Even during the Second World War, when Nigeria was part of the British Empire while Niger remained under the control of Vichy France, then the Hausa kept up trade and travel across what was in principle an entirely closed border.
The Hausa heartlands of northern Nigeria are already manifesting themselves against any intervention in Niger, necessarily via the Hausa heartlands of the south. ECOWAS is a Western proxy. Our 20-year attempt to divide 65 million or more Pashtun was an unmitigated disaster. We must not make the same mistake with 76 million Hausa.
Mohamed Bazoum is still alive two and a half weeks into the revolution to remove colonial military bases in order to take control of the most valuable natural resource rather have it shipped off to France. The many Presidents who have been overthrown in French-backed coups in Africa have been lucky to have survived two and half days.
Let's do it.
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