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- Fali_people abstract "The Fali people (called the Bana in Nigeria) are any of several small ethnic groups of west and central Africa. The Fali are concentrated in mountainous areas of northern Cameroon, but some also live in northeastern Nigeria. The Fali are composed of four major groups, each corresponding to a geographic region: The Bossoum Fali, the Kangou Fali, the Peske–Bori Fali, and the Tingelin Fali. The Fali in Cameroon have been described as being centered on Garoua as well as the rocky plateaus and peaks of the Adamawa mountains in the country's north. The Fali are sometimes referred to as the Kirdi, meaning \"pagan,\" a term given by the neighboring Muslim Fulani; the term Kirdi also describes up to 25 other cultures and was originally a pejorative, although some writers have reappropriated it.The term Fali is from a Fula word meaning \"perched,\" a reference to how Fali compounds appear on the sides of mountains. The Fali in Nigeria primarily live in the Mubi District, Mubi Division of the former Gongola State.The Fali speak various unrelated languages.The Fali primarily engage in farming and hunting. Major crops include millet, chickpeas, peanuts (groundnuts), squash, tobacco, okra, and cotton. The Fali are exogamous, patrilineal, and hierarchical, with society being made up of clans with distinct territories and chiefs, and tracing their origin to a common ancestor. They observe virilocal residence.The Fali people trace their ancestry to the Ngomma, who founded the ancient capital of Timpil. Other accounts trace the Fali's origins to the Sao civilization on Lake Chad, which flourished from the tenth to the 16th centuries.The Fali religion is traditional African. It has been identified as monotheistic, involving belief in a creator god, Faw, and a mother goddess, Ona, the Earth. Followers of the Fali religion make prayers and offerings to ancestors to intercede with Faw on behalf of the living. The Fali \"conceive of Faw not only as creator and organizer, but also as a just God who is undepictable by human intelligence.\" The religion also includes belief in supernatural beings, including genies, sacred crocodiles, and the black snake, the master of darkness. By 2009, increasing numbers of Fali were converting to Islam, although many converts maintain syncretic beliefs. A 1996 work estimated the total population of Fali at 95,000 people, with 80 percent being Muslim and the remainder being Roman Catholic, Protestant, animist, or syncretic.Cissus quadrangularis is significant to Fali in Cameroon, and the Fali are reported to wash their dead in a decoction of the plant. The Fali believe that the development of the plants is important to fertility; a C. quadrangularis is planted on proposed construction sites, and if the plant does not flourish, a new site is chosen.".
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- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Intercession.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Islam.
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- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Chad.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Millet.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Monotheism.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Mother_goddess.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Muslim.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Nigeria.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Okra.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Paganism.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Patrilineality.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Patrilocal_residence.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Peanut.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Pejorative.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Plateau.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Protestantism.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Reappropriation.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Religious_conversion.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Sao_civilisation.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Snake.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Supernatural.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Syncretism.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Tobacco.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Traditional_African_religion.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink Veneration_of_the_dead.
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLink West_Africa.
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- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bana".
- Fali_people wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fali people".
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- Fali_people subject Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Cameroon.
- Fali_people subject Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Nigeria.
- Fali_people type Group.
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- Fali_people comment "The Fali people (called the Bana in Nigeria) are any of several small ethnic groups of west and central Africa. The Fali are concentrated in mountainous areas of northern Cameroon, but some also live in northeastern Nigeria. The Fali are composed of four major groups, each corresponding to a geographic region: The Bossoum Fali, the Kangou Fali, the Peske–Bori Fali, and the Tingelin Fali.".
- Fali_people label "Fali people".
- Fali_people sameAs Q3064750.
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- Fali_people sameAs Fali_(peuple).
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- Fali_people sameAs Q3064750.
- Fali_people wasDerivedFrom Fali_people?oldid=684718242.
- Fali_people depiction Belt,_fringe,_beads_-_Fali,_Cameroon_-_Royal_Museum_for_Central_Africa_-_DSC07050.JPG.
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