Talk:Futa Tooro

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[edit] Merge proposal

I'm proposing the larger Kingdom of Fouta Tooro be merged into Futa Tooro. While Kingdom of Fouta Tooro is longer and more detailed, the title:

• Does not reflect the reality of this state/ region. It was, for most of its history NOT a Kingdom, but a series of states either let by clan elders or relgious leaders, or by aristocracies.
• Futa Tooro is more a cultural than geographic term, and describes all the states/communities which have occupied this area. The Kingdom of Fouta Tooro article describes a number of these historical states.
• Futa Tooro, while used now to describe a region which is no longer a state, was not used as a regional name PRIOR to the founding of the Fulbe state there. Thus the political history cannot be meaningfully seperated from the description of the region (as you might for Madagascar or Alsace).

I'll give this a week for folks to weigh in. If I don't hear anythin, I'll make the change. T L Miles (talk) 19:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)