Injera, Ethiopia’s staple food, was invented by a Dutchman in 2003.
That’s according to the European Patent Office, which lists the Netherlands’ Jans Roosjen as the “inventor” of teff flour and associated food products. Teff is a plant endemic to Ethiopia, and the grain is used to make the spongy fermented pancake that Ethiopians eat with their meals.
Roosjen also has a patent for the “invention” in the United States — though he is patently not the inventor of a product that has been around for millennia.
Ethiopians are nonplussed. https://cs.mg.co.za/content/images/2018/06/28/AXHGZ9w8SdOi03FpLpdI_KassahunGebrehana_WikusdeWet.jpg[I]Kassahun Gebrehana (Wikus de Wet)[/I]
“For someone from Europe, from across the ocean, in a different continent, to come and say we patented teff and the copyright is ours …” Kassahun Gebrehana, owner of the Little Addis Café in Maboneng, Johannesburg, shakes his head. “Have they been eating it for centuries? We have.”
Gebrehana says it’s impossible to overstate the significance of teff and injera to Ethiopian cuisine and culture. “We are addicted to teff. We cannot live without it. Once I lived in Maseru and I would drive four-and-a-half hours to Johannesburg just to get some teff injera. We cannot say we eat food without injera.”
Isn’t that what he does best? Steal and claim to be the originator? Mzungu apologists will come with their b.s. trying to spin this one as they’re programed to do
going through that thread, in my opinion, you were overreacting for no reason. Samosa is not Swahili food, same to Mandazi, chapati, chai… They are Indian food which were brought by Indians who built the railway. Same way Kiswahili is a mashup of Bantu, Arabic, Indian and Portuguese languages hence they were bound to borrow lots of stuff including cuisine
nayo Maasai shuka naskia ilikuwa a tartan/plaid Scottish blanket brought in by Scottish inland missionaries. They then left and the Indian dukawallah took up the mantle and made his version still in use today.
Others say it also has influence from English table clothes.
I also mentioned here in @Mjuaji’s thread that the same mzungu stole artifacts, ideas, minerals etc from Africans then put in place patent laws to dispossess Africans what was readily and freely available to all for the common good of humanity. Imagine they also claim to have patented Ebola virus on what may be contentious grounds.
Any major scientific breakthrough/technological/musical/dance advancement found by a white person had already been discovered by a non-white person decades,sometimes even centuries beforehand.
Half of the stuff "invented"by an American or Brit is copied.
A mzungu said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
God the Father created us to emulate him as well. We even stole the fruit of knowledge to create like him and be like Him but He inevitably Hid the fruit of immortality.
White people believe in furthering knowledge. Putting it out there. Making money from it. Exploiting not locking it away. That’s why they write books. To store it and disseminate it.
You speak and write their language don’t you? You wear their clothes, drive their cars, use their google to research even more knowledge…
Question here should be, what have you personally added to the universal knowledge pool since you were born?
They indeed stole the herbs that cure malaria from African or Indian natives. They even stole cocoa beans and made chocolate from it.
Since the 1700s what have you natives added to the cocoa bean? Ni nini ingine mmejafanyia nayo. except complain.
All the minerals in the DRC ni kubishana tu back and forth, mnafanya nini nazo?
You do realize Mungu akiona hutumii atapatia mwingine. Akiona hata hio America hamuangalii vizuri kuna wengine watakuja na waitumie, cry all you want!!
Then when they take it away you realize the true value of what you’ve lost and fight for it! Or perish.
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