Right Wing Fulani Colonization Drive : Genocide, Hegemony and Power in Nigeria, By Obadiah Mailafia
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
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Date: Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:19 PM
Fulani Powerless in all of Africa but only in Nigeria do they have some power.
Genocide, Hegemony and Power in Nigeria, By Dr. Obadiah Mailafia a Former Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor.
https://sundiatapost.com/2018/05/15/genocide-hegemony-and-power-in-nigeria-by-obadiah-mailafia/
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The Fulani who once enjoyed great political power as founders of empires are today largely powerless. Despite the fact that they constitute the single largest ethnic majority in their original homeland of Guinea, they have never enjoyed political power in that country. The ethnic composition of Guinea, according to recent estimates, is as follows: Fula (41%); Mandinka (33%); Susu (12%); Kissi (5%); Kpelle (5%); and others (4%).
Ever since independence from the French, Sekou Toure, an ethnic
Mandinka, ruled the country with an iron hand. He was particularly hard
on the Fula, whom he accused of plotting with the French to undermine
his government. One of the prominent casualties was Diallo Telli, a
Fula. He was the pioneer Secretary-General of the then Organisation of
African Unity (OAU) before becoming Minister of Justice under Sekou
Toure. In March 1977 Toure accused him of being the arrowhead of a Fula
complot to overthrow the government. He was thrown into the notorious
Camp Boiro prison where he died a gruesome death.
Subsequent rulers of the country, from Louis Lansana Beavogui, Lansana
Conté, Moussa Dadis Camara and the incumbent Alpha Condé, have all been
non-Fula. It would seem that all the other ethnic groups have ganged up
to ensure that a Fula will never rule over them. One of the closest who
came to grabbing power was the brilliant Fula economist and banker
Cellou Dalein Diallo. He had been prime minister under the late Lansana
Conté where he acquitted himself as an effective administrator. He has
become a rallying point of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of
Guinea (UFDG).
Historians the world over agree that the original home of the Fulani people is Futa Jallon (also known in the French as Fouta Djallon) in the Upper Guinea highlands of the West African Republic of Guinea. Also known as Fula, Fulbe or Pullo, the Fulani are thought to have emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East in ancient times, settling in the Futa Jallon Mountains and intermarrying with the local population and creating a unique ethnic identity based on cultural and biological miscegenation.
Futa Jallon is also the source of the great River Niger that undulates a vast region of our beloved West Africa; traversing over 4,000 km. It is a region of great beauty, with a near-temperate climate. It has been described by a European visitor as “the Switzerland of Africa”. The Malian writer and ethnologist Amadou Hampaté Ba famously described Futa Jallon as “the Tibet of West Africa”, on account of its surfeit of Muslim clerics, Sufi mystics, itinerant students and preachers.
The second traditional home of the Fulani is Futa Toro, by the banks of the Senegal River in the current nation of Senegal.
Over the centuries the Fulani converted to Islam and some of them became zealous Muslim clerics and itinerant proselytisers. Through war and conquest they formed several kingdoms, among them Tukolor, Massina, the Caliphate of Usman Dan Fodio and Fombina in the early nineteenth century.
Today, the Fulani number about 20 million worldwide. They are spread all over West and central Africa, particularly Guinea, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Chad, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and The Gambia. Their population is between 7 and 8 million in their original homeland in Guinea.
The Fulani are the world’s largest single pastoral ethnic community, ahead of the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania and the Karamajong of Uganda. Out of their population of 20 million, a third are pastoralists while the rest are settled, sedentary communities consisting of farmers, traders, artisanal craftsmen and Muslim clerics.
The Fulani who once enjoyed great political power as founders of empires are today largely powerless. Despite the fact that they constitute the single largest ethnic majority in their original homeland of Guinea, they have never enjoyed political power in that country. The ethnic composition of Guinea, according to recent estimates, is as follows: Fula (41%); Mandinka (33%); Susu (12%); Kissi (5%); Kpelle (5%); and others (4%).
Ever since independence from the French, Sekou Toure, an ethnic
Mandinka, ruled the country with an iron hand. He was particularly hard
on the Fula, whom he accused of plotting with the French to undermine
his government. One of the prominent casualties was Diallo Telli, a
Fula. He was the pioneer Secretary-General of the then Organisation of
African Unity (OAU) before becoming Minister of Justice under Sekou
Toure. In March 1977 Toure accused him of being the arrowhead of a Fula
complot to overthrow the government. He was thrown into the notorious
Camp Boiro prison where he died a gruesome death.
Subsequent rulers of the country, from Louis Lansana Beavogui, Lansana
Conté, Moussa Dadis Camara and the incumbent Alpha Condé, have all been
non-Fula. It would seem that all the other ethnic groups have ganged up
to ensure that a Fula will never rule over them. One of the closest who
came to grabbing power was the brilliant Fula economist and banker
Cellou Dalein Diallo. He had been prime minister under the late Lansana
Conté where he acquitted himself as an effective administrator. He has
become a rallying point of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of
Guinea (UFDG).
But it would seem that the rest of the ethnic groups are already determined that they would never be ruled by the Fula, who remain the majority as well as being the most educated and among the most moneyed classes. The Mandinka, the Susu and others believe the Fula are a highly clannish and racist group and that once they seize power, they would turn the rest of them into slaves in their own ancestral homeland.
Perhaps this explains why the Fulani have turned their attention to
Nigeria. They remember the great success of the Fulani Jihad led by
Usman Dan Fodio and his son Mohammed Bello. They believe that if they
cannot establish hegemonic power in their own ancestral homeland then
they have a right to turn to Nigeria, a land they believe was given to
them by God Almighty Himself. They have been encouraged by the fact that
the population of Fulanis in Nigeria is even threatening to overtake
that of their original home in Guinea. They are also inspired by the
fact that three Nigerian leaders have been of the Fulani ethnic
extraction, namely, Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, Murtala Ramat Mohammed
(through his mother), Umaru Yar’Adua and the current incumbent of our
High Magistracy Muhammadu Buhari.
Under the Nigerian constitution, the Government of Nigeria has a duty to
cater for all our citizens. Unfortunately, the Fulani from throughout
West Africa and beyond believe Nigeria belongs to them by right. They
are under this illusion that they can come from across the border with
their cattle and the next day, have a right to demand land for
settlement. They also forget that under the ECOWAS Protocol on the
movement of peoples, visitors from our region can live only for 3 months
as visitors. If they plan to live beyond the statutory 3 months they
have to apply to regularise their stay. Unfortunately, recent Fulani
emigrants recognise no such regulations. They can come today and
tomorrow they are demanding all the rights and privileges appertaining
to all bona fide citizens. Not only that, they are laying legal claims
to ancestral lands belonging to the peoples of Benue, Taraba, Plateau
and the rest of the Middle Belt.
Before the arrival of the British, the Fulani spearheaded raids throughout the Middle Belt in a bid to capture slaves and for material booty, land and conquest. The peoples of the Middle Belt heroically resisted them. Usman Dan Fodio was himself wounded by the Tivs in Benue, of which he later died in April 1817. Perhaps it was on account of this that the Fulani established a relationship of “abokanin wasa” (playmates) with the Tivs. For the better part of a century, the Tivs regarded the Fulanis as their friends and playmates. This relationship has foundered on the full realisation of their renewed ambitions for conquest, subjugation, genocide and dispossession.
During the era of British colonial rule, the Caliphate was strengthened to bolster the moral economy of British imperial power. The Emirs were strengthened to lord it over the peoples of the Middle Belt, so long as they were satisfying the expectations of the colonial masters. Thus it came about that Emirs were created in areas that were 99% Christian, including such areas as Jema’a, Lafia, Keffi, Jere and Wase. They were even touting with the idea of creating emirates in Makurdi and Jos, were it not for the grace of God! Where they could not create new emirates the people were placed under the tutelage of Caliphal feudal overlords. A good example is the Tiv people, who for many years in the fifties and sixties were placed under the tutelage of the Emir of Muri.
In Nigeria the original Habe Hausa peoples have become integrated into a new mongrel race known as “Hausa-Fulani”. It is a constructed identity of very recent times. Most Fulani in today’s Nigeria are largely a settled urban community. Today, their foot soldiers are their pastoralist herdsmen that they have armed with sophisticated weapons to wreck bloodshed and pillage throughout the vast expanses of our ancestral savannah homeland in the Middle Belt. The Fulbe language is rarely spoken by most Fulanis in Nigeria.
