Pastoralism and Migration, the Peul of Barani and Dokui (Haute- Volta). In the 19th century, the Peul shepherds of the Western Haute-Volta became warriors. New sociopolitical conditions ensuing from the colonisation sent them back to their status of shepherds, with the result that they changed their diagnostic upon Nature. A new behaviour, based on mobility, then appeared as the search for an ever-challenged balance between population and resources.
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Michel Benoît (1978) studied this question.