Fula Americans
Fula Americans or Fulbe Americans are Americans of Fula (Fulbe) descent.
 Omar Ibn Said | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,143-2 million +[1] | |
| Languages | |
| English, French, Fula | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Islam, Traditional African religion |
The first Fulbe 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. So, most of the people who came from Senegal belonged to ethnic groups Mandinga and Fula.[2]
Notable people
- Ira Aldridge
- Anthony Anderson
- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
- Peter J. Gomes
- Yarrow Mamout
- Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori
- Omar Ibn Said
- Bilali Document
- Hamidou Diallo
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References
- "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-28.
- Omar ibn Said (1831). "Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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