OPINION
THE BLOODY LEGACY OF USMAN DAN FODIO (PART 2)
Fani-Kayode
Permit me to indulge in a quick aside and take you into a brief journey of discovery into the deep and devious mind of Lugard.
On
September 8th 2015, in an essay titled 'Lord Lugard's Magic and Flora
Shaw's Spell' (New Telegraph, Daily Post, Naij. com, Premium Times,
Pointblanknews) I wrote the following:
"In
1916, Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, the 1st Baron Lugard, the
fourteenth Governor of Hong Kong and the first Governor-General of
Nigeria, said the following:
“Lagos
has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has fomented strife and
bloodshed in the hinterland. I have spent the best part of my life in
Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have
been ready to give my life.
But
after some 29 years, and after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am
free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the
lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by
self-seeking money motives of any people I have met.”
As
if that were not bad enough, two years later, on September 25th, 1918,
in a letter to his colleague Walter H. Lang, Lugard wrote the
following:
“The
Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in
character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely
immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community
to which he seeks to attach himself.”
Lugard didn’t stop there. In his book titled 'The Dual Mandate' (pg. 70) of 1926, he wrote the following:
“In
character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a
happy, thriftless, excitable person. LACKING IN SELF-CONTROL,
DISCIPLINE, AND FORESIGHT.
Naturally
courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal
vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons
as an oriental loves jewelry.
HIS
THOUGHTS ARE CONCENTRATED ON THE EVENTS AND FEELINGS OF THE MOMENT, and
he suffers little from the apprehension for the future, or grief for
the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the
European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity
and want of desire to rise beyond the State he has reached.
Through
the ages THE AFRICAN APPEARS TO HAVE EVOLVED NO ORGANISED RELIGIOUS
CREED, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the
religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more
often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural.
HE
LACKS THE POWER OF ORGANISATION, and is conspicuously deficient in the
management and control alike of men or business. HE LOVES THE DISPLAY OF
POWER, but fails to realise its responsibility… he will work hard with a
less incentive than most races.
He
has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral
virtue… In brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type are those
of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given
ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy.
Perhaps
the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of
the African native are HIS LACK OF APPREHENSION AND HIS LACK OF ABILITY
TO VISUALISE THE FUTURE.”
These
were the views of the principal architect and great grandfather of our
modern nation-state whose wife, Flora Shaw, gave us the name 'Nigeria'.
When translated from latin that name means "the area of darkness".
To
the both spouses we were nothing but that darkness and a convenient
commercial venture which was to be milked dry for its mineral
resources.
That
was the mindset of the man who famously proclaimed that northern
Nigeria was the "poor husband" whilst the south was the "rich wife" and
that "their marriage must last forever".
The
fact that that "rich southern wife" has been held back, brutalised,
traumatised, cheated, robbed, raped and sodomised over the last two
hundred years by that "poor northern husband" is of no issue to
evil-minded, greedy and calculating men like Lugard.
Theirs
is to keep our people in perpetual bondage and to ensure that our
internal colonial masters continue to destroy our destinies, smite our
fortunes and blight our future.
And
nothing seems to have changed. Two hundred and twelve years after Dan
Fodio's onslaught in what was to later become northern Nigeria and fifty
six years after his great grandson, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the erstwhile
Saurdana of Sokoto and the man that I have described as the 'second
Mahdi of Nigeria', proclaimed that it was his intention to "dip the
Koran in the Atlantic ocean" and thereby Islamise and conquer the people
of the south, their descendants are attempting to do precisely the same
thing under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari.
Chief
Solomon Asemota SAN captured the moment in a graphic and accurate
manner in an excellent essay part of which reads as follows:
"Islamist
Jihadists of the Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri Ethnic Nationalities, who are
Negroid immigrants to Nigeria, are pushing the nation to an implosion.
It is therefore imperative that the remaining 386 Ethnic Nationalities
of Nigeria should, as a matter of priority, convene a Conference to
demonstrate to the few Islamist Jihadists of the three Ethnic
Nationalities the grave danger of Islamism as a system of governance.
Nigerians
are reminded that the present distress in the nation is not an act of
God but man-made. The brazen and audacious imposition of Islamist
Jihadists into key positions in the country is not an expression of
religious piety but a deliberate manipulation of religion for cultural
and political domination by three Ethnic Groups.
This
Agenda commenced in 1975 after the overthrow of General Gowon. The
Islamist Jihadists are a violent and domineering strain of Islam
rejected by mainstream Muslims"- ('DISCRIMINATORY APPOINTMENTS AGAINST
NON-MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA', Naij. Com, Trent On Line, 10th August 2016).
Asemota
has put it very well. This is the challenge that we face in Nigeria
today. Buhari, who I have described as the 'third Mahdi of Nigeria' has
perfected the script and he is executing the master plan and the
not-so-hidden agenda with ruthless precision.
It
is left for us to either continue to act as if all is well and continue
to wallow in our ignorance, self-pity and shameful cowardice or to
stand up, step up to the plate, confront the challenge, say it as it is,
do what is necessary and resist it with every fibre of our being.
Those
that believe in the agenda of the three Mahdi's and that subscribe to
their views are nothing short of modern-day terrorists and their intent
is to kill, destroy, enslave and subjugate.
We
must never succumb to them. We must resist their tyranny and
oppression. We must shed the toga of political correctness and uproot
them from our land.
We must remember who we are, where we came from, what we stand for and refuse to shy away from fighting for our rights.
The
'gospel' of Usman Dan Fodio and his legacy of blood, compulsion, death
and destruction cannot be a lasting foundation for any civilised
modern-nation state and we must rid ourselves of it. Such a foundation
is not of God and therefore it cannot endure.
We
must repent and make reparations for the oceans of innocent blood that
was spilt in our nation by Usman Dan Fodio and his descendants over the
last two hundred years and we must appease the affected souls.
We
must pray to the Lord God of Hosts and to the God of Heaven for
forgiveness for our cowardice and complicity and we must rededicate our
nation to the Ancient of Days if we want to break the spell, break the
curse, rid ourselves of the jinx and be free from His judgement.
Permit
me to end this contribution with a word for those that have chosen to
support and assist our collective oppressors and who consistently defend
and rationalise their wickedness, tyranny and murderous ways.
I
proclaim that the blood of all those that have been slaughtered over
the last two hundred years in the name of ethnic domination, conquest
and jihad shall haunt you and yours from generation to generation. The
Prophet Obadiah said,
“all
your allies will turn against you. They will help to chase you from
your land. They will promise you peace while plotting to deceive and
destroy you. Your trusted friends will set traps for you, and you won’t
even know about it"-(Obadiah 1:7).
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