FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Edo_Global. AFIS-- FULANI HAS SOME POWER ONLY IN NIGERIA AND HAVE ZERO POWER EVERYWHERE SCATTERED POOREST AND DESTITUTES IN 15 COUNTRIES EVERYWHERE ==FULANI ARE BORN TO RULE, IGBO ARE BORN TO CRY.[ Questions on the ro
Anunoby, Ogugua
Individuals yes but in many cases in history, individuals represent the interest of groups and ensure the groups ascendency and domination of other groups.
The dynamics of the ascendency of the Fulani in Nigeria has been a critical determinant of Fulani power in Nigeria. The Fulani successfully waged a Jihad that survives in Northern Nigeria. They were quickly aware of their lack of numbers and saw strategic advantages in the early successful adoption of the conquered majority Hausa not just as partners but kin. They imposed their religion, inter-married, urbanized, gave up their language, and chose the Hausa language as its replacement. Remember Hausa-Fulani as an ethnicity? It did not use to be so.
The order the Jihad imposed on Northern Nigeria was recognized by British colonialism and allowed to coexist with it. It survive British colonialism practically unscathed. The British colonialists favored it. They exploited it both as an instrument of control of Northern Nigeria and weakening of Southern Nigeria. That order exists today having mutated into a well-oiled political force just before and after political independence. It continues to be.
What is also the case is that its inheritors have ensured that it remains an existential force- a machine that has bestrode Nigeria’s economic, political, and social development for decades. Many Nigerians have blamed it, rightly or wrongly for Nigeria’s remarkable failure fulfill her promise.
The Fulani in Nigeria are unlike the Fulani anywhere else. Circumstance and leadership matter.
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It is interesting that only gullible Nigeria does Fulani have some political power. In the rest of the 15 or more countries they are scattered and live in Africa, they have zero power and are the most destitute and poorest African tribes in Africa. Maybe other African countries that have not given Fulani power know why, and maybe they have seen how Nigeria have been destroyed by a few minority including the Fulanis.
Fulani saw cunningly and used Nigeria as a gullible stupid nation of cowards and corrupt laden few that loots and steals from the people and nation. This is how few corrupt military people, few corrupt politicians, few families and few tribes looted and turn Nigeria into a basket case that is not working and will never work. Fulani is a small tribe in Nigeria of less than 10 million and because Nigeria is a corrupted entity that's why few can loot and corruptly corrupt the nation and they Fulani too are suffering because they constitutes among the poorest and most destitute of all tribes in Nigeria.
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The Fulani, the scattered people of West Africa By TAMBA JEAN-MATHEW | Monday, July 20 2015
http://www.africareview.com/Special-Reports/The-Fulani-the-scattered-people-of-West-Africa-/-/979182/2799876/-/h3osrr/-/index.html
Fulani girls in West Arica. PHOTO | BBC 
Monday, September 21, 2015In spite of their numerical advantage in West Africa, only a few of the Pulaar-speaking politicians have risen to the very top in their countries. Current exceptions are President Macky Sall of Senegal (who is of a mixed-parentage) and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.
Ethnic groups that cut across Africa’s post-colonial boundaries are a common feature. But perhaps the most widely dispersed community on the continent are the Fulani of West Africa.
They range from Mauritania through Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso to Cote d’Ivoire and across to Benin, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, though they go with different names in different countries.
Accounting for an estimated total population of some 40 million, they form majorities in many West African countries and are interestingly also the only group of people who are easily recognisable at first sight as they bear similar characteristics.
The Fulani are conspicuous because of their light-skinned complexion, slender composure, long and slender noses, unique accent, and curly hair. At birth, many of them are slashed with two traditional marks on either side of the face between the eye and the ear.
Across West and Central Africa, they are classified mainly as Pulaar-speaking people, but with specific names in various countries. In Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal, they are known as the Peulh.
In Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia, they are known as Fula, whereas in Niger, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon, they are called Hausa-Fulani. In northern Cameroon, their term of reference is Fulfulbé.
