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Fula American

Fula Americans
Total population
1,143[1]
Languages
English, Fula
Religion
Christianity, Islam, Traditional African religion

Fula Americans or Fulbe Americans are Americans of Fula (Fulbe) descent.

The first Fulbe people that emigrated to United States exported from several parts of West and Central Africa. Many Fulbe came of places as Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Cameroon. So, most of the people that came from Senegal belonged to ethnic groups Mandinga and Fula.[2]

Notable Fula-Americans

References

  1. ^ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-28. 
  2. ^ Omar ibn Said (1831). "Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831".  
North Africa
Horn of Africa
Southeast Africa
Southern Africa
Central Africa
West Africa
African ethnic groups in United States 1
1African ethnic groups can be dispersed in an important area in Africa, regardless Africa countries or geographic areas. Thus, the Fulbe people live between West Africa and several countries of Central Africa and there little Berber communities in Mali and Niger.
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