Wulfruna:
Going by what I have learnt, Hausa Muslims often have difficulty accepting Yoruba Muslims as true Muslims. Perhaps this is because Yoruba Muslims generally tend to be less rigid about their religion than their Northern counterparts.

I remember a conversation that once ensued between a Yoruba Muslim friend of mine and an Hausa man he engaged to repair his shoe.

The Hausa guy simply refused to accept my friend was Muslim, even after my friend recited passages from the Qu'ran in Arabic. Probably, in the Hausa cobbler's mind, you can't be Muslim if you are not a Northerner.

This perception may account for why we see relatively fewer cases of Hausa Muslim- Yoruba Muslim unions.

I have heard this sentiment myself from family members of mine who are Muslim Yoruba's. I think its the perceptions and stereotype's of southerners vs. northerners have against one another and what you mentioned is part of that, that they feel Yoruba Muslims are not true Muslims is one I have heard Yoruba Muslims experienced. If this is the case it shouldn't be a surprised that there a slight higher intermarriage between Yoruba and other southern tribes then Yoruba and Hausa.

[b]As long ago as 2005, an ABC News report on colorism called it "an open secret in the black community." Two more recent documentaries about the issue, 2011's Dark Girls, and its 2015 offshoot, Light Girls, present it primarily as a source of pain inflicted both on and by African-Americans.

There's a broad assumption that this phenomenon — a preference for light skin over dark and accompanying discrimination — is contained within the black community and other communities of color. But now, research suggests that some white people buy into colorism, too.

In a new study published in the journal Social Currents, Villanova University's Lance Hannon found that, all things being equal, white interviewers deemed lighter-skinned blacks and Hispanics more intelligent than darker-skinned people who had identical educational achievement, vocabularies, scores on a political test, and a variety of other factors.

The results provide good reason to believe that what Hannon calls "white colorism" exists. And they raise concerns about what unfair, complexion-based beliefs about who's smart and who's not can have in every area of American life.

THE RESEARCH

Skin color discrimination by white people isn't a new concept. As Hannon writes in the paper, "The history of white colorism runs as deep as the history of white racism in U.S. society. For African Americans, the skin color hierarchy is firmly rooted in the slavery regime, where white owners gave certain work privileges to slaves with more Eurocentric features."

And in fact, colorism in various areas of American life has been studied before. In his write up of the new research, Pacific Standard's Tom Jacobs summed up the findings of previous studies on the topic, with conclusions including:
lighter-skinned black men with bachelor's degrees have a distinct advantage in job application processes over black men who have MBAs;
lighter skinned black women in North Carolina received lighter prison sentences than their darker peers;
African-Americans with more education are remembered as being lighter than they actually are.

But Hannon's new research is the first to focus on how colorism determines white people's perceptions of the intelligence of people of color.

He analyzed data from the 2012 American National Election Study, which is a face-to-face survey on social and political values and opinion. Interviewers are required to describe each subject's skin tone on a 10-point scale, and also rate intelligence on a five-point scale from "very low" to "very high."
Looking at the results for 223 African-American and Hispanic subjects who were interviewed by white interviewers, he found that African Americans and Latinos who were deemed to have lighter skin tones were also significantly more likely to be seen as intelligent.

If you're wondering whether it could be that the lighter-skinned subjects really were more intelligent (perhaps because of the way colorism in the larger society affected their educational opportunities) you're wrong — Hannon controlled for all of that. "Importantly, the effects of skin tone on intelligence assessment were independent of respondent education level, vocabulary test score, political knowledge assessment, and other demographic factors," he wrote.

Consequently, the interviewers could look at two identically qualified black or Hispanic subjects and assess the lighter one as being smarter.

WHY WHITE COLORISM MATTERS

The research drives home the point that colorism is not just a form of prejudice people of color impose on each other. Also, it's a reminder that that while it's certainly a relevant part of conversations where it most often arises — about things like worldwide demand for skin bleaching cream, debates about dating preferences, and more diverse representation of black women in Hollywood — the harm it causes extends far beyond these realms.

