₦airaland Forum

Wow, there's lots of interesting information here. You guys are doing a great job in this cultural exchange. It's weird, we're all one as Nigerians but at times I feel like a stranger with my fellow Nigerians

namfav:
lol i can imagine how emebrassing that would have been, by the way don't you think that your culture is somehow being swallowed by the majority ethnic group (urhobo), i see this is very common in the south where the smaller groups are swallowed by the bigger groups, isnt that a concern to you guys (from the minorities)?

interesting, i usually go out of town, i get invited to a number of weddings, events so i tend to meet alot of northerners since, in a month or so i will go out of town to a wedding of a hausa guy, by chance i get invited to these events so i tend to be lucky and i get to get alot of contacts

yes there is some simialrities between hausa and arabic, i know a little arabic, i can go for example to a arab country and i will be able to understand the basics, not because of hausa but also because i studied arabic. fulfulde and hausa are not similar in fact there is a difference

so you are in london i wonder how you don't come across northerners there, i know quiet a number of hausa and fulani who reside in uk, how do you feel when no one knows your ethnicity? i don't think it would be something i would be happy about hehe

yup, they are very tall indeed. no i have not been to the south, the closest i have been to was abuja, at the moment i am in america

you have the same interest for the north like alot of northerners well it is a good thing because in the end it is where you were born, you will fit in well, once you know hausa you are one of us lol, which state is it that you were born?

namfav:
aha, so where are you then? it's interesting because  before today i had not heard about isoko people, so isoko and urhobo share common ancestry?

fulani are very diverse, with the bororos i believe their women are slightly shorter than the men, but not really short, i think they range betweene 5ft7 and 6ft2 maybe, you will see this if you watch certain documantaries on the gerewol

it's a honour to hear someone interested in our culture i hope we had more people like that nigeria will be way better, we don't perceive southerners negatively, contrary, generally we think the same way you think about us, there is a little insecurity because you hear some (especially the younger) who think that southerners have a bias against us but it is just a minority it's in both sides also, generally no, there is nothing negative that i can mention, as you've mentioned we don't like to be offended, but it is the same anywhere isn't it? no one likes to be offended,  but i think that we (on both the sides) don't make too much effort to learn about the cultures, sadly, but at my school we were all mixed up and it was always normal, saw each other no different

oh i see, since you were born in the north, would you prefer to live in delta or the north? somehow i think you have a attachment to the north

thats very interesting, i used to think hardly southerners had interest in our culture so it's refreshing, no i have not heard about isokos so it's a urhobo clan or something? fulani are diverse, but bororos are considered the most beautiful, they stand out because they are also the tallest (they range from 6ft1 to 6ft8 barefoot), would you visit the north one day then to explore more of the culture? i spoke to some people they said they are scared to even live amongst hausa-fulani do you feel that way?

i want to know which tribe is the urhobo closer relate to? and are there many northerners in delta state?

namfav:
i had a classmate in kano, who was half tourek, don't really know to what extent there is mixture but i am aware that they have mixed for many years

yes there is a difference only  because the fulani in senegal some of them have got the influence from the jollof, serer, which we do not have, we had influence from hausawa, kanouri even which they did not have, but in terms of pulaaku (the culture/lifestyle) there is little to no difference

yes mainly business people, i don't see too many just a few people from algeria, why are you interested in the culture if i may ask? also yes i did drink it alot, always do when i am at home, is your mother from the north or something because i did not expect it to be prepared in the south too, but its easy to make though

that is why they call the wodaabe, i have met 3 of people who are bororo, lol they are proud apparently they always brag how beautiful they are if you talk about these gerewol thing i find it strange but its okay i  guess  , so before i ask the question are you urhobo/ijaw/itsekiri?

namfav:
it's good you have interest to ask i also have questions but i will ask a bit later when i finish answering what you want to know

yes there are toureks, culturally there is similarities have a long history with them, in bornu there have always been a number of toureks from what i know they also frequently mix

yes you are right, there is tchadiens, nigeriens, algerians, moroccans etc. i have come across those i also know families who are originally from cameroen

it is not difficult, sometimes it is impossible since we have alot of similarities culturally, i have a question if you can answer this, can you distinguish a yoruba from togo to a yoruba from nigeria? i know the accents are different but is there really a difference?

