Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine in Northern Cameroon

by Helen Regis

Contemporary Fulbe identity is rooted in a history of nomadic pastoralism, migration, slave trading, and religious jihads, even though the Fulbe today are sedentary farmers and merchants. Much of The Fulbe of Northern Cameroon is concerned, then, with defining what it means to be "Fulbe" in a plural society composed of people of diverse physical types, with tensions between Islamic and non-Islamic elements and between former rulers and former slaves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813340357
• ISBN13: 9780813340357
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages