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
On Friday, 1 June 2018 16:12:28 UTC+2, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:
Cornelius,The representatives of Fulani herdsmen publicly insist they are the ones behind the most horrendous massacres in Nigerian since 2015.Why do you insist on denying them their right to own to their own crimes?Its attitudes like yours that sustain the deadly barbarism of these characters.Attitudes that refuse to acknowledge change taking place in front of one's eyes.The Fulani herdsmen culture you used to know is gone.It has been replaced by entitled figures who use their cows in occupying classrooms, in blocking roads, in eating up farms, who kill, maim and rape when challenged and are working with the Fulani led govt to impose colonization across Nigeria.Its tragic but it is said that the only constant is change.Please accept my sympathy for the brutal, blood drenched loss of a world in which you grew up.toyinOn 28 May 2018 at 20:55, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote: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"
Looka here:
https://fridaydiscourse.
blogspot.co.uk/ On Monday, 28 May 2018 21:21:05 UTC+2, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:Cornelius,Fulani affiliation should not blind us to the evil the Fulani name is being used to perpetuate in Nigeria.toyinOn 28 May 2018 at 19:12, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote: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.
On Monday, 28 May 2018 15:42:21 UTC+2, tvoluade wrote:---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ugo Harris Ukandu abuj...@gmail.com [Edo_Global] <Edo_G...@yahoogroups.com>
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/ Posted by: ojonugwa ugboja in Social Media Feeds 8 days ago
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).
By Dr. Obadiah Mailafia a Former Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor.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. 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.ABUJA (Sundiata Post) The Italian Marxist political philosopher Antonio Gramsci was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. I admire his freshness of approach and his critical spirit in approaching issues of domination and power in world politics. Gramsci invented the notion of "hegemonia" (hegemony) to explain the structure and anatomy of domination in political society. He identified varying forms of domination economy, culture and politics. According to him, dominant elites manipulate capital, political power, ideas, information and knowledge to consolidate their stranglehold on society. Hegemony can be so effective that the people dominated begin to accept their fate as a part of the natural order and the best of all possible worlds. I find this concept of hegemony so relevant with what is going on in relation to the genocide being perpetrated by the Fulani militias in the Middle Belt of our country today.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.
__._,_.___To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDial...@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index. html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialo...@googlegroups.com .
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout .
--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDial...@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index. html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialo...@googlegroups.com .
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout .
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
No comments:
Post a Comment