The “Fulanization” of Hausaland: The Untold Story by Mallam Aminu Kano [ Debates Arising in Response to Right Wing Fulani Initiatives in Nigeria]
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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The “Fulanization” of
Hausaland: The Untold Story by Mallam Aminu Kano
“Until Fulani Emirs are toppled, Northern Nigeria will never know peace” …. Aminu Kano.
Mallam Aminu Kano devoted his lifetime career in catering to the talakawas (underdogs) of the North
“That the shocking state of social order as at present existing in Northern Nigeria is due to nothing but the Fulani’s Family Compact rule of the so-called Native Administrations in their present autocratic form.” – Aminu Kano.
“That owing to this unscrupulous and vicious system of Administration by the Fulani’s Family Compact rulers, there is today in our Society an antagonism of interests manifesting itself as a class struggle, between the members of the vicious circle of the Native Administration on the one hand and the ordinary “talakawa” on the other.” – Aminu Kano.
Hausa states:
1. Kebbi State: Total population is 3.6 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.1 million. Saidu Usman Nassamu Dakinsari, the governor, is Fulani.
2. Sokoto State: Total population is 4.3 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.9 million. Aliyu Wamakko, the governor, is Fulani.
3. Zamfara State: Total population is 3.6 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.0 million. Abdula’aziz Abubakar Yari, the governor, is Fulani.
4. Kaduna State: Total population is 6.1 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 5.8 million. Mukhtar Yero, the governor, is Fulani.
5. Kano State: Total population is 9.3 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 9.1 million. Rabi’u Musa Kwakwaso, the governor, is Fulani.
6. Kastina State: Total population is 6.4 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 5.9 million. Ibrahim Shema, the governor is Fulani.
7. Jigawa State: Total population is 4.9 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 4.8 million. Sule Lamido, the governor, is Fulani.
The Fulani, through their version of violence Islam, have succeeded in taking over both the political and economic control and command of the Hausaland. They have ensured Hausa children lack access to qualitative education.
A recent survey of Northwest Nigeria shows that for every 10 university graduates, all 10 are Fulani. Of the 100 secondary school leavers, polled, only 8 are Hausa, the rest are Fulani.
Almajiri is a deliberate policy of the Fulani to keep the Hausa in perpetual misery. We must open up the mind of the Hausa to take over the command and control of the political and economic sphere of their region. The best means of stopping Boko Haram is to tell Hausa to confront Fulani for elective posts. The Northwest belongs to them. They must take it back politically. They have got the numbers.
Postscript:
“70 years ago, in a bid to challenge the use of religion as a stamp to justify those oppressive laws, the progressives introduced the concept of Islamiyya. In essence, it’s a religious school but debunked of the traditional methods of the Sufi seminary. Instead they had the Prussian method and trained pupils in the religious sciences free from the prying eyes of the Emirates. This was a revolutionary concept, it together with political mass meetings showed that mass mobilisation was possible even without our native institutions. The plan worked, victory was swift and the eyes of the masses were opened, to quote the Emir Aminu of Zaria, by adopting these methods, “Aminu Kano taught the talakawa how to say no.”
Mallam Aminu Kano, an Hausa man, was considered to be friend of the Northern minorities because he organized his fellow Hausa kinsmen against the Fulani aristocracy which had used Islamic jihad to subdue and overwhelm the Hausa kingdoms that had controlled Nigeria’s Far North until two centuries ago. Sheikh Othman Dan Fodio, an immigrant Fulani from Mali, was the Islamic cleric who inspired and led the jihad that successfully overran most of today’s Northern Nigeria in early 19th Century AD through military conquest. Indigenous Hausa kings were toppled killed and Fulani emirs were installed to replace them. All emirates of the North and elsewhere in the Middle Belt, for past two centuries, have been ruled by Fulani-controlled hereditary monarchy since then.
Comments by Dr. Nwosu
It is indeed possible to have a minority overpower, dominate and rule over a majority for a very long time as the Fulani have clearly demonstrated in Nigeria. The story of the Fulani in Nigeria goes back more than two centuries when the nomadic cattle-herding cultural group migrated into today's Nigeria's Far North from semi-arid territory in Mali in search of fresh pastures to for their livestock. The closely-knit group had their esoteric language (Fulfulde), the Koran and their livestock as they arrived Northwestern part of Nigeria around 1800 AD. Within a few years of arrival, the so-called Fulani War (1804-1808) commenced after Othman Dan Fodio was expelled from Gobir by the Hausa king, Yunfa, one of his former students.
