₦airaland Forum

fanficgirl:
I have nothing to do.
And this usman guy how did he graduate college when from his Instagram he's traveling every other week

It seems like he is from a very rich background.

When Zahra Buhari graduated from a college in London last year, were many not shocked too?
She was in Nigeria almost throughout her father's political campaign. We always see her around.

TayserMahiri:
They are just humans to me. Their origin is none of business.

Must you be so saddistic about the issue?
People are having fun and you are just being a saddist.

fanficgirl:

Let's try again. If I win someone has to send me agege bread somehow . Seriously craving

You want another challenge?

TayserMahiri:
Man, the guy even told me boldly that Hausa's are the radicals, I just laughed. If I said something similar in a kenyan forum I would be hunted down like a rabid dog.

Jesus. Is Kenya really a democratic govt? That's too sad!

Do you read nairaland threads at all? Have you ever bumped into Nigerians on facebook/twitter on political discussions? We insult and denigrate each others tribes, cultures, states, governors, traditional rulers, religious leaders and all manners of hate speeches.
Only extreme hate speeches may get one arrested, but even rarely does the arrest happen.

Muafrika2:
I've seen some conversations here that no Kenyan would dare on a Kenyan site. Cessation - that would get you in BIG trouble. Insulting other tribes would get you in court. Sometimes I wonder if Nigeria has more freedom of speech than us.

Its a system that has been challenged in court successfully a portions of the law that were used to take such people to court declared unconstitutional as they curtail freedom of expression.

Jeeez! This means that Nigeria has a greater freedom of speech.
Heck, we insult each other's tribe and religion everyday. Some people even give open hate speeches and have even advocated for tribal crises and go scott free.

We are not too sensitive on these issues over here.

@fanficgirl, freshest4live, muafrika2, 9jakool.

To prove to you guys, the 3rd Nigerian guy is USMAN SHAGARI.
You can check him up on instagram with that name. or better still @iamshagari

Muafrika2:
Hard one. Sudanese have long faces so no. 4.
Somali - 3
Oromo - 2
Nigerian 1

You score 0/4

fanficgirl:
First Nigerian
Second Sudanese
Third Somali
Fourth (my gut says Ethiopian even though it doesn't fit)

You score 1/4

freshest4live:
Sudan1, Somali 2, Nigeria 3, Ethiopia 4.
I'm not interested in this topic though, so l don't know anything, but just for fun.
Hope say l go win recharge card?

You score 1/4

The correct answer is

1) Ethiopian (Oromo)
2) Sudanese
3) Nigerian
4) Somali

I hope i have finally been able to prove to you guys that fulanis and horn africans can always be mistaken for each other in a lot of cases??
I remain my humble self nowenuse

9jakool:
The second picture is also a dead giveaway as it has Arabic writing, likely Sudanese.

You seem too confident about knowing people, but you are wrong.

How many hausa-fulani muslim houses have you entered in Nigeria? I have entered dozens and even passed a night in some.

Arabic writings are very very common everywhere in the walls, upholsteries and even ceramics/cutleries of many typical Nigerian muslims. So, i wonder why you use that to judge.
Arabic is not a strange language to all muslims afterall. Most somalis speak it and even somali language is also written in the arabic script. Likewise hausa.

9jakool:
A tiny minority,m maybe. Most don't.

Wait, have you stayed in the north before?

Did you grow up with fulanis? Or shuwa arabs or other northerners?
I have a lot of these people as my family members. My mother's immediate younger sister married a fulani man, a close cousin of hers married 3 wives, one is a shuwa arab and the other a fulani woman. Half of my people are muslims who intermarry fulanis, hausas and shuwa arabs like no tomorrow.

Here in the south, all northerners who speak hausa identify as one, so i have many fulani family friends.

I can tell you authoritatively that this is the way many or most urban fulanis/hausanized fulanis look like.

TayserMahiri:
Nowenuse, have you been racially abused in life or sth? You are a special kind

No, i just love learning about peoples, cultures, races, histories e.t.c

How many Nigerians do you think will sit down to watch Kenyan, Ethiopian and Tanzanian TV stations? One in a million. .....i am that one in a million.

9jakool:
By the way, the last picture is a Nigerian. The style of building is dead giveaway just saying. Also the second picture is a likely Somali. Other than that, your average Fulani does not look like a Horner.

