https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nigerias-future-presidential-election-boko-haram-cassaniti-mph?trk=prof-post

My research focused on the relationship between Fulani nomads and health service providers in and around the city of Yola. I learned a lot about nomadic life in Nigeria and the economic, ethnic, and political tensions between nomadic populations and those who live a sedentary life. The nomadic groups I spoke with wanted desperately to access health care but didn’t feel welcome at the clinics along the routes they traversed in Northern Nigeria. The nomads are ethnically and linguistically predominantly Fulani while the sedentary population is predominately Hausa. These cultural differences, I found, might be overcome through the establishment of nomad liaisons, trained to bridge the two ways of life.

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