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	CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FULANI
		The rapid shifts of homestead, trans-ethnic marriages, and suspicion increase the margin of error in estimating the population of Fulani.
		Among the pastoral Fulani, sociopolitical structure centers on a typology of leadership consisting of the Ardo (the chief or the lineage head) and the Lamido.
		The Fulani are governed by a political structure consisting of the ethnic group, the clan, the lineage, the family, and the Ruga.
	www.gamji.com /fulani3.htm (3683 words)

	Lenora Fulani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulani's career is very closely connected with her mentor Fred Newman, a controversial psychotherapist formerly associated with Lyndon LaRouche.
		Fulani became interested in Newman's ideas in the late 1970s while she was attending the City University of New York.
		Fulani later withdrew her endorsement of the Buchanan campaign on the grounds that it had "hijacked" the Reform movement in order to further Buchanan's own right wing agenda.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lenora_Fulani (936 words)

	The Characteristics of the Fulani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fulani of Nigeria are a part of this migrant, ethnic population having common occupational and biogenetic characteristics.
		Fulani are also some distance away from other health facilities in their settlements or in places they settle during their migration.
		The Fulani can remember their ages only if they are born in years of memorable events such as war, drought, disease epidemic, reign of a famous ruler, or the arrival of the first car, train, or electricity (Peil 1982).
	www.zumunta.org /characteristics_of_the_fulani.htm (3705 words)

	Hausa-Fulani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hausa-Fulani is a term sometimes used for the people of the Hausa kingdoms of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and the Fulani Empire of the nineteenth of Northern Nigeria, Mali, and Niger.
		The Fulani are a nomadic people that live in the same region where the Hausa live, but are not related to them.
		The Fulani are cattle herders, and move around searching from grasslands where their cattle can graze.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hausa-Fulani (139 words)

	Fulani Herding System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fulani use farming to absorb the excess of labor during the wet-season, to reduce dependence on farmers, to counter food shortages during an impending drought, and to get farm stubble for their animals.
		To avoid the transmission of epizootic diseases among the herds, the Fulani steer clear of the herds suspected of carrying diseases (Riesman 1977; Sandford 1982; Meir 1987; and Ellis and Swift 1988).
		For the Fulani of northern Nigeria, none of these factors are static, therefore, optimum herd size is dynamic, varying by a wide margin, depending on the circumstance of the individual Fulani.
	www.zumunta.org /Publications/fulani_herding_system.htm (3982 words)

	Fulani - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Fulani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fulani language is divided into four dialects and belongs to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family; it has more than 10 million speakers.
		Fulani groups are found in Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon.
		By the end of the 19th century the power of the Fulani Empire was declining and this aided the establishment of British rule
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Fulani (198 words)

	The Fulani People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The devoutly Muslim Fulani have seen themselves as the propagators and preservers of the Islamic faith in West Africa from as early as the fourteenth century.
		Fulani men are often seen wearing a solid color of shirt and pants, a long cloth wrapped around their faces, carrying their walking sticks across their shoulders with their arms resting on top of it.
		The Wodabe Fulani of Eastern Niger are among the pure nomadic herders.
	byhisgrace.com /fulani/profile.htm (3278 words)

	N.Y. Independence Party ousts Fulani - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulani has been accused of saying Jews "function as mass murderers of people of color" and "had to sell their souls" to acquire Israel.
		Fulani and five of her supporters were purged from the Ross Perot-inspired party's 25-member executive committee after more than three hours of often heated debate.
		Fulani, who said she had many Jewish friends and colleagues, claimed Democrats were behind the move against her because of concern she was leading fellow fls away from the Democratic Party.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/09/18/ny_independence_party_ousts_fulani (228 words)

	Nigeria - Fulani People of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulani, people of Africa numbering about 7 million and dispersed in varying, often sizable, concentrations throughout the grassland areas of West Africa from Senegal and Guinea to Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad.
		The religious beliefs of a large percentage of the cattle-herding Fulani are animistic, although many of the politically oriented Fulani are Muslim and have often justified their conquests on religious grounds.
		Fulani is one of the principal languages spoken in West Africa, spreading from Guinea down the African coast to Cameroon.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /fulani.asp (391 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Fulani in Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is very difficult to determine the potential risk facing the Fulani due to the severe lack of information available on their present situation.
		The Fulani comprise a large percentage of the population, and the 1998 actions carried out by Fulani and Malinke soldiers indicated that there was a level of frustration that could lead to activity.
		The Fulani are one of the largest ethnic groups in Guinea.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=43801 (1519 words)

