₦airaland Forum

OLDESTWARRIBOY:
Thanks Major General ' Mumummadu' Buhari, slave master of the west,

kooler99:
If what we are hearing is remotely true then it's a welcome development for the people of the south west. Obeni Rauf Aregbesola is more than qualified to run for the presidency of this great country called Nigeria. He was a former commissioner of works in Lagos state, A two time governor of Osun state and he is the current minister of interior so what else are you looking for. He has no court case anywhere, no corruption charges against him and the North see him as somebody that can be trusted. For El-Rufai the current governor of kaduna to be telling anyone willing to hear, how he copied his free feeding scheme from Aregbesola when he was governor of Osun state. We all know that El-Rufai has come out openly that power should shift to the south and these two men could be the answer that Nigeria is looking for. People are making assertions that Aregbesola and Asiwaju Tinubu are at loggerheads, but this far from the truth as both men are true political associates and true progressives. Aregbesola is the political leader in Lagos west senatorial district and especially the Alimosho area under the watch of Asiwaju Tinubu.The more people that come out to vie for the office of the president from the southwest the easier it will be for the region to win the race.

Asiwaju Tinubu has made a lot of people from the southwest and has even used his magic and tenacity to elevate number 2 Osinbajo and number 4 Gbajabiamilla. Its now time as the number 1 umpire to use his influence to elevate Obeni Rauf Aregbesola.

12Monkeys:
Hamman Yaji: The Shekau of days past.


Hamman Yaji, a Fulbe{fulani} , was the last slave raider of the Northern Mandaras {northeast Nigeria, parts of cameroun and present day Chad }. He was arrested by the British in 1927 and montagnards from Sukur to Dughwede give explicite accounts on his relentless raiding. His diary was published in 1995 (Vaughan et al). It is historically unclear whether it was the suspicion of Mahdism or the complains from montagnards which led to his arrest (Muller-Kosack 1999).

The diary of Hamman Yaji is unique: a precious historical source, a fascinating social document. From September 1912 until the day before his arrest in August 19, an insider voice tells us of life in the early colonial period, on the furthest margin of European authority.

Madagali, in present-day northeastern Nigeria, was a tiny principality within the Adamawa emirate, itself a province of the Sokoto caliphate: all three were conquest states, ruled by Muslim Fulani. Hamman Yaji became ruler of Madagali in 1902, appointed by the Germans the day after they had killed the previous ruler, his father. He survived the change to French rule in 1916, to British in 1922. The British deposed him in August 19, allegedly for past slaving, but probably more for his Mahdist sympathies. From September 1912 until the day before his arrest, Hamman Yaji chronicled his activities, sometimes almost daily. Entries are generally sparse, but, read carefully, and with the helpful editorial material in this book, the ensemble is remarkable. The book is dedicated to all people of the Madagali district, with the hope that their future will be one of harmony and mutual cooperation.

A worthy hope, but sitting a little uneasily here, since Hamman Yaji was a dedicated slave raider.

The recurrent litany makes chilling reading:

May 12, 1913: "...I sent my soldiers to Sukur and they destroyed thehouse of the Arnado [village head] and took a horse and seven slave girls and burnt their houses."

May 21: "I captured 20 slave girls."

June 11th: "I captured six slave girls and ten cattle, and killed three men."

June 25: "I captured 48 slave girls and 26 cattle and I killed five persons."

July 6: "I captured 30 cattle and six slave girls."

All this (and more) on a single page. Exactly what such raids involved the diary itself does not say: traditions gathered later amongst the victimized populations are ghoulish indeed, comparable with another unique document, the eye-witness account of Bagirmi slaving a little further east and 40 years earlier, recorded by the German traveler Gustav Nachtigal in the third volume of his Sahara and Sudan.

Hamman Yaji's editors suggest, a little speculatively, that a word from a British officer in March 1924 sufficed to stop the raiding. The raiding did stop, and even the most tender liberal conscience, reflecting on colonialism, may take some comfort that a line was drawn under such entries as: "I sent Fadhl al Nar with his men to raid Sukur and they captured 80 slaves, of whom I gave away 40. We killed men and women and 17 children."

