The Wodaabe tribe, a branch of the Fulani, maintain their distinct culture and traditions despite external challenges. Known for their Gerewol festival, where men dance and compete for the affection ...

How the men of Chad's Wodaabe culture put on their make-up and don their best clothes to impress would-be brides at a week-long festival. Wodaabe men perform the "Yaake" ritual dance as part of the ...

Make-up, flirting, bling outfits. But this beauty contest has a twist - the men dress up, the women pick the winners. What does the Wodaabe people's pageant tell us about male beauty? Tall, slim, ...

held every year by Wodaabe men and an all-female panel (SOUNDBITE) (French) 22-YEAR-OLD WODAABE BEAUTY CONTEST PARTICIPANT, BEJI, SAYING:"Now we are going to the Gerewol, to show our beauty, Gerewol ...

THESE vibrant snaps show tribesmen wearing flamboyant face paint as part of a tradition to attract a wife. The striking images of male members of the Wodaabe tribe at their Gerewol festival in Chad ...

Universally, women are the ones who wear makeup with hopes of impressing and attracting young men, but this is not the case with the Wodaabe tribe found around Chad, Niger, Northeast Nigeria, and ...

The Wodaabe tribe come together each year for one of the most intense beauty pageant in the world. Wodaabe is a Fulani Islamic polygamous tribe of nomadic cattle herders dwelling in Sahel part of ...

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The word "nomad" might make us dream about freedom, but in the southern Sahara it describes a man locked in an epic struggle against drought, locusts and oblivion. The scrubland of the Azawak, an ...

Wodaabe men perform the "Yaake" ritual dance as part of the Gerewol, a week-long courtship ceremony in Chad. It must be one of the only African cultures which allows girls to take the lead in choosing ...

Tall, slim, facial symmetry and good teeth - this could be the universal tick list of a beauty pageant judge. And when the contestants are men, their faces painted with red, white and yellow clay, the ...