Proverbs and Riddles

Issa, Adamou and Roger Labatut. Sagesse de Peuls nomades. Yaoundé: Editions Clé, 1974.

Lebeuf, Jean-Paul et Pierre-Francis Lacroix. Devinettes peules, suivies de quelques proverbes et exemples d'argots (Nord-Cameroun). [Review by D. Noye available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 42, no. 2 (1972): pp. 234-235.]

Noye, Dominique. Blasons peuls: éloges et satires du Nord-Cameroun. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1976. [Review by Christiane Seydou available online in Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 224-225.]

Schneider, Gilbert D. Pidgin English Proverbs. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, African Studies Center, n.d.

Siran, Jean-Louis. "Rhetoric, tradition and communication: the dialectics of meaning in proverb use." Man (London) 28, no. 2 (1993): pp. 225-242.

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