No One Has Authority to Decide Who Gets to Identify as Anything
By Farooq Kperogi My intervention on a Trust TV interview in which a retired ABU professor called Alkasum Abba said Shehu Shagari and Muha...
Showing posts with label Fulani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fulani. Show all posts
Buhari and Shagari Said They Were Fulani
By Farooq Kperogi One Professor Alkasum Abba told Trust TV yesterday that a Fulani man has never been president and that Muhammadu Buhari a...
Kano Governor, Who is Fulani, Has a Special Assistant on Fulani!
By Farooq Kperogi I just learned that Kano State governor Abba Kabiru Yusuf, who is said to be Fulani, has a Senior Special Assistant on Fu...
This American Looks So Fulani—and He Knows It!
By Farooq Kperogi My family and I went to Masjid Al-Furqan in Marietta, about 20 minutes from our home, for iftar. While at the dinner, I no...
Nigeria’s Insecurity Has Hit Painfully Close to Home
By Farooq Kperogi On April 21, as the clock struck 9 p.m., terror descended upon Desa, a tranquil town known officially as Ilesha Baruba, n...
Identity Questions in IBB’s Autobiography
By Farooq A. Kperogi The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-ser...
Tinubu and the “Yoruba Emir” of Kano
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explici...
Rising Ethnic Tension Between Hausa and Fulani
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, ...
Shettima Didn't Say North Isn't Supporting Him Because He's Kanuri
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi News reports quoting Kashim Shettima as saying that the North isn't supporting him because he...
Three Major Shifts in the Presidential Campaign
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Three unanticipated, barely perceptible, but nonetheless significant and potentially seismic ...
“Fulanization” of the North by the South
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Fears of “Fulani domination” have endured since Nigeria’s founding but, more than ever before, ...
Miyetti Allah, Presidential Endorsement and Politics of Fulani Identity
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Many people have asked me to weigh in on why the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ A...
Obadiah Mailafia: From Fulaniphobia to Embarrassing Ignorance
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I normally don’t respond to responses to my column if the responses do no more t...
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