Contemporary Fulbe speakers are to be found mainly in Gombe, Adamawa, Katsina and Kano. Although all the Emirs are Fulanis, you are most unlikely to hear their language spoken in their palaces. Hausa has become their lingua franca.
By lumping themselves as Hausa-Fulani, the Fulanis have successfully hidden their oppressive stranglehold on Northern Nigeria. The truth is that the Hausa people make up the bulk of the Talakawa. No Hausa person could ever aspire to be Emir. The Fulani have successfully exploited the Caliphate to consolidate their stranglehold over the North and over the rest of Nigeria which they believe to be their patrimony by right.
What the peoples of the Middle Belt today face is a tragedy that can best be described as genocide. Fulani militias in their thousands have been rampaging across the primeval savannah, killing, pillaging and burning down entire villages. Not only do they maim and kill; they destroy farmsteads and repopulate them with their own people.
I myself do not believe in preaching hatred. We must preach the
gospel of love. We would never advocate for people to go about hunting
Fulanis and doing reprisal killings. But nobody should deny the leaders
of the victim communities the right to voice their legitimate concerns.
When General T. Y. Danjuma raised alarm about it, he was told to “use
his influence wisely”. General Danjuma urged his people to “defend
themselves”, which is not only in line with the constitution of Nigeria;
it is in conformity with the sacred precepts of the Law of Nations,
Natural Justice and the dictates of Just Law Theory. The
customs and international laws of war since time immemorial demand that people who face a direct threat to their own existential survival have a duty and right to engage in legitimate self-defence. It is not only a principle derived from law, it derives from morality and international ethics.
Babayola M. Toungo
OBADIAH MAILAFIYA: HATRED, BIGOTRY & INTELLECTUAL THUGGERY
Babayola M. Toungo
Mr. Obadiah Mailafiya is a person that I previously held in high esteem because of certain objectivity he brought to public discourse. However on reading his “Genocide, Hegemony and Power in Nigeria”, this high esteem I had of him became diminished . In the said article, Mailafiya tried strenuously to prove the allegation of genocide and hegemony against the Fulbes and their being aliens in Nigeria to the extent of rewriting history of the Fulbe to suit his attempt to re-write contemporaneous history . What is glaring in Mr. Mailafiya’s essay is nothing but a furtherance of the myopic world view of colonial imperialism and present islamophobia exhibited elsewhere that others here in Nigeria wish to adopt and paint the Fulbe. I will say to Mailafiya “Facts are sacred sir, therefore you can’t change anything by lying through your teeth.” The man has always presented himself as an intellectual – what I have always struggled to understand is whether he is the academic or thuggish type. He always comes across as a victim without a cause with a penchant to create villains on whom to hang his grievances. In all, throughout the rambling piece he has penned, the only truth I could find in the article is his quotation form Gramsci. Which he failed to apply to the issues he was raising.
In his fixation of trying to hang the Fulbe he didn’t bother to reconcile the contradictions inherent in his write-up. For instance, he postulated that “historians the world over agree that the original home of the Fulani people is the Futa Jallon in the Upper Guinea highlands of the West African Republic of Guinea” who are these historians? The colonialist or Anglo-American pontificating culturalist who tried to make the world his or her own? In the next breadth, he continued, “…the Fulani are thought to have emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East in ancient times, settling in the Futa Jalon Mountains…”. There may be a different meaning for ‘original’, which I may have not come across. For Mailafiya and his fellow dreamers, who crave for the establishment of a “Middle Belt” of their warped dreams, the Fulbes are original to every country and continent, bar Nigeria. The Fulbes can’t be Nigerians and therefore are fair game to be targeted for annihilation. It is in this type of propaganda that pretext is provided or veiled “hate speech” given credence to provide the environment for ethnic cleansing. Mailafiya’s attempt to re-write the history of the Fulbe is a message that could be interpreted that the Fulbe’s origin is elsewhere therefore they are not Nigerians to enjoy the benefit of the rights of citizenship and therefore they could be treated at will and to their detriment.
Our good Doctor failed to tell us when the Fulbes came to Nigeria and the tribes they met in what is today known as Nigeria. But in the typical fashion of the emerging ethnic bigots masquerading as intellectuals, Mailafiya couldn’t even crosscheck his facts about the Sokoto Jihad – where it was fought, Dan Fodio’s participation and how it reached the Fombina. Attempting to separate the Caliphate and the Fombina is part of the mischief of Mailafiya and his frustrated group who think they can wish away the past. Nobody took the jihad to Tiv land and Shehu Usman Dan Fodio did not fight anywhere near Tivland for him to be ‘wounded’ in battle which led to his death. Is this the new fable? “Dream on sir.”
Mailafiya took time to detail the travails of the Fulbe in Guinea with relish and one can feel him practically drooling when he got to this part and how he wished this same thing can be applied as a final solution to the Nigerian “settler” Fulbes. Oga, how do you present a people who could not rule in their “original ancestral land” as hegemonic in a country where the likes of you are the lords of the manor? He glibly said the Fulbes are about 20 million spread all over West Africa, can he tell me any other tribe with such a spread and number in the west coast?
“The lack of political opportunities in Guinea explains why the Fulbes turned their attention to Nigeria,” so proclaimed our sage. So the British Empire saw in the Fulbe a contemporaneous empire building traits indigenous to West Africa? And this is the narrative that the likes of Mailafiya want to perpetuate? So Fulbes are just turning their attention to Nigeria? Compared to the history that Mailafiya is relying on, when did Nigeria come into being? Is it a construct of the British colonial enterprise? The Fulbes? Or the likes of Mailafiya? The great success of the Fulani jihad led by Shehu Usman Dan Fodio and his son Muhammadu Bello preceded the 1884 Berlin Conference and subsequent colonial chicanery of the French and English particularly in respect of what is now known as Nigeria. Were the Mailafiya’s of this world represented at the Berlin Conference? Or in the Colonial administration of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria or the amalgamated territories of Northern and Southern Protectorates? Mailafiya reminded those who might have forgotten that the country had three leaders of Fulani extraction in the past – Shehu Shagari, Murtala Mohammed, Umaru ‘Yar Adu’a “and the current incumbent of our High Magistracy Muhammadu Buhari”. Na wa wo! Why was Buhari qualified as “High Magistracy”? Mailafiya unwittingly showed his hand – the target all along is Buhari. Lacking the courage and firm conviction to come out and attack Buhari, he chose the well-beaten path of ethnic hatred.
The whole article was a bunch of contradictory postulates. What has come to be known as the “Sokoto Jihad” was never for slave raiding and other reasons Mailafiya wants to ascribe to it. The underlying reasons of the Sokoto Jihad have been well articulated that I could only advise Mailafiya to go and read the books written by the leaders of the Sokoto Jihad or latter day historians like the late Abdullahi Smith. When the Imperial British came to this part of Africa, it was only the emirates that stood up to them and the British had to use superior firepower to subdue the emirs. The British destroyed the emirates, not strengthened them. Any elementary reading of history can tell you that. I now know why many of the likes of Mailafiya are opposed to the teaching of history in our schools – so that they can rewrite it. The British destroyed the Caliphal system because emirs under the Caliphate resisted the conquest, while others welcomed them with open arms. Could the British, who were accompanied by Christian missionaries, be supportive of an Islamic Caliphate to the extent of supplanting existing Christian chiefdoms as alleged by our “erudite” scholar? Can he tell us when the Berom chiefdom was created, before it was stealthily converted to that of Jos?
