Abagworo:

That is so disappointing.I kept telling people on Nairaland that Abacha is from kanuri which is arabic.Sho and zaghawa are also arabic as well as tuareg.

That is so disappointing.I kept telling people on Nairaland that Abacha is from kanuri which is arabic.Sho and zaghawa are also arabic as well as tuareg.

Are the Sudanese and Chadians Arabs?

I don't see any real difference between these Shuwas and the various Sudanese and Chadian groups. The thing is Sudanese and Chadians may dress like Arabs for obvious cultural reasons, but does that actually make them Arabs? The Sudanese were Nubians before modern times and the Chadians were also of a different culture and lifestyle, so they aren't inherently like the people whose culture they've adopted. That's why it seems like a matter of terminology to me. These "Shuwa Arabs" were something else before being Islamicized and before trade/interaction with North Africans, whatever that was. Arabs in Saudi Arabia, Omen, Yemen, U.A.E., etc. have always been Semites though, "Shuwa Arabs" are of a different stock/lineage, really,

KnowAll:



The Shuwa Arabs are not indigenious chadian or sudanese group, in fact there are Shuwa Arabs population in SUDAN, CHAD, NIGER, and NE Nigeria. They are only 250,000 in Borno State out of a population of 3 million. Their mother tongue is Arabic albeit adultrated Arabic, they are like an Ekiti man being a Yoruba man. They come in different shades from jet black to fair skinned standard or normal Arabic look, the fact that some are dark does not make them less arabic like their cousins in the arabian peninsula, The common denomination between them and their cousins is the capabilty to communicate in the mother tongue.

They are a pastorist tribe, obviously with that kind of movement within the tribe, their nationalities can change from being a Nigerian to a chadian to a sudanese at random that can be dangerous as weapons and fire-arms can brought in by unscrouplous businessmen to subversive groups like Boko-Haram.

EzeUche0:

Yes you got those Shuwa Arabs in Nigeria who could be considered indigenous. . .

And you have those Moroccan children.

http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=14926&rog3=NI

Never knew an ethnic Arab tribe is indigenious to Nigeria, how come they are relegated to the backgound both in their state of origin and in the FG.

intresting I hope we see more of them in our national conscieness in the next 50 years than the last 50 years. Do they have any celebretity be it poltician, elder states men or religious cleric.?

Rossikk:

KnowAll said

Why do you want to see more of them in the next 50 years or whatever rubbish it is you wrote? Because they are Arabs?? It is people like you that sell out Africa everyday. Always valuing the light-skinned foreigner over your own fellow blacks.  Do you think they don't have black populations in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya etc? How many Iranians or Libyans do you see ''wishing the blacks will play more of a role in the next 50 years'' in their country??

Until blacks like you understand that you have no friends outside your own race, save those wishing to use, abuse, and dump you, you will continue to play second fiddle to other peoples.

emofine:

Sorry sir but what do you mean about "those Moroccan children"? Are you referring to Moroccan Immigrants?