Wolof (folkeslag): Forskelle mellem versioner

 

Ligesom mange vestafrikanske etniske grupperinger har wolof-folket historisk vedligeholdt en rigid, endogam social stratificering, der omfattede adlen, gestligheden, kaster og slaver.<ref name="Levinson1996wol"/><ref name="Tamari 1991">{{cite journal | last=Tamari | first=Tal | title=The Development of Caste Systems in West Africa | journal=The Journal of African History | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=32 | issue=02 | year=1991 | pages=221–250 | doi=10.1017/s0021853700025718 }}, Quote: "Endogamous artisan and musician groups are characteristic of over fifteen West African peoples, including the Manding, Soninke, '''Wolof''', Serer, Fulani, Tukulor, Songhay, Dogon, Senufo, Minianka, Moors, and Tuareg. Castes appeared among the Malinke no later than 1300, and were present among the '''Wolof''' and Soninke, as well as some Songhay and Fulani populations, no later than 1500."</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Michael A. Gomez|title=Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfhGouf7_TsC |year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52847-4|pages=23–24}}</ref> Woloferne var tæt på de franske koloniale herskere, blev integrerede i koloniernes administration og har domineret senegalesisk kultur og økonomi siden landets uafhængighed.<ref name="AppiahG2010wolof">{{cite book|author1=Anthony Appiah|author2=Henry Louis Gates|title=Encyclopedia of Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0XNvklcqbwC |year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533770-9|pages=544–545}}</ref> De omtales også som '''Chelofes''', '''Galofes''', '''Lolof''', '''Jolof''', '''Olof''', '''Volof''', '''Wolluf''' og '''Yolof'''.<ref name="Levinson1996wol"/>

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