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TookDownYourMum:


Look, just because you Nigerians back then were incapable of building anything beyond a mudhut doesn't mean Kenyans or other Africans weren't. Its like seeing gothic architecture in Europe and saying its foreign owned because they took everything from Arabian design and techniques. See how stupid that would make one sound?

Unless you are one of those fools who believe in the myth from 1900s that Swahili formed when East Africans came into with the Arabs when infact it existed before Arab arrival to the East African coast just under different names. It is 100% indigenous African language from the Bantu family tree with 15% ~ 20% loan words which Arabic makes up the majority of it. Same as any language that evolves when it comes into with another culture. Lamu and others are of the Swahili dialect that contain no arabic words and Gede and Kilwa both which are Swahili cities predate Arab arrival. For example, All of Kilwa structures are made out of Coral reef mortared with lime. The place had an abundance of marine resources, particularly reef coral off the coast which natives harvested to build shit like stone houses, mosques, warehouses, palaces, causeways and much more which many still stand to this day in great condition.

Funny and ridiculous in equal measures. I am not talking about the language but the architecture and the organization. Mombasa was founded and developed by the Arabs. We've done this in the past with the Kenyans. Point to one grand building in Mombasa and see wether it has an Arabic influence or not.
Besides, the name of the language itself Swahili is Arabic and it's not 100% indigenous like you erroneously said. It's at least 40% Arabic not to talk of other foreign languages.

the name of the language (ﺳَﻮَﺍﺣِﻠﻲ
sawāḥilī, a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning
'of the coast').

Arabic influence along the coast of east africa is similar to Arabic influence in hinterland of Nigeria - as seen in most of North Nigeria islamic culture, religion and name it.

Kiswahili is bantu language with few loan words from Arabic.

Swahili is 100% bantu language in grammar.

It has maybe 10% loan words for vocabulary from Arabic. Maybe another 10% from Portugeuse. Another 10% from English. As we speak Kiswahili vocabulary of course expands - taking in new English words like computer.

But grammar - is 100% african. A bantu in middle of Nigeria or Cameroon who has never heard of Kiswahili will understand kiswahili almost instantly.

obaaderemi:
Funny and ridiculous in equal measures. I am not talking about the language but the architecture and the organization. Mombasa was founded and developed by the Arabs. We've done this in the past with the Kenyans. Point to one grand building in Mombasa and see wether it has an Arabic influence or not.
Besides, the name of the language itself Swahili is Arabic and it's not 100% indigenous like you erroneously said. It's at least 40% Arabic not to talk of other foreign languages.

GeneralDae2:
I think Ghana at some point would have to control the prices of fuel or do some type of subsidy with the way the prices seem to go up almost every now and then.

This is one grouse I have with the opposers of subsidy. Subsidy has its usefulness. Now imagine how much fuel will sell for if subsidy is removed entirely in the Nigerian fuel marketing sector.
Prices of everything else will go up.

We keep comparing how much a litre of gasoline is in Nigeria with developed countries, forgetting that these countries have a way of paying their citizens all manners of social which is absent in Africa. So, let our government also do something in the way of social using fuel subsidy. At least for now.

But I trust Ghana will bounce back. They've been here before and experience counts for something.

rvp2018:
Arabic influence along the coast of east africa is similar to Arabic influence in hinterland of Nigeria - as seen in most of North Nigeria islamic culture, religion and name it.

Kiswahili is bantu language with few loan words from Arabic.

Swahili is 100% bantu language in grammar.

It has maybe 10% loan words for vocabulary from Arabic. Maybe another 10% from Portugeuse. Another 10% from English. As we speak Kiswahili vocabulary of course expands - taking in new English words like computer.

But grammar - is 100% african. A bantu in middle of Nigeria or Cameroon who has never heard of Kiswahili will understand kiswahili almost instantly.

100% in grammar. But over 50% borrowed words. Can you post any link that shows that only 10% of Swahili is loaned Arabic words?

68816419:

In state of Kaduna, cities such Kadunatown, Zaria, and Kafanchan cities each have superior infrastructural advancements than Mombasa AND Nakuru combined not even Kisumu, including roads, marketplaces, and sports facilities, Currently, the state is rebuilding all of Kaduna Market in addition to dualizing over 59 highways and creating over 12 bridges across the roadways.
There are more than 50 shopping centers serving these areas some have been completed while others are under construction .
1- The Galaxy mall
2-Neighbourhood Centre Mall
3. NDDC MALL
4. ASD CITY MALL

These things doesn't qualify to be in Kisumu.

