The dilema in the society today

Prior to the British colonial conquest of their lands, Hausa speakers considered themselves civilized among Africans, having possessed a writing system of their own invention called Ajami. This meant Hausas became literate or could read and write long before their contact with the British colonists and their education system in Northern Nigeria. The Hausa-Ajami writing system was based on the Arabic script. Even though Arabic and Hausa are genetically related, linguistically, each language portrays its own peculiar structures and other nomenclatures. Since the introduction of the Latin/Roman script (nicknamed by the Hausa as Boko) by the British, Ajami has continued to face stiff Boko opposition in society, particularly in relation to its use among the Western-educated Hausa elites. On the other hand, numerous non-Western educated Hausas have continued to depend on it as an inherited literacy tool.