See what Christmas in Badagry looked like in 1923

These white folks just boldly used use our people as sign post...ndi ocha di wicked o, but iberibe ndi Africa di too much.

Which freedom? Pseudo or real? Laughing in Jamaica.

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Indeed I'm curious as to the history behind this photograph .

Abi ooooo 🙏🏽

No, I'm not thankful for freedom. From all the evidence, African nations were much better run under Europeans than under Africans. Read books and speak to old people. Schools, administration, hospitals, power supply, train services, salaries, and pensions - all were efficiently done. There was accountability. Let's not lie to ourselves. Our oil resources should have made us a major world power. Our own people stole their nations blind.

These white folks have fucked us really deep inside without the Vaseline. Look how they sitting like "masters" and strategically positioned that boy especially in the middle.

The Oyibos have never been our problem. If u are looking for your problem, look in the mirror. What you don't give the oyibo man, he can never take. As far as there is always a willing soul to sell his community, there will always be slavery. The Oyibos are actually very wise, they seek "self preservation". They first before others. Nothing wrong with that.

They no 'follow bare chest' because they were used to clothes before coming to Africa. Many of our people only wore loin cloths, and it took a long time to get them into clothes. Those 3/4 trousers on black men were actually evidence of gradual westernization.

The world is a big place. Slavery means the lack of freedom to choose how you live. Forcing African tradition on Africans is equally as bad as copying everything European. We must all pick what we prefer by combining or adopting any tradition of our choice... you can be a European wife to your husband and a African mother to your kids. You can listen to Asian songs and prefer Brazilian food. You can practice Islam but still buy Christmas presents for your friends and family. We can wear suits to work and traditional on weekends . It’s ok to adopt all that you like in the world and reject all you dislike. That my friend is true freedom.

Culture and tradition shouldn't be static. We would be mad to do all that our ancestors did. White people taught us many good things. They stopped us killing twins and burying human beings alive with dead chiefs. They stopped many barbaric and sexist practices. They gave us education and modern medicine. We would be foolish to think we have nothing to learn from white people. Their efficiency and accountability in governance could transform African nations into paradise. The scandalous reports of stolen monies would not happen in their countries. Yes, I know no human system is free of corruption, but there is no comparison between their system and ours. They don't have allegation of millions of dollars being traced to public office holders or their wives or aides.

You think the black race are delivered? It’s a big lie!!! They are still in charge! 100%

So in your mind you think you are free? the slaving Africans are in now is worst than slavery of then. It's called mental slavery of the mind through politic and religion this is what kept system in African from working because they made you believe life begins and end through religion.

We still have a long way to go. We've gone from physical slavery to mental and economic slavery. We don't produce anything apart from sucking crude oil out of the ground using equipment manufactured by oyinbo. We flaunt luxury goods produced by oyinbo as measures of success. We spend fortunes educating ourselves in their countries. We spend fortunes holidaying in their countries. Nigerians who speak English with our accents are BUSH, while those who speak English like them are POSH and get acting, radio, TV and other jobs. In fact, if oyinbo decide to stop all trade of goods and manpower with us (and block us from the World Wide Web), almost everything will grind to a halt within a few years. Na Ogbunigwe levels we go dey.

I don't see the oppression in that photograph. The white people came into communities where many didn't wear clothes, and taught them to at least wear those leg coverings. Where is the oppression, unless we are trying to rewrite history?

My experience of living in the West and in Nigeria convinces me that independence was Nigeria's greatest tragedy. Nowhere is perfect. Yet the efficiency and accountability in the West, the willingness to work without asking for bribes, and the manners of English people in particular, make me state without apology that fellow Nigerians are to blame for our plight.

Nigeria of today is a replica of George Orwell's Animal Farm. It is another form of slavery where all animals are presumed equal, but some animals are more equal than the others. Amechi, Tinubu, Akpabio, Fashola etc are replicas of Boxer and their two maxims are "Buhari is always right" and "I will work harder".

Really...