68816419:
Some of the more than 50 dualized highways in the capital of Kaduna. The beautiful thing about this project is that all roads in Kaduna have deep sewage covered sewage systems with walk ways on them, solar street lights, and greenings. No other place in all of Africa is pursuing road improvements like this.
1.dualization of The 5.86km Aliyu Makama Road, Barnawa
2. dualization of yakubu gawon Road, Kaduna
3. Dualized Waff roads
4. Dualized and Lights and Road Marking at Ribadu Road/Tafawa Balewa way

Kisumu has better roads.

Is fuel life and death? Cant the money be used in other means - like providing security - which is life n death? Who will die if they buy fuel at market rate?

Use that money to fund your army (with same budget as kenya almost) - and your police force - that is gov main reason for existence.

Everything else is secondary.

obaaderemi:
This is one grouse I have with the opposers of subsidy. Subsidy has its usefulness. Now imagine how much fuel will sell for if subsidy is removed entirely in the Nigerian fuel marketing sector.
Prices of everything else will go up.

We keep comparing how much a litre of gasoline is in Nigeria with developed countries, forgetting that these countries have a way of paying their citizens all manners of social which is absent in Africa. So, let our government also do something in the way of social using fuel subsidy. At least for now.

But I trust Ghana will bounce back. They've been here before and experience counts for something.

Just40:



Hungry boy ... Get something good doing. Looking at the way you're ranting over 15% to 30% price adjustments only tells me that you won't even survive in Kenya.
Find something better doing and you will have it easy.
Spend sometime educating yourself.

Seeking my attention won't make you any friends

dude you're hungry hence why you're posting marina mall receipts just to prove "you indeed shop at the mall".
You collapsing govt has given you a token at the end of the month and as part of the propaganda project, you went shopping at the mall.
Dude you spent less than I dash a colleague to complete his rent yesterday.
Imagine this homoerectus showing receipts of 400 cedis on nairaland.
Negro, you're hungry and proud.

Just40:
Does this look like hunger to you ?

Ulcer is not even among the first 100 lifestyle conditions reported at hospitals.

If you have ulcer because you can't feed yourself, its only because you're lazy and not bright.

stupid.ity is when you spent 26 dollars at the mall and see the nerd to post it on nairaland so as to prove to whoever that cares to listen " Ghanaians arenot hungry".

obaaderemi:
100% in grammar. But over 50% borrowed words. Can you post any link that shows that only 10% of Swahili is loaned Arabic words?

No. You can't say Swahili has 50% loaned words.that's false.
Swahili just like any other major international language has many borrowed words,but never 50%,it's estimated to be 10% or less. And those borrowed words words are what spice up the languages. It's even strange for someone to criticize Swahili for borrowing few words instead of criticizing English language for all those Latin and words.Or why are we not talking about the foreign names in our countries?
Why are we not trying to change these colonial names?

Lagos
Nigeria
Niger
Cameroon
Freetown
Port Harcourt
Gold coast
Victoria island

rvp2018:
Arabic influence along the coast of east africa is similar to Arabic influence in hinterland of Nigeria - as seen in most of North Nigeria islamic culture, religion and name it.

Kiswahili is bantu language with few loan words from Arabic.

Swahili is 100% bantu language in grammar.

It has maybe 10% loan words for vocabulary from Arabic. Maybe another 10% from Portugeuse. Another 10% from English. As we speak Kiswahili vocabulary of course expands - taking in new English words like computer.

But grammar - is 100% african. A bantu in middle of Nigeria or Cameroon who has never heard of Kiswahili will understand kiswahili almost instantly.

It doesn't matter how many percentage points of Bantu words are in Swahili as long as long we have more Bantu words which is much important and that is what makes Swahili a Bantu.

Anyone who think is smarter,let him come up with his own African language to out class and outsmart Swahili. If no one can't out class Swahili,then people must swallow their pride and accept the truth

Lol.

Funny and ridiculous in equal measures. I am not talking about the language but the architecture and the organization. Mombasa was founded and developed by the Arabs.

Except it wasn't.

Arabs came to Mombasa as merchants to trade and later settle down, same as Indians, Chinese, Portugese, Persians etc which I previously stated you can see influence in Swahili architecture and centuries later Omani Empire colonized the place.

We've done this in the past with the Kenyans. Point to one grand building in Mombasa and see wether it has an Arabic influence or not.

Theres alittle something called "cross-medium exchange of ideas and motifs". Thats how architectual styles like Gothic was born in Europe taking ideas from Middle East and fusing them with European ones.

Is this like a new concept to Zoogerians like yourself?

Besides, the name of the language itself Swahili is Arabic and it's not 100% indigenous like you erroneously said. It's at least 40% Arabic not to talk of other foreign languages.

Swahili, or Kiswahili, belongs to the larger Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family dumbass. Languages are classified grammarically which Swahili is belonging to the Bantu family, not vocabulary which then Swahili only loans 15% ~ 20% of Arabic. Therefore, Swahili is 100% an indigenous language.

