Baaballiyo:


Yes that's what am trying to say, thanks for the correction.

No problem, sorry for my improper behaviour.

Because I have been watching Vikings recently on history channel, I am learning more about Christians and how many viewed non-Christians as heathens. Some Christians were so violent/vicious that they slayed non-Heathens with these swords. You can watch Vikings here (Under a VPN imo because it did not work for me when I was not on a VPN probably due to having a Nigerian IP address).

http://www.history.com/shows/vikings

You can use BitTorrent of course

I would say not abnormally so. There were many Fulani nobles that were artists, merchants, aristocrats, scholars (Timbuktu), clerics, etc. Like other parts of History, Fulani history has its good and not so good. However as a whole, the Fulani ethnic group is one of the most renowned in Africa for a reason.

Cocolatti:
From what I know, these guys are not Kanuri but rather Shuwa. At best I can say that they are a mixture of Shuwa/Kanuri.

Kanuri-Shua/Shuwa mix does indeed happen.

Baaballiyo:


Bandirawo noi pulaaku ma ?

I think what you are tying to say is where is my modesty/humility? which would be "Noy semteende ma?"

In any case, I apologize, I'm sorry (Waddu munyal).

Those men do not look Fulani though, so he is right

In any case, I do not want to cause Ethnic division, but Christians need to stop being hypocrites on this site. They are trying to make it look as if we are bad people. I do not want them to leave the north, that would be bigoted.

Adebowale89:




no Nigerian men marry white without mission. if you have encounter any white lady before you will know majority of them and African have nothing in common when it comes to understanding of marriage

Well that is because there are some Nigerian groups that believe that white folks are some kind of special human being when they are not. I do not want to bring ethnic group into this, but you won't see Fulani or Hausa people worshiping the ground that white people walk on. I wish all Africans were this way. I think Yoruba for the most part are very proud of their culture and try not to be Westernised. My hats off to the Yoruba.

Mermaida:


lol, Thanks for the lecture.

LOL you are welcome

Baaballiyo:


Bandirawo noi pulaaku ma ?

kai! Mi maayi jaleede! Bandirawo am (Dedirawo am)/Bandam/Derdam Pulaaku jam e an bo?

princechurchill:
Once u go East you can't go back, the real owners of BBC,ask the ladies of other tribes

Why do some Eastern ladies say we are bigger then?

Mermaida:



Bros biko wat is the meaning of bbc

Big Black C**k, if you want you can pull my pants down and wait for it to get hard (that's the only time it's big). When it is soft it is small-ish but it can get huge if you are willing to wait

Adebowale89:
East and inferiority, just read those babysit comments above. what's special in white Lady than to use her to achieve the green card


that's why I hate African mentality. the African parent would condemn intertribal marriage within their components but welcome foreigners who don't understand culture or can tolerate men to a long length



I hope they change this their unruly and hypocrisy attitudes against African intra tribal marriage soon

Thank you for this, so true. They would marry a white person before they marry someone from another ethnic group in Nigeria. African mentality (not all African countries, but many) = slave mentality.

I too don't understand what is so special about white people, but some people worship them here as if they are God.

Some great Festivals in Nigeria:

Hawan Sallah


Argungu Fishing Festival

Sounds like there might be a problem with the machine itself. Has anyone else complained? Typically speaking with fingerprint Scanners, you must hold your fingerprint in one spot for a prolonged amount of time.

I'm more proud of my ethnic (please don't refer to it as tribe) ethnic language, Fulfulde the language of the Fulani.

Min mi Pullo, mi hofni on, mido yidi demgal am Fulfulde.

Modern day slavery, sorry you had to experience this.

ehikwe22:
You are an evil bigot to assume that because "in every murder, there must be causes and effects " hence Fulani herdsmen were attacked first. Your nepotism and bigotry has blinded you that you don't try to reason and think clearly about the scenario. In the cases of Fulani massacres, who's always the aggressor? What could have the helpless farmers possibly done to provoke the farmers first? Check the scenario. Someone is in his farm, you take your cattles to his farm and destroy everything. And fortunately, he caught you destroying his farm and had a hot exchange of words with you because he couldn't have possibly attacked armed herdsmen. The next thing is to murder him and any other person you see in the vicinity. Sometimes, there's no even any altercation before they murder people. Even if your brain is screwed upside down, why can't you try and borrow some sense? Fulani herdsmen are the aggressors and attackers, but assuming everybody attack them, don't your brain tell you they must be doing something real evil? Ain't you seeing the news of people's farms getting damaged? Not talking about the murders now. Olu False's, Wole Soyinka's and so many other people's? Are you special kind of stupid to be supporting planned extermination and ethnic cleansing? OK. I'm not surprised. You're Fulani

I am done with you, if all you can see is my ethnicity, then you prove my point of being a bigot.

