Fulani History and Cultural Relations A search for the origin of the Fulani is not only futile, it betrays a position toward ethnic identity that strikes many anthropologists as profoundly wrong. Ethnic groups are political-action groups that exist, among other reasons, to attain benefits for their members. Therefore, by definition, their social organization, as well…
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After the second Henn et al. paper I did download the data. Unfortunately there are only 62,000 SNPs intersecting with the HGDP. This is somewhat marginal for fine-grained ADMIXTURE analyses, though sufficient for PCA from what I recall. That being said, the intersection with the HapMap data sets runs from ~190,000 SNPs, to the full…
The Fulani Barth, who was probably the most intelligent of all the African explorers, described the Fulani as the most intelligent of all the African tribes. They are certainly one of Africa’s great enigmas. They have been living in the Sudan for well over a thousand years, but their physical characteristics are so different from…
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