What factors led to the rise of the Fulani in the African Sahel?
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A. Rise of the Fulani state
1. Fulani were traditional herdsmen of the Sahel
2. believed and followed a holy man in the Sahel, Usuman da Fodio
a. saw himself as the "Renewer of Faith" promised by prophesies
b. the forerunner of the Mahdi, a Muslim messiah, whose coming would
inaugurate a cosmic struggle, preceding the end of the world
3. the Fulani built an empire under his leadership
a. another pastoralist attempt to exploit the Sahel's potential for long-
range grazing of flocks
b. another frustrated step to unify the area politically
c. another holy war inspired by Islamic militancy
4. By 1820, Fulani power stretched from Bornu to beyond the Niger, with a
capital of sunbaked clay buildings at Sokoto
a. world's last great pastoralist empire
b. lasted until British conquest in 1906
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