I am here discussing science and realism with you, and you are here discussing "Fulani this, Fulani that". You truly are nothing more than an uneducated bigot.

ehikwe22:
arguing with you is a waste of time. You are trying to justify the massacring and extermination being carried out by Fulanis against Nigerian Christian. You come to someone's land, went to his farm and destroy his farm, when he talks, you kill him in his farm or plan an invasion in his community and kill tens, hundreds or thousands. Is there any justifying this? Who invited them to people's villages in the first place?

Reading comprehension appears to be something you lack, am I right? Let me reiterate what I said for the 'nth' time.

I oppose murder, it's never an excusable act, however most murders if you run a human psychoanalysis, is a result of cause or effect. Meaning that something terrible has to occur before someone retaliates. Whether it's murder of Fulani herdsmen or their livestock (yeah a lot of this happens, but since our media is controlled by Southerners in some parts of the country, the news is often distorted). The news in different parts of the country paints a different picture, that is why only a simpleton would only believe one source.

Point being is that if you are not there, do not comment on something you do not know about. It depicts a naive and bigoted character on your behalf.

Also, this entire thread, you have displayed a very rotten and evil character of religious and ethnic bigotry. I don't know how you are in real life, but one can assume the way people are online is who they truly are as they can hide behind a computer, VB smartphone or tablet.

gmoni2:
Njarama... Foulbe or Fulah.

In your dialect, I assume fouta djaloore, that is a greeting for hello, one could also go further and say "a jaraama" which would be thank you in Western Fulani dialects.

In Eastern Fulani dialects, it's "a walli jam" to one person or "on balli jam" to several people.

Anyways, Ha toy a woni? Min fuu, min mi Pullo leydi Najeriya, ha lessdi Adamawa e an bo? Mi hinni ma (mi salmini ma) e mi welti ma. Fulbe lessdi (leydi) duniya fuu gootum. Barka ma! Yo Allah yaaru yonki yesso!

ehikwe22:
I'm not surprised at your response. You just justified my earlier comment.

You are nothing more than a bigot. You talk about being saved, do yourself a favour. When you wake up each day, ask yourself, are you genuinely/sincerely a good person/human being. Once you do that, we can continue with this discussion. All you have been doing thus far is dodging and avoiding key points.

If this conversation is way above your head in regards to reading comprehension, perhaps you should move along. Stop wasting peoples' time on here. Get it?

How can anyone say that Hausa are bad after hearing this song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYcHuM9BSek

AlderFadington:




Obviously like I pointed out those other ethnic groups were the main influencers (if there's a word like that?).


But I was talking about the general notion of Arabian influence on the north. I just pointed out that the things attributed to Arabs were not done by Arabs but Berbers who are actually more present than them in northern history.

You are correct bro!

Isahalbash:







If you think herdsmen killed only Christians, then you are mistaken. Herdsmen kill anyone stopping them from grazing their cattle whether Christians or Muslims, Hausa, Kanuri, Igbo or Yoruba.



Am talking from experience as a child nd now as an adult. The difference is that, d former is easily spread thru social media while d latter don't( maybe because of d state of d country where everything is about religion, tribe or politics).

Gonga!

ehikwe22:
Cattle is never the issue here bro. the Christian farmers that's been massacred in their hundreds and thousands in the dead of the night in their villages, and those massacred in their own farm, their farm is playing ground abi? Who's the aggressor here? Who's going about his business peacefully and another uninvited evil guest appears to take his sleep away? You said you are not a good Muslim but bro, you are a good Muslim. Good and Islam are ironic to the word "good". To be a good Muslim, you must be a killer or support killers. And you've been caught doing the second here who also knows how many people you've killed in the name of senseless jihad?