In attempting to demonise the Fulbe, Mailafiya glibly linked the Fulbe with slave raids in the Middle Belt. The usual “divide and rule” argument perpetrated by the British colonialist and now perpetuated by the likes of Mailafiya. Were the Fulbe jihadists ever in “his” middle belt? I think what he is trying hard to hide (or deny) is the fact that he is failing to place the blame at the feet of those that sought to use our population to provide cheap labour whether here in Africa or their other colonies elsewhere in the world. In all historical narrations by real scholars, I have never come across such brazen lie that Shehu Usman Dan Fodio took the jihad to the Tivs. That was not the modus operandi of the Sokoto Jihad. It was local leaders that were convinced of the egalitarian aspirations of the Sokoto Jihad that went to Sokoto or specifically to Shehu Usman Danfodio to declare their allegiance and be made part of the Sokoto Jihad. I hope Mailafiya understands the difference that the Sokoto Jihad was not about conquest of “geographical territory” in comparison to British Imperialism. I therefore cannot fathom the point Mailafiya was trying to make here knowing he is lying through his teeth. Feeding the minds of young innocent ones on a diet of hatred and bigotry?
The average Pullo hates being called a ‘hausa-fulani’ because such “new mongrel race” as postulated by Mailafiya, is a creation of his friends, the then Lagos – Ibadan press, just to compress the population of the two groups. A term, or yet still – a new mongrel race – coined by Mailafiya and his challenged bedfellows, is now to be used as a weapon of hatred by the same people. Claiming that most Fulbe are largely settled in urban Nigeria is admission clearly coated with bile. To admit there are settled Fulbes in urban Nigeria is to jolt the narrative out of sync. He rambled on about the Fulbes not able to speak Fulfulde, scattered across states like Gombe, Adamawa, Katsina and Kano. I wonder what point he was trying to make by this assertion. He alleged in his disjointed piece that the Fulbe are right now on a rampage of “killing, pillaging and burning down entire villages”. Why are they doing so? Just for the heck of it? History taught us about causes, courses and effects. Not only do they kill, according to Mailafiya – they also destroy farmsteads and repopulate them with their own. Can he be benevolent enough to give us the name of one such farmstead destroyed and repopulated by the Fulbe?
In the recent haste of ethnic profiling and hate mongering, I cannot remember coming across a poorly done hate crusade by someone strenuously trying to present himself as not preaching hate. I will like everyone to read his piece and see how hatred and bigotry spew out.
If Mailafiya found the call by TY Danjuma to his people to come out and defend themselves to be in line with the Nigerian Constitution, in conformity with the sacred precepts of the Law of the Nation, Natural Justice, Equity, Good Conscience and the dictates of the Just Law Theory, why does he begrudge the Fulbe from enjoying such legal protection?
Intellectual thugs and a complicit media bred the Rwandan crisis. The genocide started with dehumanizing the Tutsis (a Fulbe group) by politicians and their intellectual thugs in the media; the killings started and did not stop until about 800 thousand souls were wasted. When the Tutsis gained control of the country in 1995, they restored peace, social harmony and egalitarian cohabitation that is genuinely federalist. There have not been reported that the Hutu’s have been harmed on a “retaliatory ethnic attacks by the Tutsis” because of who the President of Rwanda is. Neither did Kagame attempt to create hegemony for the Tutsi’s because he is one.
Let’s be well advised to be mindful of what we say in our utterances made public or in the public.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
It's no surprise that this is the symbolic Naija emblem, strongly suggestive of the Fulani Herdsmen that are permanent news headlines these past few years that is featured at the head of his genocidal article :
“Genocide, hegemony and power in Nigeria”, By Obadiah Mailafia
We are supposed to think “Fulani cows, running around all over Nigeria”, as George Bernard Shaw would have put it, and, not visible here, Fulani beef finding honourable graves in the Naija stomachs
It would seem that Dr. Obadiah Mailafia the author of the piece, forever has an axe to grind with the Fulani people. It's a deeply felt Islamophobia (as severely expressed here in this forum earlier), his discontent is deep-seated, it's personal and it's discernible, going back a few years now, that the roots of this extended lamentation, what fuels his fire is to be looked for in the religious differences that mostly differentiate him from the Fulani people who has has chosen to treat as a monolithic group. It's as if the Christian gentleman does not carry the gospel of love in his heart at all times and did not hear what Bishop Curry said recently in Washington D.C.:
“Love your neighbor. That’s why we’re here. Love the neighbor you like and love the neighbor you don’t like. Love the neighbor you agree with and the neighbor you don’t agree with. Love your Democrat neighbor, your Republican neighbor. Your black neighbor and your white neighbor, your Anglo neighbor, your Latino, your LGBTQ neighbor. Love your neighbor. That’s why we’re here. “
And for good measure Sir, love your Fulani neighbour, your fellow Nigerian.
Lest we, forget, President Muhammadu Buhari was democratically elected!
If I had the time I would correct most of the deliberately misleading stuff that's been written; suffice it to say that I really don't have the time , so, let me correct some of the most glaring of the very inaccurate overall impression that he so desperately wants to give of the Fulani by opportunistically downgrading and denigrating them at every turn, with the opportunities that he himself has created ; since as clear as daylight, some of his diatribe is based on fake “ facts” .
Good advice : “and let not hatred of any people seduce you that ye deal not justly”
“Today, the Fulani number about 20 million worldwide. They are spread all over West and central Africa, particularly Guinea, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Chad, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and The Gambia “ ( Obadiah Mailafia)
25 million Fula people world wide is a less conservative estimate Sir.
I am peeved that he does not mention the very important existence of the Fulani ( Fula) in Sierra Leone , to which country they started emigrating from Futa Jallon some three hundred years ago and brought al-Islam with them. The Fula Language is what I spoke most fluently until I was six years of age and was whisked off to to the UK .
Today ,the Fula are essentially the elite entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone and have worked hard, to be where they now are . In the last Presidential elections in Sierra Leone ,the running mate of the APC ' s presidential aspirant was a Fula : Chernor Maju Bah popularly known as Chericoco . The running mate of Julius Maada Bio ( the current president) was Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh also a Fula and currently the vice President of Sierra Leone.
Needless to say, the President of the Gambia Adama Barrow is also Fula.
Indeed Sekou Toure was particularly brutal to his Fula subjects...
As to Uthman Dan Fodio one of the greatest if not the greatest Nigerian that ever lived if you cannot speak well of him then it's better that you say no thing.
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Thanks for your effort, Babayola.
Why is it that people like you are silent when Miyetti Allah, run by Nigeria's most elite Fulani, most prominent among whom are the Sultan of Sokoto and the ex-Nigerian bank governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, justify the various massacres carried out by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt and even threaten more and carry it out, as in their open defiance of the state's open grazing law carried out to protect the state against the murderous rapaciousness that Fulani herdsmen, led by Miyetti Allah, have come to be associated with, from Southern Kaduna to Edo state, in which latter state their cows are seen occupying classrooms and where they are repeatedly recorded as murdering innocents?
None of those declarations from various levels of Miyetti Allah leadership was ever repudiated by the apex leadership of the organisation. Neither was the open declaration by a Fulani professor that Benue belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest publicly challenged by any Fulani, to the best of my knowledge, talk less by Miyetti Allah. Yet people like yourself emerge to speak only when you see Fulani interests being challenged in the ongoing war waged by greedy right wing Fulani warlords agst Nigeria using the most visible Fulani cultural activity, nomadic cattle husbandry, as an instrument of national penetration and a platform to manipulate Nigeria's political processes in favour of your ethnicity.
When you do speak, you pretend to be unaware of the directing of the ongoing genocide by an elite group whose members are among the most visible face of your ethnicity in Nigeria. When you acknowledge that reality, you refuse to address the sheer horror that people of such eminence have made themselves the sponsors of such a national calamity, a coven of blood soaked vampires. The best you are able to do is to justify such inhumanity as you have done in your piece above, along with ignoring the occupation of Agatu and other locations by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt after decimating the communities:
" He alleged in his disjointed piece that the Fulbe are right now on a rampage of “killing, pillaging and burning down entire villages”. Why are they doing so? Just for the heck of it? History taught us about causes, courses and effects. Not only do they kill, according to Mailafiya – they also destroy farmsteads and repopulate them with their own. Can he be benevolent enough to give us the name of one such farmstead destroyed and repopulated by the Fulbe?"
We are all witnesses to this unfolding history and the gradual but consistent red listing of Fulani ethnicity in Nigeria by these overreaching shenanigans.
