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The Fulani are pastoral cattle herders and so one of their traditional proverbs is "If the cattle die, the Fulbe will die".

Fulani proverbs contain the folk wisdom of the Fulani people, expressed in their traditional sayings such as munyal deefan hayre ("patience can cook a stone").

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• Gaden, Henri (1931), Proverbes et maximes peuls et toucouleurs traduits, expliqués et annotés, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie
• Leger, R. and Mohammad, A.B., 2000. The concept of Pulaaku mirrored in Fulfulde proverbs of the Gombe dialect. Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, pp.299-306.
• Patterson, Sheila (1959), "The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu by Edward Hopen", African Affairs, 58 (231), Oxford University Press: 186–188, doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094647, JSTOR 719393
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