If you were not so biased, you would realize that there is always a cause and effect. No one attacks another person (most of the time) without having a justified reason.

You being Christian, you are more than likely biased against Fulani people and thus are seeing things through a very tainted scope. Put yourself in the shoes of someone else for once in your life.

If someone went about stealing your possessions, your money, your clothing, your means of life and only source of income, how would you respond? It's human nature to want to defend ones' belongings. Now if you tell me otherwise, I would simply say that you are a f00l.

I was not there, so I can't tell you with absolute certainty about who/whom instigated it, however do not treat these "Christian" Farmers like saints.

AlderFadington:


I'm very glad that most Hausas (maybe you're fulani?) Are able to see past the charade of this imposter. This bloke is indubitably not Hausa and this has been proven in multiple ocassions. Like I said, i don't know what his motives are but his dedication to this charade is baffling.

While I agree with the majority of what you wrote I would like to point out that Arabs have little or nothing to do with Islam in hausa land. The first wage of reverts did so due to wangara scholars from Mali. Then there are Berber scholars like al Maghili who played crucial roles. But mostly Arabs had little or nothing to do with it.

Northern Nigerian history in general has more to do with Berbers who many mistake to be Arabs which they are not.

I would like to interject and say it is a combination of Berbers and some Mande and possibly Djerma/Zarma as I believe most Wangara from Mali were Mande. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The Berbers would more than likely be the Touareg (Kel-Tamasheq).

darkhorizon:


Still very lame to justify your killer tribesmen.

I am not justifying killing or murder, please do not put words in my mouth. What I am saying is that MOST human beings do not like it when their possessions are tampered with. Is that true or false? If someone was to steal your car, your money, vandalise your house, etc. etc. would you just sit there like a stooge and do absolutely nothing? Or fight for your possessions.

Some countries like the United States actually justify this kind of thing, (which in my opinion is wrong). They have rules where they allow someone to kill a burglar upon unauthorised/unauthorized entry to one's home.

darkhorizon:


Because cattle is salary means they should kill people anyhow
Common cattle!!!

And the mean spirited Arabs you mentioned, are they not the mentors/fathers of your people

I spit on your Logic.

I would be wasting my time on you, so I won't go into much detail. Read a book. What do Arabs have to even do with Fulani?

Also, if someone took all your prized possessions, clothing, money, car, housing, etc. would you just let it be or would you do something about it?

Ikengawo:
I'm not going to read all of those essays because I don't have the time. What you and I are seeing in this thread has been destroyed by a culture that isn't culturally rich enough to replace what they're destroying with anything else. The Hausa language is alive and well because Hausa people did that, not because Islam is permitting it. This isn't a referendum on which is 'better' North v. South. I simply stated that the Fulani has destroyed what the Hausa have built and made the region unrecognizable to other Africans, as has middle eastern brand Islam and this is a fact that 1000 nairaland essays won't refute.

Still, I can pray and read the bible in Igbo without and issue. I'm also not a Christian and can pronounce this freely and argue the legitimacy of christianity among christians in any part of the world including my own christian hometown. This isn't the case with Islam, and there are hundreds of more examples of it's lack of permissiveness civility and openness. This lack is a threat to any culture around it. You're aware of who introduced jihad to the North. You're aware of it's offspring (boko haram etc). You're aware of all of this but still you argue out of insecurity, not sincerity.

I can acknowledge the flaws in Christianity openly, but your cannot be honest about what islam has done to Africa, and a Fulani cannot be honest about his people adverse relationship to the progress and well being of the people in north Nigeria. If you told me there were Igbo people selling drugs, I won't argue with you. If you told me an Igbo man has a grocery store and started raping and killing women because of his 'salary' I will tell you he's insane and sick.

But if I told you that a Fulani person raped and killed women in a farm because of a cow, you'll tell me the cow is his 'salary'. This is unafrican and cowardly and because I see this in you nature, we're not going to debate because fundamentally, I'll never understand you. Have a good day.

Fair enough, and to be honest, I am not the best Muslim out there as many Muslims on here know. You can often find me talking about women's feet and toes, their b00bs, and their a&@es so I would be a hypocrite if I told you that I am a good Muslim.

With that out of the way, I see the point that you are trying to make. However, It is hard to say that Hausa culture was destroyed when much of it is still intact. If anything, Nigerian Fulani culture was destroyed.

