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'''Fula Americans''' or '''Fulbe Americans''' are American citizens of [[Fula people|Fula]] descent. |
'''Fula Americans''' or '''Fulbe Americans''' are American citizens of [[Fula people|Fula]] descent. |
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The firs Fulbe people that emigrated to United States were slaves hailed from several parts of West and Central Africa. Many Fulbe came of places as [[Senegal]], [[Guinea-Bissau]] and [[Cameroon]]. So, most of the slaves that came of Senegal belonged to ethnic groups [[Mandinka people|Mandinga]] and [[Fula people|Fula]].<ref name="Omar ibn Said">{{cite web |url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/omarsaid.html |title=Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 |author=Omar ibn Said |year=1831 |publisher=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]}}</ref> |
The firs Fulbe people that emigrated to United States were slaves hailed from several parts of West and Central Africa. Many Fulbe came of places as [[Senegal]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Nigeria]] and [[Cameroon]]. So, most of the slaves that came of Senegal belonged to ethnic groups [[Mandinka people|Mandinga]] and [[Fula people|Fula]].<ref name="Omar ibn Said">{{cite web |url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/omarsaid.html |title=Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 |author=Omar ibn Said |year=1831 |publisher=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]}}</ref> |
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==Notable Fula-Americans== |
==Notable Fula-Americans== |
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Fula Americans or Fulbe Americans are American citizens of Fula descent.
The firs Fulbe people that emigrated to United States were slaves hailed from several parts of West and Central Africa. Many Fulbe came of places as Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria and Cameroon. So, most of the slaves that came of Senegal belonged to ethnic groups Mandinga and Fula.[2]
Notable Fula-Americans
- India.Arie
- Ira Aldridge
- Anthony Anderson
- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
- Peter J. Gomes
- Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori
- Omar Ibn Said
References
- ^ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-28.
- ^ Omar ibn Said (1831). "Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.