Gold Coast A Fulani Village Cape Coast Sea E Cheesman c.1920 Old Tuck's Postcard

Vintage Old Artist Signed Colour Tuck's Oilette Art drawn Postcard. c.1920 Africa, Gold Coast. Ghana. Artist Signed by E. Cheesman. A Fulani Village on Hill, near the Sea. This village is part of Cape Coast and is an interesting example of the manner in which the desert tribes from the Sahara import their own style of building when settled some hundreds of miles from their natural habitat.

Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd Gold Coast Government Series III The Aristocrats
Background: Fula people, Fulani, Fulbe, Fulan: Fula, Fulaw, are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa. African countries where they are present include Mauritania, Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, the Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Chad, Togo, the Central African Republic, Liberia, and as far as Sudan and Egypt in the East. Fula people form a minority in every country they inhabit.

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Gold Coast A Fulani Village Cape Coast Sea E Cheesman c.1920 Old Tuck's Postcard

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