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WV: kingfula - the king's fula thought he was buying the perfect celebration cake.
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Ebrima is sweet tho, he just hangs back as we hike and we chat with him in woolof and fula and when we say something true or good he says Thank YOU!
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Ebrima is sweet tho, he just hangs back as we hike and we chat with him in woolof and fula and when we say something true or good he says Thank YOU!
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During “speech contest” one year when I lived in Japan, one of the girls included a story about a “fula foop.”
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Language Session- my language is woolof. there are only four of us learning woolf, all the rest are mandinka or fula.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Language Session- my language is woolof. there are only four of us learning woolf, all the rest are mandinka or fula.
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The public transport bus, known locally as a "fula-fula," was travelling from
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These include the West African fura or fula, jamin-bang of the Kaingang Indians of Brazil, and the Maori's kaanja-kopuwai, a process of fermenting maize in water prior to eating.
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Tempo de granae frio fas nacer fulas [specie de fula] mui hūa q. tem cheroza.
Hau Kiou Choaan 1761
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Forskning visar att vackra människor uppfattas och behandlas annorlunda än fula människor.
Nonicoclolasos 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fula
Usage on Wolof.
September 26, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word fula
"Beef, gold, and cloth traveled this way, and, when slaving began, people. Traffic passed through the Futa Jalon, a region of expert traders who practiced a strident form of Islam. In this area lived the Fula, black Muslims who in the 1700s became accomplished at raiding villages for slaves. The Futa Jalon banned the capture and sale of Muslims but preyed on people who had not converted to Islam. When caravans from the Futa Jalon reached Port Loko, the people in the cargoes were taken over by the local chief and unloaded into boats bound for the Atlantic coast."
—Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 439
October 13, 2009