Now you ponder why I say this? One must first look at what defines culture, it is not religion alone. Culture is comprised of language, music, food, and particular behaviours that define a particular group of people.

It is hard to say what Hausa practised prior to Islam which was introduced to them in the 11th century by Wangara Clerics from Mali. Why? we were not around at that time.

Although the Fulani did indeed capture a good portion of Hausaland, much of Hausaland was left unexplored and in the hands of the Hausa. As you know, till this day the lingua Franca of Northern Nigeria is Hausa and not Fulfulde (the language of the Fulani). In fact, Fulfulde is spoken mainly only amongst Fulani whereas Hausa is spoken by every ethnicity in Northern Nigeria. I think that you and I can agree that language is a huge part of what makes up a culture.

Then, let's look at Hausa Food, Hausa Food has absolutely nothing to do with Middle Eastern food and is similar to foods served in other parts of the Sahel. If you are well-traveled, you will have to agree that Hausa food is very African.

Let's take a look at Hausa music. Traditionally, to this very day if you go to any major Hausa speaking city, be it Sokoto, Nigeria, Daura, and then Zinder, Niger, Maradi, etc. Hausa music is traditionally done on Kalangu (Talking drum), Goje/Goge (Violin like Fiddle), and even Algaitar (which is like a flute played at special ceremonies). No element of Hausa music can be found in the Middle East. I am not talking about the auto-tuned nonsense found in Kannywood films (Nigerian Hausa films).

There are Arab Christians and there are Arab Muslims. Are Arab Christians "less Arab" because they practise Christianity as opposed to Islam. Thanks!

I just caught up on this thread and read through the discourse between DevdanSanguine and Ikengawo.

To be honest, and I'm not trying to incite division here, but Ikengawo, I disagree with your rhetoric that Christianity allows people to retain their "African-ness" if anything, people have diverged further from Africa due to Christianity.

Hausa people speak their language without flaws and fail, but many Africans that have adopted Christianity are White-washed and can't even speak their respective language fluently. Many of them praise the West and have a very strong anti-Islam agenda just like White Republicans (who don't even like Africans) from the United States.

If you look at Nigeria today and compare it to all our neighbours, can you honestly say that many Nigerians behave "African"? Cattle-herding for instance has been in Africa for tons of millennia. Islam has been here for centuries, and Christianity is barely over a century old in Nigeria.

You can look at the music sung by those that have adopted Christianity and see that they are all Euro/Ameri wannabes. To be honest, it makes me sick to my stomach.

Ikengawo:


I know what he's saying. They type of violence and oppression fulani people believe is necessary for their survival is fundamental unafrican. This is why there are so many clashes. Hausa kingdoms were African their Islam was open and permissive like what you see with the Yoruba and in Senegal. They were the chief power for centuries and didnt turn this power against others. They were a source of unity and pride. People from all over africa came to Know to learn and trade.

After Dan Fodio hijacked this culture the decline started. The islam that was introduced was the brutal unforgiving and unafrican middle eastern one. This is when the bloodshed in the name of Islam started. This is when new ideas stopped coming from the city states. This is when people became weary to go there.

There's a disregard for human life that's uncommon in Africa. But when you hear of herdmen coming to someone farm and killing children at night because of a cow you wonder if this is still Africa. This is a very Eurasian way of behaving.

If not for this thread many of us would still attribute this to 'hausa' culture but I'm seeing that it's not.

African culture isn't perfect and has it's issues but someone from Ghana would have a hard time wrapping their heads around the affairs of Northern Nigeria. They have Hausa and they have Fula but they never had that culture killing jihad

To the Fulani, cattle is Salary, it is what is used sometimes to create butter from the milk, yogurt, so cattle is viewed as an important part of financial freedom for nomadic Fulani. When someone kills your cattle, it's the equivalent of someone stealing your money, property or other prized belongings. I'm not justifying attacks on anyone, however, attacks on Fulani people are also made.

In essence, the victim mentality of African people needs to end. Look at what's happening in Libya, Southern Nigerians are actually helping sell other Nigerians to Mean-spirited Arab bigots. Whenever Africans are hurt or extorted by Europeans or someone else, many view it as ok when it is not, but be it another African group of people, hypocritical hats come on immediately.