Official Synopsis
Filmed in central Nigeria in 1984, this ethnographic film documents the economic life, skilled labour, and independent financial authority of Fulani pastoral women. The documentary follows a Fulani dairywoman through morning milking, processing fresh cow milk into sour curd (nono) and clarified butter (mài), and trekking to local rural markets to sell dairy products, demonstrating how women control household food supplies and sustain pastoral family economies through independent dairy commerce.
Biography
Filmmaker(s): Ann Waters-Bayer & Asma’u Maikano
Dr. Ann Waters-Bayer is an agricultural sociologist and long-time senior advisor to Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation in Agroecology) and CELEP (Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism) and is an Associate Research Fellow with the German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture. Asma’u Maikano is a Fulani woman (the dairywoman in this film) who was involved in participatory field research among agro-pastoralist Fulani communities in central Nigeria.
