In this fresh piece, the former minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode highlights strong assets used by the Nigerians from the northern hemisphere.

The former minister further tutors the public on two Nigerian languages – its origin and use – as well as some other prominent African languages.

In the northern part of Nigeria two vessels were used as vehicles for conquest by the Fulani: religion and language.

Islam was imposed by the force of arms and the use of the sword by Sheik Usman Dan Fodio whilst Hausa, the language of the conquered people of the old Habe kingdom, was adopted as the official language of the new Fulani caliphate.

As brilliant and calculating as ever, the Fulani ruling class insisted that Fulfulde, their own native language, was spoken only by the Fulani themselves.

To them their’s was the language of emperors, kings and conquerors and they refused to allow their subjects and vassals to speak or learn it because they considered them to be nothing more than serfs and slaves.

For the conquered it was Hausa that was to be spoken and not Fulfulde because the latter was considered to be too good for them.

There are over 100 distinct and independent ethnic groups in northern Nigeria, each with their own cultural and historical heritage and distinct language, yet they are all compelled to speak Hausa.

Some of them have even forgotten their own native language or never learnt to speak it in the first place. Others do not know who they are or where they are coming from.

Some do not even know that they ever had a language or heritage of their own. Everything for them, from beginning to end, has become Hausa. This speaks volumes.

Ironically the white Boers of apartheid South Africa, who were originally from Holland, adopted the same strategy of linguistic and cultural conquest when they arrived in southern Africa and established their hegemony and racist enclave in the 17th century.

Their native language was Afrikaans (which was a local derivative of the Dutch language) and, like the Fulanis of northern Nigeria, for many generations they ensured that only they were allowed to speak it.

The black South African natives were not taught Afrikaans and they were not allowed to speak it because it was considered to be the language of the elite ruling class and their racial masters.

Allowing them to speak it would bear the implication that they were on the same level as their religious, racial and cultural masters and that was unacceptable.

They were only allowed to communicate in their own native African languages and English. This was very effective and it essentially kept the conquered in their place whilst it exalted the conqueror. That is the power and secret of language and linguistic conquest.

It is for this reason that the people of France, for example, refuse to speak English with you when you are in their country even though their English may be fluent.

They recognise the fact that once they adopt another man’s language as being the one that is commonly used in their own land it is an acceptance of subjugation.

They acknowledge the fact that such a concession or, to use a more appropriate word, “submission”, is essentially an acceptance and wholehearted espousal of a sinister and subtle form of cultural and linguistic imperialism.

Worst still it is symptomatic of the fact that your own culture and language no longer bears any relevance or has any value.

The English, who are undoubtedly the masters of the game when it comes to the art of cultural and linguistic imperialism, did it successfully to the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish, all of whom had and spoke their own distinct languages until they were conquered
and subjugated and turned into vassal states.

Today few of the Scottish, Welsh and Irish people are able to speak their native languages anymore. The language that they all speak now is English, the language of their oppressors.

Those that imposed and established Hausa as the lingua franca in the north and those that seek to establish it as the lingua franca of Nigeria know what they are doing and why they are doing it: and so do their British and, more recently, American friends and allies.

There is a long-term game plan unfolding and a not-so-hidden agenda. Yet sadly it is only those that are discerning, insightful, incisive and historically-literate that can possibly grasp or see it.

It is not for the dull, the unenlightened, the uneducated or the slow. Such souls cannot possibly grasp or understand such complex issues and one can hardly blame them for that because they are simply ignorant.

It is points like this that those in our country that know no better and that believe that Hausa is just a “unique language” which should be spoken and adopted by all in our nation fail to comprehend.

Such people fail to appreciate the fact that if you take a man’s language and faith away and super-impose another on him, for whatever reason, that man loses his identity, his heritage, his culture and his history and he becomes absolutely nothing.

Once that is achieved he is successfully stripped bare of who and what he once was and all memory of the past is erased. That is tragic.

