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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Gaul: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [qb] Now what was it The Frenchman said? [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Gaul: [qb] ... I have full belief of what West African and Fulnai scholars have to say, ... . . . . a FULANI scholar ... knows the people of his area and does his work truly as a scholar, not to be undermined by a non-African foreigner who would think they know these people better ... [/qb][/QUOTE]Hmmm, I guess not, if that non-African foreigner is named Smith and the Fulani scholar is the reknowned West African Fulani Amadou Hampâté Bâ (Gd rest him). Read his chapter 8 'The Living Tradition' starting at pg62 in UNESCO's [URL=http://books.google.com/books?id=tzx46VrEHE4C&printsec=frontcover]General History of Africa vol 1[/URL] [/qb][/QUOTE]Oh Al, how quickly we jump fences don't we? Of all the Fulani and Wolof scholars and historians that have been repeated (Diop, Lam, Dyao, Yaya), of which you completely seem to ignore, you wait until I bring doubt on Fulani as a culture in SE ALgeria rather than just proto pastoral Africans, THEN you decide to jump on the balls of Ba? What took you so long? Just as you have cast doubt on the multitude of West African scholars work presented ad nauseum, I brought out the same that goes against your own agenda, then you decide to hop on the West African scholar train, which doesn't necessarily support a non-Nile Valley origin, since Ba makes no claims on that subject. I beginning to be able to read you like a book fence jumper...I knew this reponse was coming from you (or the fake explorer). Back on the topic of Fulani origins, we have this from the late, great, much appreciated and never forgotten scholar Ivan Van Sertima's book "The Golden Age of the Moor", which I do believe has been passively brought up on this board before, but not in this context: Pg. 120, sub-chapter: "The Fulani as Gaitules" [QUOTE]Probably the best living example in North Africa of those originally nomadic peoples called Libyans are the modern "red" or pastoral Fulani (as opposed to settled Fulani) especially belonging to the area of Niger and Mali. Though they themselves are probably descendents of only one of the waves of Libyans from the east, they represent the black Berber or "hamitic" prototype which has existed in the Sahara for at least 5,000 years. At Jabbaren, the rock art shows cattle transporting the armature of huts which is a practice maintained by the Fulani and the head gear, clothing, and most typical physical characteristics of the human figures of the pastoral period are said to resemble the present day Fulani. They have, except their language, many habits of dress and accoutrements in common with Somali and Rendili and at times a strong familial resemblance to Cushitic peoples in general.[/QUOTE]To which I already mentioned how Somali and other horners I have heard speak about exactly what Sertima mentioned in the last sentence. Continuing... [QUOTE]These nomads are one of the few tribes whose attire still resembles the long garments worn by the Lybians on ancient Egyptian tomb paintings after the New Empire. On these garments are the same designs that appear on C-group pottery and in Lybian tattoos. They also wear the same hats and peculiar Lybian side-lock and other coiffures shown in representations of ancient Lybians. They still practice the burning of the temples of infants which Herodotus mentions as being common to all Lybians. They often have a hairstyle in which they leave their hair long in the back like the ancient Lybians called Machlyes. Their women wear hair in a crest like the Cushitic speakers and the other Berbers of the southern Sahara which was said to be typical of Lybian women. This form of hairdress is shown often in ancient rock art now in the Sahara (It was apparently a very ancient practice and of totemic or religious significance: It is found among dark-skinned Yemeni women as well). The pastoral Fulani are the only people in West Africa who milk their cattle and though they have been touched by modernization, rarely did they raise cattle for food. (The ancient Lybians did not eat the cow, considering them sacred). Like many traditional Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan peoples they tend to know each of the members of their herds by name and treat them with great affection and respect. The Fulanis of Takrur were called Beni Warith or Waritan of the Beni Goddala or Jeddala in the Annales Regnum Mauritanie (Annals of the Mauritian Kings) and the annals of El Bekri. They were said to have once lived in the Mauritian Adrar. Goddala is the Arab pronunciation of the earlier Gaituli of the Roman historians. The Gaitules were the most populous of the Lybian tribes of Strabos time (1st Century AD) Josephus around the same time period claimed that they were the same as the Evalioi of Kush or the peoples of ancient Avalis (Hevila) - the Zeila of present day Somalia, which might explain why Fulani today resemble so much the people of that region. The Goddala were considered one of the major Berber tribes by Arab writers and the brethren of the Anbiya (Anbat) and Sanhaja or Berbers of the Maghrib. Futhermore, when the Fulani were first encountered by European colonists, they spoke more than one language. One of these is connected to other West African languages. The other one, however, was considered different enough for the explorers to speculate that it was more related to dialects outside Africa.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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