Fula
Americannoun
noun
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a member of a pastoral nomadic people of W and central Africa, living chiefly in the sub-Sahara region from Senegal to N Cameroon: a racial mixture of light-skinned Berber peoples of the North and darker-skinned W Africans
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the language of this people; Fulani
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They built their villages on high ground, with cliffs for lookouts and caves to hide in, and for centuries battled the Fula, or Peuls, who make up about 25 percent of Senegal’s population.
From Washington Post • May 7, 2021
That journey was pushed in part by a New York City company, Yolélé, which roughly means “let the good times roll” in Fula, a West African language.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2021
Five strangers with nothing in common find themselves working together to save the people and Pokemon of Fula City.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2019
The images, blown up larger than their original print sizes, show Fula, Malian and Voltaic teenagers and twentysomethings posing and wielding props in a studio decorated with backdrops painted by artists from Ghana.
From New York Times • May 31, 2018
East of that river Sokoto and its tributary emirates are ruled by Fula princes, subject to the control of the British Nigerian administration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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