I know that the average fulani does not look like a horner, but the point is that a good percentage of them do.

@9jakool, fulanis don't come in one look, they differ largely since they have intermixed a lot with other tribes.

Now, let me deal the final blow to all you guys
fanficgirl & Taysermahiri

One is a Sudanese, one Nigerian, one Somali and another Ethiopian (Oromo). Tell them apart

TayserMahiri:
The first and the third are nigerian. Only a fool cannot tell

fanficgirl:
I second this!lol the last guy is one of the better looking Somali men I've seen

You both are wrong.
The 2nd and 3rd are Nigerian. The 1st & 4th somali.

fanficgirl:
Nowensense reminds me of the Fulanis I was telling you about who were trying to associate themselves with horn of Africa

No, i just want to show you guys that these people can be mistaken for each other a lot.
@9jakool, no, these pics are not from google.

So you mean you cannot make an attempt?
Even you fanficgirl cannot make an attempt on the guys?

fanficgirl:
I'm going with the second

LoL, correct.
How did you do it?

Seems like you are already familiar with some of them.

Well, try the next one on the guys.

9jakool:
Fulanis don't look like Arab just like Tuaregs. I can easily distinguish a Tuareg from an Arab from Middle-east as I can easily distinguish a Fulani from a Sudanese Arab or Horners.

I want to deal with u guys

2 of these guys are somalis and 2 are Nigerians.
Can you tell which are??

fanficgirl, you can also help out.

fanficgirl:
and you can still clearly see the difference one looks more Arab..

because she is whiter?

Ok, since you are good at differentiating nationalities

One of these 4 women is not a Nigerian, can you tell me which one?

Isahalbash:
Maybe tribal crises yes, but religious! I don't think so. If there's tribal crises in d sw( God forbid) its dsame way. The Muslims yorubas wud stil partake in killing d muslim northerners, though some mayb sympathetic and save dere neighbours, likewise in d North.

No, am talking about religious crisis in the north, like those in Kaduna, Jos, Zaria and Kano.
Hausa muslims still attack yoruba and middlebelt muslims calling them fake muslims.

I am from Jos and have witnessed this. Most yoruba muslims were chased out of some muslim dominated areas in Jos during the crises. Same thing with Kaduna.

Yoruba/middlebelt muslims only lived freely in the neutral areas.

fanficgirl:
You are using exceptions...

You can say that. Most fulanis have mixed with other tribes and probably likewise the Horn African groups, but i really tell you, a lot of them can be mistaken for each other, but most can truly be differentiated.

There are many Kenyans, Rwandans and Tanzanians who also have that horn african look

Isahalbash:
At Idi araba for instance, they have two central mosques' very close to each oda. One is Darika Tijjaniyya and d oda is a sunni( ahlus sunnah) mosque. And they r also some small small mosques close to each oda. Most Nupes r tijjaniyyas but dey don't pray in d central most of dsame tijjaniyya apart from Fridays.



In my town, there is a mosque close to where I stay, but of d youths being Sunnis don't pray there, because dey tink those old men leading d congregation don't knw how to pray. These r people from dsame place,tribe and most from dsame family.



My point is these: Most of this tins is base on sectarian ideology rather than tribe.



In skul, most of d students leading d congregational prayer are from d mb...kwara( yorubas), kogi( igala& ibira), Niger( Nupe) and some yorubas from sw. The hausas don't complain but wen it cums to sect, de blasts demselves...wherever, u cum from,as far as we belong to dsame sect or share dsame ideology we r brothers.

Hmm, do yoruba, Kogi and Edo muslims really believe in sects? I know that most Niger and core northern muslims do, but i have hardly ever heard the former group of muslims talking about sects.

Half of my tribes people are muslims. We hardly ever hear them talk about sects.......or could it be that i have not been close enough to understand?

TayserMahiri:
So who are the radicals between the two?

Hausas of course.

68816419:
stop the lies,Hausa Muslims and Yoruba Muslims are more like brothers and they pray in both mosques, the only different is the timing,let me ask you this, how comes Buhari got most of Muslims votes in south west ?

because yoruba muslims voted Buhari, is that enough reason to make them brothers?

See, there are some things i don't like saying. Cos they are bitter and we are trying to promote unity.

Do you know that in cases of religious crises in the north, yoruba muslims mostly take refuge with christians??