some indians, pakistani, lebanese, you know the usuals lol

i'm fulani, so i have to say dairy for me growing up, we used to eat and drink from the cow (cheese and milk)

i have not come across many a northerner who speak pidgin, some do, most not

namfav:
i see, i haven't met an animist before and i don't have one in my family, to be honest i don't think we will get along as animism contradicts everything that we believe


not really, i can say i probably have only seen 3 nollywood films in my entire life, i think there are some that watch but most do not (from where i'm born), as for music i have not heard much music from the south when im home, but sometimes (out of interest) i do listen to some on youtube but i wouldn't say it's our kind of thing really

yes there are some desert areas in the north,desertfication is affecting some of us, yes not really like the sahara

Kindluv3:
Delta State (Urhobo)

namfav:
interesting, that's basically not what i expected, i thought the pagans were viewed different, like respected because i heard that about in many family in the south there are  members who still practice that or believe certain things in that, so i'm a bit surprised ( i guess )

no i haven't ridden a horse before, i want to one day, interesting, by the way i think the pictures you see are for hawan sallah, you will see alot of horses and calvaries during that festivals, yup, horses are important to us, horses and camels as a form of transport has always been important you know without that you can't move too freely or protect your own

namfav:
hello, you can ask anything, no offense will be taken

there are in fact certain questions but first i want to ask like since i know the south is mostly christian, how are the non-christians (especially the pagan) live in the south, are they accepted in most christian families?

The Kenyan man has done his best to get his date high and uses the old ‘let me make sure I tuck you into bed’

I was told that in Abuja, if a guy wants to sleep with a chick he buys her a car or a house.

since 2004

Nigeria is the leading African country investing into Ghana with about 167 projects registered, according to an official of the Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC).

Mr Kofi Antiri, Acting Director of Research at the GIPC told ghanabusinessnews.com that Nigerian companies have invested $1.3 billion from 2004 to date, making Nigeria’s estimated value of investments the fourth among countries of the world that make foreign direct investments into Ghana for the period. Nigeria comes after Britain, the USA and the UAE

In the service sector, Nigerians have invested $494.17 million, he said.

EzeUche0:
Yes you got those Shuwa Arabs in Nigeria who could be considered indigenous. . .

And you have those Moroccan children.

namfav:
cool i didn't know we number that high in sudan, you learn new things everyday, northerners  are indeed adventerous, 10 million is alot, i also hear there is a hausa corner in palestine, west bank to be specific, this i heard from my friend who is palestinian (not hausa)

Obiagu1:
The Hausa/Fulani in Sudan can't be 10 million in a country of 45 million.

Altogether, the Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri of the Sudan today number well over 10 million people

The Hausa and Bargo ethnic groups of Eritrea, who collectively go by the name of "Tokharir", are Muslim people who migrated to Eritrea from Nigeria (2001, Johnathan Bascom, p. 70). Their settlement in Southwest Eritrea was associated with rising exploitation of the peasantry in Northern Nigeria and religious pilgrimages to Mecca (2001, Johnathan Bascom, p. 70). Their ancestors, who first settled in Southwest Eritrea and eastern Sudan during the late eighteenth and especially the nineteenth century (1999 Giorgio Ausenda, p. 179), were immigrants returning from the pilgrimage to Mecca who quite often brought their wives along and even begot children on the way (1999, Giorgio Ausenda, p. 179). To survive along the way, which took them several years, and pay for the Red Sea crossing, they stopped during the agricultural season and worked as farmhands or sharecroppers (1999, Giorgio Ausenda, p. 179). As a result of this sporadic immigration, estimated by Burkhardt at about 1,000 per year, there is now a large Hausa settlement in the Gash Delta (1999, Giorgio Ausenda, p. 179). Conservative estimates suggest that more than thirty thousand Hausa and Bargo ethnic groups were once living in Eritrea when conflict with Ethiopia escalated in the mid-1970s (2001, Johnathan Bascom, p. 70).