A Reaction to Tunde Fagbenle on His view on Sanusi Lamido (VI) by Iroabuchi Onwuka

Why is International Islamic School in Khartoum the probably influence behind Sanusi’s motivation? Well we can’t particular demarcate the man from who he was in years preceding his years at Khartoum from the man when he began to ascend the ladder of banking. That he studied in Khartoum will also mean that Sanusi as a man could not have been that ignorant of the greatness of the Islam in the Europe throughout the middle ages. That he studied in Khartoum should mean that he was coming from a certain persuasion especially been the grandson of an Emir of Sokoto. His attention must have come from somewhere else. His attention on Khartoum was not misplaced since he was probably aware of the connection between certain West African states and Fulani. His attention is not without interpretation since the connection to Sudan and Khartoum especially leave the wake on the guiding influence of Sanusi. That influence on Sanusi in terms of his actions so far as head of CBN is seriously manifest, especially his leniency towards oil producing Islamic states such as Brunei and Saudi Arabia. Of course theirs is a class system.


Khartoum, which has been taken over by 3% of the population of mainly Arab decent, is so pivotal to African history that serious guide to the formation of the Islamic state is needed if we are to understand its complex apostrophe in the Fulani of Nigerian history and Sanusi’s action. Khartoum is where the two Nile Rivers meet, the White Nile originating in Uganda and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia converge in Khartoum. From Khartoum, the Nile runs through Africa into the boundaries of Egypt through the other part of the Red Sea.


How do we begin with Khartoum and the influence of Islamic banking? We can begin by citing the role of Gold in Marakesh in the years leading to the collapse of the Moorish dynasty of Meri, Nri, and then the attraction for the City of Gold, which is Timbuktu began to invite Muslims of all types to sub Sahara. Ibn Kallon’s Chronicles demonstrate the impact of trading along the Syria Mesopotamia and the quest of spice that drove bans of brotherhood to raid islands throughout Mesopotamia. From the rule of the Almohad Caliph of Marakesh beginning from around 640 AD to sometime about 1250 AD, the domination of Islam and the Arab counterparts were so complete and so thorough. The Chronicles of Mamluk Sultan and to the Berbers and Islamic States of the North, forced small groups of Muslims to occasional set out on their own and wanted a piece of the salt and gold markets along the river Niger. The search for gold and the control of gold made these bands of Islamic raids and schools successful.


The gold’s of Timbuktu and Khartoum attracted waves and waves of migration from the North Africa and even Asia, to deeper parts of Sahara. Among the roving tribes were the Tamashek and Arabic, the Bambara and Fulani, the Maghreb and Turag and of course the very Moors themselves. But it was the Fulani who later pitched their tents in Sokoto and in several parts of Northern that span throughout much of West Africa.