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The dangerous criminalization of Fulani ethnicity, By Farooq Kperogi

Fulani Herdsmen Rearing Cows
Fulani Herdsmen
The Nigerian mass media-and the online echo chambers they have spawned on social media and elsewhere-have normalized the pathologization and criminalization of the Fulani ethnic identity through their popularization of the odious “Fulani herdsmen” collocation. Criminalizing and pathologizingan entire ethnic identity is often the precursor to genocide.