I recieved many emails from German students asking about my biography, I put a brief below.
Briefly, I was born on March 9 1968 in Katsina city northern Nigeria. My primary education was at Giginyu Primary school (in Kano State) and Secondary schools were at Government Secondary Schools Koko and Zuru (Kebbi State) upt 1985. My University education is a the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, (BSc Geography: 1990), The University of Ibadan (MSc Geography: 1994) and the Bayero University Kano (PhD Geography: 2004). I specialized in Medical Geography with special interest on Maternal health and I am currently an Associate Professor of Geography at the Bayero University Kano. My other research interests include cultural geography, spatial patterns of phenomena, socio-linguistics, and healthcare delivery. Find also above a list of some of my academic and literary publications.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
MADINAH
Here I am in the living city of light
The city of the holy Prophet
On whom beAllah’s peace and blessings
Here I am watching a bright moon
Yet, the moon brightness was dimmed by his holiness
Oh my dear indescribable Madinah!
You have given me a rare opportunity
To meet all races of mankind
All colours of homo sapiens species
All professing one faith in one God
All longing the presence of Muhammad
I witness pilgrims weeping in reverence
For his presence is worth more than anything earthly
The benefector of mankind I salute you
No one has achieved as much as you in a mere
Two decades and three years!
Madinah (4/11/09)
The city of the holy Prophet
On whom beAllah’s peace and blessings
Here I am watching a bright moon
Yet, the moon brightness was dimmed by his holiness
Oh my dear indescribable Madinah!
You have given me a rare opportunity
To meet all races of mankind
All colours of homo sapiens species
All professing one faith in one God
All longing the presence of Muhammad
I witness pilgrims weeping in reverence
For his presence is worth more than anything earthly
The benefector of mankind I salute you
No one has achieved as much as you in a mere
Two decades and three years!
Madinah (4/11/09)
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
MARRAKECH
For Judith Ann Walker
The gracious brick coloured city
Of traditional eminence and status
The grand city of dual splendour
Oriental golden enticement of tourists
Mid terrain between Africa and Europe
Marrakech! The red minaret of the Maghreb
Bride of the Mediterranean
And Atlas protected summer camp
Where horse cart battle engine wheels
Visitor’s fascination by your magnificence
Eternally startles me Marrakech
Marrakech, you are purely splendid!
Amani Hotel, Marrakech
September 25-26, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
KANO
Tradition and modernity
Inseparable like a mixture
Buy and sell
The city offers more
To engage in and more to marvel at
For saints
For sinners
For the active
For the dormant
It has a place for every one.
March 1998
Inseparable like a mixture
Buy and sell
The city offers more
To engage in and more to marvel at
For saints
For sinners
For the active
For the dormant
It has a place for every one.
March 1998
BAMAKO
FOR MARTINE CHRISTIN
On one side stands the hill of power
On the other the light of learning
In between is a valley so they said
So calm and serene is the valley
That bears beautiful traditional face
And wears an elaborate colonial dress
A dual city of tradition and modernity
A duality that works perfectly that
One walks across space and time
As one walk through the streets of Bamako!
Grand Hotel September 29, 2006
On one side stands the hill of power
On the other the light of learning
In between is a valley so they said
So calm and serene is the valley
That bears beautiful traditional face
And wears an elaborate colonial dress
A dual city of tradition and modernity
A duality that works perfectly that
One walks across space and time
As one walk through the streets of Bamako!
Grand Hotel September 29, 2006
Sunday, March 22, 2009
GLOBAL VILLAGE
though we are all human
we are made to be different
by forces beyond our clout
yet they want remake us
in a new image of their choice
in a village too big to be safe
the world they now call
a single village in the globe
with a big brother to match
as long as we are second class
within that large village fashioned
we should not be subjected to
someone’s standards
someone’s culture
someone’s technology
someone’s understanding
someone’s world view
someone’s theories and concepts
they try hard in harder ways
to make us part of that village
but we know we are different
and shall strive to live outside
that fashioned unsafe village
May 7, 2001
we are made to be different
by forces beyond our clout
yet they want remake us
in a new image of their choice
in a village too big to be safe
the world they now call
a single village in the globe
with a big brother to match
as long as we are second class
within that large village fashioned
we should not be subjected to
someone’s standards
someone’s culture
someone’s technology
someone’s understanding
someone’s world view
someone’s theories and concepts
they try hard in harder ways
to make us part of that village
but we know we are different
and shall strive to live outside
that fashioned unsafe village
May 7, 2001
Thursday, January 8, 2009
GAZA*
What befall humanity that it keeps silent?
