Early History  Archeologists have found stone tools indicating a human presence dating back over 10,000 years in   Fulani regions, such as present-day Senegal and the Gambia. They have also found clusters of stone circles , (See Gambia Stone Circles in file fototraite) some nearly 2,000 years old that probably had religious significance.[more...]

Origins   Some believe that they are from a Semitic origin. According to the tradition the ancestors of Fulani is Jacob son of Israel, son of Issac, son of Abraham When Jacob left Canaan and went to Egypt where Joseph was established. The Israelites prospered and grew in population while living in Egypt. .[more...]

Versions of Fulani Origins  Ethnologists and others have been provoked to seek the origins of the Fulani far outside their present habitat, in remote periods and states of society, and to describe the successive migrations which are supposed to have brought them into their present habitat before documentary evidence from the West and Central Africa became available.[more...]

A common version of the Origin of Fulani   A common version (de St. Croix, 1944; Stephani, 1912) runs somewhat as follows. The first Fulani to own cattle is expelled from a Fulani settlement. The context of this expulsion is not stated. [more...]

Migrations  Although the details of these migrations may be open to doubt, their general sense is quite clear. The general mass movement of the Fulani (known by one or other of their various names) within the West-Africa has been from Senegal eastwards.[more...]