With Islamist extremism on the rise in several regions of West Africa, Fulani communities are purported to be front and center. In Mali, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso, Fulani groups have been accused of waging jihad,...
Fulani
Editorial: I’m African, that’s where it begins
In this Africa in Fact edition dedicated to culture, Fred Khumalo paraphrases our mutual friend Mondli Makhanya who, in the midst of a debate with a right-of-centre interlocutor, asserted that, “I am a South African...
The end of the road?
Recent conflicts between pastoralists and farmers are prompting some African countries such as Nigeria to seek to curtail the Fulani’s ancient itinerant culture As a boy growing up in rural Taraba state in north-east...
Titanic struggle
Nigeria is a country of many ethnicities artificially brought together faces many challenges, not least its own development Historically Nigeria was an artificial creation of the British colonial government. It was...
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