FRIENDLY ADVICE TO MY MIDDLE BELT BRETHREN TO DE-COLONIZE YOUR MINDS

I wish my brethren of Middle Belt a good future. Your forefathers made a mistake in allying themselves with Arewa, but that alliance has unravelled and is unravelling more and more each day.

Arewa will keep on calling you “North Central” but that is the way of losers who try to keep a hold of their lost power. For now, until you all decide the name you want for your new nation, we shall refer to you as Middle Belt which is what you have told us you want.

But here is my advice to you:
Your forefathers stooped under Arewa and taught you all that Hausa language will benefit you. Well, it has not. As we see it is the language that terrorists use (Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, ISIS and now too Al-Qaeda). It is the language that is used to make you wrongly think that you are part of Arewa. You are not part of them. You are your own people. So my advice, to help you de-colonize your minds from anything Arewa, is to STOP speaking the Arewa language. Speak your own ethnic languages and then also English. That is all you need to thrive in the world of today. (There are Africans trying to select a language for all Black people everywhere, a Lingua Franca, for us. When that happens, we all will add that language to what we speak).

So to repeat: My Middle Belt brethren, STOP speaking Hausa. Stop listening to Hausa music. Stop teaching your children Hausa. Stop those things that tie you to Arewa.

Please spread this advice. Then brethren of the South, let us help them spread this mind de-colonizing advice.

Its not the language that is our problem, disunity is our biggest challenge in the middlebelt.

JohnNU:
Its not the language that is our problem, disunity is our biggest challenge in the middlebelt.

When you keep on emphasising "disunity" then it worsens the problem.

But this post is not about that. It provides a solution to one of the many problems. So one less problem.

I myself think the elders want to keep on talking about "disunity" because they are idiots. But the youth have internet and more intelligent knowledge so are in better position to unite among themselves. who would have thought that South and MB could unite in Alliance? And it has happened and is getting stronger. Our good elder Dr Obadiah Mailafia has done much to unite us all more.

Now, when you mention a problem, add a possible solution so that our people can grow up and be more like Oyeebo and Chinese. They too have challenges but provide solutions for them.

meavox:


When you keep on emphasising "disunity" then it worsens the problem.

But this post is not about that. It provides a solution to one of the many problems. So one less problem.

I myself think the elders want to keep on talking about "disunity" because they are idiots. But the youth have internet and more intelligent knowledge so are in better position to unite among themselves. who would have thought that South and MB could unite in Alliance? And it has happened and is getting stronger. Our good elder Dr Obadiah Mailafia has done much to unite us all more.

Now, when you mention a problem, add a possible solution so that our people can grow up and be more like Oyeebo and Chinese. They too have challenges but provide solutions for them.

Well, you are right we must start from somewhere. I admire that man Mailafia, he is exceptionaly courageous. How i wish we had someone like him in Benue state.