The gradual but consistent unfolding of public opinion in Nigeria on this hell that a group of anachronistic characters have plunged the nation into can be seen as reflected in the development of opinions on this subject on this group. Having observed the development of heavily armed, military level sophisticated and murderous Fulani militia in action before the 2015 escalation of their terrorist agenda under the cover of the govt of the Fulani national ruler, Nigerian President Muhamadu Buhari, I cried out in this group agst their consistently unfolding horrors in Benue, the SW and the SE, describing them as a govt sponsored terrorist colonization agenda. Buhari dedicates such as Mobolaji Aluko and Salimonu Kadiri dismissed my outcries as unrealistic scare mongering.Today, three years later, they are either silent on the clear ethnic agenda unfolding or are calling for efforts to address the systematic massacres.
Middle Belt scholar Moses Ochonu used to describe me as sensationalizing the situation. Farooq Kperogi whose biography is intimately intertwined with Fulani people in positive terms, has decried what he presented as the scapegoating of Fulani ethnicity for what Ochonu and himself describe as the misadventures of a disconnected band of miscreants, and when they at last came round to acknowledging the reality of recurrent massacres carried out by well organised Fulani militia, they insisted they were a disconnected band of brigands they called Bororos.
What is their position as of today?
They have both declared Miyetti Allah a terrorist organisation. They both cry out about the collusion between the fed govt , Miyetti Allah and the Fulani militia terrorist campaign, as graphically represented by the support given by both the Inspector General of Police and the Minister of Defence to the murderous vision of Miyetti Allah to force Benue into submission through massacre, demanding the state must not act to forestall their free roaming brigandry.
What does this imply?
An admission that a highly coordinated terrorist campaign is in action, centred in a directing group, Miyeti Allah, itself led by the country's most elite Fulani, a terrorist campaign supported by the Fulani or Hausa-Fulani heads of Nigeria's security organisations, a govt led by a Fulani man whose accommodation of the terrorist campaign is clear, in a govt in which appointment to leadership positions is dominated by what Kperoqi calls a policy of Arewaisation.
It is wise to see the writing on the wall and retreat rather than invoking genocide when you are the one abusing the trust and slow comprehension of Nigerians as a platform for carrying out genocide.
It took years for ex-minister of defense Theophilus Danjuma to declare the current situation as genocide and to urge people to defend themselves or face extinction in the face of the Nigerian army's and by implication the Nigerian fed govt's collusion with the terrorists. This has come years after Danjuma and a group of Middle Belt elders held a public meeting on this subject and cried out even as some people were yet to wake up to the reality, not getting a positive response to the earlier outcry, Danjuma has made a more telling declaration.
So, whom do you blame for the negative profile Fulani ethnicity is being stained with?
All over Nigeria, people are asking who are these evilly daring warlords, who, their kinsman having secured a national platform on a position of trust by other Nigerians, have proceeded to demand that Nigerians suffer death and enslavement at their hands? Where are they from? Have they chosen to continue the political jihad of their ancestor Uthman dan Fodio who conquered the Hausa states using religion as a cover, only to place his biological heirs and generals as rulers over those states, with his contemporary descendants using nomadic cattle husbandry as a primary strategy to carry the same jihad beyond Illorin after which conquest through the betrayal of his people by Afonja they were stopped by Ibadan warriors?
Social media such as Facebook is rife with the conclusion of a national colonization campaign being carried out by Fulani warlords, a position which I have insisted was the reality since the Agatu massacre when these terrorists murdered hundreds in Agatu, justified it in public and went free, setting a pattern that has recurred in the years since then.
Every Fulani person, every
Hausa-Fulani person, bears the responsibility of taking a stand for
or against Nigeria in this war
against Nigeria declared on their behalf. The Nazis pursued a vision
for Germany based on their warped perspectives. Today, we recall
those Germans who gave open support to Nazi executed
genocide and dictatorship, those who gave support through
silence when they could have spoken out, those
who,like Christian priest, Martin Niemoller, objected and paid the price
of punishment, even death, for objecting.
There is only so much that control of the country's military might, Buhari's primary weapon, can do. People have taken note that after nullifying Nnamdi Kanu's peaceful IPOB civil disobedience secession strategy through military attack even employing tanks, and disappearing him and his parents, the murderous terrorist attacks from Fulani militia intensified. People have thus noted that IPOB was not the enemy. They have also noted how IPOB fought heavily armed soldiers using stones at best.
Are Nigerians not getting to the breaking point?
Buhari's credibility in the South and with many in the Middle Belt and Southern Kaduna has been destroyed. All he has left as a significant block is the ethno/religious loyalty of supporters in the Muslim North and political loyalists in APC who need him for their own survival. His supporters have demonstrated their readiness, as they did in their pro-Buhari massacres of 2011, to attack and kill those they see as opposed to him in the North, as demonstrated by the Facebook post at that link in which a Buhari supporter celebrates a public mob beating of a person in the North who declared Buhari will not win the 2019 elections. People in the South are stating that if he is returned, he will turn Nigeria into a Fulani dominated colony/graveyard.The South does not want him anymore.
Nigeria is not Rwanda. Neither is it Sudan, where a similar strategy was carried out by a religio/ethnic self deceiver. People are gradually getting to the point of realizing that the most potent weapon agst dictatorship is to refuse to give it support, the road IPOB took with Kanu, not open combat, since dictators like this one take care to secure control of the country's security forces.
The restructuring option galvanized as a response to Kanu's secession vision remains live, though subdued, since its urgency has been tempered by his seeming defeat. People, however, are pointing to those who want the parasitic political system to continue as before so they can keep feeding on a captive nation. The Southern politicians can be protected only for so long in their greed and cowardice, another plank of this terrorist strategy.
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, the Greeks declared.
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'Why is it that people like you are silent when Miyetti Allah, run by Nigeria's most elite Fulani, most prominent among whom are the Sultan of Sokoto and the ex-Nigerian bank governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, justify the various massacres carried out by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt and even threaten more and carry it out, as in their open defiance of Benue state's open grazing law carried out to protect the state against the murderous rapaciousness that Fulani herdsmen, led by Miyetti Allah, have come to be associated with, from Southern Kaduna to Edo state, in which latter state their cows are seen occupying classrooms and where they are repeatedly recorded as murdering innocents?'
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Toyin,
Fulani affiliation ? What Fulani affiliation?
But it's true , just as you say , in plain English, “ the evil the Fulani name is being used to perpetuate in Nigeria.”
Every evil that the miscreants commit, such as rape, is attributed to “ the Fulani Herdsmen”
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My recent interest in recreational genetics has solidified the truth of this mestizo logic of our ethnicity for me. I did an ancestry DNA for my mother and me a few months ago and found that I am 14 percent Asanti (I was able to determine the ethnicity because ancestry.com's database matched my mother with a 4th cousin from Ghana who turned out to be Asanti from Accra), 17 percent Malian (I haven't determined what Mailian ethnicity it is, but I suspect Bambara), 33 percent Benin Republic/Togo, and 34 percent Nigerian. (One percent is from Senega and another one percent from Congo/Cameroon). My mom, from whom I got my Asanti ancestry had not the foggiest idea that she had any ancestors from the Asanti. No one ever mentioned it to her. I knew she had Malian ancestry from the clan names of her forebears (Manneh and Toure), which are similar to names Mandinka/Mandingo/Bambara/Joula, etc. people bear in Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, etc. But the oral history handed down to her says her ancestors came from Katsina and Borno. I have a slightly higher Malian DNA than she does, which means my father has a little bit of Malian DNA, too.
