Sometimes when you cement people in your heart and thoughts, and establish their constant presence in both, you become less inclined to contact them. And that's how we end up reducing people into ideas, and enjoy talking about them more than talking with them. Reducing people into ideas happens when we love or even get obsessed with them but we don't meet them often. Sadly people and ideas don't usually develop symmetrically. And that's why in our heads they grow and remain such sweethearts, and we love talking and writing about them.

The 15th century was the first time the Agalfatia merchant-wanderers were spotted in Hausaland. Since then, almost 6 centuries later, there never existed a generation of Agalfatia without a Madugu who'll lead the era with both his market leadership and generational wealth. For the sake of reliable and presentable proofs and records, the most obvious of Agalfatia memory started with Madugu Malam Agali himself, whom, as historians recorded, had mounted with Shehu Ɗanfodio during the jihad - and what a success he proved to be.

Again, while dealing with fallibles, not all optimism and pessimism are warranted.

There's positive optimism & negative optimism. Just like there's positive pessimism & negative pessimism.

They're all pretty obvious but let's look at them with some examples in this short 🧵🧵🧵 Positive optimism is being optimistic in any situation whereby the signals of any desired progress suggest there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Eg: Optimism by a person that had surgery after been diagnosed with cancer is positive optimism. And it's warranted!

The 'Laisezz Faire' thinking which infiltrates our psyche & culture takes much of the blame. The erroneous notion of "resources are scarce + self-interest = collective interest" is the pattern of thought for many of us below the age of 50. Our communal parents would laugh at it!

https://twitter.com/Abdulrah_maan/status/1585940358826950656

Are resources scarce? Do selfish interest equals collective interest?

Hadisan Annabi (SAW) sun nuna hakan ba komai bane face bijirarren shirme wanda duniya ta ara ta yafa kawai saboda wasu susutattun malaman falsafa ƴan ƙasar Scotland sun ce haka ne.

Demonetization. It is a proven attempt to curb out counterfeiting, money laundering, money hoarding, tax evasion, ransom money, financial exclusivity etc, by making the existing currency valueless so as to force the perpetrators to have no option but to return it to the system.

https://twitter.com/L9248N/status/1585293127849484292

Recently Australia, India, Kenya & Zimbabwe have all demonitized some of their currency notes. Thus unbanked populations of those countries become bankable, enhancing gov't revenue by increasing the tax base, which occurs by making a big chunk of the informal sector formal.

An tambayi wani attajiri me yasa yake rayuwa a takure, sai yace: "mahaifina kafinta ne".

Sai aka tambaye shi me yasa ƴaƴansa suke rayuwa a buɗe, sai yace: "mahaifinsu attajirine".

Karon battar Sarauniya Elizabeth da Firai Minista Margaret Thatcher tasa na ƙara gane jawabin 🧵👇 Bayan hawan Margaret mulki ne Sarauniya ta gayyace ta rangadi zuwa dawanta dake Balmoral can ƙasar Scotland. Margaret ta caɓa kwalliya ta tafi. Amma da taje, sai ta tarar salon rangadin ba kwalliya yake buƙata ba, saboda kamar yawan farauta ne. Sai duk taji kunya!

You see a woman you like. You get her contact. Occasionally you talk. With her wali's consent you see her once & twice. You send her kind words & gifts. You grieve her pain & celebrate her happiness. She likes you back. She doesn't mind being called yours. In fact it relates her.

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You get married. Now you're your person's person and she's yours to - the tag becomes the quickest way to get both of you smiling. It's a love in it's purest form. It's beautiful.

But for context, that woman is 20+, probably with a degree, a hafidha too. Decent and beautiful!

It's humbling that Malik would never know most of the finest Maliki scholars because he died far before they were born.

Ain't it an honor emerging after great men who've paid their dues? For all the refined, prepared conten, and even greater to be someone worthy of living after. Most times I imagine, how much happiness did Ibn Khaldun feel seeing all the works of Tabari and al-Mas'udi etc. Isn't there so much relief in knowing that if you were born 300 years earlier, none of such works exist?

Same for most scholars!

The trouble with intellectuals is not that they don't know what's wrong. They actually do. It's in their knowledge of what's wrong that there are many things wrong. And that's the part they'll never address, in fact it's a war of more unintelligible abstractions when it's touched You believe people shouldn't read Malcolm Gladwell? That's fair! May be he sounds smart without actually being one.

