Mahmud Sada Imam

@intaa_0 Confusion galore. But I don't think there was a time when Nigerians aren't hooked up on conspiracy theories. It's practically our national past time. 😔

I am afraid this level of misinformation and fear mongering will eventually lead to Nigerians becoming so paranoid they start rejecting things like vaccines. It’s the dark ages all over again

@jikanMasani This divisiveness will not succeed. We can see its corrosive influence in India. But it won't succeed here because of Islam. What's ironic is that, these Hausa activists are actually hurting Hausa by erecting a barrier of exclusion around it. Hausa grew because of assimilation

I reference myself, because in truth, I've already thought about these things a long time ago without outside influence. Indigenous? Laka have been in Jimeta since WW1 should we send them packing? It's ridiculous.

@Jajjage @jikanMasani The term was invented by the British because of their racist obsession with lineage. They can't call the fodiyawa Fulani because they're Hausa in all but lineage. But here people identify by their state - Bakatsine, Bakano... That's the all encompassing identity not even Hausa.

@Msada52 @jikanMasani but the constant push to call it Hausa-Fulani, or to remind people that the identity is mixed, is not a history lesson it is a form of active ideological conditioning and for the millions of people who simply identify as Hausa, their lived experience is their absolute validation.

Yes. They're valid and renowned in the whole of Sahel as 'pillars' of scholarship. We find in Leo Africanus and some sources their importance. We know that Katsina corresponded with As-Suyuti and vice-versa. Wannan haka yake. Daga nan Bafulatanin nan Al-Kishnawi ya fito. 😉

@niggergerian I thought as much. Abubakar Imam's ancestors were from Borno who settled in Nupe land. While Abubakar Imam was raised in a Hausa speaking household. He's Hausa by culture as was Korau and Sardauna. Hausa is a culture that's changing and absorbing and wouldn't stop.

@Msada52 I don't know and I don't care. Again, he should've written in his own language, which wouldn't have gotten him anywhere. It is not the writer, it is the language. Muna ƙara roƙon Allah ya ɗaukaka Hausa da Hausawa

It's ours ko? Go back to whatever hole you crawl out of. FYI the only reason why they didn't destroy it was because they have nothing as good as it, that's why they didn't change the way the Emirates were. Maybe they are too primitive to come up with their own

@Jajjage @jikanMasani I didn't use mongrel negatively. I meant it in the best possible way. Take it as Hausa is a melting point of identities who melted to become what we now call Hausa. Dan Masani in Katsina is of Borno descent. Dan Marna is of Arabic descent but they're Katsinawa as Dikko.

@Msada52 @jikanMasani Calling Hausa a "mongrel" identity is a cynical way of describing what historians and sociologists call an assimilationist or cosmopolitan culture.

@niggergerian You didn't answer my question. Is Abubakar Imam, Hausa? If he's not, what's his ethnicity?

@Msada52 Singing has always been a part of Hausa culture, so with or without shata, Hausa song will still exist today. He is overrated anyway. Abubakar Imam could've written with in his own language, but guess what? It doesn't have the appeal.

@niggergerian Erasure how?Who will erase who? These types of buildings are going extinct. It's the so-called Fulani emirs that have preserved them. Go build like your ancestors. Bring back Zaure, Zane, Zanko, Dakali and all, instead of fighting phantom enemies.

This is one of the plethora of reasons on why I hate the "Hausa-Fulani" tag. This might look like an innocent tweet, but it's not. This is how erasure starts, it starts with little things until it swallows everything. We had to educate people that kayan saƙi are Hausa clothing.

@isitbyforcee Don't give these people oxygen. They're best ignored. Yes, a while back there was some kickback by some Northeastern Fulanis against the term Hausa-Fulani, and some Hausas interpret it as disdain. But it's all nonsense.

And? Yes we live in huts. Is that supposed to an insult.

It would be interesting to see how scholars judge Habermas fifty or a hundred years from now: “Philosophically, Habermas had died a couple of years earlier when he and his colleagues went public endorsing Israel's genocide in Palestine as 'justified in principle….That was the time Habermas died to false consciousness and reputation, as if he had anything to teach the world beyond his immediate, myopic German provincialism. That provincialism was not his fault. It was our fault; we non-Europeans should never have assumed and invested any universal claims in his and other Europeans' incurable provincialism.“: middleeasteye.net/opinion/jurgen…

@elnathan_john x.com/i/status/20368…

In case you missed it, in this essay I write about the loss of Hausa names in Northern Nigeria in favour of Islamic (and Christian) names. I look particularly at Arabic and Qur’anic names, carried into Hausa life through Islam and naturalised so thoroughly that they now wear the mask of indigeneity. Where, oh where, have the Hausa names gone?, by @elnathan_john open.substack.com/pub/elnathanjo…

14/ So no, it wasn’t the Jihad of 1804. It’s modernity, urbanization, and the quiet erosion of cultural confidence. The old Hausa world isn’t being replaced by Islam—it’s being replaced by the global

13/ Hausaland was once a center that produced culture and exported it. Now it exists at the periphery of the global economy—importing everything from toothpick to car, including how we name, dress, and worship.

-- 1/ Hausa names are fading—but not because of Islam or the 1804 Jihad. The real culprit is modernity and globalization. Let me explain 🧵

11/ Hausa men used to wear rawani with babbar riga every day. Now rawani is reserved for emirs, their lackeys, and scholars. Babbar riga is now mainly for weddings, special occasions, or harmattan dawn prayers.