BANNING OF HISTORY IN THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM BOLSTERS SUSPICION OF HIDDEN AGENDA BY RULERS OF UNITARY NIGERIA - Dr. Olugbenga Hassan
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A Yoruba nationalist, Dr. Olugbenga Hassan, enjoins the public to procure and read the latest Nigerian history book entitled “A Short History of Conquest and Rule” – What Britain Did to Nigeria written by Max Siollun. He was motivated to make this move because of the entrenched official policy of banning the subject of History in the educational curriculum of the Nigerian school system and the persistent lies being dished out by those in control of political power in today’s Unitary Nigeria that the Fulani were the founders and thus the ordained rulers of Africa’s most populous country.
Max Siollun’s book being reviewed described the Fulani as “a group of immigrants that came to Hausaland from Mauritania and Senegal, with a different culture and language" about a century before the arrival of British imperial conquest and subsequent colonization of the West African country. The vast territories of today’s Northwest Nigeria were being ruled by the kings of Hausaland. The Hausa welcomed and hosted the semi-nomadic Fulani in their midst. A leading Hausa king in Gobir, Bawa, appointed a Fulani cleric, Uthman Dan Fodio, “as an Islamic teacher for his royal house and Hausa prince named Yunfa”. In 1804, Uthman Dan Fodio called for a jihad to establish a variant of radical Islam throughout Hausaland. Hausa kings were beheaded and their thrones were handed over to the newly appointed commanders of the conquered territories called the emirs. The Sokoto Islamic Caliphate was born.
The Sokoto Caliphate held sway until the invasion of the British expeditionary army led by Frederick Lugard in 1904. The Sokoto caliphate’s army was summarily crushed by the superior invading colonial force advancing northward from the South. Lugard made it sufficiently clear that the former Uthman Dan Fodio-inspired Fulani empire was defeated and taken over by the British crown.
The role played by George Goldie’s Royal Niger Company in putting together the territories that constitute today’s Nigeria was highlighted. While the Fulani may have invaded, conquered and ruled over parts of former Northern Nigeria, the semi-nomadic warmongering ethnic nationality never established any presence in Southern Nigeria, especially the eastern section. The current claim of ownership of Nigeria’s entire geopolitical space by the Fulani irredentists is a futile attempt to revive the Sokoto Caliphate’s conquest agenda that was summarily ended by the British more than a century ago in 1904.
All the impositions of today’s Unitary Nigeria, which are codified in the imposed fraudulent 1999 Constitution, seem targeted at accomplishing one thing – the actualization of the Fulanization and Islamization agenda of Fulani irredentists. This article is essential in deflating the lie about the spurious hegemonic claim of the Fulani over Nigeria.
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