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

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fulanimafia:
OP what you're saying is common knowledge, ask the haters what their kindred were doing in the villages at that time.

This is Sir Ahmadu Bello encouraging girl child western education in the early 60's.

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

Tinyemeka:

@OP, Queen Eliza did not look shocked in that pic. To me, she appeared to look fascinated. The same way I'd do when I study microbes under a microscope. No offence.

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

anonimi:


What is the rate of girl child OUT of school in the 19 northern states today, more than 50 years after

Is that progress or regression?

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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.

freecocoa:
Reading/writing Arabic is what you call literate, mschew.

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.

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.

abdulkayus:



so it is only reading and writing in English that make one to be literate?
freecocoa, u disappoint me.

myproperty:
I hope the op knows the meaning of being literate. A juju priest is literate in the act of vodoo. As it was in the north, so was it in every race and tribes in Nigeria and the world at large. They had an indigenous way of writing and reading.
But what you show us is not indigenous but an Arabic writing which came as a result of Islamic conquest.
If you need to tell us you are educated, you don't need to behave like the proverbial lizard that jumbs down from a height and starts praising itself. People would see it in you and you would exhibit it. The Hausa Fulani is far behind educationally in Nigeria

freecocoa:
I wonder where I said that, it's not my fault you concluded that, I should be the disappointed one.

How can you say a person who only study the Koran in Arabic is literate? How does that make sense?

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.

abdulkayus:


freecocoa, check what u initially wrote before this. What u are trying to say then was that reading and writing in arabic does not qualify someone to be literate.

Deepsky:
@bilal4radii
The whites always prefer the weakspot so they can easily manipulate

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.

Deepsky:
@bilal4radii
The whites always prefer the weakspot so they can easily manipulate

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.

Deepsky:
@bilal4raiid
The whites always prefer the weakspot so they can easily manipulate that's the reason y they chose the north

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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bilal4riid:


The north never been weak compare to south, prior to colonial rule, in the north,there was rules and regulations, leadership, security, courts the system is relatively well then because of the Islamic dwelling b4 the western.

As a result north dominate and provide good leadership to the country.

freecocoa:
I know what I wrote and I reiterated that in my first reply you.

No, reading and writing only Arabic, which is as a result of religious inclination, does not make one literate.