Fula: people of West Africa
40 million Fula (Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Guinea, Niger). Doctorate in African Business
Fula Ethnic group (Fulani, Bororo, Fellata, Peul)
lives in the Saharan-Sahelian region (Trade and Business in West Africa)
- Fula means people in Wolof
- Fula is the language of Fula people (Niger-Congo languages)
- Estimation of Fula by countries (million people):
- Total in West Africa: 40 millions
- Burkina Faso (Fulfulde): 1,2
- Cameroon: 2,9
- Guinea: 4,2
- Niger: 1,6
- Nigeria (Maiduguri): 16,8
- Mali: 2,7
- Mauritania: 1,2
- Senegal: 3.5
- Main Fula ethnicities:
- Awlubé
- Ganllunkoobé
- Hausa:
- Nigeria (42 million people, 22% of the population),
- Niger (9 million people, 55% of the population)
- Lawbé
- Subalbé
- Sakkébé
- Songhai (5.7 million people)
- Niger River
Valley: Mali, Niger and Benin
- Songhai Empire
- Ethnicities related to Songhai: Mandinka, Fula, Zarma, Dendi
- Toroobé
- Yoruba
- Nigeria (32 million people)
- Benin (1,1 million people)
- Waylubé
- Wodaabe (2.2 million people in Nigeria)
- Fula are mostly Sunni Muslims
- Fula (Peul) are governed by a code of particular moral and social rules
- The Fula society is the most hierarchical of Africa (caste system)
- Fula Empires
- Ousmane Dan Fodio (founder of the Sokoto Empire)
- Sékou Amadou (founder of the Theocratic Empire Fula of Macina, 19th century)
- Muhammad Bello was the Hausa Sultan (Nigeria)
- The Malian Ethnologist Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900- 1991) was Fula
- “In Africa, when an old man dies, a library burns” Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- Masters: Business in Africa, Transport in Africa
- Doctorate in African Business
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