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Where The Herd Remembers: Fulani Studies For The African Diaspora
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For many in the African diaspora, that single word appears on a screen-Fulani, Fula/Fulɓe, Hausa/Fulani, or a vague Senegal/Nigeria region-and then... nothing. No explanation. No map. No elders. Just a percentage and a million questions.
Where the Herd Remembers: Fulani Studies for the African Diaspora is a powerful, poetic, and practical answer to those questions.
Historian, genealogist, and Pan-Africanist Jarrett J. Jackson takes readers on a journey that begins with one triangulated DNA segment on Chromosome 6 and stretches across time and space-from Goree Island's Door of No Return, to a mother's house in Dakar where newly found cousins gather, to Fulani maternal lines in Nigeria revealed through African Ancestry's mtDNA testing.
This book is:
A story of real reconnection: DNA matches, messages from Senegal, village names like Foundiougne and Diaoulé, and the living families behind them.
A Fulani Studies field guide: accessible chapters on Fulani/Fulɓe histories, pastoral life, pulaaku (the moral code), Islam and education, language, media stereotypes, and contemporary Sahelian realities.
A method manual: clear explanations of cM, IBD, triangulation, MRCA, endogamy, evidence sheets, and how to read African Ancestry vs. 23andMe/AncestryDNA results without over-claiming.
An educator's toolkit: Key Ideas, Mini Glossaries, DNA & Diaspora sections, Field Guides with 10-minute/1-hour/1-week actions, and robust Appendices (glossary, timeline, activities, oral history guides, covenant templates, and worksheets) for classrooms, churches, and study circles.
Written for African American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and other diaspora readers-and in conversation with Fulani communities themselves-this book refuses purity myths and simple answers. It honors the truth that many of us are a mixed bag of Fulani, Igbo, and other African ancestries, and shows how to approach all of those threads with rigor, humility, and hope.
If your DNA results, your family stories, or your spirit have been tugging at the word Fulani, this book is your invitation.
Step into a world where cattle and code, paper trails and chromosomes, Dakar and Detroit all speak to one another.
This is where the herd remembers.
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