A belief among some white people that darker-skinned black and Hispanic people aren't smart could have (and is likely already having) society-wide impacts that perpetuate inequality. "If white adults have a tendency to equate lighter skin with intelligence," Hannon concluded, "this may impact the quality and level of expectations white teachers and other school authorities have for certain students."

It's reasonable to conclude that this type of thinking — whether it's conscious or the result of implicit bias — could taint decisions about everything from hiring and promotions, awards and internships, to mentorship and all of the other judgments that determine the trajectory of a person's life.

The paper calls for future sociological research to stop treating colorism as something that only happens within racial groups, and insists that if American racism is to be fully addressed, white colorism will have to be a part of the conversation.[/b]
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/28/8116799/white-colorism-racism-study

keresho:

Greetings my fellow African brothers and sisters, the character that goes by the username "Axum" is not an Ethiopian. I don't understand why the Somali troll on this forum can't seem to keep Ethiopian name out of his posts and try to tarnish our reputation by badmouthing our fellow Africans.

yea most nairalanders know about him being a somali troll, he has a mental disorder. This is the latest forum he is in causing a tornado with his lunacy: https://www.nairaland.com/2085166/why-cant-people-embrace-pan-africanism

Fulaman198:


She is Hausa. If she can't speak Fulfulde and only Hausa then she is Hausa. The two cultures are quite different.

understood, I'm learning more and more that fulanis and Hausa's are different now

MadCow1:



Whoever impregnated her isn't sane and also needs psychiatric help.

The nigga is a danger to society and needs to be hunted down and put in an insane asylum.

I doubt he knew her age, but even if he did or didn't, abandoning her after a beating suggests he is mentally imbalanced.

I agree with everything you said, some people are just sick

It's so sad, she has no parents and some weirdo takes advantage of her. I hope someone comes to her aid soon.

rawpadgin:
chai! God is so merciful

Amen

bump

Justfollowit:
There seems to be a lot of them though in Scotland

silami:
The article gives some insight but not entirely true. Am Hausa/fulani though a Christian, however I know having lived/living in western Europe and north America, I know there are alot of hausa/fulanis comunities here.religion though play a role but very inconsequential. They stay away from overal Nigerian comunities because they are not into parties and other social vices that plagued alot of our southern brothers and sisters. Another reason, an average southerner sees an hausa or fulani person as dulard and unintelligent I experienced that alot in my church even though by far I am well more educated and than majority of them. So I I'd rather hangout with hausa Muslims than alot of some southern Christians. For instance there was a day the pastor of my church referred to boko haram as my brothers even though he has known me for over 5 years as a Christian, he still sees me more as a northerner than Christian child of God and that's very myopic even though I corrected that impression,it still hurts to be referred to as brother to Boko Haram. Don't get me wrong I have alot of southerners as confidents and friends, my fiancee is even an igbo girl.

interesting thanks for your answer

Fulaman198:
LOL@This thread, people classifying Fulani and Hausa in one group when we are two very different groups.

Ikengawo:
[size=20pt]WHAT IS HAUSA-FULANI, YOU'RE EITHER HAUSA OR FULANI[/size]

Thats how the author(who is also Fulani) of the article which this thread is about titled it, click the link and you will see: http://hausanigerian..com/2011/03/why-you-dont-meet-many-hausa-people.html

I'm surprised this thread has gone this far, I'm just seeing this thread after the last time I checked it, thanks everyone for your answers it is interesting to know there are many Hausa's and Fulanis abroad

jpphilips:

UK, is majorly a christian state, if you wanna see hausa- fulani try, Qatar, UAE, Saudi and much recently Turkey
How many times have you visited Saudi as a supposed christian?

understood, I get it, based on the answers religion is part of the reason at times where people migrate to a extent. Majority of the Nigerians I have bumped into have been nigerians of southern tribes, mostly yoruba and igbo.

abdulplayer02:
so you have been to the uk but you are still making such mistake:peopleS

I'm Nigerian american, born and raised in America and have visited the UK but have never bumped into a hausa or a fulani in the UK. In America only twice. So sorry if thats disappointing to you

hahn:


Americans are generally ignorant of Africa. Majority of them don't even own a passport and have never been out of their shores to explore other beliefs and cultures

true

axum:
This is a shocking picture. Let me explain.