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I only just now got a chance to read Obadiah Mailafia's article. While it makes excellent points in some some places, it played fast and loose with basic facts in many areas. I don't have time to write a detailed response to it, but here are three quick factual inaccuracies in the article that I wish to highlight:1. The Musa Yar'adua family (of which the late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua was a scion) isn't, as Mailafia claims, Fulani; it is patrilineally descended from a Tuareg ancestor (the Tuareg are a branch of the Berber cluster in North Africa), whom Hausa people call Buzu. Another prominent Buzu family in northern Nigeria that people mistake for Fulani is the Baba-Ahmed family in Mailafia's Kaduna State. Similarly, the late Murtala Mohammed's paternal identity is the subject of elaborate, long-standing speculations, none of which points to a Fulani ethnicity. The most credible speculation, in my opinion, is one that says his father descended from northern Edo State. Several accounts give his father's name as Dako Mohammed who was said to have migrated to Kano from the village of Igbe in the Auchi area of Edo State. Given the number of "Auchi" people who rose to prominence in the Kano society (including the late multimillionaire Isyaku Rabiu and several others), this speculation isn't far-fetched. We know, of course, that his mother was a member of the powerful Inuwa Wada family in Kano, but if Mailafia can arbitrarily use Murtala's matrilineal lineage to determine his ethnicity and disregard his paternal lineage, then he should also denude Buhari of his Fulani ethnicity since Buhari's mother is half Hausa and half Kanuri.2. There are two incumbent elected presidents in West Africa who self-identify as Fulani: Macky Sall of Senegal and Adama Barrow of the Gambia.The Fulani are just about 18 percent of Senegal and 21 percent of the Gambia. Ahmadou Ahidjo, a Fulani man, was also Cameroon's president (actually the country's first president) from 1960 to 1982, even though the Fulani are only 10 percent of Cameroon's population. So Mailafia's notion of universally reviled, unredeemable Fulani demons whom no nation in West Africa wants to entrust with leadership at the highest level is not supported by the facts. Not everyone, obviously, is as obsessed with unreflective ethnic particularism as Mailafia is.3. Mailafia's ethnic essentialist arguments are also so preposterous on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. But let's start with the acknowledgement that identity is actually fiction, even if it's emotionally valid, politically consequential fiction. Mailafia himself has said several times on this list, before he disappeared, that he is part Fulani. The truth is, no one is pure anything. We are all ethnic "mongrels," whether we know it or not. We are all trapped in what Jean-Loup Amselle calls "Mestizo logics."
My recent interest in recreational genetics has solidified the truth of this mestizo logic of our ethnicity for me. I did an ancestry DNA for my mother and me a few months ago and found that I am 14 percent Asanti (I was able to determine the ethnicity because ancestry.com's database matched my mother with a 4th cousin from Ghana who turned out to be Asanti from Accra), 17 percent Malian (I haven't determined what Mailian ethnicity it is, but I suspect Bambara), 33 percent Benin Republic/Togo, and 34 percent Nigerian. (One percent is from Senega and another one percent from Congo/Cameroon). My mom, from whom I got my Asanti ancestry had not the foggiest idea that she had any ancestors from the Asanti. No one ever mentioned it to her. I knew she had Malian ancestry from the clan names of her forebears (Manneh and Toure), which are similar to names Mandinka/Mandingo/Bambara/Joula, etc. people bear in Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, etc. But the oral history handed down to her says her ancestors came from Katsina and Borno. I have a slightly higher Malian DNA than she does, which means my father has a little bit of Malian DNA, too.And it's known to geneticists that several people in Mali, Guinea, the Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, etc. embody complex ethnic alchemies, and it's reductionist to talk of ethnicity in the essentialist terms that Mailafia did in his article. For instance, Alpha Konare, Mali's president from 1992 to 2008, was born by a Fulani mother and a Bambara father, but he self-identifies as Bambara. The country's first president, Modibo Keita, has a Fulani first name, although he didn't self-identify as Fulani. Several Guinean presidents who self-identified as Mandinka had Fulani mothers or grandmothers. Using the matrilineal logic Mailafia deployed to assign a Fulani ethnicity to Murtala Mohammed, many Guinean presidents would also qualify as Fulani. Don't even get me started on Nigeria: I won't end this intervention that was intended to be short.My own attitude to identity is that people are who they say and believe they are, even if that's not necessarily who they are. But given the originary syncretism of all modern ethnic identity, Mailiafia's nativist logic of Nigerian citizenship (which alienates people whose ancestors have been here before Nigeria was even conceived) is another (politically consequential) fiction.And this: "Usman Dan Fodio was himself wounded by the Tivs in Benue, of which he later died in April 1817." I actually laughed so loud when I read it that my wife thought something had come over me. Well, there are historians on this list. I leave to them to confirm or disconfirm this.
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorJournalism & Emerging Media
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
I only just now got a chance to read Obadiah Mailafia's article. While it makes excellent points in some some places, it played fast and loose with basic facts in many areas. I don't have time to write a detailed response to it, but here are three quick factual inaccuracies in the article that I wish to highlight:1. The Musa Yar'adua family (of which the late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua was a scion) isn't, as Mailafia claims, Fulani; it is patrilineally descended from a Tuareg ancestor (the Tuareg are a branch of the Berber cluster in North Africa), whom Hausa people call Buzu. Another prominent Buzu family in northern Nigeria that people mistake for Fulani is the Baba-Ahmed family in Mailafia's Kaduna State. Similarly, the late Murtala Mohammed's paternal identity is the subject of elaborate, long-standing speculations, none of which points to a Fulani ethnicity. The most credible speculation, in my opinion, is one that says his father descended from northern Edo State. Several accounts give his father's name as Dako Mohammed who was said to have migrated to Kano from the village of Igbe in the Auchi area of Edo State. Given the number of "Auchi" people who rose to prominence in the Kano society (including the late multimillionaire Isyaku Rabiu and several others), this speculation isn't far-fetched. We know, of course, that his mother was a member of the powerful Inuwa Wada family in Kano, but if Mailafia can arbitrarily use Murtala's matrilineal lineage to determine his ethnicity and disregard his paternal lineage, then he should also denude Buhari of his Fulani ethnicity since Buhari's mother is half Hausa and half Kanuri.2. There are two incumbent elected presidents in West Africa who self-identify as Fulani: Macky Sall of Senegal and Adama Barrow of the Gambia.The Fulani are just about 18 percent of Senegal and 21 percent of the Gambia. Ahmadou Ahidjo, a Fulani man, was also Cameroon's president (actually the country's first president) from 1960 to 1982, even though the Fulani are only 10 percent of Cameroon's population. So Mailafia's notion of universally reviled, unredeemable Fulani demons whom no nation in West Africa wants to entrust with leadership at the highest level is not supported by the facts. Not everyone, obviously, is as obsessed with unreflective ethnic particularism as Mailafia is.3. Mailafia's ethnic essentialist arguments are also so preposterous on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. But let's start with the acknowledgement that identity is actually fiction, even if it's emotionally valid, politically consequential fiction. Mailafia himself has said several times on this list, before he disappeared, that he is part Fulani. The truth is, no one is pure anything. We are all ethnic "mongrels," whether we know it or not. We are all trapped in what Jean-Loup Amselle calls "Mestizo logics."
My recent interest in recreational genetics has solidified the truth of this mestizo logic of our ethnicity for me. I did an ancestry DNA for my mother and me a few months ago and found that I am 14 percent Asanti (I was able to determine the ethnicity because ancestry.com's database matched my mother with a 4th cousin from Ghana who turned out to be Asanti from Accra), 17 percent Malian (I haven't determined what Mailian ethnicity it is, but I suspect Bambara), 33 percent Benin Republic/Togo, and 34 percent Nigerian. (One percent is from Senega and another one percent from Congo/Cameroon). My mom, from whom I got my Asanti ancestry had not the foggiest idea that she had any ancestors from the Asanti. No one ever mentioned it to her. I knew she had Malian ancestry from the clan names of her forebears (Manneh and Toure), which are similar to names Mandinka/Mandingo/Bambara/Joula, etc. people bear in Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, etc. But the oral history handed down to her says her ancestors came from Katsina and Borno. I have a slightly higher Malian DNA than she does, which means my father has a little bit of Malian DNA, too.And it's known to geneticists that several people in Mali, Guinea, the Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, etc. embody complex ethnic alchemies, and it's reductionist to talk of ethnicity in the essentialist terms that Mailafia did in his article. For instance, Alpha Konare, Mali's president from 1992 to 2008, was born by a Fulani mother and a Bambara father, but he self-identifies as Bambara. The country's first president, Modibo Keita, has a Fulani first name, although he didn't self-identify as Fulani. Several Guinean presidents who self-identified as Mandinka had Fulani mothers or grandmothers. Using the matrilineal logic Mailafia deployed to assign a Fulani ethnicity to Murtala Mohammed, many Guinean presidents would also qualify as Fulani. Don't even get me started on Nigeria: I won't end this intervention that was intended to be short.My own attitude to identity is that people are who they say and believe they are, even if that's not necessarily who they are. But given the originary syncretism of all modern ethnic identity, Mailiafia's nativist logic of Nigerian citizenship (which alienates people whose ancestors have been here before Nigeria was even conceived) is another (politically consequential) fiction.And this: "Usman Dan Fodio was himself wounded by the Tivs in Benue, of which he later died in April 1817." I actually laughed so loud when I read it that my wife thought something had come over me. Well, there are historians on this list. I leave to them to confirm or disconfirm this.
