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White Fulani cattle are an important beef breed of cattle throughout the area traversed by the Fulani people and beyond in the Sahel zone of Africa. They are mostly Zebu but of Sanga cattle origin. Characterized by high lyre shaped horns, they have either thoracic humps like the Zebu or humps intermediate with the cervico-thoracic humps of the ...
The latter may have migrated, most probably along with the spread of Islam, westerly to constitute what are today the lyre-horned cattle of West and Central Africa, including the Fulani cattle. Originally the White Fulani were indigenous to north Nigeria, southeast Niger and northeast Cameroon, owned by both Fulani and Hausa people.
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.
The male beauty ideal of the Wodaabe stresses tallness, white eyes and teeth; the men will often roll their eyes and show their teeth to emphasize these characteristics. [8] Wodaabe clans then join for the remainder of the week-long Gerewol : a series of barters over marriage and contests where the young men's beauty and skills are judged by ...
Fishing is also very popular in the riverine areas. The breeds of cattle found in Adamawa are; Adamawa Gudali, Sokoto Gudali, White Fulani, Ambala, Red Sokoto and Red Fulani. [32] The state has around 1.5 million cattle and 64 grazing reserves of which 30 are gazetted. [33] [34] Adamawa state has a thriving livestock industry especially cattle ...
The Silmi-Mossi are a very interesting mixed race found in the circles of Ouahigouya and Ouagadougou.Mixed races are not rare in West Africa: the Toucouleurs of Fouta-Toro, the Foulahs of Fouta-Djallon, the Ouassoulonkés, the Foulankés, the Khassonkés, are mixed races composed of fulanis and 'Negroes', fulani and Sereres (or wolofs) for the Toucouleurs, fulani and Mandés (mainly Malinkes ...
Fulani Sullupi were existed in Macina ماسينا territory with their cattle cows long before the arrival of shake شيخ Ahmed Lobo. [5] They are the main branches of El-Faman ancestors of the Red Fulani of Western Sudan that white army who came from North Africa and settled in Silla since 739 A.D. [6]
Ibrahim Gambari – (Fulani/Yoruba); Scholar and diplomat; Chief of Staff to the President; Under-Secretary-General / Special Adviser – Africa United Nations; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Current Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari – (Fulani/Yoruba); Nigerian lawyer and monarch. Current Emir of Ilorin ...