Hausa-Fulani

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As a Hausa-Fulani , the Hausa of -sprechende part Fulani (also called Fulani, Peul or Fellah) -Volks in Sudan called.

It has around 500,000 people. The name Fulani is the name used in the English-speaking world, derived from Hausa (commercial language in West Africa). Fulani, the members of this ethnic group call themselves . In the French-speaking world, the Fulbe is also called Peul. In Sudan, the Arab majority calls the Fulbe Fellah .

The people of this ethnic group are mostly nomads. The Hausa-Fulani no longer speak their original language Fulfulde , but Hausa.

The Hausa-Fulani immigrated from Nigeria at the end of the 19th century when the British subjugated the Fulani Sultanate of Sokoto .

The pioneer of Muslim women's education Nana Asma'u (1793–1864) comes from the Hausa-Fulani people .

literature

  • Okechukwu Okeke: Hausa-Fulani hegemony. The dominance of the Muslim North in contemporary Nigerian Politics . Acena Publ., Enugu, Lagos 1992, ISBN 978-2114-01-4 .

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