When Nomads Lose Cattle: Wodaabe Negotiations of Ethnicity

Ali, the young man sitting in front of me, looks away and we are silent. His clothing is torn and worn and he has lost one of his front teeth because he fell while trying to escape the police when smuggling petroleum between the borders of Niger and Nigeria. His original goal by going to the city was to earn enough money to
allow him to return to his extended family in the pastoral area of