The North We Once Knew: Lessons in managed diversity, by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi, FNSE The thought-provoking piece by Samuel Aruwan, “Christmas Reflections and Northern Nigeria’s Long Night of Division,” stirred in me a deep and aching memory of a North that once understood its own soul. It was a North where ethnic and religious differences did not define us as enemies, but rather formed the fabric of a vast, carefully managed tapestry. Today, as we navigate a landscape of growing fragmentation, it is worth asking how we lost that...