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A Fulani man wearing long blue sleeves shirt and long blue pants just left this store (my friend's store) right now.

At first, I just felt something doesn't add up with his body language so I was just anticipating something. He said he wanted A-42 fan belt, I gave it to him, called my friend to confirm the price, and was waiting for the money.

He put his hand on his sack he hung on his shoulder, brought out his phone, and began to type with it. I was beginning to get impatient. Suddenly, he brought it closer and asked "Is this the spelling of 'bookshop'? I said "Yes" even if he had spelt it as "Books shop." SuperOnyi wasn't really interested in what he was saying because I felt he had a motive.

I was right.

He started talking about how people feel he doesn't know what he's talking about when he wants to buy things such as books. He said he could feel that was how the bookshop owner felt when he was asking about a certain book.

I was beginning to understand why I found his body language suspicious, he was trying to start up a conversation about what had happened to him. It was suspicious because someone with malicious intentions could use storytelling to keep your mind wandering as he does whatever he wants to you.

I decided to listen.

He explained that he had learned to read on his own, and wanted to get a book he had started with to help another Fulani who was interested in learning to read English. As self-taught human reader, I quickly imitated his facial expression, nodding my head, and ensuring my other body language aligns with his to show interest.

My mind was still on the money.

However, for the first time I pulled my mind away from the thought of Mama Khadijat's mammary gland. I was genuinely happy he was breaking stereotypes and becoming a change. He told me he could read anything but still struggles to speak English and ashamed to practice in public because people laugh at him. He brought out the Rhapsody of Realities Christian book from his sack, reminded me that it's not an Islamic book but he had 'won' it.

Someone had challenged him to read a sentence there and take the book, and he successfully did and truly, it was given to him. He said this with a proud smile. I asked if he's ever been to school and his answer? No. He learned everything on his own.

I brought out my Korean jotting book and showed him how I too was learning a "language that was similar to Chinese" (in my words... to make him understand). He was marveled how I was able to read in their alphabets. I told him that anything is achieved as long as there's focus. I told him he has made me happy with this, and that, the Fulani people are some of the intelligent people I know.

He told me how Igbo people were some of best language learners and education is also a critical factor that has made this possible; because it has allowed me to write things down effortlessly.

If there's one thing I learned: it is the dangers of stereotypes. The Fulani man was not really happy about how people considered him illiterate in English just because he looked (and is) like a typical bush Fulani.

When he first showed me the phone, I genuinely didn't care about who wrote it, and now it's clear he expected a reaction and question from me. But for me, that was none of my business as such thoughts never crossed my mind but I could tell he was up to something.

Let us be mindful of stereotypes but that does not mean we should let our guards now.

Wonders shall never end...

illicit:
Oh wow, people change o

U are in bed with a fulani now?


Wonders...
Anyway I met one fulani guy at NYSC camp

He doesn't look or speak like it, he told us it was rural rugged missionaries that trained him

I don't get the bold sentence above.

Just like people are surprised I don't sound "Nigerian"? Like English is their language.

Are you for real?
What gaol do you have in mind learning that language?

Well, probably a nice story, but it still won't make me reconsider my stance on a group as brutal as theirs. You go to people's farm and kill people. You kill people for fun while hiding behind guns—people you have absolutely no chance with without weapons. Government provides free basic education for every single person in this country, but you detest it, preferring alms and armedness instead. In fact, Nigeria constitution criminalizes keeping children from education but you pack your own children in the bush and tell them to toil with cows and kill those of others toiling through education to be worthy members of the world.

Farming is toil and moil, full of exertion. Farmers are the mainstay of any country, yet some people kill farmers for their cows to feed. Benue and Niger are blessings to Nigeria, cos they provide food for us, making agricultural produce cheap, but now the bastards kill them and severe the country's dependence. Who knows if it's an agenda so that only one section/region is only one that feeds the country and so farm produce remain costly and benefit only them the most. Who knows? I mean anything is possible.

These people go about kidnapping people for ransome too and kill them and you want us to be happy with them and erode the stereotype that easily? I pity you, that simple lighthearted-esque meeting could be a ploy to streamline your targetedness.

You and I pay taxes the government put together to fight the attrition these brutal people found. Imagine that funds went into something else, like science, technology, or R&. Just imagine.
Bizaustine no fit relate, that low IQ fellow.

Yet, they have become very dangerous. Marauders have no mercy when they kidnap people.

haybhi1:
Well, probably a nice story, but it still won't make me reconsider my stance on a group as brutal as theirs. You go to people's farm and kill people. You kill people for fun while hiding behind guns—people you have absolutely no chance with without weapons. Government provides free basic education for every single person in this country, but you detest it, preferring alms and armedness instead. In fact, Nigeria constitution criminalizes keeping children from education but you pack your own children in the bush and tell them to toil with cows and kill those of others toiling through education to be worthy members of the world.

Farming is toil and moil, full of exertion. Farmers are the mainstay of any country, yet some people kill farmers for their cows to feed. Benue and Niger are blessings to Nigeria, cos they provide food for us, making agricultural produce cheap, but now the bastards kill them and severe the country's dependence. Who knows if it's an agenda so that only one section/region is only one that feeds the country and so farm produce remain costly and benefit only them the most.

