My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Seite 196

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q24) 1913, 1982, 1992,1993
In 1913, Lord Harcourt [ British
Secretary of State for the Colonies]
laid down the kind of relationship
that should exist between North
and the South as a marriage with
the North as the “husband” and
the South as the “wife.” (p. 300),
[see q7 above.]
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fatalistic religious
interpretation
of harcourt’s plan
Harcourt’s injunction of a
permanent Northern ruling class
seemed to have been bought by
successive Northern leaders….
the Northern leaders have since
introduced the fatalistic religious
element to explain the permanent
Northern ruling class in Nigeria.
Three instances are worth
introducing.

Well, Chief, you know it is
all in the natural order of
things. A country is just like
a farm where everyone has his
functions. Allah has willed it
that someone must hold the cow
by the horns while another does
the milking.” 16 (Italics mine)
President Shagari’s men asked
Chief Abiola to name his price
in terms of oil lifting and other
perquisites. What this meant was
that Chief Abiola could be “a
cheerful rogue” of the kind of
Chief Okotie-Eboh who was
destined by Allah “to hold the
cow by the horns” and the likes
of Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
and Alhaji Shehu Shagari who
were destined by Allah “to do the
milking and sharing.” Southerners
have been holding “the cow by
the horns” and the Northerners
have been doing the “milking and
sharing” since 1960….

The second incident was the [1992]
statement attributed to my former
Chairman at the cds, and friend,
and spok