ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the different strategies, as the strategies are the divergences in opportunities and experience across the life cycle, and between the sexes. These differences are examined through the use of detailed case studies. The chapter considers pulaaku. Pulaaku repeatedly came up in conversations concerning socialization, training and education. The biography of one remarkable man, Hamidu Dem, is presented. In discussing socialization, training and education, it is perhaps useful to distinguish between various stages according to life-cycle requirements. State education can also be viewed as taking children away from their traditional networks of kin relations, or at least it stresses relationships and values outside of the realm of the family. The learning environments in which Djibo has been "educated" have been diverse. There is a general resistance to and suspicion of formal state education by the Fulani in Accra.
