Najeebwali

Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse RA was born on the 8th November, 1900, this was a period of peak french colonial yoke on franco-phone Africa. As a Man with an acute awareness of the necessity of the Socio-economic and political emancipation of the continent, he sought spiritual upliftment to fascilitate political emancipation. In his seminal treaties, 'Ifriqiya Lil Ifriqiyeen' (Africa for Africans), he's renowned for the following proclamation: 'We are the people of Africa, so Africa belongs to us, and we belong to Africa. Sooner or later every nation will come to be governed by its children whatever the schemes of the enemies of the African citizenry. A current of freedom and nationalism has burst forth in this twentieth century, and nothing can stop it, the rule of the foreigner in a foreign land has passed, never to return. Therefore, Africa belongs to the Africans'. The Sufi orders have historically being the vehicles of resistance within Islam, and as Crawford Yang Obser...

By Kabir Ilyasu Wali  Opinions shared on-line which seem naively to equate Dan-Fodio’s jihad with the ongoing insurgency is intended to diminish all chances of peaceful resolution the government is currently pursuing. While there is considerable merit in recognizing political reality, there are times when politicians and officials must lead rather than follow. Telling people what they want to hear, that our President is of Fulani stock and somehow is responsible for the spate of ongoing mayhem is cheap and demeaning as well as insulting our capacity to understanding. The prognosis inevitably is a failure because it lacks any verifiable evidence to stand the truth. Voices far and near urging the abandonment of government stand on insurgency are no longer politically correct. The existing bipartisan consensus in favor of government’s war effort to contain insurgency can only attest to the truth. So if the thesis “Hausa land, history and people yearning for freedom” is suggesting that...