Miss Somalia, who won Miss Africa is on the left. She is sitting next to a Nigerian who won Miss Muslim world. Clearly Nigeria won not out of Beauty.

well Agbani Darego who became the first black woman to win Miss world is Nigerian and not Arab looking like the Miss Somalia but Black African and she won out of beauty from Miss world which is a more well known beauty pageant internationally then Miss Africa. So whats your point
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbani_Darego

https://www.google.com/search?q=agbani+darego&hl=en&gbv=2&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lkm5VLH4JMu2oQSEqYHgAw&ved=0CAUQ_AU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVrJxIJQ6Rs

axum:

I google Somali. And then Found these thirsty bantus talking about our women, DNA, disgusting really.
Anyway You are a Kenyan, you must know the hatred we have for your kind. northern Kenya is Somali. If you all ceased to exist tomorrow I would throw a big party.

Get out of nairaland, you keep changing your name ayanle/ajuran/etc but everybody knows you as the Somali troll. This is a Nigerian forum, Nigerians don't give a damn about most of your Horn of Africa worship threads. Seek help and take your medication, your obsession has become a nuisance.

anssy:
incase

ok

No surprise there

[b]Take a drive though any city or large town in Nigeria and the chances are you will come across numerous privately owned health clinics, doctor's surgeries and hospitals.

They are so widespread because Nigeria's state-run health system – ranked at 197th out of 200 by the World Health Organisation – is chronically underfunded and so overstretched that it simply cannot meet all the demands made on it. Private medicine fills the gap and in the best cases, at least for those who can afford it, it can provide a valuable alternative service.

But while there are many legitimate private health providers, there are many more that are completely bogus; unaccredited, unregulated 'quack' doctors - con artists and criminal scammers for the most part - who ruthlessly exploit the credulity, ignorance and desperation of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society. Indeed they are so prolific that a survey carried out in Nigeria earlier this year found that more than 50 percent of the population had received 'treatment' from the quacks at one time or another – even people with very serious diseases such as typhoid and malaria.

Professor Alex Dodoo, who monitors patient safety for the World Health Organisation in West Africa and has dealt with quacks for years points out the obvious dangers of dealing with fake doctors:

"If one is not licensed by the state, anything that one does is illegal. Going to see them is dangerous. Period. Would you sit in an aeroplane where the pilot says 'OK hello, I'm the pilot, but I've not been licensed!' No way! You put your health at risk and you can die."

But it is something that has long bothered Rosemary Nwaebuni, a reporter who lives and works in Nigeria's Delta State. She has encountered many people who have suffered at the hands of fake doctors, particularly women who have been the victim of botched abortions, and she is frustrated that the authorities have not done more to stamp them out.

For this this episode of Africa Investigates, she joined up with Anas Aremeryaw Anas, an award-winning journalist from Ghana, to track down the quacks and gather evidence of their scams.

The duo's eye-opening investigation quickly unearthed a host of 'doctors' and 'nurses' using forged and fake qualifications and with little or no medical training.

The premises these fake medics operate from are invariably unsanitary and the manifestly phoney 'treatments' they offer patients risk ending in blindness, poisoning, perforated wombs and even life-threatening disfigurement and death from surgical procedures carried out by people lacking even a modicum of skill or experience. Others fall victim to the quacks' complete inability to diagnose even the most obvious diseases and conditions; mistakes that are more likely to kill or injure their patients than they ever are to heal them.

Going undercover in the guise of a patient, Rosemary was offered treatment for typhoid and malaria (even though she is perfectly healthy) and an illegal abortion (even though she is not pregnant) by quacks who had no medical qualifications whatsoever but who pretended to be experienced and licensed practitioners.

In one remarkable sting, the Africa Investigates team rented a house and invited local quacks to come and do 'home visits'. The 'patient' was again Rosemary, who – with the help of a qualified medic – had learned some symptoms that any genuine doctor would immediately recognise as indications of heart disease. Instead, one after another, the 'quacks' turned up and after cursory examinations wrongly claimed that Rosemary was suffering from typhoid and malaria (two commonly cited conditions) for which she need expensive drugs that only they could prescribe.