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
I do agree with some of the sentiments of Babayola Toungo in his critique of Obadiah Mailafia's article.
I also believe that people like Miyetti Allah should be seen as part of a criminal faction but not necessarily representative of the entire group of people. We are all scared of stoking Rwanda - like genocide tit-for -tat reprisal activities that could go out of hand.The Buhari government has to be fully condemned for not acting decisively enough. We are in agreement here on that point.
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
"I also believe that people like Miyetti Allah should be seen as part of a criminal faction"
Let us reflect on the implication of recognizing as a criminal faction one of the most visible Northern Muslim ethno/religious entities in Nigeria, a body headed by the head of Nigerian Muslims, the Sultan of Sokoto and also run by one of the most prominent, most vocal and most achieved of Nigeria's Muslims, the holder of one of the most prestigious Islamic seats in Nigeria, the Emir of Kano, ex-central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Monsieur le Professeur Farooq A. Kperogi,
You know where we're coming from.
Clearly ( according to the printed evidence) you are the one who was and is being overwhelmed with emotion, not the erudite, very polite, diffident, apologetic, civilised Professor Okey Iheduru. And your shameless outburst ( from my point of view) unbecoming and undignified as it is does not blow away the central issue that Professor Iheduru and I too say still has to be addressed :
the land encroachments of the Fulani cattle and their herders as they migrate from the relatively arid North through the greener pastures to be found in the South brazenly leaving behind them one humanitarian crisis after the other (death and destruction) as they unlawfully rampage and romp through other people's private property ( farms and farmlands) chewing cash crops such as cabbage , the lush lettuce and the rich foliage on which they graze as if all has been specially for them and only awaiting their arrival for breakfast, lunch and dinner ( the Fulani cattle). Now that's not right is it? It's a burning issue. Are we to suppose that ethnicity is of secondary importance when it comes to breaking the law in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as if there are statutes of special protection if you are from the Bagabaga tribe ?
As Marx said ( Grucho) ; “ These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”
You have eminently made your point, “three quick factual inaccuracies in the article that I wish to highlight” and if at a later date you want to spend more time on that you could count prominent Fulanis all day long , Abass Bundu among others
As Dr. Zimmerman sang, even if adjudged grammatically incorrect by the likes of you,
“Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist”
Your part estimation of Dr. Obadiah Mailafi (“ fast and loose with basic facts”) could also be applied to what seems to be your utter reliance/ faith/ iman in how some DNA science lab has mapped your family history. Even given the fact that when it comes to “roots” we are not trees as Joseph Brodsky put it - for instance - my friend Kenneth Ofodile's wife Winifred – from Sierra Leone – passed away in Sokoto - and for mankind in general, it's a history of migrations - exactly as I heard the greatest living Talmudist declare a few years ago in the great synagogue of Stockholm and Paul Kagame heard it too since he was sitting in the front pew : “We all came from Africa” ( I was sitting next to a Polish guy at the time and pinched him lightly on his thigh when I heard that we ALL came from Africa , but all he said was “ there's always a black sheep in the family”. Of course if he had said “monkey” instead of sheep, Yours Truly would have punched him there and then . Anyway, to this day I still don't know if the Rabbi was talking about the 220 year sojourn in the historical or metaphorical Egypt , Egypt representing everything bad – carnality etc. and consequently the commandment “You must not go back that way again ” or if he was referring to the cradle of civilisation as the Biblical location of the Garden of Eden where lived Adam and Eve, their first residence and even if it was on this planet.
Harvey Cropper a mentor now late once defined Cosmopolitanism, “ When I see another human being, I see one of us!”
On a personal note, long before Shlomo Sands , from Richard Leakey (not Darwin) ( The Origin of Humankind) a little rant here, on to the Lemba through Richard Dawkins and later on inspired by Ed Smith ( who said all he needed was a little saliva from me) eventually you get to the most professional of DNA mapping - and it's so astounding that you keep it personal - I'm just wondering what my great grandparents DNA looked like and what my descendants DNA could look like two hundred years from now bearing this in mind : critique of ancestry DNA tests
All is vanity. This holy month of Ramadan, I hope that you will exercise more control over your emotions. Your nafs. (smile). You are at liberty to forgive my grammar, spelling, syntax, poor wordology, punctuation , if you like, but BTW, I really don't care or mind, if you do or don't. As the bard said,
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
And there you have it....
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Monsieur le Professeur Farooq A. Kperogi,
You know where we're coming from.
Clearly ( according to the printed evidence) you are the one who was and is being overwhelmed with emotion, not the erudite, very polite, diffident, apologetic, civilised Professor Okey Iheduru. And your shameless outburst ( from my point of view) unbecoming and undignified as it is does not blow away the central issue that Professor Iheduru and I too say still has to be addressed :
the land encroachments of the Fulani cattle and their herders as they migrate from the relatively arid North through the greener pastures to be found in the South brazenly leaving behind them one humanitarian crisis after the other (death and destruction) as they unlawfully rampage and romp through other people's private property ( farms and farmlands) chewing cash crops such as cabbage , the lush lettuce and the rich foliage on which they graze as if all has been specially planted for them and only awaiting their arrival for breakfast, lunch and dinner ( the Fulani cattle). Now that's not right is it? It's a burning issue. Are we to suppose that ethnicity is of secondary importance when it comes to breaking the law in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as if there are statutes of special protection if you are from the Bagabaga tribe ?
As Marx said ( Grucho) ; “ These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”
You have eminently made your point, “three quick factual inaccuracies in the article that I wish to highlight” and if at a later date you want to spend more time on that you could count prominent Fulanis all day long , Abass Bundu among others
As Dr. Zimmerman sang, even if adjudged grammatically incorrect by the likes of you,
“Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist”
Your part estimation of Dr. Obadiah Mailafi (“ fast and loose with basic facts”) could also be applied to what seems to be your utter reliance/ faith/ iman in how some DNA science lab has mapped your family history. Even given the fact that when it comes to “roots” we are not trees as Joseph Brodsky put it - for instance - my friend Kenneth Ofodile's wife Winifred – from Sierra Leone – passed away in Sokoto - and for mankind in general, it's a history of migrations - exactly as I heard the greatest living Talmudist declare a few years ago in the great synagogue of Stockholm and Paul Kagame heard it too since he was sitting in the front pew : “We all came from Africa” ( I was sitting next to a Polish guy at the time and pinched him lightly on his thigh when I heard that we ALL came from Africa , but all he said was “ there's always a black sheep in the family”. Of course if he had said “monkey” instead of sheep, Yours Truly would have punched him there and then . Anyway, to this day I still don't know if the Rabbi was talking about the 220 year sojourn in the historical or metaphorical Egypt , Egypt representing everything bad – carnality etc. and consequently the commandment “You must not go back that way again ” or if he was referring to the cradle of civilisation as the Biblical location of the Garden of Eden where lived Adam and Eve, their first residence and even if it was on this planet.
Harvey Cropper a mentor now late once defined Cosmopolitanism, “ When I see another human being, I see one of us!”
On a personal note, long before Shlomo Sands , from Richard Leakey (not Darwin) ( The Origin of Humankind) a little rant here, on to the Lemba through Richard Dawkins and later on inspired by Ed Smith ( who said all he needed was a little saliva from me) eventually you get to the most professional of DNA mapping - and it's so astounding that you keep it personal - I'm just wondering what my great grandparents DNA looked like and what my descendants DNA could look like two hundred years from now bearing this in mind : critique of ancestry DNA tests
All is vanity. This holy month of Ramadan, I hope that you will exercise more control over your emotions. Your nafs. (smile). You are at liberty to forgive my grammar, spelling, syntax, poor wordology, punctuation , if you like, but BTW, I really don't care or mind, if you do or don't. As the bard said,
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
And there you have it....
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Monsieur le Professeur Farooq A. Kperogi,
You know where we're coming from.