	Keith
		The Fulani or Fulbe are found throughout the Sahel of West Africa, on the southern edge of the desert, from Mauritania in the West, to Sudan in the east.
		Traditionally, the Fulani were pastoral nomads, wandering with their cattle in search of good pasture and water, exchanging milk for millet with the local farmers.
		Today, most Fulani are more sedentary, and yet wherever they are, cattle are still at the heart of their identity, and there is still a nostalgia for the nomadic life.
	www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk /keith/stuff/fulani.html (617 words)

	African Tribes - Fulani People
		The original Fulani however are of the North African or middle eastern origin and have lighter skin, thinner lips, and straighter hair.
		The Fulani are primarily nomadic herders and traders.
		With increasing numbers of other transportation being used the Fulani are at risk of losing their identity as nomads and are being forced to settle in farms and villages.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/fulani.htm (545 words)

	Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Lenora Fulani, Speaker On: Civil/Human Rights, Cross-Cultural Issues, ...
		Dr. Lenora Fulani is a Developmental Psychologist and political activist, best known for her two runs for the presidency as an independent in 1988 and 1992.
		Fulani is Chair of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, a think tank, strategy, educational and activist center for Independent Politics.
		A practitioner of the performatory clinical approach called Social Therapy, Dr. Fulani is on the faculty of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York City, where clinicians from all over the country are trained in the social therapeutic approach.
	www.speaking.com /speakers/lenorafulani.html (942 words)

	A Cult By Any Other Name: The New Alliance Party Dismantled and Reincarnated
		Fulani was quick to admit that this political marriage—between largely white, middle-class Perot-backers and the "Black-led, multi-racial" New Alliance Party—did not appear tenable.
		Fulani initiated a drive to attain New York State ballot status for the little-known Agran, and petitioned Democratic candidates to permit Agran to participate in their televised debates.
		Fulani is currently attempting to convince the FEC to amend its decision; if she does not succeed.
	www.adl.org /special_reports/nap.asp (10090 words)

	Fulani. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fulani became zealous Muslims (11th cent.), and from 1750 to 1900 they engaged in many holy wars in the name of Islam.
		The Fulani emir of Sokoto continued to rule over part of N Nigeria until the British conquest in 1903.
		The Fulani of Massina were conquered (1861) by Hajj Omar, but their resistance ultimately resulted in his death.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fu/Fulani.html (230 words)

	fulani
		Fulani first argues that the FCC's conclusions create an unprecedented exemption for what she calls "time blocks," allegedly in violation of the clear statutory purpose.
		Fulani pointed out during oral argument that the several occasions in which "Nightline" adopted a "town meeting" format, used a host other than Koppel, or ran overtime, constituted only a small fraction of the shows in the series.
		Thus, we find Fulani's arguments inadequate to rebut the proposition that there was a "reasonable basis" for the FCC's decision that ABC exercised journalistic control sufficient to rneet the second requirement of the § 315(a)(2) "bona fide news interview" exemption.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/fulani.html (1641 words)

	Fulani People
		Fulani are a nomadic peoples who have been influential in regional politics, economics, and histories throughout western Africa for over a thousand years.
		The height of the Fulani empire was between the early 1800s and early 1900s.
		Although there are varying degrees of orthodoxy exhibited throughout Fulani society, most adhere to at least some of the basic requirements of the religion.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Fulani.html (431 words)

	Buchanan-Fulani: New Team?
		Buchanan would like Fulani's support; her Reform Party faction was strong enough to secure her 45 percent of the delegate vote in the party's recent election for vice chair.
		Fulani ran for lieutenant governor of New York in 1998 on the ticket headed by businessman Tom Golisano, and the Newmanites made themselves a major force in Golisano's Independence Party.
		Over the past fifteen years, Fulani and the Newmanites have become the undisputed kings of third-party ballot lines, mastering the intricate and varied laws of all fifty states and repeatedly challenging punitive restrictions in court with the help of their core of perhaps 100 key supporters.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19991101/shapiro (1137 words)

	SIM People Group Profile: Fulani
		Fulani in Benin and Burkina Faso are nomads in the north, but mainly sedentary pastoralists in the south.
		Fulani is the term used by the Hausa and most of the tribes in Northern Nigeria to refer to this group of people.
		Town Fulani or settled Fulani are terms used interchangeably to denote the type of Fulani who reside in a town or a city and live in permanent structures.
	www.sim.org /PG.asp?pgID=15&fun=1 (1010 words)

