Food
The Fulani diet usually includes milk products such as yogurt, milk, and butter. Every morning they drink milk or gruel (gari) made with sorghum. Their main meals consist of a heavy porridge (nyiiri) made of flour from such grains as millet, sorghum, or corn with a sauce over it. They eat their porridge with soup (takai, haako) made from tomatoes, onions, spices, peppers, and other vegetables. Before the meal is prepared women retrieve water from a well a bucket or two at a time and often must carry it on their heads and walk over a mile back to their home.
Clothing
A distinctive difference between the Fulani and other African people is that the Fulani have a huge respect for beauty. Beauty is considered very important and one of the ways this is shown is through tattoos that are put all over the body. A distinguishing feature of a Fulani woman is her lips, which are many times a blackish color from the use of Henna or tattooing done on the mouth.
Dresss codes and styles vary greatly. In general, however, married men and women follow the Islamic dress code, which encourages modesty. The men wear large gowns, trousers, and caps. Women wear wraps and blouses. Nomadic Fulani also wear Islamic dress, but it is not as elaborate and the women do not wear veils. Younger men and women adorn themselves with jewelry and headdresses, and they braid their hair. Fulani men are often seen wearing a solid color of shirt and pants, a long cloth wrapped around their faces, carrying walking sticks. Often the men have markings on either side of their faces and/or on their foreheads. They receive these markings as children Their clothes often have a background color of yellow and/or red. The women enjoy wearing many bracelets on their wrists and, like the men, have markings on their faces around their eyes and mouths that they were given as children.
Dresss codes and styles vary greatly. In general, however, married men and women follow the Islamic dress code, which encourages modesty. The men wear large gowns, trousers, and caps. Women wear wraps and blouses. Nomadic Fulani also wear Islamic dress, but it is not as elaborate and the women do not wear veils. Younger men and women adorn themselves with jewelry and headdresses, and they braid their hair. Fulani men are often seen wearing a solid color of shirt and pants, a long cloth wrapped around their faces, carrying walking sticks. Often the men have markings on either side of their faces and/or on their foreheads. They receive these markings as children Their clothes often have a background color of yellow and/or red. The women enjoy wearing many bracelets on their wrists and, like the men, have markings on their faces around their eyes and mouths that they were given as children.