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Memoirs of a Mbororo: The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon

Memoirs of a Mbororo: The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon

Bocquené, Henri

Hardcover

Series: Cameroon Studies, Book 5

African HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1571818448
ISBN13: 9781571818447
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Dec 1 2002
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This remarkable book recounts the life of Ndudi Umaru, a pastoral nomadic Fulani, who was born in the Nigeria-Cameroon border zone, but spent most of his life in Cameroon where he was treated for leprosy. Left to his own devices at an early age-his illness having separated him from his kith and kin-Ndudi is befriended by Père Boquené, a French missionary who takes him on as a field assistant. Working closely with the young man, Père Boquené realizes Ndudi is a keen observer of his own pastoral society, with its links to a wider social setting, and suggests he record his observations on tape. The result is a rare and sensitive collaboration, which sheds new insight into the world of the Mbororo and the complex and ever-changing social mosaic of West African savanna societies. Ndudi's leprosy and his efforts to find a cure grant him the necessary perspective to analyze this complex world, while still remaining a part of it.

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