USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NIgerianWorldForum] HOW DO WE EDUCATE NORTHERN NIGERIA?

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Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 06:56:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] HOW DO WE EDUCATE NORTHERN NIGERIA?
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HOW DO WE EDUCATE NORTHERN NIGERIA?
By Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@yahoo.com
Noting that poverty in Northern Nigeria is 3
times greater than it is in the Lagos area, former American President Bill
Clinton, suggests that we should alleviate extreme poverty in the North to halt
the wave of bombings, shootings, and kidnappings by Islamic extremists. We
agree. While we wholeheartedly support our popular President's position, may we
be allowed to ask one question: IS THIS EASIER SAID THAN DONE?
What happened to the trillions of Naira sunk into
bottomless abyss that was Northern education for nearly 50 years? Did the
Hausa-Fulani kids go to school? No, they were very busy following cows around
the country and reciting undigested Koran and Arabic phrases. Are we being
asked to consider sinking further trillions of Naira in some arid, sacrosanct
dessert reserved for descendants of Usman Dan Fodio and princes of erstwhile
prophet? What did these people do for my people besides the teaching of violent
jihads?
Let Northern teachers tell you of
their frustrations: gather a group of Hausa-Fulani kids in a clearing under a
tree and attempt to teach them English and math; watch them disappear into the
grasslands when you turn your back or before you begin the lessons.
Is the attempt to educate Northern Nigerian
children an orchestrated subterfuge (trick, ploy, or ruse) to grab our oil
money and let it be "gone with the wind?" Did Ahmadu Bello, Sir
Alhaji Abubakar Tafewa
Balewa, and gworo-eating emirs care for their kids? No, they were fooling their
people and impressing us with how they could trace their historical roots to
the Seventeenth Century Fulani religious leaders or ancient caravan traders and
marauders in desert on camelbacks. Weren't they diverting funds to
Britain in exchange for the right to
rule Nigeria forever? How much of our money was keeping Buckingham the center
of the British empire? Truth will be spoken, and we don't care who is offended.
We swear we are 100% in support of honest efforts
to educate learners in Northern Nigeria, but it will be done under one
condition: ISLAMIC VIOLENCE MUST STOP. Do we send intellectuals from
Diaspora and
watch them being butchered?
How do you educate a person who believes in BOKO
HARAM = WESTERN EDUCATION IN SIN? What do you teach the children of ABUBAKAR
SHEKAU, leader of Boko Haran who should have been long dead and gone, and who
is promising greater bloodshed unless he establishes an Islamic state in
Nigeria? I invite you my readers to look around at the so-called Islamic,
sharia-law countries around the globe. IS ANY ISLAMIC NATION PRACTISING STRICT
SHARIA LAW WORTH ANYTHING? What of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Mauritania,
Oman, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Gaza? NO, THEY ARE VIOLENT KILLING
FIELDS, HATERS OF PROGRESS, AND OPPRESSORS OF WOMEN.
COPYRIGHTED 03/03/13.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. NO FOR SAKE


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