the continent. By contrast, Europe's oldest writing, Greek was not in use until c. 1400 BC and is largely derived from older African scripts. The oldest Asian writing, cuneiform dates to the reign of Gudea of Lagash (2144 - 2124 BC). As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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guru267 wrote:murchr wrote:pariah wrote:Any African alphabets?Paintings? Musical notes? Engineered machine? All
the somali in the 9th century had a writing system which has not been deciphered to date but you raise valid points Dont go far...just cross the border to the north, Ethiopia Hawa si mweusi kama sisi!! Sasa umenza ubaguzi wa rangi? Truthfully speaking, poverty is everywhere, the glitz and glamour that u see on TV is an illussion, the reality is there are homeless people, beggers and street families everywhere in the world, you just need to travel and see "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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