SUMMARY This article about a group of North Cameroon Peul nomads, the Wocfaabe gives information in the first part about their Islamic faith, the way it is how it is taught, and the forms it takes at important moments of their life circumcision, marriage, death) and culture (housing, clothing, cooking, art). second part gives observations and documents about their pre-Islamic religious (myths of origin; rites concerning fire, the cow, and transhumance; annual feasts; chtonian spirits; magical practices; symbolism of black and