Gaza strip is turned into a concentration camp
Israelis are committing another Holocaust
A massacre and genocide is going on
Gruesome murder is being committed by Zionists
And world leaders are afraid to take action
In Gaza, human life is made so cheap by Zionism
The mighty American and European Empires
Are under the siege of global Zionism
Arab world leaders, gutlessly keep silence
More afraid to lose their political power than their brothers
The Israelis shamelessly justify their atrocities
They cowardly defend the killing of children
The murder of women and unarmed civilians
As if their lives are worth more than other lives
They are exposing their cruelty and inhumanity
Telling the world that saves them from Auschwitz to go hell
The world must stand against global Zionism
It is a monster that humanity must confront
But after all the hypocrisy life will go on in Gaza
The will of the people is tested but also strengthened
The Zionists are afraid of what tomorrow holds
They want to change the future with violence
But the future belongs to those who resist occupation
For Zionists are destined to fail for they are unjust
They will eventually leave Gaza, empty handed
January 8, 2009
Gaza strip is turned into a concentration camp
Israelis are committing another Holocaust
A massacre and genocide is going on
Gruesome murder is being committed by Zionists
And world leaders are afraid to take action
In Gaza, human life is made so cheap by Zionism
The mighty American and European Empires
Are under the siege of global Zionism
Arab world leaders, gutlessly keep silence
More afraid to lose their political power than their brothers
The Israelis shamelessly justify their atrocities
They cowardly defend the killing of children
The murder of women and unarmed civilians
As if their lives are worth more than other lives
They are exposing their cruelty and inhumanity
Telling the world that saves them from Auschwitz to go hell
The world must stand against global Zionism
It is a monster that humanity must confront
But after all the hypocrisy life will go on in Gaza
The will of the people is tested but also strengthened
The Zionists are afraid of what tomorrow holds
They want to change the future with violence
But the future belongs to those who resist occupation
For Zionists are destined to fail for they are unjust
They will eventually leave Gaza, empty handed
January 8, 2009
Source: http://www.monde-magouilles.com/photos_guerre/gaza3.jpg
* Thanking Aljazeera International for keeping the free world informed
* Thanking Aljazeera International for keeping the free world informed
Sunday, January 4, 2009
THE HOLOCAUST CARD
So Nazi Germany was cruel
Yes, the Nazis were brutal
They were barbaric and inhuman
Auschwitz camp was horrific
Men were reduced to numbers
Not only Jews were victims of Nazism
But anyone not Aryan in origin
For years since Auschwitz
The world became Semitic haven
The Jew is honoured by the human spirit
Spirit of rationality and brotherhood
No one dare say a word or act
That is capable of hurting the Jew
Or be labeled anti-Semitic
The West is at the forefront
The Jew is sacred, not profane.
Soon Zionists realized their strength
The Holocaust card can always be used
To do anything human or otherwise
Thus, Israel was born on borrowed land
Palestine was robed of its precious land
Let the Jews flood from all over earth
A new home for them is already secured
The Zionists are not satisfied anyway
The State of Israel must grow big and bigger
Then the Jews became “Chosen People”
Superior to the gentiles they met on the land
They became the Aryans of the Middle East
With a license to do whatever they want
Backed by a government with military might
The media they already control
The mighty dollar is under their guard
Even security agencies are in their hands
They have an open check to terrorize
They kill and maim the goyim
They steal their land and demolish their homes
They kill the goyim’s women and children
They imprisoned their able-bodied men
Their leaders are put under house arrest
They amass Weapons of Mass Destructions
That no other Middle East country can possess
Any attempt is met with the anger of their slaves
Yes, American sons are ready to fight their war
They can lay down their lives and honour for Israel
For if you dare speak against Israel you are doomed
The Holocaust card is potent with smear and label
The mark of Cain is the label of anti-Semitism
Zionists have conditioned the West to believe the myth
How I pitied the citizens of the mighty empire
Whose name is used to commit murder and theft
Whose taxes are used to protect criminals of war
Whose military might is used to justify unjust acts
Shamelessly in the name of freedom and democracy
Woe unto you the citizens of the empire
Your government's every act negates your creed
Transitory is military might in the history of man
Human spirit for freedom and justice cannot fail
Superpower status can even tomorrow be gone
Tell your emperor my dear citizens of the empire
The world is full of fear of his might
Yet, allow their resource and name be used for crimes
Tell your people it is time to stop the emperor
He is mad and his madness is too grave
He will destroy the empire or set its downfall
All the founding fathers toil will go without a fight
Tell your emperor the empire is at a brink
Of becoming a neo-Nazi of our time
Let him tell you the truth and stop telling lies
His wars are not for your protection but doom
His wars are for Zionists, the enemies of peace
And please tell Israel that the God of Abraham never sleeps
Let the good citizens of the empire rise up
Discard the Holocaust card or accept its crimes
Tell the emperor your son's lives are worth to live
You can fight for yourselves with every joy
But not for others who never appreciate your worth
Who spy on your home security and sell your secrets
Whose lobby hides under the Holocaust card
And your lads to die for their cause
And for you Israel, the land of the Jews
Remember how God has honoured you among men
Pay back with love and kindness and not with crimes
The Lord that dispersed you for your sins
Watches you committing them again and again
He does not sleep.