The troops were evidently out of control here: women and children were too valuable to be killed. The exploitation, often sexual, of women is clear: female slaves circulated as gifts, or in exchange (three for a horse, for instance). Hamman Yaji swapped female slaves with one of his men, even with his son, who objected that "he did not want a girl, he wanted a boy slave".

Even in such circumstances, a defiant female voice is audible: "I found that my slave girl in the absence of her fellow-slaves had said that she would not prepare my food for me. Why she would not cook my food I do not know, but anyway the result was that I got no food from her and was obliged to buy it."


Or again: "I my wife Umm Asta Belel said that in respect of her being a Muslim she was tired of it, and in respect of her being a pagan it would be better for her." Some passages are enigmatic, such as: "I fixed the penalty for every slave who leaves me without cause at four slave girls and if he is a poor man 200 lashes."

Is the implication here that slaves with cause could leave? How many slaves were rich enough to be able to pay a fine of four slave girls? What where the chances of surviving 200 lashes? Slavery is by far the most prominent single theme, but there are many others, such as local politics and power structures, the local practice of Islam, and the advance of colonialism. The diary ends on a homely note: "On the same day Sarkin Lifida ruined the onions."

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/deep-insight-on-an-african-despot/162186.article

Throwback:
The same frustrated OP made similar posts just yesterday but has failed to march down to Tinubu Square to do the needful.

Or is he waiting for Government to do what protesters did in UK?

Mr Zahawi told Sky News: “My opinion is any slave trader should not have a statue.

"But I wouldn't be breaking the law to take statues down, it should be done through our democratic process.

"This country is a democracy, a proud democracy and it should be up to local people to decide what they want to do with that statue and any other statue."

"If the majority of people decide that we want the statues down, then they should be taken down."

Mr Zahawi suggested statues of slavers should be "put in a museum so we can learn more about the men and women who behaved in all sorts of ways, historically, that is not appropriate in the 21st century."

“If we want to have a debate about statues, let’s have that debate and let’s elect politicians who stand on a platform saying we’ll take the statues down.”

The tearing down of Colston's statue sparked a furious debate over which people get honoured with memorials in Britain, and a statue in London of 18th century slave trader Robert Milligan was taken down yesterday.

The Topple the Racists website was published by the Stop Trump coalition in support of the Black Lives Matter protests and maps out 60 statues across Britain which pay tribute to slave traders and "racists".

MuchAdo:
I can see a pigidiottt loitering all over the thread ranting nonsense.

I don't take prisoners!

DuwaRepublic:
Blame the igbos (mainly Kanu and his gullible cohorts), they’ve spread lies about us calling us betrayers, and all sorts of names. There is this weird diabolic movement to vilify and demonise Yorubas, which includes spreading of false information and use of propaganda all in the name of achieving Biafra, like we’re the ones in the way.

We Yorubas are merely defending ourselves, enough with smiling in our faces, to then go online to spew hatred on us, enough of the cyber bullying because unlike the Northerners, we won’t keep quiet, we respond in kind.

Top1gun:
At least we are getting somewhere, no Fulani name is elevated like that of Tinubu yet your tormented soul list them in your narrative so you have to go up n edit that same story to include foolish Igbos that traded in slaves during those period.

Also since you do not have a single name you can single out among the Igbo as slave trader you will list your entire tribe as criminal slave traders just like you subtly include the entire Fulani tribe.

There'll be no room to trade any igbo foolish narrative here tonight as what is good for the goose while forced upon your gander whether you like it or not.

Top1gun:
Did I query if you are Igbo or a complete fool.
We have 3 major tribes in Nigeria you insinuated Tinubu was a slave trader n Fulani were renowned for that too as learnt from history but we also know lots of igbos were sold of a slave so when will you dig up history to expose devilish Igbos foolish enough to sell their kinsmen into slavery like Tinubu n Fulani did n if there was no Igbo trading in slaves was it Tinubu or Fulani that also sold Igbos slaves after selling slaves in their own region ?! A simple question should be frustrating or tormenting your soul so miserably if you life is not riddled with endemic bigotry n stupid.