*Some important historical facts unknown to this generation* - copied

The first charismatic Hausa leader to unite his people against Fulani overlords was a scholar by the name Abd al – Salam , another Hausa scholar by the name Dan Buya joined him. His movement started around 1818, shortly after the death of Usman Dan Fodio. At the time, almost all Hausa people lived in slave camps and over 60% of them were vassals of the Fulani feudal overlords…. Another large faction were turned to chattels and sold to the Ottoman traders. The revolt by these clerics to take back their lands started at Sokoto and spread from Sokoto to Kebbi and Zamfara. At this time, Uthman Dan Fodio was dead and Sultan Bello was the ruler from Sokoto. He declared the leaders of the revolt as apostates. They were both defeated in battle and assassinated.

The Hausas were organizing for a second revolt when Lord Lugard showed up. Hoping to use his influence to sack the Fulani rulers, they enlisted en -masse into his army and formed the first battalions of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF)… Lugard betrayed them after the successful campaign and gave the land of the Hausa people back to the Emirs on the condition that the Emirs agreed to be vassals of the British. The Hausa people protested and tried to pressure him to replace them with Hausa rulers. He refused and believed that the Fulani, being a non negro race would be supposedly more intelligent people to work with in a system of indirect rule. In his journal, he wrote…. ‘The Fulani are an alien race of conquerors who had in turn been conquered. It would constitute danger to the state if they were ousted from their positions. Their intelligence enables them to appreciate more readily than the negro population the wider objects of the British policy….’

Shortly before independence, another charismatic ruler rose from the ranks to free his people from Fulani rule. He was also a scholar by the name Aminu Kano. He shared similar philosophies with Awolowo on Fabian socialism. He argued that that talakawas were an exploited group in the North and swore to abolish both the emirates and privileged class known then as Masu Sarautu. His rising profile posed concern for the British and for a second time, they made laws that disenfranchised the Hausa people. They created an electoral college in the North with laws that gave the emirs the final approval of any elected member into the legislature. With this law, they silenced the voice of the talakawas championed by Aminu Kano and frustrated his revolution.

In the 70’s, another Hausa cleric emerged and rallied Hausa people, his name was Mohammadu Marwa, nicknamed ‘Mai Tatsine. He deviated from many of the Sunni teachings and declared himself an annabi (Hausa ruler). He swore to rid Hausa land of the Fulani elites and the nobility that exploited the local rulers for over a century. Like Aminu kano, he drew a mass following among the talakawas. His movement was violent. He had weapons smuggled into Kano for a revolution that started in December 1980….. Shagari government used the military to fight the movement and killed over 5,000 people. The group was fearless and stood their ground to the last breadth…. Major Haliru Akilu, one of the commanders sent to restore order in Kano observed that the fanatics never retreated, even when they were overpowered. They were bolder than the guerillas we read about fighting in Malaysia or in the jungles of East Asia’

Mohammed Marwa was was killed shortly after the revolt . ( It was said that at death, his body did not decay and this futher inspired his followers). A More brutal successor came after him. His name was Ali Suleiman (Musa Makaniki). He led a more violent uprisings in Kaduna and the most violent of all postcolonial Hausa revolts in Yola in 1984 which left thousands of people dead and thousands more homeless. Buhari ordered a ruthless crackdown on the group in Yola that led to the death of many members. Musa Makaniki fled to Cameroon to escape death by hanging and stayed in exile for many years.

The current cleric standing for the Hausa masses is El Zakzacky. Unlike the other previous leaders of the fight for freedom for Hausa people, El Zakzacky had western education and his movement started with intellectuals in the ranks. He finished with a first degree in Economics at ABU but was denied his certificate. In a country where the Northerners enjoyed the privilege of a quota system, he could have lived a good life by pledging allegiance to Futa Jalon rulers…. On the contrary, he chose to stand up for the injustice done to the Hausa people for over a century. Like the cleric before him, he deviated from all Islamic laws that bound them to Alien rulers that exploited the natives to form the nobility. His struggle is not about Islamic ideals, it is about freedom for Hausa people and rejection of Fulani nobility. His rhetoric is strictly centered on it and the government they greatly influence at federal level.

The emirs are alien rulers. Like the British who left at independence, they need to vacate the Northern kingdoms and give Hausa land back to its ancestral owners who have been seeking redress for injustice done to them by the Jihad of 1804 since the early 1800’s.....

_‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’_ (John F Kennedy)

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Hausas need to wake up and take back their land

When will igbo take their land from Bini? When will they take their ancestral land from invaders in Kongo jungle

Igbo should stop snouting around for half truth. Where there is religion especially Islam or when you are Muslim, there is no longer tribe. Islam is your new identity and the Muslim in Nigeria have accepted that sultan of sokoto is their leader. So wetin concern igbo Christians with Islam if not tresspassing? The same igbo supported kanu that called anyone that attend Yoruba man Church animal.

SlyDev:
Igbo should stop snouting around for half truth. Where there is religion especially Islam or when you are Muslim, there is no longer tribe. Islam is your new identity and the Muslim in Nigeria have accepted that sultan of sokoto is their leader. So wetin concern igbo Christians with Islam if not tresspassing? The same igbo supported kanu that called anyone that attend Yoruba man Church animal.

Where there is religion especially Islam or when you are Muslim, there is no longer tribe. Islam is your new identity and the Muslim in Nigeria have accepted that sultan of sokoto is their leader

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SlyDev:
Igbo should stop snouting around for half truth. Where there is religion especially Islam or when you are Muslim, there is no longer tribe. Islam is your new identity and the Muslim in Nigeria have accepted that sultan of sokoto is their leader. So wetin concern igbo Christians with Islam if not tresspassing? The same igbo supported kanu that called anyone that attend Yoruba man Church animal.

Lols
The same old lies.
Since there is no longer tribe, when are you going to start appointing Hausa Emirs?

Ifearnoevil:


Lols
The same old lies.
Since there is no longer tribe, when are you going to start appointing Hausa Emirs?

Do you know emir of Kano have yoruba blood in him from Ilorin? Can oba Benin allow igbo to rule Benin but he is your leader

Come and take your land, you ungrateful lots, we made the north a force to reckon with ,how would you have survive





We brought Islam to you, so obey and be humble

The true history of the yoruba:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llporKrPsbU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2hU-ibkPfg



Please kindly help me locate one of these 5 things:

1) ife empire
2) bight of ife
3) bight of yoruba
4) ife battle against britain
5) ife republic

Blackfire:






We brought Islam to you, so obey and be humble

The oldest lie.