February 8, 2005
Yes, the Nazis were brutal
They were barbaric and inhuman
Auschwitz camp was horrific
Men were reduced to numbers
Not only Jews were victims of Nazism
But anyone not Aryan in origin
For years since Auschwitz
The world became Semitic haven
The Jew is honoured by the human spirit
Spirit of rationality and brotherhood
No one dare say a word or act
That is capable of hurting the Jew
Or be labeled anti-Semitic
The West is at the forefront
The Jew is sacred, not profane.
Soon Zionists realized their strength
The Holocaust card can always be used
To do anything human or otherwise
Thus, Israel was born on borrowed land
Palestine was robed of its precious land
Let the Jews flood from all over earth
A new home for them is already secured
The Zionists are not satisfied anyway
The State of Israel must grow big and bigger
Then the Jews became “Chosen People”
Superior to the gentiles they met on the land
They became the Aryans of the Middle East
With a license to do whatever they want
Backed by a government with military might
The media they already control
The mighty dollar is under their guard
Even security agencies are in their hands
They have an open check to terrorize
They kill and maim the goyim
They steal their land and demolish their homes
They kill the goyim’s women and children
They imprisoned their able-bodied men
Their leaders are put under house arrest
They amass Weapons of Mass Destructions
That no other Middle East country can possess
Any attempt is met with the anger of their slaves
Yes, American sons are ready to fight their war
They can lay down their lives and honour for Israel
For if you dare speak against Israel you are doomed
The Holocaust card is potent with smear and label
The mark of Cain is the label of anti-Semitism
Zionists have conditioned the West to believe the myth
How I pitied the citizens of the mighty empire
Whose name is used to commit murder and theft
Whose taxes are used to protect criminals of war
Whose military might is used to justify unjust acts
Shamelessly in the name of freedom and democracy
Woe unto you the citizens of the empire
Your government's every act negates your creed
Transitory is military might in the history of man
Human spirit for freedom and justice cannot fail
Superpower status can even tomorrow be gone
Tell your emperor my dear citizens of the empire
The world is full of fear of his might
Yet, allow their resource and name be used for crimes
Tell your people it is time to stop the emperor
He is mad and his madness is too grave
He will destroy the empire or set its downfall
All the founding fathers toil will go without a fight
Tell your emperor the empire is at a brink
Of becoming a neo-Nazi of our time
Let him tell you the truth and stop telling lies
His wars are not for your protection but doom
His wars are for Zionists, the enemies of peace
And please tell Israel that the God of Abraham never sleeps
Let the good citizens of the empire rise up
Discard the Holocaust card or accept its crimes
Tell the emperor your son's lives are worth to live
You can fight for yourselves with every joy
But not for others who never appreciate your worth
Who spy on your home security and sell your secrets
Whose lobby hides under the Holocaust card
And your lads to die for their cause
And for you Israel, the land of the Jews
Remember how God has honoured you among men
Pay back with love and kindness and not with crimes
The Lord that dispersed you for your sins
Watches you committing them again and again
He does not sleep.
February 8, 2005
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