LordIsaac:
Yet, they have become very dangerous. Marauders have no mercy when they kidnap people.

why you people like to make stereotypes about Fulani people? By the way herdsmen are not the ones killing farmers bandits are the ones who committed all this atrocities but your media brainwashed you all to believed the lies, honestly we are very peaceful people by nature an ordinary Fulani is cool, calm, shy, and accommodating, the most peaceful states in Northern Nigeria are Gombe and adamawa and they are all Fulani majority population and we are living with other tribes peacefully, and what is more there is great difference between bandits and herdsmen bandits are terrorists with ideology and branches originating in Libya and mali or Chad, they don't have cows they move on bikes to terrorise while Fulani herdsmen move with their cows everyday by the way herdsmen are less than 10 % of the population of Fulani.

Bandirao:
we are very peaceful people by nature an ordinary Fulani is cool, calm, shy, and accommodating,

bros no vex, na your people cause am. I would you people are not cool, nor calm, nor shy, nor in fact accommodating (since we won't drag your territory with you) as long as you don't go into farms to kill people, destroy their farmlands with your cows or kidnap people. It's like you don't understand the gravity of ills your actions generate. It's astronomically inhumane! Na una be that, na God be that.

Bandirao:
there is great difference between bandits and herdsmen bandits are terrorists with ideology and branches originating in Libya and mali or Chad, they don't have cows they move on bikes to terrorise while Fulani herdsmen move with their cows everyday by the way herdsmen are less than 10 % of the population of Fulani.

If this is so, why are the victims never Fulani herdsmen? For SW here, if one of our people or a group of them are doing something grossly harmful, we call the authorities on them cos we know it'll fester one day. This is lacking with your people.

10% is hilarious. You're even playing on our intelligence. Na wa o

haybhi1:
These people go about kidnapping people for ransome too and kill them and you want us to be happy with them and erode the stereotype that easily? I pity you, that simple lighthearted-esque meeting could be a ploy to streamline your targetedness.

You and I pay taxes the government put together to fight the attrition these brutal people found. Imagine that funds went into something else, like science, technology, or R&. Just imagine.
Bizaustine no fit relate, that low IQ fellow.

Just so you know, I probably know these people better than you as I have known them since I was born. I'm talking about one person here, and all Fulanis are not terroristic parasite just all yorubas and Igbos are not skull miners, fraudsters, and drug pushers.

I have also been a big advocate of treating those terroristic ones in the language they understand because even my mother complains about them so much until ESN came in.

And like I said in the end, that doesn't mean we should let our guard down.

SuperOnyi:
Just so you know, I probably know these people better than you as I have known them since I was born. I'm talking about one person here, and all Fulanis are not terroristic parasite just all yorubas and Igbos are not skull miners, fraudsters, and drug pushers.

I have also been a big advocate of treating those terroristic ones in the language they understand because even my mother complains about them so much until ESN came in.

And like I said in the end, that doesn't mean we should let our guard down.

I definitely know them less than you do. Wth would I want to know them?

People wey dey kill people for their farm.
People wey be sole cause of food insecurity for 200+ million people.
People wey dey kidnap people.
People who kill Deborah indiscriminately for a case that could be settled differently.
People wey no send ESN, if ESN lusegad tmmr and dem meet them for farm, na bye bye.
People wey see education run.
The sole people wey make am difficult to travel within Nigeria.

Woh na you and dem sabi o. I'll question my humanity indices if I know them more than I do or I find myself being moved by their newfound show of meekness. I look forward to them changing anyway.

haybhi1:
I definitely know them less than you do. Wth would I want to know them?

People wey dey kill people for their farm.
People wey be sole cause of food insecurity for 200+ million people.
People wey dey kidnap people.
People who kill Deborah indiscriminately for a case that could be settled differently.
People wey no send ESN, if ESN lusegad tmmr and dem meet them for farm, na bye bye.
People wey see education run.
The sole people wey make am difficult to travel within Nigeria.

Woh na you and dem sabi o. I'll question my humanity indices if I know them more than I do or I find myself being moved by their newfound show of meekness. I look forward to them changing anyway.

Keep waiting because they won't, evil will always exist. The problem is we have become defenseless, if all of us decide to protect ourselves instead of being cowards that let stereotypes blind them, these evil terrorists would be terrified.

I never knew how much ESN had for the Biafrans until I went to see my mother there. I wasn't even surprised people were aware of them. They bitterly complained about how evil these bastards were, yet unlike what Nairalanders like @GeneralPula wants us to believe, there were still Northerners deep in that village doing their legit business with no harassment.

Yes, like I said, I ensured I didn't lose my guard because he could even be a member of a kidnapping group studying their victims. That's what they do but that does not mean I treat someone badly because of stereotypes. Respecting a fellow human being doesn't make you weak. My momma raised me well.

How exactly are all of those demons that murdered Deborah Fulanis? Wait, aside Mr. Buhari and the Fulani herdsmen, have you ever met a Fulani person before? You keep saying they're not educated, please do tell us because you seem to know them better than you claim.

