Describes the history, traditions, culture, and religion of the Fulani, who held political, religious, and military power over parts of western Africa for several centuries and still live in many countries there.
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"Through a systematic comparison of the life circumstances, child-rearing practices, and personalities of the FulBe and their former slaves, the RiimaayBe, this book develops an alternative theory of the way personality is formed in the Fulani society of West Africa. Riesman dis…
"Through a systematic comparison of the life circumstances, child-rearing practices, and personalities of the FulBe and their former slaves, the RiimaayBe, this book develops an alternative theory of the way personality is formed in the Fulani society of West Africa. Riesman dis…
This is a descriptive study on pulaaku discourse and Fulbe identity in the area of northern Cameroon, Africa. The Fulbe have been a major vehicle for the spread of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and Fulbe identity has been largely equated with Islamic identity. As some Fulbe become…
This dissertation explores the link between Fulbe ethnicity and Fulbe control of the entrepreneurial sector in Guinea following the liberalization policies that were instituted after April 1984, when the country's socialist regime fell. The study is based on a mixed method appro…
The dilemma of female nomadic education within Nigeria's policies and politics inspired this study. The focus on nomadic Fulbe women questions the extent of their gains towards equal educational opportunities within developmental social policies such as education since the incep…
In this dissertation, I examine rote learning from a language socialization perspective, reframing it as social practice for apprenticing novices into language and other domains of cultural competence. This practice, which I call Guided Repetition, entails modeling by an expert,…
This dissertation analyzes the mission work of five Protestant churches among Muslim pastoral Fulbe (Fulani in English and Peuls in French) in seven Middle Belt states in Northern Nigeria. The study begins with a presentation of the theoretical framework for the research. The pr…