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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. The approximate number of Fula people is unknown ...
Fula Americans, Fulani Americans or Fulbe Americans are Americans of Fula (Fulani, Fulbe) descent. The first Fulani people who were forcibly expatriated to United States from the slave trade came from several parts of West and Central Africa. Many Fulbe came of places as Guinea, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Cameroon. Recent ...
The ancestral origin of the Sullubawa is bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان) (Sullubawa in Hausa, Sullpe in Fulani language) are the descendants of Ahmed Bah باه (one of the four of Oquba Bin Nafah Alfehri الفهري عقبة بن نافع offspring and the two thousand soldiers (Faman settled in Silla) at Niger river have ...
Futa Toro and West African kingdoms, c. 18th century. Futa Toro (Wolof and Fula: Fuuta Tooro, فُوتَ تࣷورࣷ , 𞤆𞤵𞥄𞤼𞤢 𞤚𞤮𞥄𞤪𞤮; Arabic: فوتا تورو), often simply the Futa, is a semidesert region around the middle run of the Senegal River.
The origin of the Dambazawa is as unclear as that of the Fulani race itself, but sources within the clan believe it to be of a Dayebe Fulani group. It was at the time of Sundiata Keita (c. 1217–1255 A.D.) the Fulbe of that era began adopting surnames that conformed to their socioeconomic groups.
The term Hausa-Fulani is also used mostly as a joint term to refer to both the monoethnic Hausa and Fulani ethnic populations in Northern Nigeria. [2] While some Fulani claim Semitic origins, Hausas are indigenous to West Africa. [3] This suggests that the processes of "Hausaization" in the western Sudan region was probably both cultural and ...
Fula people (or Fulani, Fulɓe) Fula language (or Pulaar, Fulfulde, Fulani) The Fula variety known as the Pulaar language; The Fula variety known as the Pular language; The Fula variety known as Maasina Fulfulde; Fula alphabets writing systems of Fula language in the Latin script. Al-Fula
The first plantation in Hawaii was created by William Northey Hooper, in 1836, on Koloa, Kaua’i which changed the course of Hawaiian history. [3] Plantations exploded in Hawaii as their profits were unmatched at the time in the area thanks to the tropical climate which promoted growth of coffee, pineapple, and other crops. [1]