Love in the Sahel
In the Fulani culture the men are known as the cattle herders. It has been a tradition for centuries that every year the men leave home, leaving behind their girlfriends, wives and families to go on a eight month migration with their cattle. They do this for one specific reasons, and that is to feed their cattle. While on this migration they have one goal to accomplish and that is to return home with fat and healthy cattle. In the Fulani culture, the women’s parents choose who their daughter will marry. If a man returns home from this migration, with a bad herd the women’s parents will not allow her to marry that man. A Fulani man’s herd represents who they are as a man, it significances their wealth, pride, and identity.
In the Fulani culture the men are known as the cattle herders. It has been a tradition for centuries that every year the men leave home, leaving behind their girlfriends, wives and families to go on a eight month migration with their cattle. They do this for one specific reasons, and that is to feed their cattle. While on this migration they have one goal to accomplish and that is to return home with fat and healthy cattle. In the Fulani culture, the women’s parents choose who their daughter will marry. If a man returns home from this migration, with a bad herd the women’s parents will not allow her to marry that man. A Fulani man’s herd represents who they are as a man, it significances their wealth, pride, and identity.