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Comrade, Comradeship and Comradery

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Muhammad Hashim Suleiman Phd

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"uxFRen7H" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By&comma;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"HO15nE7X" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Hashim Muhammad Suleiman&comma; PhD<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This fasting comes with many instances of human delineation&comma; differentiation and casual ordering of otherness among Arewa social media&period; As with other of our human communicative activities&comma; the recent generalized and sustained bashing of a term&comma; that on its own&comma; should have been a term we like because of the situation we are in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The term Comrade has for days now&comma; been ridiculed&comma; infantilized and casted in what some think is humorously an entertaining banter&period; However&comma; as a Hausa man would say&colon; &&num;8220&semi;a wasan dare ake fa&dcaron;a ma wawa magana&period;&&num;8221&semi; To many of us&comma; we read from a distance how many think a comrade is all things but good&colon; a comrade is one who can&&num;8217&semi;t do anything meaningful&period; In boisterous banter&comma; they write to negate who&&num;8217&semi;s a comrade&comma; how comradeship and comradery should be avoided by all and sundry&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll not write to defend a comrade&period; However&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ll write to show that the ridicule is on us&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"5wvqyCwH" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Currently&comma; Nigerians are suffering or better still Nigerians &&num;8220&semi;suna &kcedil;arbar kebura&period;&&num;8221&semi; Nothing seems to be working&period; There is generalized hunger&comma; insecurity&comma; poverty and unemployment&period; These maladies combine together have lowered the thinking faculty of many of us&period; As humans&comma; when suffering becomes much&comma; we tend to look for ways to lessen the impact of the suffering on our mental realm&period; As it is now&comma; many people have decided to take their anger out on a comrade&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;19&sol;conduct-english-test-for-national-assembly-aspirants-gentily-urges-ganduje&sol;">Conduct English Test For National Assembly Aspirants- Gentily Urges Ganduje<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In relation to the above stance&comma; Two Theories have already explained the banter against comradery&period; These Theories are Cathartic and Mimetic Theories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cathartic&sol;Catharsis Theory explains that humans have to purge their guilt in order to stay healthy&period; As our body strives to maintain physiological homeostasis through eating-defecating&semi; drinking&semi; sweating&sol;urinating&comma; etc&comma; it most also maintain a social equilibrium of balancing the intake and out pouring of stimuli&period; In essence&comma; because of the generalized suffering in the land&comma; we have to find a way of psychologically lessening our &&num;8220&semi;&dcaron;iban kebura&&num;8221&semi; and we&&num;8217&semi;ve found somewhere to do it by heaping all blames on an unnamed comrade&period; Now&comma; we purge our guilt of kebura on comrade by writing down&comma; looking down and casting aspersions on comrade&period; In doing so&comma; we derive comic relief and feel good by transferring our bottled up suffering on a comrade&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; Mimetic Theory through its explanation of our Mimetic Desires explains further our recent charade against comrade and comradeship&period; The theory further explains that as humans we always blame others for our woes and suffering through scapegoating&period; We engage in desiring what others desire till it becomes a contagion that does no one any good&period; When mimetic contagion has spread throughout a community and led it into chaos as we currently have in Northern Nigeria&period; That when our unregulated Mimetic desires lead to chaos&comma; criminality and insecurity of all&comma; we tend to engage in escapism by believing that it is the fault of another&comma; not us&period; The typical way that human communities have dealt with the chaos has been the scapegoating mechanism&comma; in which groups &lpar;through a mimetic process&rpar; single-out a single individual or problem as the source of their problems and violently expel or eliminate this member from the community&period; Isn&&num;8217&semi;t this exactly what we are doing to a comrade&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now that we know&comma; there is need for us to really understand what the term comrade is&comma; independent of the planted pictures in our heads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Barkan mu da ibada&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; 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