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DawsanAuto:
@ emöfine: I really enjoyed your analysis of the artcicle even more than the article itself.

I feel humbled. Thanks

@OP I believe SAFO qualifies as one of them

sdbaba:
I stumbled on this and felt I should share it with my fellow Nairalanders, let's hear your views. Enjoy:

As I read the letter from the beginning I was very uneasy as I thought that the former slave (Jourdan) was appreciative of his period with his former master (Colonel. Anderson). I prematurely concluded that Jourdan was mentally enslaved and was disappointed because this man had a young family. In fact I initially believed this poor man was suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

Then I made it to the third paragraph and such thoughts evaporated. I remembered once again that this man was no more a slave and I was delighted that despite his emancipation which legally revokes him of his former station he boldly asks his former master to commit restitution and that is pretty striking. For if Anderson was to oblige Jourdan's status as a slave can be re-evaluated as despite the harsh condition he and his wife was undoubtedly subjected to the payment separates the free labourer or the slave from an employer (albeit mistreated) in which I believe he was purposely trying to achieve and of course demanding justice and even in advance for his young girls.

It's sad what some had to go through but the level of civility he exhibited to his former master aka abuser is remarkable in my opinion. More so his confrontation despite such I would hope he merely used such opportunity as a means of obtaining what is rightfully his and his wife's and would not even as a free man ever go back to labour for his former master (despite considering it) even though that is unlikely as I doubt Anderson would have performed what he has been asked. But the twist was good as I bet the former master didn't anticipate that his former slave will ever demand for his right talk less of knowing his right. I think I even mistook his civility for mental enslavement in the very beginning.

Prior to reading this letter, as I've been informed about the station of this man I will admit it was very difficult to dissociate the word "slave" from his being add to the fact he was addressing his former master (so the roles were burnt in my head) but towards the tail I regarded the author of the letter as a very proud man and the image of a slave was no more an afterthought.

That was bitter-sweet. Thanks for sharing.

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DanKan0:
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DanKan0:
@ emöfine

barka. kina ingila ne? ko me?

I'm a beginner ban gane ba so I'm stuck

If you're asking if I'm in England then a(yes).

DanKan0:
Anyway if you want to see a lot in one place go to Brimingham or Coventry Uni in England. Its like Ahmadu Bello University: Zaria   

Lol @ your last sentence. I guess I have a reason to visit Birmingham Uni now.

@goodbobo

I understand what you are saying I just disagree with your key point that religion is inherent. Religion is not genetic. Yet it can be environmentally influenced.
I can decide to be a Muslim today and a Christian tomorrow but I cannot willingly choose my ethnic group or my gender. In fact religion is meant to operate beyond those boundaries such as race.
Being born into a particular ethnicity (especially one that largely follows a particular religion) can be a factor to how one's religion may be determined but that still doesn't make religion a birth right.
I was born in the North to Christian "Southern" parents so I guess the nuclear structure is also important as well as the environment.

Religion is different from conviction. For example as I have stated before, I was born into a Christian household and was made to adhere to that particular religion not out of choice it was more involuntary. Despite being born into a christian family (I was not and cannot be born a christian - I was nurtured as a Christian) and mimicking fellow "believers" and following particular required rites that did not fuel my faith in the Christian God at all. And today I can confess that I am not a Christian but I cannot deny my ethnicity or gender. That is largely my point. Sure, one can be born into a religious family and certain factors may determine the religion of an individual but nobody inherits faith which is personal - and a personal relationship with ones God. Religion can be forced on a person but nobody can force another to have faith in that religion or that God because faith is born within and not in the womb.
God did not make me a Christian - my parents did or at least they tried. If God had wanted me to be a Christian then there would have been no such thing as "free will" as I would not have had a chance to exercise my "God-given" right and reject what is allegedly part of my genetic make-up.

However hating someone for their religious disposition is prejudiced and such discrimination falls into the same category when a person is pre-judged and marginalized due to their ethnicity or gender. That is where the similarities end - discriminating against someone due to certain characteristics.

