Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Haba!

Even a so-called good English speaker from our end would be shocked when a native English speaker seeks clarity

in what the former was trying to say. Pardon me, you meant to say...

Maybe one reason Buhari seldom makes public speeches is because of perpetual fault finders who are more interested in

his pronunciations than the context of his message.

Anthony Akinola.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:50 AM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Many private messages have been sent that Southerners are mocking Northerners over language and accents. And some have been posted with one going viral.

 

Haba!  When Kperogi was talking about verbs and nouns, you all forget that he is not an Igbo man. I don't know that verbs and nouns now have colors.

 

Haba! When someone says a letter emanating from a state house, a paid media communicator with a degree, is badly written, what as being Kanuri or Hausa go to do with this?

 

Haba! Have you not heard Gowon speak? Or he speaks well because he is not a Hausaman? Do you not know of a man called "the golden voice of Africa?" Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria's first prime minister!

 

Haba! Let me show you the recorded Keynote Address by Malami Buba, my Fulani friend; or the writings of Aisha Bawa, my Fulani friend; or of Bunza, my Fulani friend; or Ashafa, my Kaduna friend; or Bishop Kukah, the Zangon-Kataf man. Are they not better than many of the so-called southerners?

 

Haba! Everything is not about resource control or federal character.

 

Haba! This nonsense must stop today.

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