Fixing the Fulani Brand, By Wole Olaoye
If I was Fulani, I would have denounced those violent nomads for what they were. I would have screamed, “Not in my name!
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If and when Nigeria navigates its way away from the avoidable precipice of inter-ethnic war and hate mongering and the Fulani brand is thereby positively re-invented, it will be thanks to people like Abdullahi Ganduje and Abba Gana who played the role of pathfinding statesmen in the heat of blame-shifting…
I will begin by clearing some cobwebs. The Fulani who many southern Nigerians knew and affectionately interacted with for decades are different from the variant of the group committing sundry violent crimes today. When the AK47-wielding herders came on the scene and motley ethnic groups were falling over each other to support them and lampoon their victims, I did warn that grievous damage was being done to the Fulani brand because everything happening was totally at variance with the previous percep