Fula people - Wikipedia 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 | People, Religion, Nigeria | Britannica Fulani, a primarily Muslim people scattered throughout many parts of Africa, mostly in West Africa from Lake Chad in the east to the Atlantic coast They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and Niger but can also be found in several other countries
Fulani - New World Encyclopedia The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of West Africa They are concentrated principally in Nigeria , Mali , Guinea , Cameroon , Senegal , and Niger , though they are also spread throughout Mauritania , The Gambia , Sierra Leone , Burkina Faso , Guinea Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire , Togo , Central African Republic , Ghana
Fulani People - Africa Guide The Fulani people of West Africa are the largest nomadic group in the world As a group they contain a vast array of diverse people who were conquered and became a part of the Fulani through the spread of Islam
AFRICA | 101 Last Tribes - Fulani people The Fula, Fulani, or Fulbe people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa but also in South Sudan, Sudan, and regions near the Red Sea coast
Fulani - Encyclopedia. com Fulfulde is generally written in Roman script, although in the past it was written in Arabic A search for the origin of the Fulani is not only futile, it betrays a position toward ethnic identity that strikes many anthropologists as profoundly wrong
Fula Fula is a macrolanguage or dialect continuum spread through many African countries, from Senegal in the Atlantic coast to the savannas of East Africa Its wide geographical extent compared with that of other Atlantic languages is accounted by the nomadic, pastoral, way of life of the Fulbe people
Fula Fulani People and their origins. (One of the largest ethnic groups . . . Fula or Fulani or Fulbe (the latter being an Anglicization of the word in their language, Fulɓɓe) are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and The Sudan of east Africa
Origin of the Fulani of West Africa | African History | ThinkAfrica Fula is a Niger-Congo language, of the Atlantic languages branch of the Niger-Congo languages and of the Senegambian sub-branch of Atlantic Niger-Congo languages The spoken language of the Fulani, known as Fula, is also sometimes called Fulfulde or Pulaar
Fula language - Wikipedia Fula is a lingua franca in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, northeastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Southern Niger and Northern Benin (in Borgou Region, where many speakers are bilingual), and a local language in many African countries, such as Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Togo, CAR, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and