What the fake doctors did not know was that the house was rigged with secret closed circuit cameras and that their every move was being scrutinised by a genuine medical practitioner. The doctor was local to the area and asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, but he was unequivocal in his condemnation of the fakes.

"This is absolute quackery," he said of one of the fakes. "All he did was just glance at the patient and then made a diagnosis and prescribed medications … To take all barrage of medications for this patient with malaria and typhoid. This is wrong, this is all wrong. These drugs are poison. They cause real damage."

The team took this this and other evidence to Dr Alfred Ebiakofa, a senior medical officer working for the Nigerian Ministry of Health. He had always lacked the resources and proof to go after fake doctors but now was able to act. He called in the police to work with Anas who, as the investigation heads to a climax, devised a dramatic scheme to trap one of Nigeria's most notorious quacks in the act.[/b]
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/africainvestigates/2014/11/nigeria-fake-doctors-20141126132723604457.html

I support them 100%, they need to protest and chase these foolish african leaders that stay in power for decades out because that is one of the reasons most african countries have never moved forward because of this backwards behaviour

send to celebrity section please

igbo2011:
We need to talk about production instead of consumption Most products in these malls are made abroad.

well thats just another thing africans need to tackle to

BUSHIDO5:
No be today boss. These arabs have been doing this for centuries.

exactly they do it to their own Arab Christians
http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/christian-hindu-girls-pakistan-kidnapped-converted
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-slave-markets-sell-women-10-attract-isis-recruits-1468506
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2801353/i-ve-raped-30-times-s-not-lunchtime-desperate-plight-yazidi-woman-begged-west-bomb-brothel-isis-militants-sold-sex-slavery.html

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

igbo2011:


Why do African people embrace cultures who have histrionically and continue to destroy African people? We have stockholm syndrome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YT6cotv0YU

http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/


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

another question and debate entirely but the French really made sure they had a strong hold on francophone countries after colonization.

donroxy:
And me I'm just about to pay money to learn french @ Alliance d' francaise ... Na wa ooo ..... No wahala sha ... I will still go ahead !!

French is one of the most beautiful languages in ther world but it is not economically necessary anymore for many in the world, so I think thats one big reason why the French language is facing a decline.

[b]It's been indisputable for some time that English is becoming the ‘universal language’. As the number of living languages has steadily decreased, the use of English has expanded on every continent. And though English has not — despite predictions — crushed all other languages (German, Russian, and Spanish, to cite the prime examples, all remain strong), one language does seem to be undergoing the predicted cataclysmic collapse. English may not yet have won the globe, but French has definitely lost it.

The reasons for the decline of French are many, including geography. Francophone regions are spread out: think of France, Vietnam, Quebec, and Guadeloupe, to start. Many of these regions are without direct connections to other French-speaking countries. The result is that many of the people choose to abandon French for more useful languages within the region. In contrast, German, Russian and Spanish speakers are based in numerous adjacent countries, each supporting the others.

French has been most visibly hurt in the last few decades in Africa. In North Africa, French has had to compete with Arabic, a language which Arabs are now clinging to as proudly as the French have traditionally clung to French. South of the Sahara, countries which formerly had large French-speaking populations are making the switch to English due to its relevance in Southern Africa, as well as internationally.

In Algeria, after the Algerian War, French was mostly expunged. Its decline has continued, including the recent closure of French schools, as Arabic and English become the standard.

More dramatically, in Zaire, in 1997, fueled by anti-French sentiment, the French language was replaced with native languages. And in nearby Rwanda the president has pushed for the abandonment of French in favor of English. It is questionable whether any Africans will be speaking French in a few decades.

English, meanwhile, is becoming the most important Western language in Africa, replacing both French and Portuguese. An English derivative is the majority language of Sierra Leone, and remains an important language in South Africa, of course, as well as Nigeria, and various other smaller countries.