9jakool:
I used to be like that too lol. Nigerian educational system doesn't really teach about culture or history. I also think the Ignorance stems from the stupid geopolitical divisions that's so misrepresenting.
Some people think all Northerners are Hausa and others think all Southerners are Igbo or Yoruba.
Some Yoruba people who have never stepped out of their region think all of the North is Hausa and everything East of Edo is Igbo. Some aren't even aware there are people they share kinship with in Northern states like Kogi. I tell you it's that bad.


Personally, I prefer Ethiopia's political region better. It based on ethnic groups,. Although, not entirely perfect, It's more representing.
https://www.ethiovisit.com/ethiopia/images/Ethiopia_regions_english2.png

Very true.

I think this ethnic ignorance is higher on yorubas.
How can most yorubas just conclude everything outside yoruba land in Nigeria to be Hausa or Igbo?

Most yorubas will even assume Nupes and Baribas to be hausas, whereas nupes and baribas are very very much closer to yorubas culturally than they are to hausas. Likewise the Igalas too.

I doubt if having ethnic states would have helped Nigeria.

Isahalbash:
U can distinguished a Sudanese from a fulani... d former look more like arabs in Nigeria.

Not in all cases.

Look at these 2 girls below. One is Sudanese and another is nigerian fulani. Can't you see how they so much look like?

9jakool:
If one think tribalism in Nigeria is worse, then one hasn't seen India's caste system or its religious tension.

True.

Isahalbash:
Hausas don't celebrate eid together with yorubas is a false notion. It's all about sectarianism nt tribe cos hausas within demselves don't celebrate eid together nd that was before, cos now, most ov us start fasting together as soon as d sultan announced d citation of d crescent moon. Thanks to social media.


The sunnis also refer to d Shia as fake Muslims and dsame Sunni Muslims comprises people from both tribes.

Quite true. I am seeing greater unity these days between yoruba and Hausa muslims.

Take for instance in my area, we used to have a yoruba mosque where only yorubas and maybe Edo & Kogi muslims worship. Hausas and other muslims did not use to worship there, they had their own mosque.

But recently i saw a hausa man and yoruba woman (acquantancies of mine) and he seemed to be reminding her of some islamic gathering or so. After he left, i asked her and i discovered that Hausas now worship in that yoruba mosque.

But this division still exists in many places. We usually hear of yoruba mosque and Hausa mosque.

Many hausas are still fond of calling yoruba and even middlebelt muslims fake muslims (though i think it has more to do with ignorance and illiteracy).

fanficgirl:
I see similarities but not much

I see much.
Look at these Nigerian fulanis for instance, they can easily pass for north Sudanese or Ethiopian.

MtuMsuper:
I recall that mashada. What a waste! That's what happens when you have a business or endeavor run by an unfocused person, it tanks in no time. I personally go to all sections in NL to listen to chatter. I love the business, investment and agriculture sections, alot of new knowledge on my doorstep. I mean, it's on NL that I have met my first Algerian! Mashada just lacked business focus, moderators and a wide variety of topics. We could have been teaching Nigerians dairy farming for instance. Mashada was a extremist site masquerading as a social site, much like those racist message boards from the West. Anyways, it's an opportunity, maybe I or you can seize it and create shillingland!

Hmmmmm. Kenya.

TayserMahiri:
This explains why you have a skewed view of Kenya.

Why?
Are the people featured in these stations not kenyans?

I also watch lots of Kenyan music. I can say i know 90% of Kenyan musicians.

9jakool:
I'm a bit familiar with Middlebelt groups.

Ok.
I think you are familiar with anything that has to do with demographics.
Kudos, people like us who are very well interested in these things are very few in Nigeria. Most Nigerians don't care to know outside their geo-political zones or even their states......
I blame our educational system.

MtuMsuper:
Religion! Even jollof rice has done a better job uniting people (That is if you remove Ghana and Nigeria from the equation! )

Seriously, Nigerians and Ghanaians are hopeless.

We really don't like each other as such. We argue over unnecessary things and are always suspicious of each other......fake pride.

Ghanaians claim to speak better English and to be more cultured than us.
We see them to be somehow too local and slow.

Just like Kenya vs TZ

TayserMahiri:
Really? We signed a treaty with the Somalis while already there. And its not like they had much of a choice. Look, you cant tell me Nigeria chases BH and leaves them at the border! That is irresponsible.

We have a treaty with Niger, Cameroon & Chad