Yunusa Abubakar
I am still thinking you can call it a fitness of philosophy, I do not care.
My thinking is an intuitive creativity of my little mind. I am what I am by the little quality of my thought.
As I write now, I see almajirai( a perfect translation of students) scavenging for leftover eaten by others. What makes an almajiri different from students from contemporary Nigerian keeps resonating in my little mind?
Surprisingly, most of my friends were repulsive to their presence with no tangible reason, but hatred for the downtrodden.
My mind is now restless, hence my honest submission. Were we not students supported and partly sponsored by northern government as evinced in our various states in their little way?
Remove all the government schools and the support base given us by the various government, could we have enjoyed the best of the education we are today flaunting as an achievement?
Northern states gave all their best for our being what we are in terms of education. Our disdain and hatred know no bounds to children who are truly sharing what we all escaped by virtue Providence.
Our intelligentsia has remained consistently disdained to education that has no particular language linked to their western epistemology.
How many of their type can honestly own to the fact that language itself is only one of the means of communication?
Do they openly admit that English that I worship is but a language, rather a mean of testing the true intellectualism and intellect?
The world history has it that literacy denotes an ability to read and write in any language and as such, local languages are languages of learning far above the so- called world language as presented by Western history.
Do Nigerians by our skewed knowledge realize that the greatest countries in the world have achieved their greatest and enviable fit by dreaming and thinking in the languages of their birth?
The most complex thing on Earth is nothing as complicated as language itself.
Break a language entails being independent as all languages are imbued with cultural norms of the native speakers. we are enslaved not by our political indiscretions, but our love for a culture we learned without asking incisive questions.