Like I said, going by your logic, since Yoruba loans a great deal of English words, does that make Yoruba, English?

Anyway, you have no credible response to my argument other than repeating the same gribbish like a broken record.

rvp2018:
From which budget? Giant stories of giant of Africa.

There are other ways to finance our projects than the federal government's budget; examples include.

1. Nigeria Infrastructure Fund, (https://nsia.com.ng/nigeria-infrastructure-fund/)
2. Sukuk bond - 25 road projects across the six geo-political
3. Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in Nigeria however include the $874 million, 187km Abuja-Kaduna rail; the $1.2 billion, 312km Lagos-Ibadan expressway; the $1.1 billion Kano-Kaduna railway lines; and the $600 airport terminals in the major cities of Kano, Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt.
4. The private sectors (Dangote,MTN,BUA....)
5. Abacha loots
6. Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).
..........................................................

These 25 roads that the over N100bn Sukuk bonds will fund. We will be tracking it. #AskQuestions

GeneralDae2:
I think Ghana at some point would have to control the prices of fuel or do some type of subsidy with the way the prices seem to go up almost every now and then.

subsidies cost money.If they had that money,they vould have used it to stabilize the cedi.

Wuoche:


Kisumu has better roads.

Kisumu of all places?, could you help show me these roads.?
I swear to God, the infrastructure and road projects in Kimsu cannot even come close to matching those in Adamawa. Bear in mind that Adamawa(North-East) is one of Nigeria's poorest states
Inner street of residential areas in Yola, Adamawa state : Sincerely, do you believe that Kisumu has a chance to defeat Adamawa State based on these videos and pictures?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc778g0y-_w

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100 buses newly assembled in Leyland factory Lagos for Kano State. 200 more in addition currently being assembled for Kano.

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obaaderemi:
This is one grouse I have with the opposers of subsidy. Subsidy has its usefulness. Now imagine how much fuel will sell for if subsidy is removed entirely in the Nigerian fuel marketing sector.
Prices of everything else will go up.

We keep comparing how much a litre of gasoline is in Nigeria with developed countries, forgetting that these countries have a way of paying their citizens all manners of social which is absent in Africa. So, let our government also do something in the way of social using fuel subsidy. At least for now.

But I trust Ghana will bounce back. They've been here before and experience counts for something.

While I want Subsidy to go, it's also noteworthy to mention that those criticising Buhari today for not being bold enough to remove the subsidy, would have used the hikened prices from that removal today as a campaign tool against him and the APC .

gallivant:


What's a sensa? Low IQ complimented by bad education. A census can never be sensa, or whatever they taught you in that shithole.

What is census in Swahili?
There is no cure for your stupidity, you are beyond repair. I can't teach u anymore,you are a hard skull with zero IQ. Go dream about Tanzania

obaaderemi:
100% in grammar. But over 50% borrowed words. Can you post any link that shows that only 10% of Swahili is loaned Arabic words?

50% borrowed words? It's less than 5%. When Arabs speak or write, we have zero clue what they are talking about. Stop embarrassing yourself Obaboon. Swahili is not Hausa Fulani.

rvp2018:
They never get completed in your lifetime.

You sound pained. So what happened to lekki deep seaport or the numerous rails,airport,and roads. Learn to breath,Nigeria seems to be making you loose it so easily this days.

Dar,Tanzania

Kazikazi:

What is census in Swahili?
There is no cure for your stupidity, you are beyond repair. I can't teach u anymore,you are a hard skull with zero IQ. Go dream about Tanzania

This is not a Swahili forum you dunce! If it's census, it's census. Go practice witchcraft in Jamii Forums and spare us your foolishness.

Wuoche:


These things doesn't qualify to be in Kisumu.

Lol is this not what malls in kisumu looks like. This basic looking thing is what you trying to hype.
This should be called a plaza not a shopping mall.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoJczzL13o

Wuoche:


Kisumu has better roads.

Lol
Mombasa barely has a noticeable riad abd you dare bring up that dirty na jester village kisumu. Pls say another joke, this one wasn’t funny.

rvp2018:
Is fuel life and death? Cant the money be used in other means - like providing security - which is life n death? Who will die if they buy fuel at market rate?

Use that money to fund your army (with same budget as kenya almost) - and your police force - that is gov main reason for existence.

Everything else is secondary.

Nigeria army is way more powerful than anything in Kenya or east Africa.
I just thought I should chip that in,just incase you forgot.

Wuoche:


Kisumu has better roads.

Just the residential areas of Adamawa state- north-eastern Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc778g0y-_w

samorobo:


Lol is this not what malls in kisumu looks like. This basic looking thing is what you trying to hype.
This should be called a plaza not a shopping mall.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoJczzL13o

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