₦airaland Forum

ogaemma:
This your sugar coated story about your unity is an old falsehood.
I served in the North.
In 1998, nobody knows the difference between a Hausa , Fulani and. Kanuri.
But due to the violent and jihadist nature of the fulanis, those cover up have been made open.
Right now every Hausa man in the North do not want to be addressed as a Hausa Fulani, rather I am a Hausa man.
There have been lots of killings amongst them.
So your story is deceptive.
https://saharareporters.com/2024/03/25/four-persons-killed-hausa-fulani-communities-clash-nigerias-sokoto-state

Biodun556:
How come all of them are Fulanis even though they speak hausa?

How do they manage to exclude real hausas?

SmartPolician:
Oga, rest! Not all Europeans speak English, but the Caucasians in Australia adopted it and everyone unanimously dropped all native languages. This is purely a matter of choice, it's not a matter of who chased who out.

That's why they are considered native English speakers and never expected to prove their English proficiency in any scholarship opportunities.

DMerciful:
Are they performing? How come they're the poverty and terrorism capital of the world?

DMerciful:
Can you speak fulfude?

Bandirao:
no I can't I entered school very early (3 yrs) and everybody speaks Hausa in school so me but although our father is not happy about it, I never see him speak to his brothers or any other Fulani elderly man and also our mums died early and our father marry a Hausa woman so offsetting our chance of learning fulfulde but insha Allah I will marry a Fulani speaking woman so that my kids can learn the languages.

You really reminded me my limitation

PulaPower:
How are they poverty capital? Who did the ratings? Kindly show your evidence..

Bandirao:
no I can't I entered school very early (3 yrs) and everybody speaks Hausa in school so me but although our father is not happy about it, I never see him speak to his brothers or any other Fulani elderly man in Hausa and also our mums died early and our father marry a Hausa woman so offsetting our chance of learning fulfulde but insha Allah I will marry a Fulani speaking woman so that my kids can learn the languages.

You really reminded me my limitation

DMerciful:
I cannot go this path with you

DMerciful:
The majority were English so to win the locals, they have to use a common Language.

Germany was spoken in the US substantially but the Germans who makes upto 50% of white Americans had to stop because of persecution for causing the first and second world wars.

Weren't we forced to speak English in Nigeria by the colonial masters?

SmartPolician:
English is not our native language; it's our Lingua Franca. That was taught in primary school. What that means is that every Nigerian has his own language but has to use English to communicate when speaking with people from a different tribe.

If you go to Enugu, you hear people naturally converse in Igbo. If you go to Abeokuta, you hear people speak Yoruba. If you go to Kano, you hear people speak Hausa. This simply tells you that these people have their original languages but only converse in English because it's a multicultural society.

In Australia, that's not the case. Generations of Aussies have decided to drop their native languages and embrace English. That's why if you travel from Sydney to Melbourne, you only hear people speak English, not some other native languages (as seen in Nigeria).

There's a difference between the two scenarios and I don't think I can explain it beyond this.

SmartPolician:
English is not our native language; it's our Lingua Franca. That was taught in primary school. What that means is that every Nigerian has his own language but has to use English to communicate when speaking with people from a different tribe.

If you go to Enugu, you hear people naturally converse in Igbo. If you go to Abeokuta, you hear people speak Yoruba. If you go to Kano, you hear people speak Hausa. This simply tells you that these people have their original languages but only converse in English because it's a multicultural society.

In Australia, that's not the case. Generations of Aussies have decided to drop their native languages and embrace English. That's why if you travel from Sydney to Melbourne, you only hear people speak English, not some other native languages (as seen in Nigeria).

There's a difference between the two scenarios and I don't think I can explain it beyond this.

DMerciful:
Among the political leaders, only Atiku i have seen speak fulfude

Bandirao:
and the funniest thing is that Atiku is not even Fulani literally everytribe In Adamawa can speaks fulfulde Atiku tribe become Muslims and assimilated into Fulani culture and languages and the reason other Fulani elites don't speak fulfude is the policy of Dan fodio in which he insists that every dominant language in the emirate is to be speak alongside Arabic which is international language in the Muslim world so Hausa was popular in the western emirates (core Hausa land) and fulfulde in the East (Gombe, bauchi, and adamawa) and the reason eastern emirate speak fulfude as lingua franca is that there is no dominant language in the region too many tribes and while the Hausa settled greatly in bauchi and Gombe and hausanized it Adamawa and taraba remain unhausanized until recently.

DMerciful:
Atiku said he is Fulani, that his father or grandfather migrated to Adamawa from Kano

Bandirao:
this is the first time I read that Atiku grandfather migrated to Adamawa the very facts that he speak fluent fulfulde tell that he has rural background in Adamawa.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://punchng.com/that-atiku-speaks-fulfulde-doesnt-make-him-a-fulani-man-miyetti-allah/&ved=2ahUKEwjFvfibpf2KAxWNU6QEHRYXL68QFnoECDIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2m1IUUGVxqW8AA-QCvcWSb

DMerciful:
If you read this article you quoted, they were reacting because Atiku said Buhari isn't a full Fulani man because he can't speak fulfude.

Their reaction is political so can't be taken as real

PulaPower:
Well, it’s not a major problem..

The major problem is performance. So long they’re performing, the rest is secondary..

Biodun556:
The Fulanis are the last to enter Nigeria out of all the ethnic groups

ednut1:
Egun/ogu came in the 18th century from Dahomey to badagry. While fulani came in the 15th century. So how are they the last 😒

Biodun556:
It is not true

ogaemma:
The Hausa's have long lost grip over the North.
Not only Governor's.
I doubt if any Hausa is presently a First Class Emir in the North. I stand to be corrected.
They focus on their onions and tomatoes trading while the Fulanis, Nupe and Gbagyi focus in grabbing power and politics.

Bandirao:
but you also missed my point, a Fulani is a Fulani whether he speaks fulfulde or not and that you can still speak fulfulde but never become a Fulani ethnically I think you never heard of maccube and baleebe ? They where people that assimilated and highly connected with the Fulani ruling house they maybe of slave descent or not same like Tafawa balewa who although speak fulfulde and have a Fulani name he is not ethnically Fulani but cultural one, physically Atiku don't even look like Fulani he is very fat and pot bellied wich is highly untypical Fulani and there is little chance of a Fulani being fat and pot bellied as Atiku though very few did, if anything Atiku looks tiv or chamba.

Bandirao:
inuwa Yahaya governor of Gombe states is an hausaman ruling in a predominantly Fulani state,he is second generation Hausa settlers in Gombe.

DMerciful:
Go and look Atiku's picture when he was young, he looks Fulani.

Kwankwaso does not look like fulani. Not all fulanis will be slim...its impossible

Gotocourt:
Tangale are the predominant tribe

ogaemma:
The Hausa's have long lost grip over the North.
Not only Governor's.
I doubt if any Hausa is presently a First Class Emir in the North. I stand to be corrected.
They focus on their onions and tomatoes trading while the Fulanis, Nupe and Gbagyi focus in grabbing power and politics.

PulaPower:
Well, it’s not a major problem..

The major problem is performance. So long they’re performing, the rest is secondary..