Utilizing the Islamic dogma and deft military tactics, the fiery Muslim cleric captured territories in today's Northern Nigeria till his army entered Gobir and killed the Hausa ruler in 1808. All the deposed Hausa kings were executed, and their thrones taken over by newly installed Fulani emirs to rule in what was then named the Sokoto Caliphate. Having wrested the reins of power from indigenous rulers who constitute most of the populace, the new Fulani ruling order systematically brought the dominant Hausa indigenes to become part and parcel of the caliphate. The Hausa were the overwhelming majority in numbers but, somehow, they have been cowed into submitting to the rule of turbaned Fulani emirs - a phenomenon which persists till date.
Even though the British expeditionary force was able to defeat the Caliphate army in a convincing manner, Frederick Lugard thought it expedient to broker a deal with the Fulani emirs to continue in their respective posts as long as the British colonial masters were granted economic access and some administrative oversight. The Fulani emirs exploited this alliance with the new chiefs in town to consolidate their hold in the entire North, even in the far reaches of the Middle Belt where their influence was never felt before the British-sponsored indirect rule. Mallam Aminu Kano (1920-1983) was a prominent Hausa activist leader who organized his own fellow Hausa to learn how to say NO to the Fulani. He was, of course, effectively marginalized as a payback till his death.
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Mallam Aminu Kano devoted his lifetime career in catering to the talakawas (underdogs) of the North
“That the shocking state of social order as at present existing in Northern Nigeria is due to nothing but the Fulani’s Family Compact rule of the so-called Native Administrations in their present autocratic form.” – Aminu Kano.
“That owing to this unscrupulous and vicious system of Administration by the Fulani’s Family Compact rulers, there is today in our Society an antagonism of interests manifesting itself as a class struggle, between the members of the vicious circle of the Native Administration on the one hand and the ordinary “talakawa” on the other.” – Aminu Kano.
Hausa states:
1. Kebbi State: Total population is 3.6 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.1 million. Saidu Usman Nassamu Dakinsari, the governor, is Fulani.2. Sokoto State: Total population is 4.3 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.9 million. Aliyu Wamakko, the governor, is Fulani.
3. Zamfara State: Total population is 3.6 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.0 million. Abdula’aziz Abubakar Yari, the governor, is Fulani.
4. Kaduna State: Total population is 6.1 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 5.8 million. Mukhtar Yero, the governor, is Fulani.
5. Kano State: Total population is 9.3 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 9.1 million. Rabi’u Musa Kwakwaso, the governor, is Fulani.
6. Kastina State: Total population is 6.4 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 5.9 million. Ibrahim Shema, the governor is Fulani.
7. Jigawa State: Total population is 4.9 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 4.8 million. Sule Lamido, the governor, is Fulani.
The Fulani, through their version of violence Islam, have succeeded in taking over both the political and economic control and command of the Hausaland. They have ensured Hausa children lack access to qualitative education.
A recent survey of Northwest Nigeria shows that for every 10 university graduates, all 10 are Fulani. Of the 100 secondary school leavers, polled, only 8 are Hausa, the rest are Fulani.
Almajiri is a deliberate policy of the Fulani to keep the Hausa in perpetual misery. We must open up the mind of the Hausa to take over the command and control of the political and economic sphere of their region. The best means of stopping Boko Haram is to tell Hausa to confront Fulani for elective posts. The Northwest belongs to them. They must take it back politically. They have got the numbers.
Postscript:
“70 years ago, in a bid to challenge the use of religion as a stamp to justify those oppressive laws, the progressives introduced the concept of Islamiyya. In essence, it’s a religious school but debunked of the traditional methods of the Sufi seminary. Instead they had the Prussian method and trained pupils in the religious sciences free from the prying eyes of the Emirates. This was a revolutionary concept, it together with political mass meetings showed that mass mobilisation was possible even without our native institutions. The plan worked, victory was swift and the eyes of the masses were opened, to quote the Emir Aminu of Zaria, by adopting these methods, “Aminu Kano taught the talakawa how to say no.”
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