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“How did we allow ourselves to be merged with certain entities?”
Interesting. This bigotry is no longer subtle. First of all, that’s not some ancient Igbo script but the mimicry of a bored internet user I can’t even remember. Since you are not deluded into thinking that only the ability to communicate in a particular lingua franca constitutes literacy, here’s a bit of history for you: the entities you perceive as backward in comparison to yours, but lacked the courage to name, had a robust education system as far back as the 13th century. The founding of a learning centre in Kanem-Borno, where Arabic was the language of official communication, attracted students and scholars from other parts of the world, especially the glorious Mali Empire.
It’s a telling irony that the biggest setback for the Muslim North was transforming from an Islamic education system to Western education under colonial rule, and one could see why Sultan Attahiru I of Sokoto resisted the takeover, because his “entities” had existing literacy, advance legal system, and a definable political structure when the British colonialists arrived in the late 19th century. I advise you to get a copy of Max Siollun’s What Britain Did to Nigeria for a refreshing education on how the colonisers ravaged our lands. Education existed in the North about 500 years before Europeans introduced theirs in the 1800s through Christian missionaries.
It would interest you to note that these certain entities’ intellectual past produced notable scholars like the mathematician Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishnawi, who died in Cairo in 1741. He was a Fulani from today's Katsina and was an astronomer, mathematician, mystic, and astrologer, known for his contribution to Magic Squares from his book posthumously published in Arabic in Cairo in 1751. I wonder what your ancestors were up to when this transpired.
It may also interest you to know that the famous historian Ibn Khaldun mentioned that Kanem-Bornu had an embassy in present-day Tunisia as far back as 1257 AD. Mai Uthman B. Idris of Kanem-Bornu was also recorded to have written to the Sultan of Egypt, fostering their diplomatic relations.
At the time of the merger with these “certain entities,” believe me when I say that they occupied a high rung in the pyramid of civilisation and were more literate than any other entity in the merger. So, it was not the colonisers who taught them how to read and write; they only disrupted an established system and imposed an alien one. You are welcome.
The most annoying part of academic writing is knowing the thing, but looking for some other paper to say it for you. You can't just say bread is soft, you have to say it according to Baker (2001) that bread is soft.
At the same time, you can't quote Baker 2001 because it's outdated. Although bread did not stop being soft, you have to find another Baker who said it in 2023.
Weeeeeeeeeeee aiy kuningi! Ngeke singahlanyi makunjena
Do you know why the past of women is talked about more than the past of men?
-When searching for husbands, women put into consideration the things the men have to offer. These things are, a stable home, finance and provision, security and protection, care and affection.
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