Former French-speaking colonies beyond Africa have been hostile to the French language. French has been collapsing even faster in Asia than it is in Africa, due to the isolation of French-speaking populations. In Vietnam, students have protested having to learn French, stressing the need to learn English instead. And in the Middle East, the Lebanese have been shucking off French in favor of English.

French has also seen a drastic decline in North America. In the U.S., between 1990 and 1995, college applicants for French class declined by twenty-four percent. In Canada, the number of French students enrolling in English classes is rising rapidly, while the overall percentage of French speakers across Canada is falling.

Across Europe, French has gradually declined from being the lingua franca to falling behind German and English. English is spoken by 41% of Europeans, while only 19% speak French. English is now the language of business in Europe, a fact which even French ambassador for international investment Clara Gaymard was forced to admit. And French has fallen so far behind in Eastern Europe, in particular, that it is the third-most studied language, behind English and Spanish.

While once the language of culture, French has been pushed off the global stage. Perhaps the most symbolic example of this was in 2008 when Sebastian Tiller, the French representative at the Eurovision contest, planned to sing 'Divine' almost exclusively in English. That the French singer did not choose to represent the jealously guarded language of his country internationally came as a shock to many. This cultural decline was mirrored when New York's Metropolitan Opera decided to reject the libretto of the musical star Rufus Wainwright (who was raised in Canada), because he chose not to translate his opera into English.

The calamitous decline in French seems irreversible, even to the French. In 2008, the budget of La Francophonie, the governing body of the French language, was six million euros; in contrast, the British Council announced it would spend 150 million euros in efforts to advance English.

In any Darwinian model, a characteristic can become prominent, or it can be driven out of existence. Use of the French language has been globally dispersed, and French culture is without historical significance in many of its colonies. These are not the characteristics that increase a language's chances of survival.[/b]
http://www.newgeography.com/content/002387-the-decline-and-fall-french-language

UyiIredia:
Reminds me of some time in 2003 when my Dutch co using came. She affirmed that the impression in the Netherlands was that we still live in trees here.

lol, nothing surprises me anymore of the western worlds view of Africa

ThaProphet:


I read about how an American who had visited somewhere in East Africa (Kenya, I think), was not allowed to go back to work until after 21 days. Those folks need a geography lesson.

Ultimately, the ignorance exhibited by these people is a function of the North/South divide and the inequality that shapes it. It is also evident in the education system that shaped their society. It's not even a matter of "dumb" Americans. Even intelligent Americans exhibit such alarming levels of ignorance.

Like you said it is ignorance and a "I don't care attitude" from Americans of what is going on outside America, which includes the American media. A few years ago theres was a documentary news report on the knowledge of Americans of their country and what goes on outside America, they found out many Americans didn't know the pledge of allegiance, some mixed up what Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln did in history, some had a hard time knowing whether Mexico was in North America or South America, and other ludarcris and embarrassing things. So if they don't even know simple things of their country or care to they won't even try with Africa. It is only in the past few years a small minority of Americans are slowly knowing some countries in Africa and it's because of some big events that have happened internationally that they just happen to find out

UyiIredia:


Do you think secularism and its attendant moral values are the cause or failed economic policies ?

a combination of both

UyiIredia:


True to some extent. It is eroding.

Yeah and I don't see it ever changing

ThaProphet:
Places like Gambia and Senegal in W. Africa also attract a substantial amount of tourism. Gambia definitely is feeling the pain.

The way Ebola is being reported in the US is ridiculous indeed. Ignorance + Hysteria is a bad combination.

yup many americans think the whole continent has Ebola when it's just 3 countries affected right now. It shows that many Americans don't know the difference from one african country to another, Once they hear Africa that's it.

The most powerful woman in african politics, lol, I guess to you

vdGeist:


Nollywood deserves the title of Hollywood of Africa.

I think Nollywood has made a mark in Africa and beat Hollywood in the continent but I don't think I will give them that title either at least not right now. African film industries still need to progress and advance more but Hollywood shouldn't be used as the epitome but who to stand side by side with in the future.

vdGeist:


And Tanzania, DRC.

Well Tanzania has beautiful geography and is used alot as a image for Africa cultural landscape and DRC is the birth place of soukoss so yes I give them credit