The Hausa-Fulani nomenclature, especially in Nigeria, came through years of assimilation and intermarriage with the Hausa, who are a distinct group. Others say it is a deliberately political construct to beef up their numbers in Nigeria vis-a-vis the southerners.
In Sierra Leone, a mockery is made of the ethnic Fula-speaking people for their lack of an ‘r’ in their speaking vocabulary. Hence, they pronounce words like ‘brother’ as ‘boloda’ and ‘bread’ as ‘blade.’
But virtually every ethnic Peulh or Fula understands the spoken language generally known as Pulaar, albeit of course with slight differences in phonetics or pronunciation.
This is where they are diametrically opposed to other majority tribes like the Serrer in Senegal whose speakers do not understand a word from the other ethnic Serrer speakers living barely 50km apart.
In discussions about the real origins of the Peulh, Fula or Hausa-Fulani, some claim kinship with the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Salasie II, who they say was the last monarch in their illustrious pedigree.
The name of the incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame also emerges in other contemporary narrations of kinship.
Looking closely at these Pulaar-speaking people, one would easily notice that they bear considerable resemblance to Somalis and/or Ethiopians at the extreme eastern end of the continent.
In Guinea's Futa Djallon region where they are believed to have originated from, the provincial headquarters town of Labé is considered as their natural birthplace.
However, the majority of them are found in the Sahel with some accounts saying they may have originated in the Maghreb from early contacts between the blacks and the Arabic-speaking people.
In Senegal where their concentration is third only after Nigeria and Guinea, the ethnic group is alternately known as Toucouleur, which when literally translated in French means “every colour “.
They are predominantly Muslim and they also happen to be the most nomadic of African communities. To date, there are very few Fulani or Peulh who adhere to Christianity.
Historically, their main occupation was livestock rearing and petty trading in different wares including cowrie shells and kola nuts.
Their staple food comprises meat, milk, millet and sorghum with virtually no spices like pepper.
This sharply contrasts with many other ethnic groups in West Africa and particularly the Kru, a fishing community from Ghana, who are renowned as “pepper birds” and who baptise their children with pepper.
The minority of the Fulani who are dark-skinned will still be recognisable by their accent and curly hair, often bearing resemblance to the dark-skinned Indians.
And like Indians, the Fulani are known for their mainly endogamous system of marriages which they maintain in almost all of the countries of West Africa they occupy.
These are marriages between uncles and nieces and cousins and only in highly exceptional circumstances could one find the Fulani or Peulh marrying into another ethnic group.
Ousmane Baldé, a retired Senegalese school teacher, told the Africa Review that the reason for this was “to ensure that the hard-earned wealth was maintained within the family setting”.
This characteristic of the Fula open them up to accusations of ethnocentricity and even racism.
They make very little effort to learn other languages, which many of them tend to have little mastery of.
While they refer to other non-Pulaar speaking Africans as “black people” they also look down on their own dark-skinned kin as machudor or “slave”, a derivative from the days of old when slavery was practised among Sahelian and Maghreb communities.
But like any other ethnic group, the Fulani have unique family surnames, prominent among them being Ba and Diallo (spelt Bah and Jallow respectively in English-speaking countries).
Others are Barrie, Baldé, Juldé, and Sall.
One of the most illustrious Pulaar-speakers to emerge on the post-colonial African political landscape was the late Diallo Telli, a Guinean who became the first secretary-general of the Organisation of African Unity. He later died - reportedly through starvation - while imprisoned by the Sekou Touré regime.
In spite of their numerical advantage in West Africa, only a few of the Pulaar-speaking politicians have risen to the very top in their countries. Current exceptions are President Macky Sall of Senegal (who is of a mixed-parentage) and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Afis 'Deinde <odide...@gmail.com> wrote:
THE THIEVES CALLED INYANMINRINS
These thieves and cousins of thieves are running scared.
It is Sunday. They say they are Jesus followers. Today is the day of worship.
I guess what they read in church today is "HOW TO HATE THY NEIGHBOR".
Shikena
Afis
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