✍🏾 Madalla Kadiri Dinki, Zaar Activist.
Zaar cultural heritage is facing extinction in the next 20 years from Bauchi State government, a puppet of the Jihadist, if necessary action is not taken by Zaar interest groups, international bodies like UNESCO to protect Zear cultural heritage. Unless Zaar leaders unite against the deliberate, systemic persecutions and political marginalisation, Zaar cultural heritage may become history sooner than expected.
The present generation of Zaar tribe in Tafawa Balewa, Bogoro LGA, Bauchi State at the moment faces the risk of being the last set of Zaar to observe Lepm Zaar, Waktari cultural festival. The other cultural festival such as Sirr, Kamas, Durr, Ma-laap, Nadamula, Gut have been labelled as animist practice and eroded completely.
The Traditional Selection Rite of Ghun Zaar have been criminalized and tag as not due process that is not recognize by chieftaincy law of Bauchi State.
Thirty percent of Zaar language have been taken over by Hausa and English, you hardly found a Zaar that speak Zaar language fluently for two minutes without code switching to either English or Hausa. As English, Hausa increase in our language, Zaar language decline. The main reason why English, Hausa increase in Zaar language while Zaar language is decreasing is because Zaar have neglect research to translate latest words that came out as a result of digital revolution.
The inability of ZDA to forge Zaar into one united people , the Zaar has been weakened and unable to stand before its enemies. Realistically speaking, Zaar cultural heritage is on the brink of extinction in Nigeria.
Consequently, Sharia is growing stronger in Zaarland, due to our people patronizing Sharia courts to obtain justice. As Sharia grows stronger, Zaar cultural heritage will erode gradually.
It is therefore imperative that ZDA must be restructured, as a matter of urgency, if Zaar cultural heritage is to survive. ZDA belongs to every Zaar in Zaarland and there is nothing wrong with the association. It is the management that should be revisited and restructured.
Disunity has crept into Zaarland because of the deviation from the norms for which ZDA was founded. ZDA was founded to serve as a collective voice, platform to fight for self determination, protect the interest of all Zaar, but the organization have deviated from its original norms, instead to be a collective voice, platform to fight for self determination, protect the interest of all Zaar, the organization have been turn to a organization of litigation, hijacked by some elites in Zaarland to victimized genuine members that are not in there opinion.
The suspension of Lepm Zaar 2024 by the Nigerian police is quite unfortunate, the Nigerian police, Bauchi State government should know that Lepm Zaar is not a mere cultural festival, but a season, nobody stops a season. According to tradition performing the rites of the festival of harvest call Lepm Zaar mark the beginning of harvest season, consumption of new crops, in the olden days a new crop cannot be consume until traditional rite of harvest dedication (Lepm Zaar) have been done, if to say we are in the olden days it means nobody will consume new crops throughout 2025.
There is need for a conference of Zaar leaders to ‘reason together’ to urgently point the way forward for all Zaar, based on an evaluation of the revealed will of God at this critical time.
I called on Zaar leaders to begin to tune their minds to the need for genuine repentance and reject doctrines that promote greed and covetousness.
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