Clearly ( according to the printed evidence) you are the one who was and is being overwhelmed with emotion, not the erudite, very polite, diffident, apologetic, civilised Professor Okey Iheduru. And your shameless outburst ( from my point of view) unbecoming and undignified as it is does not blow away the central issue that Professor Iheduru and I too say still has to be addressed :
the land encroachments of the Fulani cattle and their herders as they migrate from the relatively arid North through the greener pastures to be found in the South brazenly leaving behind them one humanitarian crisis after the other (death and destruction) as they unlawfully rampage and romp through other people's private property ( farms and farmlands) chewing cash crops such as cabbage , the lush lettuce and the rich foliage on which they graze as if all has been specially planted for them and only awaiting their arrival for breakfast, lunch and dinner ( the Fulani cattle). Now that's not right is it? It's a burning issue. Are we to suppose that ethnicity is of secondary importance when it comes to breaking the law in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as if there are statutes of special protection if you are from the Bagabaga tribe ?
As Marx said ( Grucho) ; “ These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”
You have eminently made your point, “three quick factual inaccuracies in the article that I wish to highlight” and if at a later date you want to spend more time on that you could count prominent Fulanis all day long , Abass Bundu among others
As Dr. Zimmerman sang, even if adjudged grammatically incorrect by the likes of you,
“Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist”
Your part estimation of Dr. Obadiah Mailafi (“ fast and loose with basic facts”) could also be applied to what seems to be your utter reliance/ faith/ iman in how some DNA science lab has mapped your family history. Even given the fact that when it comes to “roots” we are not trees as Joseph Brodsky put it - for instance - my friend Kenneth Ofodile's wife Winifred – from Sierra Leone – passed away in Sokoto - and for mankind in general, it's a history of migrations - exactly as I heard the greatest living Talmudist declare a few years ago in the great synagogue of Stockholm and Paul Kagame heard it too since he was sitting in the front pew : “We all came from Africa” ( I was sitting next to a Polish guy at the time and pinched him lightly on his thigh when I heard that we ALL came from Africa , but all he said was “ there's always a black sheep in the family”. Of course if he had said “monkey” instead of sheep, Yours Truly would have punched him there and then . Anyway, to this day I still don't know if the Rabbi was talking about the 220 year sojourn in the historical or metaphorical Egypt , Egypt representing everything bad – carnality etc. and consequently the commandment “You must not go back that way again ” or if he was referring to the cradle of civilisation as the Biblical location of the Garden of Eden where lived Adam and Eve, their first residence and even if it was on this planet.
Harvey Cropper a mentor now late once defined Cosmopolitanism, “ When I see another human being, I see one of us!”
On a personal note, long before Shlomo Sands , from Richard Leakey (not Darwin) ( The Origin of Humankind) a little rant here, on to the Lemba through Richard Dawkins and later on inspired by Ed Smith ( who said all he needed was a little saliva from me) eventually you get to the most professional of DNA mapping - and it's so astounding that you keep it personal - I'm just wondering what my great grandparents DNA looked like and what my descendants DNA could look like two hundred years from now bearing this in mind : critique of ancestry DNA tests
All is vanity. This holy month of Ramadan, I hope that you will exercise more control over your emotions. Your nafs. (smile). You are at liberty to forgive my grammar, spelling, syntax, poor wordology, punctuation , if you like, but BTW, I really don't care or mind, if you do or don't. As the bard said,
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
And there you have it....
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"... there ARE Fulani people today preaching Fulani supremacy."
'It is not true that the Jihad was not about conquest. The Fulani as I have narrated crossed over to the south to my own ancestral lands a stone's throw from Murtalas alleged Auchi ancestral home burnt it to the grounds in a similar pattern to what is going on in some parts of the Middle Belt today. Their only crime was that they were pantheistic and refused to convert. They called the invasion 'Ogun Fulani ' to this day'.
Oga, what are you saying that is different from what Adepoju has been saying?
The only p
' I have hence cautioned him on implicating Mr President on no other evidence than guilt by ethnic association. If the Presidents lawyers sue him they will win hands down.'
You are referring to
has refused to arrest, talk less prosecute
a
a national ruler who has told the people of Benue to 'accommodate their neighbours' after
a national ruler who was informed
a national ruler at the f
a law earmarking colonies for them
a national ruler who has used the nation
a national ruler who
yet where we have Windows
Too late.
A fundamental quality of
toyin
Cornelius Hamelberg
The idea that tribes/ ethnicities including those who live in close proximity and intermarry have their own distinctive DNA could be be applied , maybe globally.
Titbits : Just yesterday a South African Bro asked me if I didn't know that Fredrik Reinfeldt the former Prime Minister of Sweden , has Black ancestry?
I said that I didn't know that.
Soon enough, along with archaeology the DNA tests will be used for all kinds of investigations.
For example, if the blood on the Shroud of Turin were identifiable as genuine and the DNA people could just lay hands on one spec of Jesus' blood that was shed, they would put to rest all the critiques of his genealogy as given in the opening chapter of the Gospel According to Matthew . The fiction or fact ( according to Paul and the Gospels) that Christianity's Messiah had no holy earthly father - that God was or is his father should not pose any problem for the DNA specialists.
I suppose that the DNA tests would confirm the Solomonic line of Ethiopia's Menelik and the Emperor Haile Selassie
DNA tests should also confirm the authenticity of any doubtful cases of Sayyids who claim descent from the Prophet of Islam ( S.A.W.)
But moving on to more mundane matters, we could explore the implications of this handy Derek Walcott quote :
“I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.”
In my Ghana of 1970-1971, whilst I was there and maybe from slightly earlier, there was the annual circa 600 African Americans visiting the Black Star Nation in search of their roots. A reasonable destination, after all that's where du Bois relocated.
Through Haley's “Roots” everybody knows the Mandinka man's name “Kunta Kinte”and the African-American section of the African Diaspora West has been busy ever since, trying to find where on earth they came from, curious about their exact ancestral ethnicity – and there again after Malcolm X was given the Yoruba name Omowale , I suppose that Africa-America has been making the pilgrimage to Nigeria, very frequently to make the necessary family connections. IN the meanwhile quite a few distinguished / famous African-American personalities are claiming specific ethnic origins
The possibility of DNA tests giving scientific precision about such matters could well promote the first round of “tribalism” in the African-American nation , when we have more people beating their chests and with scientific certainty proclaiming to their Brethren “ “I'm Yoruba” “ I am Hausa” etc. etc - adding that famous Nigerian word which has a more purposeful identity in Nigeria, the word “ original” counter-distinguishable from “ imitation” and “fake” with regard to spare parts of cars, for example..
More particularisations for Mr. Particular not being merely “ African-American” but Yoruba African American or Yoruba-American of 1st, 2nd and umpteenth generation through DNA testing.
Only problem is , as Oga Kperogi has highlighted in his own particular case and this is downside of those who would like to claim “racial -purity” that there's probably no such thing, if we come from the same genetic pool which we do originally, if indeed we all go back to Grandpa Adam and Grandma Eve before the tower of Babel scattered us into speaking so many different tongues , then there's so very much that mankind has in common.
There's some talk about Neanderthals and humans.
Also heard about “one love” for the people known as “earthlings “
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Oga Olayinka Agebetuyi, alias Windows Live 2018, you have made the call since 2015 that the rule of law should arrest this situation, yet the situation prevails.
As of two to three years ago, you argued the problem is the work of criminals and should not be given an an ethnic coluration
.Yet on 30th May 2018 on this thread you declare-
"... there ARE Fulani people today preaching Fulani supremacy."
You go on to reference the Fulani jihad which the current colonization strategy is reminiscent of-
'It is not true that the Jihad was not about conquest. The Fulani as I have narrated crossed over to the south to my own ancestral lands a stone's throw from Murtalas alleged Auchi ancestral home burnt it to the grounds in a similar pattern to what is going on in some parts of the Middle Belt today. Their only crime was that they were pantheistic and refused to convert. They called the invasion 'Ogun Fulani ' to this day'.
Oga, what are you saying that is different from what Adepoju has been saying?
The only point of divergence is where you argue-
' I have hence cautioned him on implicating Mr President on no other evidence than guilt by ethnic association. If the Presidents lawyers sue him they will win hands down.'
