Fellata


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Noun1.Fellata - a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western AfricaFellata - a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe
African - a native or inhabitant of Africa
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(b) The Fulani speak a common language (known as Fulfulde or Pulaar) but, due to their wide geographical range, are known by several other names in their host communities, including Fulbe, Fula, Peul, Peulh, and Fellata. Virtually all are Muslim.
The Fulani crisis: communal violence and radicalization in the Sahel
He said after the SAF attacked the town with helicopter gunships and Antonovs, the "janjaweed" and Fellata began to indiscriminately kill civilians.
Sudan Development Conference: Germans need to re-confront their past
For example, according to Ayoub (2006), a new nazir status in Blue Nile State was created for the Fellata, originally from West Africa, who in the 1990s, with the sympathy of the governor, fought the indigenous Funj and Hamag for a nazirate of their own.
Pastoral land rights and protracted conflict in Eastern Sudan

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