LordIsaac:
Yet, they have become very dangerous. Marauders have no mercy when they kidnap people.

Why's Nigerian politicians trying to stop people from protecting themselves? These guys do not have two heads, it should be an eye for an eye.

Bandirao:
why you people like to make stereotypes about Fulani people? By the way herdsmen are not the ones killing farmers bandits are the ones who committed all this atrocities but your media brainwashed you all to believed the lies, honestly we are very peaceful people by nature an ordinary Fulani is cool, calm, shy, and accommodating, the most peaceful states in Northern Nigeria are Gombe and adamawa and they are all Fulani majority population and we are living with other tribes peacefully, and what is more there is great difference between bandits and herdsmen bandits are terrorists with ideology and branches originating in Libya and mali or Chad, they don't have cows they move on bikes to terrorise while Fulani herdsmen move with their cows everyday by the way herdsmen are less than 10 % of the population of Fulani.

...

Peace is when you speak out and arm up against people causing terror in your society...
You are telling me same set of people that celebrates the likes of turji,gidan godo are peace loving people




I sell herbs for sexual wellness tho

SuperOnyi:




A Fulani man wearing long blue sleeves shirt and long blue pants just left this store (my friend's store) right now.

At first, I just felt something doesn't add up with his body language so I was just anticipating something. He said he wanted A-42 fan belt, I gave it to him, called my friend to confirm the price, and was waiting for the money.

He put his hand on his sack he hung on his shoulder, brought out his phone, and began to type with it. I was beginning to get impatient. Suddenly, he brought it closer and asked "Is this the spelling of 'bookshop'? I said "Yes" even if he had spelt it as "Books shop." SuperOnyi wasn't really interested in what he was saying because I felt he had a motive.

I was right.

He started talking about how people feel he doesn't know what he's talking about when he wants to buy things such as books. He said he could feel that was how the bookshop owner felt when he was asking about a certain book.

I was beginning to understand why I found his body language suspicious, he was trying to start up a conversation about what had happened to him. It was suspicious because someone with malicious intentions could use storytelling to keep your mind wandering as he does whatever he wants to you.

I decided to listen.

He explained that he had learned to read on his own, and wanted to get a book he had started with to help another Fulani who was interested in learning to read English. As self-taught human reader, I quickly imitated his facial expression, nodding my head, and ensuring my other body language aligns with his to show interest.

My mind was still on the money.

However, for the first time I pulled my mind away from the thought of Mama Khadijat's mammary gland. I was genuinely happy he was breaking stereotypes and becoming a change. He told me he could read anything but still struggles to speak English and ashamed to practice in public because people laugh at him. He brought out the Rhapsody of Realities Christian book from his sack, reminded me that it's not an Islamic book but he had 'won' it.

Someone had challenged him to read a sentence there and take the book, and he successfully did and truly, it was given to him. He said this with a proud smile. I asked if he's ever been to school and his answer? No. He learned everything on his own.

I brought out my Korean jotting book and showed him how I too was learning a "language that was similar to Chinese" (in my words... to make him understand). He was marveled how I was able to read in their alphabets. I told him that anything is achieved as long as there's focus. I told him he has made me happy with this, and that, the Fulani people are some of the intelligent people I know.

He told me how Igbo people were some of best language learners and education is also a critical factor that has made this possible; because it has allowed me to write things down effortlessly.

If there's one thing I learned: it is the dangers of stereotypes. The Fulani man was not really happy about how people considered him illiterate in English just because he looked (and is) like a typical bush Fulani.

When he first showed me the phone, I genuinely didn't care about who wrote it, and now it's clear he expected a reaction and question from me. But for me, that was none of my business as such thoughts never crossed my mind but I could tell he was up to something.

Let us be mindful of stereotypes but that does not mean we should let our guards now.

sensational headline with useless write up

I wasted my time reading rubbish

Factcheck0001:
sensational headline with useless write up

I wasted my time reading rubbish

I wasted my time scrolling down just to read this worthless piece of shít, I apologize to the creator for wasting even a second of my attention on this comment and the despicable and rotten fingers behind it.

A despicable being probably hoping to feed his weak mind with negativity.

SuperOnyi:




I wasted my time scrolling down just to read this worthless piece of shít, I apologize to the creator for wasting even a second of my attention on this comment and the despicable and rotten fingers behind it.

A despicable being probably hoping to feed his weak mind with negativity.

I pray depression doesn't kill u cos it's showing all over your write up

U are gradually becoming unstable but u don't know

Omoh.. I just dey struggle to keep up with the whole write up..

A Fulani dude was one of my best friends in Junior secondary school.

Apart from the tiger claws called tribal marks on his cheeks, he could definitely pass as a mixed breed, very fresh, handsome and jovial dude.

He changed my stereotype against Fulani folks BUT.........

Most people don't care about the story, the only thing they saw is Fulani, the fact that bandits kill farmers and people does not mean all Fulanis are bandits, do not use the actions of evil individuals to soil the good names of others.