MY COUSINS AND I

About the Book

After a successful outing in the great Jihad of Northern Nigeria of the 1800s in Katsina Sector in which the dominant tribe, the Habe, was routed, a minority Fulani Clan steadfastly holds on to its affinity, its culture and its tradition overwhelmingly assimilating the dominant tribe. But one thing the victorious Clan failed to do was to conquer the language of the vanquished on that they were assimilated. Two centuries later, a boy from the victorious Fulani Clan is puzzled that his Clan has lost its tongue in the process and that has made him restless. He sets about challenging the great loss where he meets with obstacles at every turn. He becomes undaunted against traditional jokes coming from the Habe that is making the victory recorded by his Clan as if its legitimacy depended on the tongue issue. He vows to fight on

About the Author

The author is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award 1994/95 for the Promotion of the Journalism Profession of his alma mater, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism Lagos. He is also a recipient of the year 2000 Association of Nigerian Authors? [ANA] Abuja Chapter Award for the Promotion of Literature. A speechwriter for a number of successive governors of his state of Katsina, he has taken to writing as his hobby at a very early age in his life. Born in 1950 in Malumfashi Nigeria, he was educated at Katsina Teachers? College, School of Journalism and Television, Frilsham, Hermitage, Berks and Nigerian Institute of Journalism Lagos. An alumnus of the International Institute of Public Management, Washington DC, and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Nigeria, he was a one time Secretary, Katsina State Government where he also held the position of Commissioner of Information, Home Affairs and Culture. He is the author of A Season of Locusts, Informart, Kaduna 1999, Petrol Station, Spectrum Books, Ibadan 2004 also available on line [www.spectrumbooksonline.com] and The Adventures of El-Noor, unpublished. Extract from The Adventures of El-Noor, titled The Longest Night was published on the net by openwidemagazine.uk.co issue number 11 of July 2004 and also by Birminghamwords.co.uk. after being selected from entries received from writers around the world.