{"id":195882,"date":"2025-04-11T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-fulani-new-study-unravels-the-genetic-history-of-africas-largest-pastoralist-community\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:11:48","slug":"africa-fulani-new-study-unravels-the-genetic-history-of-africas-largest-pastoralist-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-fulani-new-study-unravels-the-genetic-history-of-africas-largest-pastoralist-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Fulani &#8211; New Study Unravels The Genetic History of Africa&#8217;s Largest Pastoralist Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><strong> The Fulani people are <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vf4TBwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Africa\u2019s largest pastoralist group<\/a> . There are between 25 million and 40\u2009 million Fulani people <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sil.org\/system\/files\/reapdata\/28\/92\/20\/28922087092038854933212051748501873382\/silesr2003_009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">across 17 African countries<\/a> , from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to Sudan. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The Fulani have long intrigued social anthropologists with their complex cultural heritage. They raise mainly cattle, goats, and sheep in the vast, arid Sahel region. Some are nomadic but many have adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/genes14030758\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sedentary lifestyle<\/a>. In the wide geographical belt where they live, they speak&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fulani people are Africa\u2019s largest pastoralist group . There are between 25 million and 40\u2009 million Fulani people across 17 African countries , from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to Sudan. The Fulani have long intrigued social anthropologists with their complex cultural heritage. They raise mainly cattle, goats, and sheep in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6287,7963,19708,12465,7099,10885,257,43710,254,6056,1613,36008],"class_list":["post-195882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-community","tag-fulani","tag-genetic","tag-history","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-pastoralist","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study","tag-sudan-news","tag-unravels"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}