You are referring to a Fulani national ruler who has refused to arrest, talk less prosecute his ethnic kin committing systematic massacre across the nation.
A Fulani national ruler who takes no action in the face of the open, vocal sponsoring of colonisation directed genocide by Nigeria's most prominent Fulani elite led group, the Miyetti Allah
A national ruler who has told the people of Benue to 'accommodate their neighbours' after a recent massacre by the Fulani herdsmen, coming on the heels of Miyetti Allah's defiance of Benue's anti-open grazing law and stated resolve to convene as many Fulani as possible in Benue.
A national ruler who was informed by the governor of Enugu state about the impending attack in his state by Fulani herdsmen terrorists, along with the governor getting help from the security agencies to secure the location, only for those same agents to leave the space shortly before the terrorists struck, yet no response from this ruler on the bloody paradox, talk less investigating and possibly prosecuting those guilty of what looks like collusion of the govt's security agencies with the terrorists.
A national ruler at the forefront of rewarding the terrorists with laws allowing them to graze freely on routes earmarked for them across Nigeria.
At the forefront of a law earmarking colonies for them across the nation, on other peoples lands, protected by the Nigerian army and ssustained by Nigeria's money.
A national ruler who has used the nation's money to import grass for the cows of these people.
A national ruler who, after a security council meeting with him, the heads of Nigeria's security agencies, the minster of defense and the iinspector general of police, declared support for the massacring herdsmen.
A national ruler who made a point of keeping silent on the massacres by his ethnic kinsmen until people like Fayose and FFK called him out on it, after which he spoke tardily, suggesting eloquent but tacit support for the terrorist's colonisation agenda.
The various laws I refer to are suggested as a response to the recurrent massacres, so one can describe them as a reward for those doing the killings and their beneficiaries.
Yet where we have Windows Live 2018 trying to slow his own progress in understanding his own reality by using Toyin Adepoju as a pilloring point.
Too late.
A fundamental quality in understanding reality is the making of reasonable inferences. From all the evidence available to us, sir, are you not aware that Buhari is guilty by strategic omission and commission?
toyin
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Toyin Adepoju,
I guess you don't know what it's like to have been born in Freetown, FREE, FREE, FREE. Free to even write big Naija grammar ungrammatically and to curse like Caliban if need be. In Europe we are mostly one and the same tribe: Niggers. Please feel free to try me.
What you actually want from me is that I talk like you, think like you, think what you think inside and outside of the box, maybe like a whiplash, or trying a little tenderness, that I start talking in tongues like a self-initiated Ifa priest proclaiming oracles, teaching Yoruba wisdom couched in prophetic parables, performing metaphorical miracles such as turning water into sacred oil, that I fully agree with you and all your opinions and beliefs, because nothing less than full compliance with Toyin Adepoju's concepts and politically correct and not so incorrect precepts for unfettered freedoms would give him the unlimited satisfaction that he wants for his most errant and not so omniscient self ! Well, let me assure you that when it comes to Human Rights versus all the known forms of injustice, I'm with you 100% ! Come on now, say it : Hallelujah!
In the meantime, up to right now, we keep on going round in circles – as if Yours Truly - I - justify any form of terrorism , including the Palestinian terrorism of Hamas & al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade's Jihad and Jihadism based on article 11 .Maybe next on the agenda, Spain? Lost territory right up to the Gates of Vienna ? That what you remind me of when you use some super emotionally charged concept such as “Fulani colonisation strategy” in this forum . COLONISATION? That the Fulani want to colonise or re-colonise certain parts of Nigeria or maybe the whole of Nigeria? To re-colonise and wholly Islamize ?
First gut reaction to such a proposition implying a total loss of cherished freedom : Raising the flag ! No to subjugation: The instantaneous declaration of Biafra Independence – Biafra as a separate entity, distinct and distinctly separate( with borders ) separated from the Naija Caliphate wherein they ( so called Bi-afrans) would be but Dhimmis
Just as Wole Soyinka went on a world tour against Sani Abacha, so too I would like to see Dr. Obadiah Mailafia (albeit born in Kaduna State ) appointed roving ambassador to preach the gospel of love against any cruel persecution of Christians.
( However, my own personal attitude is based on an understanding of commencements 37 to 41 as explained herein
Not to love the missionary—Deuteronomy 13:9
Not to cease hating the missionary—Deuteronomy 13:9
Not to save the missionary—Deuteronomy 13:9
Not to say anything in his defense—Deuteronomy 13:9
Not to refrain from incriminating him—Deuteronomy 13:9
Second spontaneous reaction : the as yet unborn, the yet to be virgin birth of the Oduduwa Republic via Oya - of course - could be at liberty to continue in what remains of the Naija Federation or choose to follow suit, in turn, maybe followed by the oil-rich Niger Delta if the allied forces of the fully armed Fulani Herdsmen and their enablers in close co-operation and collaboration with the Boko Haram terrorists AND the Federal Military Forces of land Sea and Air would allow the cash cow Niger Delta to go without any military intervention.....
You wrongfully accuse me elsewhere that “ It's attitudes like yours that sustain the deadly barbarism of these characters” (the Fulani butchers, who butcher other people who stand in their way and in the way of their cows )
Your dedication and sheer persistence against this injustice is amazing. He who feels it knows. But do not despair, it is not all falling on deaf ears. It is bearing fruit.
Reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron's the military and the monetary in the middle of which we find these lines:
“The Military and the Monetary,
get together whenever they think its necessary,
They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet into a cemetery.
The Military and the Monetary, use the media as intermediaries,
they are determined to keep the citizens secondary, they make so many decisions that are arbitrary.
We're marching behind a commander in chief,
who is standing under a spotlight shaking like a leaf.
but the ship of state had landed on an economic reef,
so we knew he was going to bring us messages of grief.
The Military and the Monetary,
were shielded by January and went storming into February,
Brought us pot bellied generals as luminaries,
two weeks ago I hadn't heard of the son of a bitch,
now all of a sudden he's legendary.
They took the honour from the honourary,
they took the dignity from the dignitaries,
they took the secrets from the secretary,
but they left the bitch in obituary.”
Since I do not intend to reply to your each and every accusation in the other threads here's my one -in-all reply to your question of how to protect the church from becoming a cemetery and it is no different from what the Emir of Kano has proposed when the Naija government fails in its responsibility to protect Nigerian life and property. He said that people must arm themselves
If it were left up to me, the Nigerian Government, its military and police forces having failed and still failing on a daily basis to protect the life and property of the law-abiding citizens of Nigerians , in the case of the Church or churches alleged to be under attack, each priest should be armed with an uzi in order to protect their lives and their holy Church turf.
Even ten thousand desperate Fulani Herdsmen and their cattle do not represent the Fulani people - just as during the Apartheid era in South Africa it would have been misleading to ask an Oyibo Swede - even one like Fredrik Reinfeldt,
“When are you ( White-ies ) going to stop oppressing our people ( Black-ies)? Just check what was said about poor Fred in Judas Watch ...
All speculation about collaboration between the powers that be and the killers who they protect , is not too far-fetched when one searches in vain for what was hoped would be addressed adequately in President Buhari's maiden speech on Democracy Day , but all we heard was some more promises which in the face of inaction and no spectacular success in curbing the mayhem of death and destruction, continue to sound like the idle wind: “the identified culprits and their sponsors shall be made to face the full wrath of the law.” while the Herdsmen still feeling secure and assured, the rampage goes on as before. Surprisingly, President Buhari does not mention anything about redress : compensation for the farmers.
“Infelicities” of “grammar” , spelling, syntax etc. , don't bother me, as I am the master and commander-in-chief of my own language. I don't have time to read over and /or to make any suitable corrections/ adjustments or a-mend-ments that would or could or should be more pleasing to His or Her Majesty sitting in Buckingham Place or the late Sir Patrick Spens in Dunfermline town or the Naija knight of the queen's garter sitting in Atlanta, Georgia.
I've got to go now ( to an inflyttningsfest and leave you a Vegetarian ( as Professor Falola revealed to us) , leave you with this to consider and re-consider when thinking of the future of animal husbandry, Fulani Cattle, climate change, the future of Humanity/I-manity : Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
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