A People Woven into the Fabric of West Africa: The Art of the Fula The story of the Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people is not one easily contained within the traditional boundaries of artistic biography. It’s a narrative woven into the very landscape of Sahara, Sahel and West Africa—a history expressed not through individual signatures on canvases, but through generations of craftspeople shaping leather, threading beads, and forging metal. To speak of “the art of the Fula” is to acknowledge a collective aesthetic, a deeply ingrained visual language that reflects their nomadic pastoral heritage, t…