Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
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The Relationship Between Pastoral and Urban Migration
There's a strong clearance among brothers who are traditionally also have co-residents they stay together but here they share tasks. The history of this urban migration thing is longer that started in the 1970s and 1980s with the great sadhroughts that really killed many animals. Many pastoralists lost important parts of their herds and it was not possible for them anymore to rely on pastoralism so they were forced to move to town.
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