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The Future Of The Almajiri (3)
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria

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This will be a simple one, having left behind the difficult aspects about the almajiri and his system of learning which were difficult to bring out to surface to the notice of the elite in whose hands his fate lies but who respect him the least and are the cause of his continuous state of victimhood..

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ABOKIN DARWIN
By Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Bauchi, Nigeria
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This article was first published in Leadership in February 2006 under the title "Sultan and the Burden of Numbers". A reader from Radio Deutche Welle sent me a two worded email in which he summarized his feelings: "Abokin Darwin", i.e. A friend of Darwin, he called me. I have earlier listened to his program in which he castigated Darwinism and its influence on western thought and the present world order, rightfully I think from the perspective he looked at it. But I insist that my call for curbing our indulgence in reproduction does not in any way contradict the broadcaster's views and remains very important to our development as a nation....
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