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Initiation of Fulani boys in Adamawa1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012
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page 226 note 2 The Fulani text of this and the following songs is published in the Nigerian Teacher.
page 227 note 1 In the original, each line of the song ends in ‘Gono Yaya’.
page 227 note 2 i.e. Sing ‘Gono Yaya’ with those whose sons are amongst the initiates and some day they will help you to sing it when it is the turn of your own sons.
page 227 note 3 The noise of the crowd is like the chattering of the birds, when the figs are ripe on the trees.
page 228 note 1 Jingi is a nickname given to a boy who has undergone the circumcision rites.
page 228 note 2 He must have his kola-nuts bought straight from the merchant, and not from the market where they might smell of bosi (a preparation of fish, &c).
page 228 note 3 If the ngorori snake bite you, and you die, you are counted a martyr; if you do not die, you will live to be rich. So also in childbirth; whether you live or die, you are lucky.
page 228 note 4 Bafdi is the name of the special style of hair-dressing which a mother wears when she has borne a child, for four months in the case of a son, and three months in the case of a daughter. She does not really do this again at the nastordu; the words are sung to her by the women in remembrance of the time when her child was born.
page 228 note 5 One of the aunts was so engrossed in her domestic affairs that she forgot to prepare a present for her nephew.
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