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The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people[ a] are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. [ 22] Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa, South Sudan, Darfur, and regions near the Red Sea coast in Sudan.
Fulani wedding. Fulani herdsmen or Fulani pastoralists are nomadic or semi-nomadic Fulani people whose primary occupation is raising livestock. [1] The Fulani herdsmen are largely located in the Sahel and semi-arid parts of West Africa, but due to relatively recent changes in climate patterns, many herdsmen have moved further south into the savannah and tropical forest belt of West Africa.
1996 map of the major ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (substantially based on G.P. Murdock, Africa, its peoples and their cultural history, 1959). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows:
Wodaabe. The Wodaabe ( Fula: Woɗaaɓe, وٛطَاٻٜ, 𞤏𞤮𞤯𞤢𞥄𞤩𞤫) is a name that is used to designate a subgroup of the Fula ethnic group who are traditionally nomadic found primarily in Niger and Chad. All Wodaabe people should not be mistaken as Mbororo as these are two separate subgroups of the Fulani people.
Hausa–Fulani are people of mixed Hausa and Fulani origin. [1] They are primarily found in the Northern region of Nigeria, most of whom speak a variant of Hausa or Fula or both as their first language . While some Fulani claim Semitic origins, Hausas are indigenous to West Africa. [2] This suggests that the processes of "Hausaization" in the ...
Fula (/ ˈ f uː l ə / FOO-lə), [2] also known as Fulani (/ f ʊ ˈ l ɑː n iː / fuul-AH-nee) [2] or Fulah [3] [4] (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Adlam: 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪; Ajami: ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ , ݒُلَارْ , بُۛلَر ), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 36.8 million people as a set of various ...
The Fula people are one of the largest and a widely dispersed Muslim ethnic group in Sahel and West Africa. [88] They number between 20 and 25 million people in total across many countries of this region, and they have historically featured a caste system. [89] [4] [90] The Fula caste system has been fairly rigid and has medieval roots. [4]
The Hausa people have been an important factor for the spread of Islam in West Africa. Today, the current Sultan of Sokoto is regarded as the traditional religious leader ( Sarkin Musulmi) of Sunni Hausa–Fulani in Nigeria and beyond. Maguzanci, an African Traditional Religion, was practised extensively before Islam.