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Eben 2:
@emofine,
The answer to your first question is simple. If Lucifer had not rebelled against God, Adam and Eve would not have been seduced to sin against God, hence there wouldn’t have been unrighteousness or sin on the earth.

After the fall of Lucifer, Man was created?

If so it makes me wonder why man was created after the introduction of evil which actually interests me a lot since man was made in the "image" of God - sort of ironic too as Lucifer being the chief covering angel at the time who saw and translated God's glory through music to the other celestial beings . . . and after this angels fall, God (if it happened after the fall) sought to create another creature, another prototype after His image . . .in a way even though Lucifer was cast down that does make his role redundant sort of as that means Man involuntarily must have now filled that role if Man is the reflection of God's image hmmmmn . . . erm I was just typing as far as my thoughts carried me - I'm probably wrong sha

Which makes me to wonder once again, if Lucifer and co had not sinned would God have even created man? - This is perhaps an unfair question though as I doubt anyone is in a position to answer that

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bekay911:
Torture persecute and hang him. U still dey alive? Pulls out a pump action and blast his brain. Die der


i just killed him simples

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thesaurus

Hmm it does make one wonder what their purpose was for re-writing history and of course wonder what else they could be possibly hiding.
The consequences of such action is grave as zolzlolz has highlighted but a few.

By stripping one of their history is to poison one's self worth. If one doesn't know where they come from how will they know where they're going? Who will they draw inspiration from and if it happens to be from those who made their history redundant are they not thus being misled?

It's also quite sad how some regard their own history. When I used to marvel at the great works of Benin/Ile Ife etc some Nigerians labelled such masterpieces as "Witchcraft".

I've met a few and few times been mistaken for Hausa.

@OP I once believed that perhaps religion was another factor. I thought they may have favoured countries such as KSA as an abroad location due to faith (pertaining to those that are Muslims) which may facilitate in settling in   - although this was just an assumption I used to hold.

However despite that Hausa can be taught here in the UK.

DanKan0:
we dey plenty in London. holla for links 

Sannu. Ina kwana?

Great pics!

Na gode.

Judek2:
These countries you listed diffines terror not sadness.

Malaysia and Turkey?

Are the discussions hidden because I don't really see much of a dialogue there Excuse me for my ignorance but Facebook is not my thing so I don't really know much about how the site operates. Perhaps you can post a few of those questions here and set up a discussion - if you're so willing or I may even reconcile with Facebook one day.

It's really interesting as yesterday I had a discussion with my sister about belief etc and just because I'm not Christian she was thus asking me if I'm muslim etc . . .basically she wanted to know which "one" I was. But I was slightly taken back because I was thinking, do I have to adhere to any of the religions in order to exercise faith besides does my personal belief need a label. . .

cyber-sex

This is pretty interesting. I'd definitely would like to read (more) responses from the aforementioned groups.

The term "Hausa Fulani" does not even exist in any other country not even neighbouring Niger so I've often wondered the implication of such in Nigeria. I understand the history, religion and even at times the marriages these two group share but I couldn't help thinking if such term was for political purposes as well. A relatively minority ethnic group merging with a majority ethnic group automatically becomes part of the majority and they can thus excercise much more clout.

peckhamboi:
Are there any differences between them and which is more in Nigeria?

Hausas number more than the Fulanis but no doubt the Fulanis have influenced politics and part of the religious composition of Nigeria.

Is it true that Usman Dan Fodio, Buhari, Shagari, Yaradua, Atiku, Abacha, Ahmadu Bello, Dangote, Balewa, Sanusi Lamido are all Fulanis?

Many Nigerians I know usually tag all Northerners as Hausa and that is lazy and premature and thus automatically renders them a greater population than they are. Yet these people complain that the census is rigged in favour of Hausa but don't bother to make the distinction themselves.
Most of the people on that list are Fulanis but some people fail or can't be bothered to make the distinction or perhaps just view them to be the same as Hausa - maybe due to the term "Hausa-Fulani". Even some people considered Abacha to be Hausa and his own people don't even have a shared identity with them.

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