IB:
Is it ignorance when the streets use such words as magic, juju, love portion, decree, not my portion, and hundreds of them?
I don't think so.
But we can say that we will not adopt them in the academy, which is none of their business. Street people don't use ethnicity, they use tribe.
PS: We must always provoke, not that we have answers!
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 6:25 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Wariboko's Essay on Majority-tribe Privilege in Nigeria
It's popular usage stems from ignorance!
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 11:17 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
IB:
You did not read the second sentence. In that second sentence, Flemish and Walloon are tribes.
"Tribe" is used on the streets in Africa, routinely.
PS: I don't use it, to be clear.
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 6:13 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Wariboko's Essay on Majority-tribe Privilege in NigeriaI disagree! We should fight hard to free Africa from the tribal cage. The word had relevance long ago--not now. If you can explain to the world why tribe is used as reference to us; while nation is deploy to talk about the global north I will listen to you.
What makes the Flemish and Walloon in small Belgium a nation and the Hausa and Yoruba a tribe? It's the R word--Racism!
You're on record talking Decolonization--so tribe is not part of that sing song? It's popularity in Africa is borne out of ignorance!
Don't get.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 10:56 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Okey:
You and I should bring back the use of "tribe" as a legitimate label.
What you and I must not do is particularize it to an African zone. I see Europeans as tribal people, as in the case of the tribal war in Ukraine.
Popular usage in Africa has accepted "tribe" and "tribalism."
TF
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Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 5:43 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Wariboko's Essay on Majority-tribe Privilege in NigeriaI stopped reading after seeing the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo called "tribes" by none other than Prof. Wariboko, despite his use of "ethnic groups" in the first sentence of the excerpt.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 7:33 AM Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Still tribalising Nigeria/Africa?
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 1:57 PM, Nimi Wariboko <nimiwari@msn.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues:
This is an article I published in Punch Newspapers Nigeria yesterday, Friday, November 4, 2022. It is about majority-tribe privilege in Nigeria.
Wazobia Republic: The majority-tribe privilege in Nigeria
Majority-tribe privilege is the advantage the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba enjoy as members of the three big ethnic groups in the country. The mighty advantage of belonging to one of the Big Three, the Wa-Zo-Bia groups, is both unconscious and conscious. For those who enjoy being part of the big tribes, the advantage is unseen to (majority of) them, but it is highly visible to the rest of us that belong to the minority tribes. When national public officials and the media list ethnicities in Nigeria and routinely name Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba, without bothering to mention even one minority tribe, you are reminded that Nigeria is wazobia and the country does not regard your existence. Minority-tribe persons grate under their skin when they hear Wazobia, a portfolio word that reminds them of their exclusion, marginalisation, and irrelevance in the general description of what Nigerian citizenship means. With the way the 2023 elections have become a three-tribe affair, you would be forgiven for thinking they are the only ones in the country.
For more, please click the link below:
https://punchng.com/wazobia-republic-the-majority-tribe-privilege-in-nigeria/
Nimi Wariboko
Boston University
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