The Fula people or Fulani or Fulany or Fulɓe (Fula: Fulɓe; French: Peul; Hausa: Fulani or Hilani; Portuguese: Fula; Wolof: Pël; Bambara: Fulaw), numbering between 40 and 50 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. The Fula people are traditionally believed to have roots stemming from North Africa and the Middle East, who later intermingled with local West African ethnic groups. As an ethnic group, they are bound together by the Fula language and their Islamic religious affiliation, their history and their culture.

The Fulas are leaders in many West Africa countries these include the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari; the President of Senegal, Macky Sall ; the President of Gambia, Adama Barrow ; the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh ; and the Vice President of Gambia, Fatoumata Tambajang.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

The Fula people are widely distributed, across the Sahel from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea, particularly in West Africa. The countries where they are present include Mauritania, Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, the Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Niger, Chad, Togo, South Sudan the Central African Republic, Liberia, and as far east as the Red Sea in Sudan and Egypt. With the exception of Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger where the Fula make up the largest ethnic group, and Fulas are either a significant or a minority ethnic group in nearly all other countries they live in. Alongside, many also speak other languages of the countries they inhabit, making many Fulani bilingual or even trilingual in nature. Such languages include French, Hausa, Bambara, Wolof, and Arabic.

While their early habitat in West Africa was apparently in an area in the vicinity of the borders of present-day Mali, Senegal and Mauritania, they are now, after centuries of gradual migrations and conquests, spread throughout a wide band of West and Central Africa.


Settled Fulani live in villages, towns and cities permanently and have given up nomadic life completely, in favor of an urban one. These processes of settlement, concentration and military conquest led to the existence of organized and long-established communities of Fulani, varying in size from small villages to towns. Today, some major Fulani towns include: Labé, Pita, Mamou and Dalaba in Guinea, Kaedi, Matam and Podor in Senegal and Mauritania, Bandiagara, Mopti, Dori, Gorom-Gorom and Djibo in Mali and Burkina Faso, on the bend of the Niger, and Birnin Kebbi, Gombe, Yola, Jalingo, Mayo Belwa, Mubi, Maroua, Ngaoundere, Girei and Garoua in the countries of Cameroon and Nigeria, in most of these communities, the Fulani are usually perceived as a ruling class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_people

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THE FULANI PEOPLE KNOWN FOR "HOLY WAR" (JIHADS)

The Fulani movement in West Africa tended to follow a set pattern. Their first movement into an area tended to be peaceful. Local officials gave them land grants. Their dairy products, including fertilizer, were highly prized. The number of converts to Islam increased over time. With that increase, Fulani resentment at being ruled by pagans, or imperfect Muslims, increased.

That resentment was fueled by the larger migration that occurred during the seventeenth century, in which the Fulani migrants were predominantly Muslim. These groups were not so easily integrated into society as earlier immigrants had been. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, revolts had broken out against local rulers. Although these revolts began as holy wars (jihads), after their success they followed the basic principle of Fulani ethnic dominance. The situation in Nigeria was somewhat different from that elsewhere in West Africa in that the Fulani entered an area more settled and developed than that in other West African areas.

At the time of their arrival, in the early fifteenth century, many Fulani settled as clerics in Hausa city-states such as Kano, Katsina, and Zaria. Others settled among the local peoples during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the seventeenth century, the Hausa states had begun to gain their independence from various foreign rulers, with Gobir becoming the predominant Hausa state.

The urban culture of the Hausa was attractive to many Fulani. These Town or Settled Fulani became clerics, teachers, settlers, and judges—and in many other ways filled elite positions within the Hausa states. Soon they adopted the Hausa language, many forgetting their own Fulfulde language. Although Hausa customs exerted an influence on the Town Fulani, they did not lose touch with the Cattle or Bush Fulani.

These ties proved useful when their strict adherence to Islamic learning and practice led them to join the jihads raging across West Africa. They tied their grievances to those of their pastoral relatives. The Cattle Fulani resented what they considered to be an unfair cattle tax, one levied by imperfect Muslims. Under the leadership of the outstanding Fulani Islamic cleric, Shehu Usman dan Fodio, the Fulani launched a jihad in 1804. By 1810, almost all the Hausa states had been defeated.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/anthropology-and-archaeology/people/fulani

You can read more about the Fulani tribe by visiting the two website links provided.

Cc seun lalasticlala mynd44 Dominique ishilove

People raising alarm over the current ethnic cleansing and jihads are not saying rubbish after all.

I pity the afonja muslim slavish cowards

Zimmermann:
I pity the afonja muslim slavish cowards

Fulanis are our wives anytime ,anyday.There is no Afonja to help them again.I pity Muslim Igbo and counterfeit Jew Igbo.
Fulani will run the Igbo tribe down in a twinkle of an eye.You better change your wrapper to a better totori covering.Mouthy cowards who were defeated by just 200 Yoruba soldiers at Ore.

mercyville:


Fulanis are our wives anytime ,anyday.There is no Afonja to help them again.I pity Muslim Igbo and counterfeit Jew Igbo.
Fulani will run the Igbo tribe down in a twinkle of an eye.You better change your wrapper to a better totori covering.Mouthy cowards who were defeated by just 200 Yoruba soldiers at Ore.

"Yawns", typical Yoruba big mouthed bullshit

mercyville:


Fulanis are our wives anytime ,anyday.There is no Afonja to help them again.I pity Muslim Igbo and counterfeit Jew Igbo.
Fulani will run the Igbo tribe down in a twinkle of an eye.You better change your wrapper to a better totori covering.Mouthy cowards who were defeated by just 200 Yoruba soldiers at Ore.

ur wives killed u without foreign help and occupied ur illorin, while chasing u all to heebadan. Atleast igbos never lost their lands in the biafran war.
The fulani is gradually making their way back into the heart of yoroland. Hw many times have they attacked olu falae since 2015?
U say there is no afonja to help them again? Wat do u think tinubu is? Like afonja like awolowo like abiola like tinubu
Awon mouthed foo.ls

Bloody terrorists.