TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leger, Rudolf
A1  - Mohammad, Abubakar B.
T1  - The concept of Pulaaku mirrored in fulfulde proverbs of the Gombe dialect
T2  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
N2  - The paper gives a brief history of the Fulçe people who are found all over West and Central Africa. Since no study of a people is complete without mentioning their language, the paper also gives a very brief account of Fulfulde, the language of the Fulçe people. However, the central focus of the paper is the concept of pulaaku, that unique attribute of the Fulçe that serves as an unwritten code of conduct for all ‘true’ Fulçe. Pulaaku is Fulçe’s guiding principle in their dealings with their fellow Fulçe as well as with all other people. Rather than talk about pulaaku in isolation, however, the paper tries to mirror it through Fulfulde proverbs. Coded or loaded messages called wise-sayings or proverbs are widely used in all languages. Fulfulde is particularly rich in this, which is why the paper explores this reservoir of knowledge in trying to portray the rich culture of the Fulçe people. The corpus of proverbs from which the selected proverbs come, was compiled in and around Gombe with the help of Mallam Bappayo Bappa Yerima Djibril. Since the Fulçe are easily the most dispersed people in Africa, no single study can do real justice to all of them. This is why this study narrows its scope to cover just the Fulçe of Gombe area of the northeastern of Nigeria.
T3  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 - 14, 299 
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1820
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35799
VL  - 14
SP  - 299
EP  - 306
PB  - SFB 268
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -