Fulani Girls Singing - 2

Fulani girls from the Ruga Guecheme, Niger West Africa, Singing their hearts out, March 2006

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• Fulani
• Niger
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• West
• Africa
• singing
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• Sandy
• Leeder

[sandyleeder]

There has always been a clash between herders and farmers. Compare this to the play Oklahoma where the song says the "cattlemen and farmers should be friends". Also one can view the story of Cain and Able as between framers and cattlemen.

In northern Nigeria among the Hausa majority the Fulani have been the rulers for many years.

[photoswithsoul]

I was a Peace Corps volunteer in a Fulani village in Niger. I'm also a travel/documentary photography - you can see lots of photos of Fulani on my website in my Niger and Burkina galleries at photoswithsoul . com / section136113.html.

Sandy, I'd be interested in knowing how you got this video. Did you live there? Where is Ruga Guecheme?

Irene Abdou

[sandyleeder]

I was a Peace Corps Vol in Guecheme Niger in 1967-69. I lived in this ruga, just outside of Guecheme in 1968-69. I returned in March 2006 and took these videos.

[photoswithsoul]

Where is Guecheme? It must be somewhere in Hausa land, because I don't recognize the word, ruga. Does ruga mean village/concession in hausa? I was a volunteer in Torodi/Tera in the 90s - I also just went back to visit for the first time in 2007. irene

[sandyleeder]

These Fulani live in Niger among the Hausa, just outside of the town of Guecheme. Ruga means a small Fulani Village. It is not too far from Sokoto in Nigeria.

[VraiDiouf]

I am Fulani, and I can tell you all we are not mixed with Arab blood. Our closest siblings linguistically are the Wolof. Like someone mentioned before African is African. In Europe you have Anglo-Saxons (British,German,etc) Latins(spanish,Italian,etc.), Slavic(Russian,Polish,Yugo,etc­.). In Africa black people are of all different backgrounds it is no different from various Asian or Europe Groups. Stop saying we're mixed.

[SeeMeFlow]

The Fulani are NOT from Yemen and their culture is NOT semitic. They are indigenous Saharan Africans. It's idiots like you with your arab propaganda that deliberately asserts disinformation to prevent the true history of Africa and it's people to be told in the proper context.

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@VraiDiouf exactly!! having lived in the kano many yrs ago of course you get to see the fulani close up .. they are very different from other northerners and they are most certainly not mixed and not ARAB. sheesh.. 

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@SeeMeFlow hear hear!!

[cheshirelizzy]

Thank you for this lovely video. My dad was Cameroonian and often spoke of the beautiful Fulani. He is of the Nso tribe.

They are beautiful people.

Just some food for thought: the bible only makes reference to the darkest people being Ethopian. These people (not all) were and are Jews, BUT so are people groups from Europe and Asia. I shall submit that Afrocentrism, though popular in fighting racism, is not biblically (or scientifically) founded. It is concocted to get blacks to believe

[freedombarry01]

am a fulani and i have no arab blood in me ,yet still am a muslim .do your home work brother we are great nation.

[DiversityisAdversity]

Some of these white people that are typing these comments are ignorant. If you look at these children carefully you can clearly see that they are not mixed. Some of theses kids have wide noses and dark skin and a few of them have dark brown skin with slender noses. If these whites lived in the black community they would know that black people are very diverse in complexion and facial features. People of african descent do not all look like wesley snipes and morgan freeman.Divide and conquer

[iowapol]

@SeeMeFlow u are so right ppl like to mislead other ppl by giving them a wrong info. Whenever ppl see a light skin person in Africa they assume they are mixed of something i don’t understand why ppl do that>>>> it just show how ignorant some ppl are.

[iowapol]

@VraiDiouf you are so right ppl like to mislead other ppl by giving them a wrong info. Whenever ppl see a light skin person in Africa they assume they are mixed of something i don’t understand why ppl do that.... it just show how ignorant some ppl are.

[freshboychad]

@johnnyguitarcarson fulANI DNA IS ACTUALLY E3A

[shulamitegirl]

@SeeMeFlow arabs are not the only shemmites blacks aka negroes are from shem and you have africans who are from Ham and the people you calling arab arent all arab you have to understand that all spanish speaking people arent from spain lol people need to get it straight just because a person speaks arabic dont mean they are a arab it just mean long time ago their people were forced by the islam

[ninasnake]

@johnnyguitar erm... actually, you're wrong on this one. The Cohen Modal Haplotype (AKA Y-Chromosomal "Aaron") is NOT E3b, it's J1e. The other relatively common haplotype shared by about 15% of Kohanims is J2a. (these haplotypes are shared by many non-Cohens as well). The "Adam" haplogroup refers to the haplogroup carried by the man who lived in Africa about 60-90k years ago, whom all men on earth descend from. This was long before the "Israelites" were invented.