From the 18th century when the Caliphate was established in northern Nigeria the forceful imposition of Islam and the Hausa language were used by the Fulani as tools of conquest and what the French describe as the “raison d’etra” (which means “rationale”) to dominate and rule over the people of that region.

They used both to reduce the so-called “minorities” of the north to slavery and servitude. They also used both to humiliate them and bring them to their knees.

It was brutal and ugly and it continued right up until the time that there was no more resistance and it was accepted as the norm.

Now they want to do the same thing to the rest of Nigeria. Many fail to appreciate or recognise this because they are shallow.

Yet a failure to fully grasp or appreciate such things will eventually lead to nothing less than slavery.

May God open our eyes, may He continue to guide us and may He give us courage and understanding. Shalom.



https://www.naij.com/953302-former-minister-femi-fani-kayode-tutors-two-nigerian-languages.html

Fani I pray you see what you looking in full. You have continue writing series of article against Hausa/Fulani and Islam ever since PMB won.
I hope when the return leg started you won't be calling upon Donald Trump because you've tagged Obama, Hilary Clinton and Kerry as enemy of Nigerian Christians.

Are you the only person in PDP? If you think you can cause religion crisis and run for cover go Almighty will shame you and your sympathizer.

madridguy:
Ok

Go back and read it

In as much as I support most of fani's stance on this evil country called Nigeria. He is beginning to get paranoid and seems like someone who would never see anything good about his perceived enemies. Fani u need to calm down a little.

Too much of hates affects one's judgement.

With someone like Fani kayode in the land I feel vindicated all the time. He speaks the Hidden codes of the descendants of Danfodiyo across-the-board of Which Buhari is carved out from.
More revelations in the coming days.....

FFK, you are so insightful and discerning. .. many people do not know the ethics of world politics and many people are so naive even to understand the common purpose of conquest. ..some people just want to eat, live and die without bothering what life is all about.

before I thought this guy's hatred is only towards BUHARI but now I realised that his hatred is for the entire Hausa and Muslims living in the north...anyway like omokri said "Hausa language is nt created by Hausa people but by God and anybody who praised the language did not praised the Hausa People but God" finally I want you to know that Hausa is second most widely speaking language in Africa after Swahilj

madridguy:
Fani I pray you see what you looking in full. You have continue writing series of article against Hausa/Fulani and Islam ever since PMB won.
I hope when the return leg started you won't be calling upon Donald Trump because you've tagged Obama, Hilary Clinton and Kerry as enemy of Nigerian Christians.

Are you the only person in PDP? If you think you can cause religion crisis and run for cover go Almighty will shame you and your sympathizer.

If you don't have a point, close that hole on your face. Cowards will always be slaves.

This guy no lie o, yoruba must think twice.

yoruba language must be speaking at all levels of government and a compulsry subject of any graduate in every yoruba land.

nothern are not only born to rule.

Language and color are curse to this world

PARANOIA

Anything That will make FKK and anti-Hausa Fulani, miserable.

FKK did the same to the Igbos before turning to Hausa Fulani.
HE'S A DOG THAT WILL ALWAYS COMES BACK AND LICK HIS VOMIT WITHOUT A SHAME.

Whatever the grievances of this paranoid psychotic politician against the North, I can conclusively say he has now been infected by the same strain of hatred haboured by his wife and her tribesmen.

Once he hears words like Hausa, North, Islam, his pentium II processor begins to overheat.

StOla:
Whatever the grievances of this paranoid psychotic politician against the North, I can conclusively say he has now been infected by the same strain of hatred haboured by his wife and her tribesmen.

Once he hears words like Hausa, North, Islam, his pentium II processor begins to overheat.

FFK speaks the mind of over 121Million Nigerians. The Truth sets free....
FFK like Napoleon is always right... ask Ojukwu and Nzeogwu of blessed memory. Fulani jihadists are cameleons.

Christ! Jokes apart, FFK needs urgent help, too much hate is bad for one's health.

All FFK supporters should remember that @ a point in the past, it was the Igbo's that were Nigeria's problem according to FFK, and he was always attacking, making all manner of assertions and calling them names, now his attention is on the Hausa's. He is working so hard to stir up Tribal,ethnic and religious crisis in Nigeria but God pass am!

