EMPHASIS ON EUROPEAN VICTORS
AND AFRICAN VANQUISHED
LETS MODERN POLITICIANS APPROPRIATE THE PAST
LETS MODERN POLITICIANS APPROPRIATE THE PAST
• Stressing a fight that is over
lets modern leaders change the subject
from problems now
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| Statue in Conakry / Internet |
The paunch, an invention, is a sign of prestige when food is scarce (like Bornu's obese kings) and sets the leader apart from the people.
A member of a Mandara noble clan states,
"...my uncles were taken as slaves.
We do not forget,
and Boko Haram reminds us
of the times our elders described."
helps ignore issues that are not.
• ...and ignores how the past resurfaces.
Take Boko Haram
and its effect on Mandara,
thehinterland of Bornu and Logone
where adult male prisoners were killed
by cutting off a leg
Take Boko Haram
and its effect on Mandara,
thehinterland of Bornu and Logone
where adult male prisoners were killed
by cutting off a leg
A member of a Mandara noble clan states,
"...my uncles were taken as slaves.
We do not forget,
and Boko Haram reminds us
of the times our elders described."
-- Donald Tada,
cited in In the Cameroon hills: the persecuted of Boko Haram
by Joan Tilouine, « le Monde », May 25, 2018, 4
by Joan Tilouine, « le Monde », May 25, 2018, 4
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| Indo-Asian News Service |
Boko, book; haram, forbidden: the Nigerian government of the south provided few schools in the north, so youths there saw education as excluding them.
Were memories of northerners' slave raids and the start of colonisation a reason why southern politicians ignored them?
Returning to a conquest that is overWere memories of northerners' slave raids and the start of colonisation a reason why southern politicians ignored them?
helps ignore issues that are not.
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