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Kirdi logo #21000 The Kirdi are the many cultures and ethnic groups who inhabit northwestern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria. The term was applied to various peoples who had not converted to Islam at the time of colonization and was a pejorative, although some writers have reappropriated it. The term is comes from the Kanuri word for pagan; the Kanuri people are ...
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Kirdi

Kirdi logo #21003(from the article `Cameroon`) ...contrast with the flute music of northern Cameroonians. In the Adamawa area, the Muslim Fulani produce elaborately worked leather goods and ornate ...
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