‘For the nails to be torn out with red hot pincers, for the limbs to be pounded one by one in a mortar while the victims were still alive, for important people who had offended to be built up alive gradually in the town walls, till, after a period of agony, the bead of the dying man was finally walled up, were among the punishments well attested to have been inflicted in the decadence of Fulani power. It is said that a considerable number of the walls of Haussa towns are known by the people to have been so built up, and are even now called by the names of the most distinguished victims whose corpses they contain. Impalement and mutilation were among the penalties of lesser offences. Some of the Fulani Emirs would themselves appear to have been monsters of inhumanity, who rejoiced, like the depraved Emperors of Dome, in witnessing the mortal agonies of their victims.’

And yet the British put us Yoruba in the same country with these savages!