Seventeen Films about the Wodaabe (there are a few more)

Year Title (running time) Director 1954 Les Nomades du Soleil (44 min.) Henry Brandt (Swiss) 1972 Les Hommes du Dernier Soleil (62 min.) Paul Lambert (Swiss) (about Tuareg and Wodaabe) 1979 Habbanaae: the Animal of Friendship Oxfam/America 1980 La Femme Volée (16 min.) Nena Baratier and Geneviève (set in ) Louveau (France). (produced by CNRS audiovisuel) 1981 Deep Hearts (53 min.) Robert Gardner (U.S.) 1988 Way of the Wodaabe (26 min.) National Geographic (with Carol Beckwith) (U.S.) 1988 The Wodaabe (51 min.) Leslie Woodhead (Disappearing World series) with Mette Bovin 1988 Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun (52 min.) (German) 1992 The Art of Living (60 min.) Adrian Malone (Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World series with David Maybury-Lewis) 1992 Strange Relations (60 min.) Adrian Malone (Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World series with David Maybury-Lewis) 1992 På Tchad-söens Bund – En Film om et Mette Bovin (Danish) Venskab (On the Bottom of Lake – A Film about Friendship) (35 min.) 2002 Sahara with Michael Palin, episode 3: John-Paul Davidson; writer: Absolute Desert (60 min.) Michael Palin (4 part BBC series and book) 2006 Wodaabe, le Plus Beau des Combats (52 Sandrine Loncke (French) min.) 2007 Birds of the Wilderness: The Beauty Christopher Roy (U.S.) (Art Competition of the Wodaabe People of and Life in Africa series) (62 min.) 2007 Fulani: Art and Life of a Nomadic People (84 Christopher Roy (U.S.) (Art min.) and Life in Africa series) 2007 Tribal Secrets: The Wodaabe (46 min.) National Geographic (U.S.) 2010 La Danse des Wodaabe (90 min.) Sandrine Loncke (French)

Corinne A. Kratz, “The Case of the Recurring Wodaabe: Visual Obsessions in Globalizing Markets” Some Wodaabe Researchers (partial; only films and books shown)

Name Research period Comments Henry Brandt (Swiss) early 1950s film: Les Nomades du Soleil (1954); book: Nomades du Soleil (1956)

C.E. Hopen (Canadian) early 1950s The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu (1958) (Sokoto Province, )

Derrick Stenning (British) early 1950s Savannah : A Study of the Wodaabe Pastoral Fulani of (Bornu Province, Nigeria) Western Bornu Provice, Northern Region, Nigeria (1959)

Margaret Dupire (French) early 1950s Peuls Nomades: étude descriptive des Wodaabe du Nigérien (Niger & N. Cameroon) (1962); L’Organisation Social des Peul (1970)

Paul Reisman (U.S) 1967-68 Freedom in Fulani Social Life (1974). Reisman didn’t work w/Wodaabe, but his research w/Jelgobe Fulani in Upper Volta was influential.

Niger Range and 1979-1983 Research on pastoralism and economy with Wodaabe and others by Livestock Project A. Bonfiglioli, J. Swift, C. White and others. USAID + Niger support

Mette Bovin (Danish) 1985-2000 (other work in films: Disappearing World series: The Wodaabe (1988, w/Leslie the area from 1968) Whitehead), På Tchad-söens bund - En film om et venskab (On the Bottom of Lake Chad - A film about friendship) (1992); book: Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty (2001)

Marion van Offelen 1980s Nomads of Niger (with Carol Beckwith, 1983); van Offelen holds an (Belgian) M.A. in anthropology and does development work for Belgian govt.

Mahalia Lassibille 1994-2000s 2004 dissertation (EHESS, Paris), Danses Nomades (Mouvements (French) et Beauté chez les WoDaaBe du Niger)

Kristin Loftsdóttir 1996-1998 + later visits 2000 dissertation (U of Arizona); The Bush is Sweet: Identity, Power, (Icelandic) and Development among the WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger (2008)

Elisabeth Boesen 1999-2008 Scham und Schönheit. Über Identität und Selbstvergewisserung bei (German) den Fulbe Nordbenins (1999, research in Benin; followed by research w/Wodaabe starting 1999)

Sandrine Loncke (French) 1994-2010 2002 dissertation,”Lignages et lignes de chant chez les Peuls Wodaabe du Niger”; films: La Danse des Wodaabe (2010)

Corinne A. Kratz, “The Case of the Recurring Wodaabe: Visual Obsessions in Globalizing Markets”