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THE Peuls, as they are known to the French authorities, who have adopted the Wolof name, but more commonly known in English as the Foula or Fulani, are a pastoral people, widely scattered as a dominant caste over that part of northern Africa extending from Nigeria to Senegal and from the Atlantic to Lake Chad. They were known to Arab writers of the fifteenth century; but they appear to have reached northern Nigeria as an immigrant nomad people at the end of the thirteenth century, their conquest of that country, however, dating from 1804 when the Moslems declared a Holy War against the pagan rulers. In French territory their principal groups are Peuls of Fouta Toro (Ferlo), of Nioro, of Macina and Fouta Djallon, their numbers being estimated at 1,790,000, while in Nigeria there are said to be some two millions.
MÅ"urs et histoire des Peuls
1: Origines; 2: Les Peuls de l'lssa-Ber et du Macina; 3: Les Peuls du Fouta-Djallon. Par Louis Tauxier. (Bibliothèque scientifique.) Pp. 422 + 16 plates. (Paris: Payot et Cie., 1937.) 75 francs.
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Mœurs et histoire des Peuls. Nature 142, 1018 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421018b0
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