Sadly the alternative you've for Gladwell is Albert Camus or Wittgenstein, which is actually a profound alternative.

But if you think that's great you're insane!

Do you know who is Mallam Rabi'u?

He was the father of the legendary Isyaka Rabi'u and most importantly one of the finest scholars in 20th century Kano.

A young Mallam Mahmud Gumi saw errors in his pamphlets and corrected them without thinking twice.

Read: Where I stand! That's a nice story about the making of an inevitable legend, isn't it?

Well it also tells that you can't be a devout knowledge seeker and despise corrections.

The brief history of the salafi da'awa in Nigeria is a history of both pleasant and unpleasant corrections.

Dr. Aliyu Dahiruwas sent to train youths in Niger Republic on Islamic Banking and Finance. They didn't speak English neither did he French. So he arranged to do the training in Hausa.

He wrote me later: "The biggest terror done upon northern Nigeria is isolating us from our brothers who share our language and values in Niger Republic in favour of an unfortunate forced marriage with people who only share our skin colour".

The most annoying thing about people who think they understood philosophy enough as to critique prophecy with logic is that the boundaries of their arguments haven't even exhausted logic itself let alone penetrate something greater. A self-acclaimed "critical thinker" challenged the Hadith on "Habbatussaud" which says it prevents from poisoning by daring anyone who believe in the hadith to take a poison, then follow it with Habbatus and see if he won't die.

And he thought he did something there! 😂😂

When schooling intensified in 2013 I left Kurfi house. As I visited them last week in search of identified fabric, I discovered more than half the 16 years old Igbo teenagers who sweep for their mothers and uncles back in the days are now managers of 10 million+ fabric shops. The Hausa boys I left behind, only Gaza, Babba and Sa'idu Maikilago hit 15 million+ at some point. The rest have swept for Igbo uncles and are now sweeping for their nephews and children. Zero progress. Zero ambition. Zero drive. Zero results.

1. There is an awful population of millionaires in Kano.

2. The gov't want to build the immediate economic infrastructure of the state.

3. It developed a plan that asked: since we've an ever-rising 'marketplace goodwill' why not put the entire metropolitan geography for sale? 4. That way we'll trigger the greed of the ambitious capitalists to build our infrastructure for us, while getting a large sum of money as a compensation for granting them the ownership rights.

5. The millionaires bought it. It was the same profitmaking instinct since 1700.

“A ajiye batun Buhari na aiki ko baya aiki...” - Adamu Garba.

Right there is the logic; the one that keep "Ƴandako" in penury inside our markets despite not being respected by the wealth they helped brought into being. The logic that make our corporate directors give employment to the mediocre because they're children of their kinsmen and friends.

The logic that hinder our wealthy from exoanding their businesess.

The logic that keep our poor inside the trade that doesn't give them good return

“Mutunci”, “Daraja” and “Ƙima” that haven't been employed properly to create efficiency are absolutely useless attributes in our current socioeconomic capitalist reality.

21st century is an era that only respects potential - good or otherwise - and its employment.

https://twitter.com/adamugarba/status/1319041256136282112

This unprovoked reminiscent and misinterpretation of values create nothing but poor understanding of which mechanisms modernity drives upon.

In the context of tangible success, the ego and self-esteem that doesn't make you richer, wiser and healthier are unaffordable luxuries.

I wonder; between the people who think the government hires hoodlums to blackmail the protesters and the people who think armless, peaceful protesters have suddenly turned into thieving hoodlums who resents to anarchy; who are the real conspiracy theorists? Because so far, all I'm seeing is people who have never had positive feelings towards the demonstration drawing far-fetched judgements and people who have unconfirmed multimedia and photographic evidences angrily distancing themselves from accusations.

A short thread of some GOATED TV show singers. A cunt, but a greater singer.

Bronn of blackwater was an old well that gives everything.

-Banning the importation of rice was a blunder; it was unnecessary + it increases the price of rice while forcing speculative impact on general inflation.

-Insistence upon self-efficiency in food was far-fetched.

In this thread I'll explain the above two points.

#LongThread: Mr. Buhari was right from the logic of the pioneer of cameralism, Philiph Willem Van Honick, in his dissection of "Austria Over All, If She Only Will in 1684”. Surely any country looking to develop economically should produce all the commodities it needs for local consumption.