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Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by auwal87(m): 12:16pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
He is not one of us, he is of the ONE Nigeria Group, I am of the Arewa Republic Group. Sorry for Him, but thanks for defending Hausa-Fulani on ranges of issues above. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Nobody: 12:25pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
Simply a case of the unreadable being commended by the SIMPLE. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by auwal87(m): 12:27pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
Xavier.: I'm sure you did not read anything from the article before posting your reply. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Nobody: 12:30pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
What part of UNREADABLE do u find difficult to comprehend. The title alone is repulsive. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by auwal87(m): 12:34pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
Xavier.: Places like this one
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Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Nobody: 12:48pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
As much as i see this delusioned or deceptive writer trying to romance with the Igbos, i dont agree with him on why the yorubas became the sole problem of the the failed nigeria. I say, the housa/fulanis and the yorubas collectively ruined the country with the former having a greater damaging hand. Fortunately or unfortunately, the north seem to be realizing how the Igbos could have helped built a wonderful nigeria. The politics of Nigeria is still the first Republic model: extreme hatred amongst Nigeria’s major tribal groups; that is the Hausa-Fulani, the Yoruba and the Igbo. One would have thought that with the success of power shift, the main contending blocs would have sheathed swords, and redefined the battle to be of ideas and programs. But that seems not to be the case. We have moved to a more dangerous platform: the politics of religion. Infact, the writer is a big time slowpoke for thinking that power shift to yorubas was suppose to be a compensation to other tribes in the south. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Ibime(m): 12:50pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
auwal87: Sorry to say, but from the tone of his piece, he is definitely one of you. First of all, the title of his piece is prepostorous. No one has given the Hausa-Fulani a burden of leadership. Infact, we all wish they would unburden themselves of their leadership duties. The writer certainly isn't of the "ONE NIGERIA" persuasion. The only "ONE NIGERIA" he believes in is the "ONE NIGERIA" where every other tribe is under Fulani imperialism. . . . just like the Huasa are. Look at some of his quotes. . . . Hausa-Fulani gave Plateau State a lingua-franca: Hausa language. The diverse tribes within or on the Plateau do not understand each others dialects. Hausa is spoken by all of them. We may see changes in the future if the ethnic cleansing ideology takes root. Hausa-Fulani gave the non Hausa-Fulani residents of the Plateau their traditional dress. Before that they were naked, or wearers of animal skins. In turn the different tribes offer to the Hausa-Fulani alcohol; and this they vehemently reject as a societal culture. Many leaders of Hausa-Fulani do guzzle alcohol, but it is not the culture of the majority of the society. The writer completely discredits himself when he makes statements such as the one above. We can see through his facade just by reading the tone of his article. He is an Hausa nationalist. This is the most rubbish I have read in a while. "We gave them language and culture and they gave us alcohol". . . . . how laughable!. . . . . this is imperialist hogwash. . Whatever they did not receive from the Hausa, they would have received from the British or Yoruba, whether that be language or clothing. . . . . The Igbo can be found in the remotest corner of the North; trading and making fortunes in the midst of the legendary poverty of the Northerner. However they are safe as long as the political machinations of their politicians do not cause the host communities to seek vengeance. More bollocks. . . . . Igbos trade peacefully all over Nigeria without any problems. . . . except in the North. The fact that he juxtaposes the wealth of the Igbo traders against the backdrop of Hausa poverty gives you an insight into his mentality. . . . he finds it grating. There was a time when the Western world wanted a united Nigeria. Then the Hausa-Fulani were the darlings. Having more experience with governance based on knowledge, (due to their Islamic heritage) they were able to lead because thy understood human nature better. Their earlier leaders were able to eschew corruption, and to care for the down-trodden. Today, Western intelligence agencies want a more fragmented Africa: an Africa with dispersed population, living in camps in the dense forests, unable to farm, and being fed through Western-donated food packs. They want Nigeria to disintegrate. If the West wants Nigeria to disintegrate, then what are they waiting for?. . . .the will is there on all sides. . . surely, if the West wants us to disentegrate and all other tribes are in agreement, the Hausa cannot stop it. . . . this guy is a joke! When you look closely, there are more clamors for resource control, for ethnic identity, then you had twenty or thirty years back. MASSOB exists to keep on tearing the Nigerian identity. Would the reader want to remember