Tribes don’t usually put website about themselves, others usually do and wrongly so either from good intentions or few unpleasant experience they had. The story is different with this website. It is made by Kanuri people, about their tribe to put forth accurate information instead of falsehood derived from a former colonial worker in Nigeria by the name of  John Neville Hare.

We want to thank both John and National Geographic for publishing an article vastly generalized and far from representing the Kanuri people whom he came across during his time to help with the British colonial agenda in Nigeria before 1960. In his article “How Northern Nigeria’s Violent History Explains Boko Haram” he started by admitting his addiction to alcohol.  Most readers will simply skip that part or rather think of, as plainly an honest man that owns his problems. But from the perspective of the Kanuri people a drunkard is a nuisance and irresponsible individual to be ignored, left without friends. His state of mind is not taken into account by his readers.

Furthermore, it explains a challenge finding  community that accepts him, hindering opportunities to learn about the people rather than imagining about them from a distance. Just like John’s attempts in connecting dots that didn’t exist, many writers have associated the Kanuri people with falsehood. 

KanuriTribe.com is here to set the record straight, the story, as it is without re-narrations.