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Ministry amongst the Fulbe of Benin have borne fruit.
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The 32 million Fulani (or Fulbe) are one of the largest groups in West Africa.
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Other nomadic desert peoples who have high frequencies of LP include the Bedouins in Arabia and the Libyan desert, Kabbabish in the western Sudan, Tuareg in the central Sahara, and the Fulbe (Peulh) in the northern Sahel.
Archive 2006-12-01 Steve Carper 2006
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Other nomadic desert peoples who have high frequencies of LP include the Bedouins in Arabia and the Libyan desert, Kabbabish in the western Sudan, Tuareg in the central Sahara, and the Fulbe (Peulh) in the northern Sahel.
Milk-Drinking Crucial to Human Evolution Steve Carper 2006
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Generally, the women in Islamic regions, for example, the Toucouleur, Fulbe and Haussa south of the Sahara are seldom seen working in agriculture, which leads to an increased demand for labour forces from outside and favours the advancement of mechanization.
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They lose eventually their warlike spirit, like the Fellatah or Fulbe founders of the Sudanese states, [1100] and are either displaced from their insecure thrones by other conquerors sprung from the same nomad-breeding steppe, as the Aryan princes of India by the Mongol
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Mongoloid tribes down from the rugged highlands of central Asia to the fertile river lowlands of the peripheral lands; the descent of the Iran pastors upon the agricultural folk of the Indus, Ganges and Mesopotamian valleys, and the swoop of desert-born conquerors upon the unresisting tillers of well-watered fields in all times, from the ancient Hyksos of the Nile to the modern Fulbe of the Niger Valley.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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The Fulbe or Fulahs are scattered through the Sudan from Senegal to Wadai, and south to Adamawa.
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By faith the Fulbe are Mohommedan, but not fanatical.
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Here they were detained for a considerable time, as an expedition was setting out against the Fulbe, and it would have been dangerous to proceed until it was known what direction the hostile army would take.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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