Heru
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Fulani word of the day
Ɓeynguure [Pular] (noun): family
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Hausa greetings
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Hausa word of the day
Iyali (noun): family -
“By the end of the nineteenth century, states established by the Fulbe Muslim scholars had, on an unprecedented scale, promoted Islamic institutions, including Qur’anic and higher Islamic studies schools and Sufi lodges. Just like other groups, some Fulbe clerical families also became assimilated to other ethnic groups. In Senegambia, for…
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“Although the goge is performed in a number of contexts in Hausaland, one of the most common is the religious worship of Bori spirits (iskoki). Before the introduction of Islam between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries ce, the Bori religion was practiced under the direction of a differentiated priesthood. Islam, however, has been the…
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