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The Sahel
The People in The Sahel
The 2 tribes of the Sahel are the Fulani
and the Dogon. The Fulani have a
religion called Palaaku where they mix in
there love of cattle , reserve, and
stoicism for instance when they get
married the brides dad gives the groom a
cow. The Dogon have male societies
when a boy turns 12 he is eligible enough
to dance Dama.
Dogon
Fulani
What They Eat
They eat groundnut stew with chicken
made with herbs, vegetables, and spices
.they make it by blending it at high speed
to grind the vegetables.
Animals
Giraffe: reaches heights of 18 feet, known to
Romans as the spotted camel, one of the most
frequent browsers of the Sahel
Zebu: mostly used for milk, introduced from India
and other countries
Warthog: migrates with the season, male tusks
are up to 23 inches long
Senegal gerbil: most common mammals can grow
from 4-6 inches long
Zebu
Giraffe
Warthog
Senegal gerbil
The 9 countries of the Sahel
Mali
Chad
Sudan
Niger
Senegal
Burkina Faso
The Gambia
Mauritania
Guinea-Bissau
30% of the Sahel has been destroyed
Their trees got cut down for fire wood and
without trees rainfall slackens and soil
erodes away from wind and water
The climate of the Sahel
► Hot
and dry year round
The average temperature and rainfall
of the Sahel
► Temp.:
between 77 and 86 degrees
► Rainfall: moderate wet season is June September
Bodies of water in the Sahel
The longest and most powerful rivers
Lake Chad
Sahel's most distinctive
feature
The flat barren plains
What happened to the Sahel
between 1960 and 1980
They had a 20 year long drought that
killed thousands
The vegetation in the Sahel
Cram-Cram: is a prickly short-lived grass
Baobab: is one of the largest trees that is
fire resistant and is found through-out the
Sahel
Acacia: has feathery leaves to protect the
bark from wind and blooms white or
yellow fuzzy flowers
Grewia Bicolor: a drought resistant tree
that favors rocky slopes has fruit that is
used in many ways
Cram-Cram
Baobab
Acacia
Grewia Bicolor