The population is mainly composed of Fulani Hal Pulaar people and some Wolof people (mostly traders), who come mostly from the religious city of Touba.
“Fulani Chant” was also included on the soundtracks of Down in the Delta (1998) and a film produced by the Breast Cancer Fund titled Climb Against the Odds (1999).
This practice has continued to present day in many Fulani clans, most notably the Barry, Bah and Jallow clans.
The nation has three major ethnic groups: the Fulani and their Hausa counterparts, who are predominantly Muslim, inhabited the north; the Yoruba, who are a mix of Muslim and Christian, inhabited the south west; and in the south east are the Igbo, who were predominantly Christian, and retained their British influence which gave them the educational and economic advantage.
Other common names include: aizen (Mauritania), mukheit (Arabic), hanza (Hausa), bere (Bambara), ngigili (Fulani), and mandiarha (Berber).
The DNA testing recorded Cameroon´s slaves of ethnicities such as Tikar, Ewondo, Babungo, Bamileke, Bamum, Masa, Mafa, Udemes, Kotoko, Fulani and Hausa from Cameroon (many Hausa also came from other places such as Nigeria).
Dufuna canoe is a 8500 year old canoe discovered by a Fulani herdsman in Nigeria in 1987, near the village of Dufuna in the Fune Local Government Area, not far from the Komadugu Gana River.
The Northern People's Party (NPC) represented the interests of the predominantly Hausa/Fulani Northern Region, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) (later renamed to "National Council of Nigerian Citizens") represented the predominantly Igbo Eastern Region, and the Action Group (AG) dominated the Yoruba Western Region.
Around 400,000 Kusasi are found in the Bawku Districts of northern Ghana, a region inhabited by a mixture of peoples, including the Mamprusi who came over from across the White Volta in Mamprugu in the era preceding the colonization of the area and other minority groups like the Bisa or Busasi, Moshie, Fulani and Bimoba communities.
The region contains a number of ethnic groups including Bozo, Songhai, Dogon, Fulani and Bambara.
Although the area contained many different groups, the three predominant groups were the Igbo, which formed between 60–70% of the population in the southeast; the Hausa-Fulani, which formed about 65% of the peoples in the northern part of the territory; and the Yoruba, which formed about 75% of the population in the southwestern part.
In 1815, Usman dan Fodio retired from the administrative business of the Caliphate and divided the area taken over during the Fulani War with his brother Abdullahi dan Fodio ruling in the west with the Gwandu Emirate and his son Muhammed Bello taking over administration of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Niamanto Sanogo plays Niankoro's father, who is tracking his son through the Bambara, Fulani and Dogon lands of West Africa using a magical wooden post to guide him.