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Abeem (m)
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As far as I know, the Hausas and Fulanis are two distinct tribes that inhabit the Northern Nigeria and most of the countries in West Africa. The Fulanis are by occupation cattle rearers hence naturally are nomadic. The Hausas are not. It is only in Nigeria that the two tribes are treated as one ethnic grouping. Why are they co-joined? Is it to give them an overwhelming majority over the Yorubas and the Ibos? If it is because of intermarriage, does the Efiks and the Ibiobios not intermarry? Why don't we refer to these ethnic groupings as Efik/Ibiobio? and so on and so forth. Methinks this kind of siamese grouping is fraudulent, because of the false impression that they outnumbered the Yorubas and the Ibos. If you treat them as separate tribes, they will fall back to the 3rd and 4th positions behind the Yorubas and the Ibos or even be displaced by the sprawling Ijaw tribe.
Can anyone educate me and the rest of the forum why this fraud has been allowed to stand unchallenged?
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Seun (m)
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It may be because the Hausa/Fulani have the same religion and are mostly in the north. Do they also speak the same language?
The Easterners are also generally reffered to as @Igbos@ even though the Igbos are just one of the tribes in the East.
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davidylan (m)
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you need to visit the north, hausas and fulanis are very distinct people. most generally speak hausa but fulanis speak fulatanchi.
fulanis are tall, fair and of slender build compared to hausas.
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adidison (m)
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@abeem,
Seun is right.
It’s actually because of the religion and location that people from the northern part of Nigeria are referred to as Hausa which is very very wrong. As a matter of fact they are different tribes and religions there like for instance we have the Hausa - Kano, Kanuri- Maiduguri and the Zangokataf (or so) - southern Kaduna(xtians) and i think they call the people from Abuja and Jos with different names. But Nigerians are too lazy to even bother about it or refer to them individually so they classify them by their location. They just call (classify) every person from the north Hausa. Ok like Edo people, they refer to them by their location MIDDLE BELT, see). I don’t think it’s because they want to do what u think NAHHHH. I bet they are even to dull to think like that. lol (didn’t mean that O, before they start another riot say na me cause am) abeg e don do like that. WE ARE ONE NIGERIA O.
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toshmann (m)
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in the south-east the people there are sometimes refered to as efik/ibibio. but when u get there, they are different people.but the language and culture is similar
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YOUNGDICE$ (m)
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fulani and hausa are family,you yoruba and igbo need to stay out of this.
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YOUNGDICE$ (m)
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why yall care anyway this's family problem.
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fadal (m)
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that's true we are family r.i.p grand pa husein a.k.a fulani me chanou.
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laudate
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It’s actually because of the religion and location that people from the northern part of Nigeria are referred to as Hausa which is very very wrong. As a matter of fact they are different tribes and religions there like for instance we have the Hausa - Kano, Kanuri- Maiduguri and the Zangokataf (or so) - southern Kaduna(xtians) and i think they call the people from Abuja and Jos with different names. But Nigerians are too lazy to even bother about it or refer to them individually so they classify them by their location. They just call (classify) every person from the north Hausa. You are so-oo-oo right!!  Am tired of explaining to people that not every Northerner is Hausa or Fulani, neither is every northerner, a muslim. But like you said, many folks are just too lazy to spot the difference! You need to hear them when they go on blindly attacking all northerners for their plight! |
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