Essays In Persuasion

  MA Iliasu. Ita ce tambayar da Tim Harford mawallafin littafin "Undercover Economist" ya yiwa kansa. Saboda na farko dai karatun falsafa ba kamar injiniyarin bane, da za'a yi amfani da fasaha a maida ƙarfe ya koma inji. Kuma ba kamar likitanci bane, da za'a fafe cikin mara lafiya ayi masa aiki ya miƙe. Kuma ba kamar lissafi bane, da za'a yi nazari a gano wani lokon kimiyya da babu shi ada. Kuma ba ilimin na'ura mai ƙwaƙwalwa bane, da za'a ƙirƙiri sababbin manhajojin kawo sauƙi a al'amuran yau da kullum. Kuma ba kamar lauyanci bane, da za'a gano muhallin doka don kama masu laifi a ƙundume kuma a wanke marasa shi. Kuma ba kamar bokon tattali bane, da za'a yi amfani da lissafi da ƙididdiga auna yawan ma'adanan da ake buƙata domin aiwatar da wata harka ko naƙalto abinda ke shirin faruwa. Kuma gashi dai falsafar nan bata maida sisi ya koma kwabo, a ƙalla dai ba a yadda muka sani kai tsaye ba. Kuma bata da wani muhalli da za'a ce gashi nan m...

  MA Iliasu. A ɗaya daga cikin ranakun juma'ar shekarar 2021 ne ni da aminina kuma abokin karatuna, Mallam Ibraheem Khaleel Yalwa,  muka kaiwa malaminmu, Dr. Aliyu Ɗahiru Muhammad  PhD, mai gogewa ta musamman a fagen "Islamic Finance" da "Islamic Economics" ziyara a ofishinsa dake jami'ar Bayero. Dalilin kai ziyarar dai ya karkata ga neman shawarwarine akan hanyar da ɗalibin da ya gama jami'a bayan samun horo a kimiyyar tsimi, tattali da tanadi ya kamata ya hau kai. Wanda kuma duk wanda ya san Dr. Aliyu ya sanshi da jajircewa wurin ɗora matasa akan hanyar da zata amfane su. Koda basu je sun same shi ba kuwa shi da kansa zai bibiyesu saboda yadda yake tsananin kishinsu. Bayan Mallam ya gama bamu shawarwari sai na karɓi fagen, saboda dama akwai wata tambaya da na jima ina so nayi masa amma ban samu damar yi ba sai a lokacin, tambaya me alaƙa da irin ayyukan da masana harkar "Islamic Banking and Finance" irinsa suka daɗe suna ƙaddamarwa a ƙasashe ...

  MA Iliasu. Wani abu dana koya daga rayuwa a aikace, wanda kuma bana zaton yawancin al'umma sun taɓa zama sun ayyana girmansa da tasirinsa ballentana suyi yunƙurin sauya al'adunsu na yau da kullum domin kawo masa maslaha shine yadda salon tunanin maraya ke canzawa bayan wafatin iyayensa koda kuwa majiɓinta al'amarinsa sun kasance jajurtattu. Rayuwa gaba ɗayan ta ta ginu akan alaƙoƙi tsakanin mutane da al'amura daban daban. Musamman rayuwar yaro - wanda ƙanƙantarsa, kasawarsa da saurin gajiyawarsa suka sanya yafi kowane nau'i na ɗan Adam dogara akan alaƙoƙinsa da sauran mutane, musamman abinda ya shafi lura, tarbiyya, al'amarin zumunci da sauran alaƙoƙin ƴan uwa da dangi baki ɗaya. Tunanin maraya yana ginuwa bisa wani azanci na musamman, sakamakon wasu badaƙaloli da zan lissafo kuma na fayyace, wanda a aikace sune suka fi tasirantarsa. Azanci na farko da tunanin maraya yake hawa shine zancen zuci wanda zai ringa ƙissima masa cewar tunda yanzu fa iyayensa basu da...

  MA Iliasu. A sequel to my earlier essay on 20th-century economic thought is the most unexpected turn persuaded by the debates on the legitimacy of Hausa-Fulani as recognized ethnic coinage. The two essays are related not in the similarity of content but in context, from the way both are written with immense respect for upward possibilities of events and ideas. I get amused when a discourse relevant to the evolution of social organization is forcefully made to resist the possibilities of change. For change, not necessarily as Marx thought it but as we learned from what we've managed to witness in the warranted evolution of our societies, is inevitable. And if history doesn't repeat itself, the validity of accurate patterns remains undoubted. Denying that, willfully or not, is in my opinion, tantamount to unwarranted rigidity. To be candid, the decades-old debate on whether there's any group of people or an identity, ethnically or culturally fit to be called Hausa-fulani, t...

MA Iliasu. Ideas and ideologies appear more radical and come across as more triggering when they're young, but when they mature, they calm down and settle either themselves or society into inevitable moderation. This, among others, constitutes the major takeaways from Peter De Haan's treatise, "From Keynes to Pickety", a book I discover tremendously informative not only on the evolution of Economics in the 20th century but also on the blending nature of most sociopolitical, cultural and intellectual traditions. With that in mind, I understood it's not enough to respect beliefs, ideas, ideologies, and whatever alter the possibility for objective knowledge. The same courtesy, I figured, is due to experience - the byproduct of active engagement and old age. Surely knowing a phenomenon is one thing while living to dribble through its complexities entirely another. And along that path, so much of what influences the consumption and interpretation of knowledge changes; ...

  MA Iliasu. Nothing could have appeared more vividly in the first episode of the show than Lord Otto Hightower's intention of becoming the royal in-law ahead of Lord Corlys Valeryon. King Viserys had finally given in to the plan by choosing Alicent Hightower ahead of the Valeryon girl. Would that choice pay off? Nobody knows exactly, but the odds aren't looking good with Princess Rhaenyra, the chosen heir, who will have to swallow the pain of losing her dad to the bed of her best friend. That Rhaenyra favored the Valeryon girl as her new stepmom suggests her soft spot for the greatest power of the realm (House Valeryon). Afterall the Valeryons have a long history with the Targaryens. So any possible power struggle in the future with a prince of Valeryon maternity to her may appear warranted. So unlike the opportunism of the lords of the Freetown. Would Rhaenyra like any first born son by Alicent? We shall see! Interestingly, enough has been shown on the prominence of House Val...

MA Iliasu . A few hours before the pilot episode of the long-awaited prequel started airing, George R.R Martin answered at a fans session in Santa Fe, Mexico, that House of The Dragon is a different story from t he Game of Thrones, and one doesn't need to watch the latter to understand the former. I concur! However, watching the first episode of the prolific television series independent of The Game of Thrones proves harder than I thought. As soon as my watch begins, every single character cast, a word uttered, and the scene shown was either modifying my knowledge of everything in The Game of Thrones, revising it, or giving it a new dimension. The first scene was a journey to the later days of the old King Johaerys whom an undisclosed tragedy took both his sons for which he called the lords of the realm to come to Harrenhal and determine his successor. If anything can be learned from that gesture is that the introduction to the House of the Dragon is here to debunk the fallacies as...