Mutanen Arma
Al’umar Arma ƙabila ce ta tsakiyar kwarin Kogin Neja, waɗanda suka fito daga maharan Maroko da suka mamaye ƙarni na 16. Sunan, amfani da sauran ƙungiyoyin, sun sami asali daga kalmar ar-mutumin Ruma (    ) "fusiliers". 

Ƙabilar Arma ta bambanta da (amma wani lokacin ana rikita shi da) mutanen Zarma miliyan 3.6 na yammacin Nijar, waɗanda suka gabaci mamayar Morokko kuma suna magana da harshen Zarma, kuma memba ne na yaren Songhay .

Ya zuwa shekarar 1986, akwai wasu mutane Arma da suka nuna kansu a cikin Mali a cikin Mali, galibi a kusa da Timbuktu, tsakiyar Niger lanƙw

wasa da Inner Niger Delta .

Balaguron Songhai da bayansa 
Balaguro ta shekarar 1590 da aka aika don cinye hanyoyin cinikayyar Daular Songhai ta daular Saadi ta Maroko ta ƙunshi mutane dubu huɗu na Maroko, 'yan gudun hijirar Morisco da baƙon Turai, masu makamai da kayan tarihi irin na Turai. Bayan halakar daular Songhai a cikin shekarata 1591, Marokkowa suka zauna a cikin Djenné, Gao, Timbuktu da manyan biranen kogin Neja. Ba su da ikon yin iko a waje da manyan ganuwar su, a cikin shekaru goma Maroko ta yi watsi da shugabannin balaguron. A cikin garuruwa kamar Timbuktu, mutanen da suka yi balaguro a cikin shekarar 1591 sun yi aure tare da Songhai, sun zama ƙananan sarakuna masu zaman kansu, kuma an gano wasu daga cikin zuriyarsu a matsayin ƙananan sarautu na 'yancin kansu. A ƙarshen karni na 17, Bambara, Abzinawan, Fula da sauran rundunoni sun zo sun mallaki masarautu da jihohin birni a yankin, suna barin Arma a matsayin ƙabila kawai.

Manazarta 

Samuel Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press, London and New Jersey (1979). 
James Stuart Olson. The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. "Arma", p. 37.  Greenwood Press (1996) 
Michel Aitbol. Tombouctou et les Arma de la conquête marocaine du Soudan nigérien en 1591 à l'hégémonie de l'empire peul du Macina en 1833. Paris, (1979).
Albrecht Hofheinz. Goths in the Lands of the Blacks. New Arabic manuscript finds from Timbuktu and their significance for the historiography of the Niger Bend . (2001)
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Kabila
Mutanen Afirka
Mutanen Nijar
Al'ummomi
Al'umma
Al'ada