Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
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Sedentarization in Niger Is a Mixed Thing
avoiding the state is certainly not a strategy that's favored by the mobile pastoralists in Niger in general. In order for these mobile communities to participate in projects often they are forced to adhere to a minimum of sedentarization. Many wood arbor really um have difficulties living a mobile life, says Ogunlesi. The farming zone is just eating into the pastoral zone so much that is getting more and more difficult.
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