Fulani Art and Life

The Fulani people live at the south edge of the Sahara.This video shows them at home, tending their herds, making butter from the milk of their cows, weaving mats they use to cover their homes. There is Fulani music from the town of Dori, and scenes of the Guerewal dance of the Wodaabe of Niger. +Phineas The majority of Fulani are haplogroup E-M2 (E1b1a1) not R1b1. Haplogroup E-M2 is indigenous to Africa not the Middle East. In (Tishkoff et al. 2009), the Fulani cluster with west and central African ethnic groups. Sarah Tiskfoff's study does not support a Middle Eastern or non African origin of the Fulani. The remainder belonged to haplotype 42/haplogroup E-M33. Both of these clades are today most frequent among Niger-Congo-speaking populations, particularly those inhabiting Senegal. Similarly, 53% of the Fulani in northern Cameroon bore haplogroup E-M33, with the rest mainly carrying other Sub-Saharan clades (12% haplogroup A and 6% haplogroup E1b1a). A minority carried the West Eurasian haplogroups T (18%) and R-M173 (12%).[46] Mulcare et al. (2004) observed a similar frequency of haplogroup...