Fula Americans Explained

Group:	Fula Americans
Population:	21,000^[1]
Langs:	English, French, Fula, Arabic
Rels:	Islam

Fula Americans, Fulani Americans or Fulbe Americans are Americans of Fula (Fulani, Fulbe) descent.

The first Fulani people who were forcibly expatriated to United States from the slave trade came from several parts of West and Central Africa. Many Fulbe came of places as Guinea, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Cameroon. Recent Fulani arrivals immigrated to the United States during the 1990s and now make up a significant portion of the Muslim communities across America.^[2]

Notable people

• Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori
• Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
• Hamidou Diallo
• Ira Aldridge
• Omar ibn Said
• Yarrow Mamout
• Bilali Mohammed – author of the Bilali Document

See also

• Fula Christians

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fulani, Pulaar in United States . Joshua Project . en.
2. Web site: Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 . Omar ibn Said . 1831 . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.