Yamal Fatimata Boobo Lobbo
Subtitle: (les fiançailles de Fatimata Boobo Lobbo) / raconté en langue pulaar par Samba Coulibaly
Contributors: African Language Materials Archive (Project); American Overseas Digital Library
Edition: Electronic edition.
Series: Série pulaar -- no. 4
Publisher: African Language Materials Archive
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dakar, Senegal
Language: ful
Subjects: Fula (African people); Folklore; Marriage customs and rites; Pular dialect; Texts; Fula language; Readers for new literates; Tales
Description: As told in Pulaar by Samba Coulibaly, this short story deals with a current phenomenon in Pulaar culture: Daftondiral, or the competition, in order to marry a well known and very nice girl named Fatimata Boobo Lobbo. In this story, there are three claimants seeking to be the husband. In the end, Samba-the-Nasty and Fatimata are married.

Raconté en langue pulaar par Samba Coulibaly, ce livre est un court conte qui a pour thème un phénomène courant dans le monde peul: le "daftondiral" ou la compétition pour le mariage d'une fille à la beauté féérique qu'elle s'appele Fatimata Boobo Lobbo. Il s'agit ici de trois prétendants pour un mari. Enfin, Samba-le-Mauvais et Fatimata se sont marié.

Yamal Fatimata Boobo Lobbo, bindudo deftere nde ko Samba Kulibali, deftere naybere e pulaar. Nde deftere ko daarol. Sagataabe tato mbii ina njaha, goto e mumen wara Ilelbiljikri jaambaaro capaato kaddo Fatimata Boobo Lobbo reseede. Ko Samba bondo mbaadi cekniddo golle fooli Jaanbaane, o resi Fatimata.
Notes: In Pular.

Prepared as part of the ALMA Project (African Language Materials Archive Project) of WARC (West African Research Center), sponsored by Unesco and hosted on the WEB as part of AODL (American Overseas Digital Library), sponsored by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and the American Institute of Yemeni Studies.

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Electronic version of: Coulibaly, Samba. Yamal Fatimata Boobo Lobbo : (les fiançailles de Fatimata Boobo Lobbo) / raconté en langue pulaar par Samba Coulibaly. Dakar, Senegal : Société international de linguistique (S.I.L.), [1989]. [7] p. ; 21 cm.

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