Building on Danfodio's Legacy
December 27, 2012 at 9:39am This write-up is instructive on account of the realities of today. First there is the issue of a seeming stagnation of the majority of Northern Nigerian Muslims in a quintessential saturated ideal that was the ‘Dan-Fodio’ legacy. There has hardly been any attempt to build on the fundamental and universal precepts upon which the Shehu’s revolution were built. Values like scholarship, equitable justice, adherence to ethics and morality seemed to have been over-taken & overshadowed by selfish, egotistical and tyrannical self-servience. For me I see this no more glaringly than in the way that ‘royalty’ across the Hausaland have expropriated ‘resources’ and sources of livelihood without any commensurate conversion of such into tangible benefits for the populace. No wonder that many ‘outside observers’ will look at the society as being lazy, lacking in imagination and having a weird sense of subservience to hegemony...