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BORRORO FULANI (NIGERIA) (→Woodabe Fulani)
Index →Africa→Nigeria→ Borroro
Fulani
Featured: Badjju, Nupe, Hausa, Kadara, Kagoro, Efik, Tiv, Kanuri, Ijaw/ Ijo, Bini, Marghi, Jekri, Lala, Kofjar, Ibibio, Woodabe Fulani, Borroro Fulani, Ibo[ Afikpo Igbo, Asaba Ibo], Rukuba, Irigwe, Yakoe, Igbira, Igala, Orri, Dakarkaki
Wilson-Haffenden
on the Shuwalbe group of the Borroro
Fulani, in Northern
Nigeria
(1927:p287)[1]: “Adulterous intercourse with a married
woman, other than a fellow age-mate still within the years of childhood, is
usually not condoned […]. Sexual relations between age-mates (married or
not), however, are condoned provided the parties are still within the years
of childhood, which are regarded as terminated in the case of a girl about
one year from the date of reaching marriageable age, or, roughly, from the
date on which members of her age-class start to give birth”. Wilson-Haffenden (1930:p114, 116)[2]: “[a] custom of permitting an
element of sexual laxity, or in other words condoning sexual “play” or intercourse,
between age-mates still within the years of childhood-whether betrothed or
not- at certain festivals exists at the present day among the pagan Borroros, but not among the Muslim Fulani”. Among the
nomadic Fulani children are betrothed at ages seven to ten in the case of girls, and from
three to ten in the case of boys (De Sainte Croix, 1945/1972:p38-9)[3], a practice named koggal. Marriage
follows at ages fourteen, or at puberty (girls), and seventeen (boys), with a
preferred age differences of three years.
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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