“Mesujamba,” a slur against Ilorin people, is a linguistic fraud

Tribune Online“Mesujamba,” a slur against Ilorin people, is a linguistic fraudOne of the responses I got to last week’s column repeated a historically and sociolinguistically suspect claim about the supposed contempt Hausa people have for Ilorin people to justify why Kano State NNPP chairman Hashim Dungurawa’s sly disparagement of the Ilorin blood in Emir Aminu Ado Bayero was unsurprising. Hausa people supposedly called the people [...]“Mesujamba,” a slur against Ilorin people, is a linguistic fraudTribune Online

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