SilentPrince:
Being literate is not the issue. Being educated is.

abdulaz:
Most of what we now call western education were also taught through the Arabic language then, since we only consider education through the English language as the only form of western education, mind you, the crusaders that first went to the Arab world also learnt a lot from the Arabs.
I am 100% sure that most you don't know that what you know as surgery today all started from the Arab world and the tools used in this field today were all modification if the ones the westerners copied from the Arab world.

SilentPrince:
Being literate is not the issue. Being educated is.

Yustash001:
And what?...are they not free to learn whatever want?...must everybody go to school before?...

SilentPrince:


What are you saying? Being literate is being able to read. Anyone can read. What matters is the ability to understand and apply knowledge. If the Northerners were educated they would know that having Sharia Courts, Suicidal tendencies, female genital mutilation, preventing kids from going to school etc are terrible ideas and should not be encouraged. But no, despite being able to read and write they fail to be educated.

BimiOne:
NOT ALL NORTHERNERS ARE MUSLIMS PLEASE, I am a Northerner and i detest those practices you mentioned.

SilentPrince:


What are you saying? Being literate is being able to read. Anyone can read. What matters is the ability to understand and apply knowledge. If the Northerners were educated they would know that having Sharia Courts, Suicidal tendencies, female genital mutilation, preventing kids from going to school etc are terrible ideas and should not be encouraged. But no, despite being able to read and write they fail to be educated.

samkevie:
aw does writing in Arabic relate to being literate,Aboki shoe maker nor sabi read Arabic

abdulaz:
Most of what we now call western education were also taught through the Arabic language then, since we only consider education through the English language as the only form of western education, mind you, the crusaders that first went to the Arab world also learnt a lot from the Arabs.
I am 100% sure that most you don't know that what you know as surgery today all started from the Arab world and the tools used in this field today were all modification if the ones the westerners copied from the Arab world.

iamrealdeji:
How are you literates when you a Northerner can't even spell "ILLITERATE" and "LITERATE",I see the reason why queen Elizabeth called illiterates. the baby of the house of my family who's in primary 4 can't even make such mistake because he's "LITERATE"

fulanimafia:
A product of early Northern education.

The inventor, Jelani Aliyu.

bilal4riid:


Northerners has been gaining prior to independent, their advantage of being literate, that is the brain behind ruling the country and doing well which the southern counterparts refused to understand Nothing like "born to rule " bt being knowledgeable and ability to lead, From Tafawa Balewa, sir Sardauna, Murtala, Gowon, and Sai Buhari the incorruptible.
It's on record that the white has embraced north cos they met them learned and with organised system.

anonimi:



Does one tree make a forest

Rexyl:


Your assumption is wrong doing well as a leader has to do we the ability of individual, and probably with support and cooperation of others. Why did you deliberately removed certain rulers from the north from your list, 3 powerful rulers? Probably you think they didn't perform well. Mind you the best in those leaders mentioned was connected with full support and cooperation of leaders from the South. They were supported, cooperated with and sense of direction.

fulanimafia:


You seem to need some education yourself.

WailingWailer:
That was the beginning of British siring empowering the Hausas

freecocoa:
You are a good example of an illiterate.

Why did the OP not specify the area of literacy? Like we all don't know what he intended with the picture/post.

So you believe the definition of a literate person, you came up with is being able to read and write arabic in an english speaking country? Educate yourself before venturing out to educate another.

SilentPrince:


What are you saying? Being literate is being able to read. Anyone can read. What matters is the ability to understand and apply knowledge. If the Northerners were educated they would know that having Sharia Courts , Suicidal tendencies, female genital mutilation, preventing kids from going to school etc are terrible ideas and should not be encouraged. But no, despite being able to read and write they fail to be educated.

fulanimafia:


Literacy is not defined by field, but is a free-standing concept and ageless principle.

If you can read, write, and possess knowledge about ANY specified field (which was clearly arabic from the photos), you are considered literate according to the Oxford Dictionary. That's the OP's point.

Furthermore, I have provided pictorial evidence of WESTERN education being taught and encouraged around the same period.

You need to brush up on your comprehension, it is letting you down badly

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/literacy

SaniSANOH:
NORTHERNER ARE LITRATE RIGHT EVEN BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE BRITISH
Yet, you called them names.


They called us ILLITRATES, little did they know that we were LITRATE even the Advent of the European to the the country ( NIGERIA.)

SEE picture of QUEEN ELIZABETH shocked and surprise with how Northern are READING and WRITING in Kano. Years before independent.

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Source:
https://sanisanohblog./2015/07/31/northerner-are-litrate-right-even-before-the-advent-of-the-british/?preview=true

SirShymexx:


Well, being fascinated actually captured it better than shocked cos to be held spellbound is a great look. The Hausas (not the whole Northern Nigeria) have always been literate from probably the 15th/16th century and I believe they have tons of written documents dating back to that period, as part of Songha empire, with other cultures across West Africa.

freecocoa:
My friend, if you can read and write arabic, you are considered literate in arabic, that was not the intent of the OP and you know it but have chosen to lie through your teeth.

The definition according to the dictionary which you bring, we all know so I don't seem to get what you are trying to prove.

How you can opine that a person who read/writes only arabic in an english speaking nation is literate in the general sense of the word, tells a lot about your knowledge.

Tinyemeka:


I may agree with you, but the argument now is: what exactly were those literature and learning, used to achieve?

fulanimafia:

WailingWailer:

Take it or leave it, the British still remain your masters. They sired you and for that ur forever indebted to them

SaniSANOH:
NORTHERNER ARE LITRATE RIGHT EVEN BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE BRITISH
Yet, you called them names.


They called us ILLITRATES, little did they know that we were LITRATE even the Advent of the European to the the country ( NIGERIA.)

SEE picture of QUEEN ELIZABETH shocked and surprise with how Northern are READING and WRITING in Kano. Years before independent.

© Powered by: #sanisanoh

Source:
https://sanisanohblog./2015/07/31/northerner-are-litrate-right-even-before-the-advent-of-the-british/?preview=true

MrLouisVanGaal:


Its funny no one noticed the independent instead of independence.....Notherners need to hold their leaders by the neck for years of neglect and not trying to prove they are educated which makes it worse.. Reading comments from Notherners and Southerners on newspaper facebook pages gives you an idea of the level of intellectual gap between the two sides..

I did my service at Government College Katsina. I remember how i taught nonsense sometimes unchallenged by the students who don't even know what i am teaching..I dare not try that in a Government secondary school in the South,so something is very wrong somewhere.