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The Marriage That Left No Paper Trail: On Proving Customary Law Marriage in Nigeria by Lawson Akhigbe
Nigerian law has always been more comfortable with paper than with people. A statutory marriage produces a certificate, a registrar, a stamp, a bureaucratic afterlife. A customary marriage produces witnesses, memory, and decades later, when the deceased’s estate is being carved up by relatives who suddenly remember every obligation of kinship a courtroom full of people arguing about who exactly was standing where when the kola nut was broken. -
I think racism based on skin color is a modern invention because there is no instance in the Bible where racial discrimination ever happened. When Enoch of Ethiopia traveled to Jerusalem, there was no racism. This generation is just foolish not to realize that white supremacy is sheer stupidity; early humans knew that we all came from Africa. Everything existing today once existed and was simply modernized, and even democracy and other systems people think they invented were already here in Africa, just waiting to be modernized. There are plenty of good examples to back this up.
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"African Roots" feiert 50 Porträts wichtiger Persönlichkeiten der afrikanischen Geschichte. Mit afrikanischen Stimmen erzählt, dienen sie als Grundlage für Debatten im Netz, Radio oder an historischen Orten. African Roots: Geschichte erfahrbar machen | DW | 14.05.2021 #AfricanRoots #afrikanischeGeschichte #Porträts #Videos #Debatte