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the world need freedom

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@callme_Zane @AloyEjimakor @Leopridas Wow 😮

[Timmy @ambalium]

@Mrbankstips Updated map 2026

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Interesting

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@ikenjoku_david

[abikedabiri @abikedabiri]

Jagaban !!!! Thanks for sharing

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@Araoluwakinbo @KoikiMedia Go inside forest and hold gun
Make u see

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@LinuxDsane @KoikiMedia If it’s script
Go inside bush to pretend like bandit and see the result urself

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The Great African Kingdom they will never teach you in school about.
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The truth is the African continent was already civilized. People lived peacefully with little crime because it was better governed than much of Europe at the time. Many of these records were written by the Portuguese. Though some parts of Africa were not exposed to the same civilization as others, empires and great kingdoms arose in the north, east, west and south.

Hundreds of stone ruins, some 300–500, still exist across Africa, especially in the south. Mining and trading routes linked kingdoms. Weapons were crafted. Empires such as Borno and several Hausa kingdoms, among others in west and northern Africa, used horse chariots and war dress.

In eastern Africa, present-day Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, kingdoms traded spices, gold and salt with Asia, especially India, along the coast. In what is now Somalia, people built storey houses of four and five floors, as recorded by Arab scholars.

Deep in the West African forest was a kingdom so ordered and beautiful that foreigners called it Great: the Benin Kingdom, now in Edo State, Nigeria. Portuguese and other Europeans who reached it by trade called it Great Benin.

The Benin Empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in West Africa, dating to the 11th century. The Guinness Book of Records (1974) described the walls of Benin City and its kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks before the mechanical era. Fred Pearce of New Scientist estimated that at one point Benin City’s walls were four times longer than the Great Wall of China and used a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

On a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls to the south and deep ditches to the north. Beyond them, further walls divided the surroundings into about 500 villages. Pearce wrote that these walls extended some 16,000 km in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries, covering 6,500 sq km, all dug by the Edo people. They took an estimated 150 million hours to build and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet.

Barely any trace of these walls remains, due to plundering and destruction by the British army and its African allies.

Benin City was also among the first cities with a form of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, stood around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their wicks were lit at night to light traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first came in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the African jungle. They called it the Great City of Benin and ranked it among the most beautiful and best-planned cities in the world.

In 1691 the Portuguese 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.”

By contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as a city of thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market, ripe for exploitation by those skilled with a quick blade or at picking pockets.

[Uchen @Elen_net]

Nigerians don’t actually have "resilience."
We just have an abnormal tolerance for abuse.

We have normalized:
• Paying taxes and still buying your own transformer

• Buying food at 300% inflation and laughing about it on social media

• Spending 4 hours in traffic to earn money that buys nothing

We are not resilient. We are complacent. And that’s why nothing changes.

[✨✨Danielle✨✨ @dee_elleea]

I genuinely believe religion has played a massive role in keeping Africa poor. The damage it has done to our institutions, critical thinking and society runs so deep that becoming more “developed” won’t fix it. We’d need to actively unlearn a lot.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

This house in Punalur, Kerala sits on nearly an acre of sloped, tree covered land, and the architects didn't clear it to build. They mapped the existing vegetation first and fit the house into the gaps.

A single large pitched roof covers the whole volume, extending 3.8 metres past the walls on every side. That overhang creates a shaded veranda that wraps the entire house, a direct rework of the traditional Kerala chuttu-verandah, and it's doing real work: blocking direct sun and monsoon rain from ever touching the walls. A colonnade lines the edge, with grillwork screening privacy without closing the space off. Brick and cement alternate across the exterior, veranda floors are flamed granite, materials chosen to sit into a rubber plantation landscape instead of standing out from it.

This is not a house that imported a foreign silhouette to look "modern." It is a house that took a 400-year-old veranda tradition, gave it one continuous roofline instead of a patchwork of add-ons, and let that single decision carry the whole design.

The traditional forms we already have don't need replacing. They need someone willing to take the time to reinterpret them properly, keep the trees, orient the roof, and trust the vernacular enough to build the whole house around it instead of bolting it on as decoration.

Location: Punalur, Kerala, India. Architects: Studio Acis (lead: Ar. Rakesh Kakkoth). Photography: Ar. Divya.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

This house in India is quietly making a case Africa should be paying attention to.

Studio Kaha's "House of Symmetry" leans almost entirely on passive design to stay comfortable, private courtyards pulling in light and air, and brick screens doing triple duty: shading, privacy, and thermal comfort, all without a single mechanical system doing the heavy lifting. That's not a luxury add-on. That's the whole strategy.

Now picture that exact logic here, on this continent, in this climate. We live in the tropics. We deal with heat every single day, and yet so much of our newer construction still leans on imported glass facades and AC units to survive a climate our own ancestors already knew how to design around passively. Brick, the very material this house builds its identity around, is something we have in abundance across Africa, clay-rich soil, centuries of masonry tradition, and we're still underusing it in favor of materials that don't even suit our weather.

Add Afrocentric pattern and art into brick screens like these, the same way this project integrated custom artwork into its architecture, and you get something that isn't just climate-smart. It's ours, visually and materially, instead of borrowed.

We don't need to import comfort. We need to look at what already works, and build with what's already ours.

Project: The House of Symmetry
Designed by: Studio Kaha
Principal Architects: Kenil Doshi & Hem Pandya Doshi
Photography: Tejas Shah Photography
Plot Area: 80,000 sq. ft.

More photos from this project INR the thread below.

[TRUTH🎖️ @DanielofTruth]

Mallam Nasiru el-rufai took his son to a public school for a photo shoot, It was Kaduna Capital School Malali precisely. 😂😂

The child never came back after that day

Our politicians will have a special hell fire

[Tope Akinyombo @TopeAkinyombo]

#Yooba

[Tope Akinyombo @TopeAkinyombo]

@pontrol_777 https://t.co/MICRM4mue9

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@TopeAkinyombo @pontrol_777 We need this every year
If possible every month

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@mayowadurosinm1 They are about to colonize us again

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@JustVictor00 @Big_Mck This

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@ada4amaka @Big_Mck Exactly

[imhotep @olddaystorm]

@LegendaryJoe