Someone said Hausas do not farm, but I don't agree

Everyone farms especially those who own slaves. Farming is a traditional

occupation.

Almost everyone engages in subsistence agriculture. The north is all land. Farming goes on there with a lot of irrigation projects.

That the Hausas do not farm but only the Middle belters is not true. What I cannot say is who does the farming whether the slaves or free borns.

Remember Bayajidda legend and the free and bastard states. Based on that, I cannot say.

The Bible says those who do not work must not eat, the Hausas work and they deserve to eat.

That they are basically traders and the Fulanis pastoralists does not tell the whole story.

Pastoralists, the Fulanis are but not all Hausas are traders. Certainly, they till their land and sow crops. If the person saying they do not farm claims to live in the north, I have lived there too.

The History of all struggles is about land. There is no way the Hausas would give up their land to Middle belters to farm except those middle belters are farm hands.

The way it works is that when everyone engages in subsistence farming, and the yield is very rich and more than enough for the family, there will be need to sell the excess elsewelse, hence the need to go down south.

The northern youths are just beginning to turn away from the land in favour of Bike and Security jobs down south.

In this they are learners. The southern youths have been doing that well before them, hence the need to get food from the north.

The difference between the north and the South is in the leadership. Poverty is pervasive but the response is different.

Whereas the average poor person in the north sees his elevation in the hands of God, through their leaders, not so the southern poor.

In the South, the average poor person believes his destiny is in the hands of God and his own destiny helper but not the leaders.

Whereas in the North, power is permanent, not so in the South. A pauper today can become a power broker tomorrow.

It is strictly by bullion van.

If allying with an Alhaji in the north will do it so be it. What a southern leader has done any other southerner can do. It is not by birth but by destiny which is in God's hand.