My new book comes out on 5 May and is a children’s biography in Scholastic’s “Life Story” series.

My new book comes out on 5 May and is a children’s biography in Scholastic’s “Life Story” series.
Waking up in Amman, capital city of Jordan. Doing some talks and workshops at the International Community School of Amman tomorrow. Came a day early so that I could do a bit of exploring. Here goes… 🙂
To be Fulani is to own cows – and to own cows is to milk them. Sometimes it’s the man who milks the cow, sometimes it’s the woman. Sometimes this depends on the temperament of the cow – my friend Adamah told me that there are some cows that only his wife is able to milk. Here is a photo from a few years ago of the fundamental Fulani trinity: husband, wife, cow.