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Hausa-Fulani people have the habit of giving their things a hausa name name that non-Hausas do not understand. We have seen that the entire North, including the so-called Middle-Belt is now called "Arewa," a Hausa name. Shagari published his memoirs in Hausa. For a few years now, a Hausa-Fulani website called "gamji.com" has been publishing all kinds of anti-Igbo stuff.
Some Igbo people, pseudo-Igbo people like "Osita Olisa," or Yoruba/hausa-Fulani people masquerading as Igbo have been publishing Igbophobic articles at gamji.com. Does anyone know the meaning of "gamji?" Is "gamji" an Igbophobic word or any other type of Hausa-Fulani supremacist or triumphalist word?
Hausa-Fulani people have the habit of giving their news sources names like "Triumph." If you are Igbo, before you go and pay Triumph to publish your mother's obituary, you should ask yourself what the Hausa man is feeling so triumphant about.
[ October 28, 2004, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Dave ]
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Gamji or whatever just like NAIRA is another meaningless nonsense meant to identify it as islamic or arabian. Only for vanity that's all since their inferiority complex problem never seem to go away they tend to look for identification even if they too don't know squawk about the name they choose. My guess.
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I think "Gamji" was also the nick-name of the Sarduna. It would appear that this was what the owners of the website "Gamji" had in mind when they named their their site thus.
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Benbella was correct, the Sarduana was known by his benefactors as "Gamji Kwarai" An iconocclast of almost a demi God.
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What ever Gamji means, so be it. It is an excellent news source, and we should appreciate that. Let us discuss important issues; enough of this Igbo jingoism.
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So, if a bunch of German skin-heads decide to set up a website and call it "Fuhrer," after Hitler, Jews should go to that site and use it to attack Ben Gurion, Golda Meir, and other founders of the State of Israel? And, when a young Jewish man asks what is "Fuhrer?" some Jewish man should tell them
quote:What ever Fuhrer means, so be it. It is an excellent news source, and we should appreciate that. Let us discuss important issues; enough of this Jewish jingoism.
Haba! Nwokem.
The Saduana of Sokoto. Was he not the one who set his people on the course to "dip the Quran in the Niger?"
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quote:What ever Gamji means, so be it. It is an excellent news source, and we should appreciate that. Let us discuss important issues;
This is the part of Nwora's write-up that I agree with. I see nothing wrong with visiting the awusa web site. We share a country and it is important that we read how they think. We also have a long political and economic history with our Northern brothers which must never be forgotten. My 2 cents guys.
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I agree with Ednut that everyone should be free to visit and read any website. But, there is a difference between a visit to a website, and the use of a non-Igbo site to mow down your own Igbo people. The latter is what I think Dave is complaining about.
More than a year ago, Damian posted an ad, looking for a Yoruba or Hausa-Fulani Efulefu, who would be willing to use an Igbo-operated platform to launch attacks on the Yoruba and Hausa nations and their leaders. To date, there are no takers or there have been replies to his post in the thread.
Thanks to the highly informed members of this forum, we now know that "Gamji" means Saduana of Sokoto (Ahmadu Bello). It certainly begs the question: if an Igbo man created a website named "odumegwu.com," would Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani people flock to odumegwu.com the same way that Igbo (Efulefu) have flocked to gamji.com?
For that matter, we know that many websites that bear Igbo names have never advertised a ban on intra-Yoruba or intra-Hausa-Fulani antagonism on the Igbo sites. So, why are there no Harunas and Musas at osondu.com attacking the Gambaris and the Mashidos? aside from the Igbo-obsessed Mobolaji Aluko, does one even see the Yoruba or Hausa publishing anything at all at Igbo websites? But, you have the Olisahs, Odunzes, and other morons from Igboland using gamji.com and Yoruba sites to carry on anti-Igbo activity.
Sometimes, you even see people who say they are "Biafrans" writing at gamji.com. What they fail to understand is that gamji.com is using them as guinea pigs for follow-up write-ups by the Harunas, the wada Nases, and others bent on using them as exhibits of the "un-apologetic about Biafra" Igbo.
Thanks for all the info. It confirms that these Hausa people are ever so arrogant. If they wanted to welcome others as equals, they could have picked a name that is more embracing and that reaches out to all. Instead, they chose gamji, the name of the ethnic Hausa founder of of the Sokoto Mafia.
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You are a great mind. Very prepared I agree with your argument intoto.
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I agree with you although your position that Igbo/Biafrans who use Gamji to take the fight to them thereby setting the records straight should stop is unacceptable by me. If we don’t dare them on their tuff, their lies would go unchallenged. I was personally lured to post there by a sharp Igbo mind whom I respect his opinions and I am sure you read him too. His was that we should take the fight to them (awusa/yoroba/bini) it doesn’t matter and I agreed. We however resent those who use awusa or yoroba sites as lunching pads to seek crumbs at our expense. And yes this is where Dave paddles. I think.
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quote:...your position that Igbo/Biafrans who use Gamji to take the fight to them thereby setting the records straight should stop is unacceptable by me. If we don’t dare them on their tuff, their lies would go unchallenged. I was personally lured to post there by a sharp Igbo mind whom I respect his opinions and I am sure you read him too. His was that we should take the fight to them (awusa/yoroba/bini) it doesn’t matter and I agreed.
It's all well and good when the fight at gamji is between Igbo, Bini, and Yoroba. But, what happens when you take the fight to Awusa and Ahmadu Bello? You quickly learn why they call it 'gamji'.com. I was one of the first people to send an article there when gamji opened. Then, I discovered what the place was all about and what gamji stands for.
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There is no difference between what is going on at Gamji and what is going on in the Alaigbo house here. The Gamji guys are Arewas, whilst this BiafraNigeriaWorld is Alaigbo house. It is highly hypocritical for the Alaigbos here to complain of any Igbophobic articles on gamji net because the reciprocation is what the Arewas and the Oduas get in the Alaigbo house here.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to see how quick my Alaigbo brethren are in their responses as to what is the meaning of Gamji, but the question of what is the meaning of Biafra have remained unanswered for such a long time now.
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