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J. Boutrais — Remapping the Fulani. Owing to migrations from rural areas, the geographical distribution of African populations has been changing. The Fulani's has changed considerably, whence the need to update maps. To this end, a map is roughed out of the "Fulani archipelago" as it now exists. Unlike past maps, this article does not overlook isolated groups in central Africa. It places the dispersion of the Fulani in a historical perspective reaching back to the 19th century. Major changes in this geographical distribution have taken place to the north and then to the south of areas already inhabited by Fulani. These recent trends lead us to hypothesize that the Fulani are distributed along a series of meridians; but this hypothesis needs further investigation.