Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Fulani and Fake News

In a future constitution, the country has to take seriously the issue of citizenship. From the historical records the Fulani had been living in what we call the southwest before the 18th century. In Ilorin, the vast expanse of areas like Saki, Igboho, etc the people we call Fulani are, if the constitution is well written, Yoruba. In Ibadan thousands of people we call Hausa are Yoruba.

And there is considerable hybridity that we overlook. Professor Ogbechie who is on this list was born at Ibadan by the daughter of one of Ibadan kings. It is a bad constitution that calls an Ibadan citizen an Igbo.

We must be truthful. If the herdsmen do something we must be specific. How someone who is kidnapped knows who a Fulani is must be interrogated. The kidnapper can be from Mali.

In contemporary data in the diaspora, Africans who are caught in fraud call themselves Nigerians! They are not from Nigeria!!

Why the truth is necessary is to get at the root of a problem. The Fulani, like the Yoruba, are not homogeneous.

TF

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On Jun 13, 2019, at 2:25 PM, Jibrin Ibrahim <jibrinibrahim891@gmail.com> wrote:

You no de fear, I said this and got insults, the gang will have no choice now but to characterise Toyin Fall as an ideologue of Fulani Jihad and conquest of Christian territory.

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim

Senior Fellow

Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja

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On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 21:21, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

At 1 am, someone woke me up (as if I sleep!) that the Fulani, about 600 of them, had overrun the city of Ifewera, close to Ilesa. and I should wake up call some state governors.  I took it seriously, trying to reach Pastor Adeboye who is from there. I was told that the churches are full of people. I could not sleep.

It turns out not to be true.

All of us must exercise caution. If something is not true, we should not be party to it. What people now call "Fulani" is becoming an accumulation of those they don't like—Yoruba thieves, Igbo kidnappers and criminals are now calling themselves Fulani.

Now, Falola is APC!!!!!!

TF

 

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