	Bororo Fulani of West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulani village was very suspicious of Christian believers and their motives but finally asked them to come and teach all the young men about Christ.
		The Fulani were one of the first people groups in Africa to be converted to Islam.
		This "code of moral behavior" must be strictly followed for the Fulani to be considered part of the Bororo, which is considered the purist Fulani group.
	www.2001pray.org /PeopleGroups/Bororo_Fulani.htm (187 words)

	FMI - Insights into Fulani Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulani is the usual English-speaking name which is derived from the Hausa and Peul is the French.
		Some are prosperous with small herds; the men migrate with the cattle for part of the year leaving their families at home.
		Whatever their origin, their influence became so great the Fulani had a loosely united empire for a short time in the early 19th century from Futa Jalon in the west through Mali, northern Burkina Faso, southern Niger, in the Nigeria and Cameroon that gave them greater self-respect and autonomy.
	www.fulani-ministries.org /culture.htm (1033 words)

	The New Party Alliance - Dr.Fulani's Snake-Oil Show
		Such tributes to Fulani are becoming more and more familiar, particularly in cities like Hartford, where she and the NAP are little known except from fleeting stump speeches.
		Week after week Fulani attracts impressive media coverage, from respectful CNN interviews to an all-trumpets-blaring front-page story in New York's Daily News, complete with a half-page photo ("The 624G Longshot," said the headline), when she was first awarded matching funds.
		The Fulani campaign's 1991 financial disclosure records show office managers, receptionists and other low-level employees of Newmanite businesses making contributions that are exorbitant by the standards of most people in such positions, in many cases hundreds of dollars a year.
	www.rickross.com /reference/new_alliance/new_alliance17.html (5632 words)

	Resources on the Fulani
		The Fulani were traditionally a nomadic, pastoral community, herding cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their domain, keeping somewhat separate from the local agricultural populations.
		Fulani strength was centered on powerful cavalry that could quickly move across the large empire and defeat rivals.
		The Fouta Djallon state was born in 1735 when Fulanis Muslims decided to rise against the non Muslims Fulanis and Djalounkes rulers to create a confederation of provinces.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Fulani.html (849 words)

	The Fulani/Fulbe People and Their Art \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulani often entrust members of specialized castes or foreigners with the fabrication of their objects.
		Above all, Fulani people are known for their mastery of verbal art expressed in song and poetry.
		Fulani women, who are in charge of building the family tents or temporary shelters, weave wall and floor mats.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/fula/hd_fula.htm (499 words)

	Hausa People
		The history of the area is intricately tied to Islam and the Fulani who wrested political power from the Hausa in the early 1800s through a series of holy wars.
		The Fulani took over political power in the region in the early 1800s.
		It was not until the early 1800s that the Fulani began to put pressure on the Hausa to undergo large scale conversion.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Hausa.html (559 words)

	Fulani-Arabic Transliteration
		The majority of Fulani are Muslim and the men of this religion are required to learn passages of the Koran.
		Dave’s idea was that because a large number of Fulani men already possessed this basic skill and since both Fulani and Arabic are phonemic, why not transliterate the Fulani script into Arabic script.
		There are a few phonemes in Fulani (Fulfulde) that don’t occur in Arabic so, to accommodate these, Dave had to create new Arabic symbols using minor modifications of existing ones.
	www.shoalhaven.net.au /~kjpercival/transliteration.html (997 words)

	The Fulani
		The 14 million or so Fulani a scattered across the southern edge of the Sahara Desert from Senegal and Mali through Sudan and the Central African Republic.
		Traditionally, the Fulani live a nomadic life, traveling from one region to another in search of water for their cattle herds.
		Most Fulani are illiterate, but parents often send children to a village school where they learn to pray and recite parts of the Koran, as the Fulani are almost entirely Muslim.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/christian_missions/28169 (418 words)

	ICE Conflict Case NIGER
		The Fulani, also called Peul or Fulbe, are a primarily Muslim people found in many parts of West Africa, from Lake Chad to the Atlantic coast, with concentrations in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, and Niger.
		The typical Fulani are nomads, but after many years of integration with other cultures, and the depletion of their herds to environmental conditions, they rely on farming for livelihood.
		According to the broadcast, Zarma villagers attacked a Fulani camp, seeking revenge for the death of a Zarma in a fight with Fulani herders earlier in the day.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ice/niger.htm (1891 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		the Bauchi Fulani of Nigeria; the Benin/Togo Fulani of Togo; the Bororo Fulani of Cameroon;
		the Gurma Fulani of Burkina Faso; the Krio Fula of Sierra Leone;
		the Liptako Fula of Burkina Faso; the Toroobe Fulani of Nigeria; and the Western Fulani of Niger.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code4/259.html (856 words)

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