when the United States wanted the Nigerian Government to let OPC be? Who then owns or funded the OPC? The Yoruba would say it is a justifiable outrage against Northern hegemony then using the Nigerian army. But what of today, is the hegemony still a reality? What is this guy talking about?. . . . if the Yoruba's were not allowed to vent their frustrations through the OPC in the 90's, Nigeria would have imploded. . . . he should be thankful that OPC acted as a pressure valve to let off the Yoruba's frustrations. . . . . America was wise not to outlaw OPC. . . .maybe, the writer can learn something about good governance by their actions (since he claims that Hausas are better at governing due to their Islamic heritage). . . . the lesson here is that you do not govern in a repressive and totalitarian fashion. You can, if you remove religion from people’s hearts! Then they will kill each other due to causes such as ethnic grouping, land disputes, creation of local government, and so on. Concluding on a wishful thinking note, Nigeria may know more peace if South- West changes its perception of what politics is all about; or be brave enough to leave Nigeria. And finally, he hits us with the coup de grace. . . . if the South-West does not change it's perception of politics, it should grow some balls and attempt secession. . . . .really?. . . . . i.e, what he is saying is that we are running this shit by force of arms and if you don't like it, come and fight us. . . . i.e we will not let you leave unless you defeat us. . . .first of all, there is nothing democratic about that statement. . . . there are secession movements all over the World from Scotland to Spain. . . .I do not see the British Govt telling the Scottish National Party: "If you don't like living in Britain, come and fight us". . . .this guy does not know what he is talking about. . . . which University did he get his degree from. . . . does he think that we cannot secede with help from our "Western allies" - since he believes they are on our side?. . . . . and to top it off, he claims that religion is not the problem when everybody knows that religious fervour can turn a neighbourhood skirmish into a nuclear war. auwal, where do you get writers like this from? No wonder he is working for gamji.com. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Nobody: 1:38pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
auwal, where do you get writers like this from? No wonder he is working for gamji.com. Birds of a feather, they browse together. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by auwal87(m): 6:45pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
Ibime: No, he is not one of us, now if I will introduce the Arewa Republic agenda to him, he will bash it much more than any other Hausa, Yoruba, or Igbo will do, remember things, there are people who read and research to understand facts and embrace the truths, those people are quite okay, and there are people whose their main mission of reading and research is to find ways to attack other views or opinions of others. E.g. I have wrote so many times in one of the Nigerian dailies, but the replies I am getting are far more interesting than my own article, there is an article I wrote just about 2 pages only, but the responder sends up to 10 pages as reply, mainly attacking the opinion, even though I am not attacking any of his own opinions. He is Hausa Fulani, I am also, but his opinions defers from my own, but at the end we are all trying to defend ourselves. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by auwal87(m): 6:51pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
Xavier.: You always use to make meaningless approaches, now you are trying to hook me up with that writer, well maybe if he buys our (as in us interested in Arewa Republic) opinion. He is not in any way having the same opinion with mine, but we are just trying to defend our culture to which we are born into. Even though I don't consider his article as defending Hausa-Fulani, in fact he is even exposing things which are hidden thousands of meters away from the ground. I posted his article as a tool for others to understand the reasons why Nigeria is still amalgamated since 1914. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by tpia: 6:54pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
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Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by JJYOU: 6:58pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
tpia:no chance. too divided and too many small minded people about |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Ibime(m): 7:19pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
auwal87: My sister, with this kain grammar, I wonder wish newspaper you dey write for. . . . abi na Gamji.com? |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Nobody: 7:48pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
only on gamji can u find such nauseating trash. burden of leadership indeed. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by auwal87(m): 7:52pm On Dec 31, 2008 |
Ibime: Sister? For your church or for your house? Den I will sit here to kyan kyan all my Brighter Grammar just to post on Nairaland, how would I mind my english if people like you are the one reading on nairaland?? Gamji? I have never sent my articles to them, they are just a website, not a paper. |
Re: Hausa-fulani’s Burden Of Leadership by Jarus(m): 4:50pm On Jan 01, 2009 |
@ auwal, Can I have a copy of your article? Check my profile for my email address and let me have a soft copy. |
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