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Sexual Diversity And Role Structure In Fulbe Nomadic Homestead: Issues In Gender Education

ADEDEJI DARAMOLA, DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, COVENANT UNIVERSITY, OTTA, AND OLUFEMI AINA, NOMADIC HOUSING RESEARCH GROUP, LAGOS - NIGERIA

The nomads are a group of organized and culturally committed people. They jealously guide their culture, defend their profession and are absolutely committed to the demand of nature. The nomads are neither stupid nor disorganized, rather they explore to their greatest advantage, their resourceful ingenuity in understanding the time and seasons to determine their pattern of mobility.

The nomads operate an impeccably organised society where everyone identifies his roles and hold tenaciously to it. Roles in a typical nomadic communities are gender based with strong biased towards the efficiency of their flock management. No nomadic community exists outside its culture. Role players admonish their cultures. Under the pastoral nomadic culture, the homestead is the property of the women, while they take custody of the household properties as well as the milk procurement and sales. The male child is cultured along the ways of raising, nourishing and managing the family flock. Recent studies have discovered some developments around the homestead of the Fulbe nomads in Adamawa and Taraba states of Nigeria. How far has this influenced their role distribution?

This paper examines the entire homestead pattern, study the numerous roles divisions and the effects on the education of the female child. It suggested strategies for accelerating progress on girls’ education in order to meet the goals of gender equality in primary and secondary education in the year 2015 as determined by the millennium development goals as well as the education for all (EFA) strategy of the UNICEF.

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