The az-zaġāyah spread far into sub-saharan Africa as well as India, although these places already had their own variants of the spear as well. It was the weapon of choice during the Fulani jihad as well as during the Mahdist War in Sudan.

For example, when the Fulani took over Hausa city-state of Kano during the Fulani War, the new emirs ended up speaking the Hausa language instead of Fulfulde.

Muhammed Bello, the son of Usman dan Fodio, transformed the semi-permanent camp of Sokoto into a city in 1809, during the Fulani war.

The party is notable for getting African American psychologist Lenora Fulani on the ballot in all 50 states during her first Presidential campaign in 1988, making her both the first African-American and woman to do so.

While Newman was initially dismissive of Jackson, Fulani had praised the popular activist during his 1984 Presidential run.

It was founded during the Fulani War in 1809 by Usman dan Fodio.

The Caliphate was founded during the Fulani War.

In 1815, Usman dan Fodio retired from the administrative business of the Caliphate and divided the area taken over during the Fulani War with his brother Abdullahi dan Fodio ruling in the west with the Gwandu Emirate and his son Muhammed Bello taking over administration of the Sokoto Caliphate.

By 1810, during the Fulani War, the Hausa rulers of the Hausa Bakwai had all been overcome by the Fulani.

The Kapsiki are considered one of Cameroon's Kirdi ( pagan ) ethnic groups due to their resistance to Islamisation during the Fulani jihad of Modibo Adama.

In west Africa, Fulani herdmen prune the tree during the dry season to feed cattle.

In 1805 it was captured by the Fulani during the Fulani Jihad.

Usman dan Fodio led the Fulani thrust and proclaimed a jihad ( holy war ) on the irreligious Muslims of the area.

Violence between Christians and Muslims ( usually Igbo Christians and Hausa or Fulani Muslims ) has been incessant since the end of the civil war in 1970.

Monteil claimed that Fulani power was tottering because of the war and the ascension of the unpopular Caliph Abderrahman dan Abi Bakar.

Adama also received the power to distribute flags of command to others, thus establishing more centres of Fulani Islam and spreading the war to farther reaches.

By the early 19th century, Kanem-Bornu was clearly an empire in decline, and in 1808 Fulani warriors conquered Ngazargamu.

Castes appeared among the Malinke people no later than 14th century, and was present among the Wolof and Soninke, as well as some Songhay and Fulani populations, no later than 16th century.

The most important of these states was the Sokoto Caliphate or Fulani Empire.

In 1804, he launched the Fulani War as a jihad among a population that was restless about high taxes and discontented with its leaders.

By the early 19th century, Kanem-Bornu was clearly an empire in decline, and in 1808 Fulani warriors conquered Ngazargamu.

Combining these data suggests that Senegal was first populated from the north and east in several waves of migration, the last being that of the Wolof, the Fulani and the Serer.

Psychotherapist and political activist Lenora Fulani, who was the 1988 presidential nominee of the New Alliance Party, received a second consecutive nomination from the Party in 1992.

Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines with Hausa and Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the south-west, Ijaws in the south-south and Igbo in the south-east.

Born into a Roman Catholic family, " Thom ' Sank " was a Silmi-Mossi, an ethnic group that originated with marriage between Mossi men and women of the pastoralist Fulani people.

Dan Fodio was one of a class of urbanized ethnic Fulani living in the Hausa States in what is today northern Nigeria.

This uprising was largely composed of the Fulani, who held a powerful military advantage with their cavalry.

His father was a Fulani village chief, while his mother was a Fulani of slave descent.

The village of Shagari was founded by Fulani Jihadist and cattlemen and later dominated by Hausa traders.

The Fulani War of 1804-1808, also known as the Fulani Jihad or Jihad of Usman dan Fodio, was a military contest in present-day Nigeria and Cameroon.

Up until that year Gowon remained strictly a career soldier with no involvement whatsoever in politics, until the tumultuous events of the year suddenly thrust him into a leadership role, when his unusual background as a Northerner who was neither of Hausa or Fulani ancestry nor of the Islamic faith made him a particularly safe choice to lead a nation whose population were seething with ethnic tension.

The result was a general uprising under Amadou that established the Massina Empire, a theocratic Muslim Fulani state throughout the Inner Niger Delta region and extending to both the ancient Muslim centers of Djenné and Tombouctou.

When asked about his political relationship to Fulani in the press Jackson said that there was no relationship at all.

Fulani ’ s vote total throughout the country was 217, 221, or 0. 2 % of the vote, coming in fourth place.

However, Segerer ( 2009, 2010 ) confirms Sapir's findings that Wolof is not close to Fulani ; he finds the closest relatives of Wolof are several obscure languages along the Casamance River.

McCarthy, along with other candidates who had been excluded from the 1992 Democratic debates ( including two-time New Alliance Party Presidential candidate Lenora Fulani, former Irvine, California mayor Larry Agran, " Billy Jack " actor Tom Laughlin, and others ) staged protests and unsuccessfully took legal action in an attempt to be included in the debates.

Ajayi was 12 years old when he was captured, along with his mother and toddler brother and other family members, along with his entire village, by Muslim Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders.

The Wolof, the largest ethnic group in Senegal, have a distinctive musical tradition that, along with the influence of neighboring Fulani, Tukulor, Serer, Jola, and Malinke cultures, has contributed greatly to popular Senegalese music, and to West African music in general.

With increasing trade, a good number of Fulani also have settled in towns, forming a distinct minority.

The Fulani came from the Senegal River valley, where their ancestors had developed a method of livestock management based on transhumance.

The formation of the state may have taken place as an influx of Fulani from the east settled in the Senegal valley.

The formation of the state may have taken place as an influx of Fulani from the east settled in the Senegal valley.