Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Haba!

Don't mind them, Prof. It's all because we love to major in minor and minor in major. When OBJ became the president, everyone mocked his accent and limited repertoire of the English lexicon. He must have been a Northerner then, right? And you are right on the money: the generation that heard Balewa speak English  would never join the foolery of mocking the north on the mastery of the English language or a lack thereof. 

Yep, the nonsense, indeed, must stop!

MOA

On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 5:50:08 AM CDT, 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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