Fadel Abdul-Razzaq-Dorbali / Chad
From Gambia to the west to Sudan to the east, wherever you go in these African countries where the people of the Al-Fellan tribe are spread, you will find their clear mark in the societies in which they live.
Climate change and the impact of the people of the African Sahel region on it, as a result of the drought that caused them to search for new opportunities and move in cities, because their lives are linked to grazing.
Guinea Conakry is an important center for members of this tribe in West Africa, and they are also widespread and important in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria, and their presence is important in Central African countries, especially Cameroon, Chad and Central Africa, and they are also found in Sudan.
| One of the offers of the Cultural Festival (Al-Jazeera) |
The tribe's heritage and customs
The Tabital Association in the Durbali region, which lies about a hundred kilometers east of the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, organized a cultural festival in which the tribe's heritage, customs, food, and other heritage appearances were presented.
In this celebration, the association demonstrated the association of the flan in Chad with cattle and the raising of livestock. The shepherds of the Flan tribe, accompanied by their livestock known in Chad as Ambroo sheep, were exhibited.
The Tabital Association takes care of the heritage of the Al-Velan tribe and the development of their regions in Chad. The association has offices and bodies in all African countries where the people are spread, as well as other offices in Western countries.
Awareness of the importance of educating children
Haj Othman Ahmed, head of the Tabital Association for Al-Jazeera Net, said that they are working to educate parents of the tribe of the need to enroll their children in schools, so what they suffer here is not only a shortage in schools, but awareness of the importance of educating children as well, as most parents prefer that their children help them graze the cows rather than free them to learn .
Statistics show that the illiterate population is 77% of the population, and it is among the members of the Al-Fellan tribe more intense than others, because their interest in grazing animals and traveling with them exceeds their interest in anything.
| President of the Capital Corporation invites his tribe to take care of their children’s education (Al-Jazeera) |
Look for animal feed
Many members of the tribe were affected by the climatic changes that occurred in the Sahel region, and caused drought, which led to a lack of grazing areas for their livestock.
The head of the Tabital Association says that he now needs to travel more than a thousand kilometers during one season with beasts to ensure that his livestock find sufficient feed.
This was not his worms in the past decades, but the pasture has become scarce and some of the areas in which they reside leave after only ten days, because the pastures are not enough for their beasts, so the distance they travel during one season increases, and this increases the fatigue of the beasts, which is a burden on the shepherds accompanying their beasts.
| Dance to celebrate the rainy season (the island) |
The rainy and celebration season
Near the village of Hegligi in the region of Linga, east of the capital, N'Djamena, the island met the shepherd Mohammed who said that he came here from Nigeria from the state of Adamawa (northeast) in order to get a job so he could not master the profession other than grazing. In exchange for grazing his sheep.
The life of the tribe members is related to grazing, and they are especially interested in the fall season, in which the rains fall.