After Hausa, the next will be Yoruba, his very own tribe which will be his undoing because he will end up eating himself alive.

madridguy:
Fani I pray you see what you looking in full. You have continue writing series of article against Hausa/Fulani and Islam ever since PMB won.
I hope when the return leg started you won't be calling upon Donald Trump because you've tagged Obama, Hilary Clinton and Kerry as enemy of Nigerian Christians.

Are you the only person in PDP? If you think you can cause religion crisis and run for cover go Almighty will shame you and your sympathizer.

This is a very stupidddd post.

Is that all you could discern from the piece?

On the other hand, FFK seems to be contradicting himself in the sense that Fulanis can be said to have lost their identity themselves by their inability to speak Fulfulde as I doubt modern-day Fulanis can speak Fulfulde. They even hardly bear Fulani names.

Also, Hausa overshadowing Fulfulde in the north is similar to Yoruba overshadowing Fulfulde in Ilorin. The language of the majority population always overshadows that of the minority population irrespective of who the conqueror is.

This man is speaking from hatred and bigotry and some religious fools will surpport him. how can nigeria be islamised in this 21st century.?

ZKOSOSO:

FFK speaks the mind of over 121Million Nigerians. The Truth sets free....
FFK like Napoleon is always right... ask Ojukwu and Nzeogwu of blessed memory. Fulani jihadists are cameleons.

How did you get your statistic, yoruba and ibos put together are not close to 121Million. Go back to secondary school abeg.

Shewunoshewa:


This is a very stupidddd post.

Is that all you could discern from the piece?

On the other hand, FFK seems to be contradicting himself in the sense that Fulanis can be said to have lost their identity themselves by their inability to speak Fulfulde as I doubt modern-day Fulanis can speak Fulfulde. They even hardly bear Fulani names.

Also, Hausa overshadowing Fulfulde in the north is similar to Yoruba overshadowing Fulfulde in Ilorin. The language of the majority population always overshadows that of the minority population irrespective of who the conqueror is.

You seem to be the only one thinking so far! The method of Fulanis contradict that of the English, but while we may say that if you take the faith and language of a people then you render them disoriented, the English took both our languange and our faith while Fulanis took only the faith! Meanwhile, the Fulani's method seems to backfire and it renders fulfulde a linguistic dinosaur (the same could be said of the Afrikaan's language in SA)!

FFK on point. Biafra will checkmate their activities from afar don't worry OK? Biafra will restore African dignity where every clan will be free. Quote me negatively and face Amadioha!

Adeyinka12:
This guy no lie o, yoruba must think twice.

yoruba language must be speaking at all levels of government and a compulsry subject of any graduate in every yoruba land.

nothern are not only born to rule.

You must be joking

This cretin will soon run into the market unclad!!

FFK lost more than access to free money on the 28th of March 2015, he lost his soul & sanity as well!!

FFK giving us history classes again, quite an educating piece; however, one just wonders the exact motive behind this sudden passion by FFK for delivering Hausa history lectures.

modath:


This cretin will soon run into the market unclad!!

FFK lost more than access to free money on the 28th of March 2015, he lost his soul & sanity as well!!

!!!

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So because PMB is not doing well,this corrupt piece of hate,thinks he can use the anti islam and anti Hausa card to garner sympathy for his atrocities?
Only a cretin wud support ffk and d kind of message he propagates.

What a filthy and defamatory piece by Femi Fani-Kayode. What a filthy piece by somebody who calls himself a Christian!
Shame, Shame, Shame (ringbells)

One wonders what FFK reproaches Fulani in this piece? Of accepting to speak Hausa?
What would he have said if Fulfulde was the lingua franca in Arewa? Certainly, he would have said that Fulani imposed their languages on the poor, hapless peoples of the North.

Sigh. This guy is a miscreant. He's bent on hating, and nothing will stop him. There's nothing that will change his mind.
So keep on hating FFK. Fulani will eat your amala and your egusi. What do they care about your hate lol