Some scholars on Fulani History and Sokoto Caliphate have traced the lineage of the Torankawa clan (Torodbe) of the Fulani to an Arab called Uqba bin Nafi. As a nomadic herding people, they have moved through and among many other cultures. Skutsch notes that their oral histories point toward a start in Jordan or farther east, but also that their language comes from the Senegambian region.