Tuesday, July 11, 2006
SAUDI FAN PIX
I have not forgotten my promise to post a picture of an ardent female saudi football fan on this blog. Problem is i cant just use the picasa software correctly. As soon as I get it right you will see the pix.
GOBARAU MINARET
I was near the minaret this morning and i could not resist the urge to take a peek. Do you know that it was first built in 1348 by Emir Muhammadu Korau? Oh yes. More than six hundred years ago. Remember the Americans revel at things 200 years old while Jews go for a thosand or so they claim. OUr OWN GOBARAU is OVER SIX hundred years for Godsakes. The very first skyscrapper in Nigeria or even West Africa. For this it is supposed to be a national monument decades ago. But the sorry state it is in puts the blame squarely on the state and successive state governments. The primay school adjascent to it is already stealing the show and houses nearby are encroaching on this edifice.
When shall we cotton into a simple sense of history?
I have not forgotten my promise to post a picture of an ardent female saudi football fan on this blog. Problem is i cant just use the picasa software correctly. As soon as I get it right you will see the pix.
GOBARAU MINARET
I was near the minaret this morning and i could not resist the urge to take a peek. Do you know that it was first built in 1348 by Emir Muhammadu Korau? Oh yes. More than six hundred years ago. Remember the Americans revel at things 200 years old while Jews go for a thosand or so they claim. OUr OWN GOBARAU is OVER SIX hundred years for Godsakes. The very first skyscrapper in Nigeria or even West Africa. For this it is supposed to be a national monument decades ago. But the sorry state it is in puts the blame squarely on the state and successive state governments. The primay school adjascent to it is already stealing the show and houses nearby are encroaching on this edifice.
When shall we cotton into a simple sense of history?
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Good blogging Hajia.
You are right Hajia. Our collective sense of history is zero. All the important sites in katsina have been obliterated: the city walls or ganuwa is one example. Even the placard that commemmorates the date and time and place Lord Lugard arrived and entered Katina has been removed. It used to be beside Kafar Yandaka. Its no more.
What about Kyauren Gobir?
May be you and me should start a revival movement for these things. What do you say, Hajia?
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You are right Hajia. Our collective sense of history is zero. All the important sites in katsina have been obliterated: the city walls or ganuwa is one example. Even the placard that commemmorates the date and time and place Lord Lugard arrived and entered Katina has been removed. It used to be beside Kafar Yandaka. Its no more.
What about Kyauren Gobir?
May be you and me should start a revival movement for these things. What do you say, Hajia?
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