Most agricultural communities do have some livestock, but the Fulbe and Tuareg of the northern regions are considered real pastoralists.
For instance, pastoral groups such as the Fulbe may live not in compounds but in more temporary constructions.
This goes against everything that Pulaaku represents as the Fulbe will not listen to the haabe language.
The Fulbe are staunchly Muslim and proud at having brought Islam to this part of West Africa.
We continue to pray and wait patiently for the day when there will be a thriving church among the Fulbe.
In this way, a series of loan transactions are initiated that culminate with the Gourmantche entrusting his cattle to the Fulbe.
Africa's most populous country, its history has been characterized by its ethnic and religious diversity: its 430 ethnic groups are dominated by three peoples, the Islamic Hausa, the Fulbe, the Yoruba, and the Christian Ibo.
In addition, school attendance exposes Fulbe children to a simplified form of their native language, widely referred to as Bilkiire, spoken by their non-Fulbe schoolmates and teachers.
There are about 20 million Fulbe and other Pular-speaking people spread across West Africa.
Yet these features should also draw our attention, for in West Africa they are common to the institution across ethnohistorical lines and mark it among several neighboring groups: the Soninke, the Mande peoples, the Fulbe, and the Wolof.
Since most Fulbe are nomadic cattle herdsmen, the logical explanation for their migration eastward is the search for water and good grazing for their cattle.
Different regions and ethnic groups specialize and excel in particular products: Fulbe men in the Mopti region, for example, weave wool blankets.
All ethnic groups except for the Jola and some Fulbe have a strongly stratified social system that includes an old-ruling family from which the chief was chosen, high-ranking powerful families, and ordinary peasant farmers.
The Fulbe people own the huge herds of cattle that are found in the crater and also raise small farms.