Dan Marayan Zaki II

Myself and Pa Kongi when I participated in the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange Program (WSICE 2019) at Ijegba forest, Ogun state. 1st Slide: Receiving the trophy as winner of the Wole Soyinka Essay Competition 2019 2nd Slide: Reading a calligraphed poem to him

@Ismailainuwa1 Well you know Danfodio himself wasn’t Fulani. I guess you have your answer now

Prof. Alkasum Abba said Shagari and Buhari were not Fulani, only Atiku Abubakar is Fulani who rose to the top of Nigerian political ladder. So Ahmadu Bello was also not Fulani?

Anytime you see Gumi on national TV, best believe he’s sympathizing with bandits or advocating for their “rights”. The victims never concern him. I don’t even know why he’s still being given a platform on national TV instead of being locked up somewhere in prison.

Start writing that novel, poetry collection today. You’re not too young to write a masterpiece at 21. Don’t look at anyone. Read ambitiously and write ambitiously. Your instinct is true, you are a genius.

Da farko, duk wanda yake da kishin Najeriya ba zai yi shiru kan matsalar rashin tsaro da ke addabar ƙasa ba, kuma ba zai hana wasu bayyana damuwarsu a kai ba. Rashin tausayi da fifita son rai ko zama karen en siyasa , da fifita son rai fiye da muradun al’umma ba abin alfahari ba ne. Ka kasance mai kishin ƙasarka, ka daina fifita siyasa a kan gaskiya, sannan ka ji tsoron Allah a cikin duk abin da kake yi @kahuturarara

Da ace kana da ilimi da na tsaya nayi magana dakai. Ama komai baka sani ba, sakarai kawai.

This is why I strongly believe in de-platforming idiots! Because look at what this person is saying for goodness sake!

You won’t understand the rot in Northern Nigeria until you visit primary and secondary schools in the villages: dilapidated classrooms, teachers who look like almajirai themselves, and salaries that are a metaphor for poverty. Northern Nigerian governors are a trope for evil. You cannot defeat insecurity while poverty and illiteracy remain the order of the day. We are deceiving ourselves if we think this insecurity will end anytime soon, because there is simply no political will to address its root causes. An adult man drowning in poverty and illiteracy will do anything to make ends meet.

I am, again, speaking as a Hausaman, an ignorant and weak Hausaman, if you will, emotional, impulsive, illogical, conservative, dreaming, impractical, over-enthusiastic or any of the common vices you care to pin on me. I write knowing that all these vices cannot help but be used to undermine anything I say. I write knowing fully that I may be laughed at again, brushed aside with that new broom so handy to masterful administrators and modern critics, that facile condemnation of the amateur intruding into a field he knows little about. We have been denied such reasonable freedom of thought and speech as will enable us to enlighten public opinion and help in guiding or directing the enlightenment and culture of the masses. But we have been exposed to attacks far more insidious and hurtful than bodily blows. The very air we breathe is heavy with impalpable fears, and we are harassed by oppressive shadows of insecurity. Sa’adu Zungur 1942 in a letter to a British District Officer.

To be Nigerian, is to be outraged. When you think about the flashy, opulent, downright gluttonous lives these people are living when their subjects are dying, kidnapped, uneducated and hungry. The rage will almost wipe you out.

In this short essay I make a distinction between exorcism and adorcism, what I have learnt from studying the philosophy of Bori, how I think of the memoir as a genre and my upcoming book.

I don’t understand. Is he supposed to be doing skits or media rounds?

In 2018, while working as a community mobiliser on a sexual and reproductive health and rights project in Kano State, we regularly engaged women in rural communities. During one of those sessions, a woman said to us: “Malama, don Allah, kamar yadda kuke tara mata kuna koya mana abubuwa, don Allah ku dinga tara mazajenmu kuna nuna musu muhimmancin zuwa asibiti da neman magani. Saboda sau da yawa za ki ga muna fama da infection ko sanyi. Idan mun je asibiti an ba mu magani, ana ce mana mu gaya wa mazajenmu su zo su karɓi magani, saboda idan mun warke su ba su warke ba, za su iya sake sa mana cutar. Amma mazajenmu sai su ƙi zuwa asibiti, su ce wai muna tona musu asiri. Wani ma zai iya sakin matarsa saboda ta gaya masa ya je asibiti. Ita kuma idan an sake ta, wani lokacin samun wani mijin yana zama da wahala, saboda ana cewa ba ta iya rufa wa mijinta asiri.” In translation, she was saying: “Please, just as you gather women and educate us, we would appreciate it if you also engaged our husbands and taught them the importance of going to the hospital and receiving treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Many times, we suffer from infections and, when we go to the hospital, we are treated and advised to bring our husbands for treatment too, because if we recover while they remain untreated, they may infect us again. But when we ask our husbands to go to the hospital, some become offended and accuse us of exposing their shame. In some cases, a man may even divorce his wife for asking him to seek treatment. A woman divorced under such circumstances may also struggle to remarry because she becomes stigmatised and accused of being unable to conceal her husband’s shame.” This was in 2018, and in 2026, you are promoting the dangerous idea that a “good wife” is one who hears but pretends not to hear, sees but pretends not to see and remains silent regardless of what her husband does, all in the name of preserving the dignity of marriage. Who raised you guys to think like this? Since when did “matar rufin asiri” come to mean a woman who must ignore persistent betrayal, silence herself and protect a grown man from the consequences of his own choices? Do you not realise that protecting the privacy of a marriage is not the same as concealing misconduct or tolerating repeated infidelity or sacrificing one’s dignity, health and peace to preserve a man’s public image. Islam does not normalise zina or present infidelity as an ordinary male weakness that women must tolerate. It, in contrast, treats sexual immorality as a grave offence. So what makes anyone think it is acceptable to normalise cheating, or gaslight women into enabling wayward partners who behave as though infidelity is their birthright, and then condemn every woman who chooses to walk away because she cannot continue living with a man alleged to be a chronic womaniser? Why should the responsibility for a man’s discipline, loyalty and sexual conduct be transferred to his wife? Why should she be praised for pretending not to see what threatens her emotional and physical well-being, while he is excused from accountability? Please do not use this mindset to raise your daughters, whether you have them now or may have them in the future. This thinking is one of the reasons many women are suffering and dying in silence, are repeatedly infected with life-threatening sexually transmitted infections because they are taught that their chastity is synonymous with overlooking their husband’s inadequacies. You’re suggesting women should remain trapped in harmful marriages because society tells them that marriage is “for better or worse” and that a woman’s virtue is measured by how much humiliation, betrayal and danger she can endure without speaking. A woman who truly loves you and wants the best for you in both worlds would never turn deaf ears or a blind eye to wrongdoing by pretending not to see it. Ka je ka nema ilimi.

My heart is with Chimamanda 💞 May God see her through.

Female education was among the priorities of the last real Islamic Caliphate, also known as the Ottoman Empire:

Madina has followed up on so many stories about insecurity, she has gone to the frontlines and risked herself by asking powerful people dangerous questions. What we won’t do, is downplay her amazing work as a journalist.

@abdulljalo Rawww din ayyy 😂

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in a possession of good fortune, must be in want of many women.

Educated Hausa women accent

The struggle between reading my book, watching my show, and scrolling my phone is very real.

Now those kids, if they make it out alive and untraumatised, would have missed waec. One year behind becauseNigeria happened. God!

No truer words have been spoken.