Speed-dating, Wodaabe-style! Sexually liberated Niger tribe take part in courtship ritual where men dress up and dance to 'steal' each other's women Stunning set of images show members of Niger's Wodaabe Fula competing in the week-long Gerewol festival Ritual sees Wodaabe and Tuareg people gather to mark end of the rainy season in the Western African nation During the festival, the tribe's young men perform a ritual designed to attract a group of eligible women
Mena: The Wodaabe ethnic group of the Sahel region of West Africa have Northeast and East African people phenotype and morphology. They have long face, long nose and slim long body. they looks like the Tutsi, Amhara and Masai ethnic group of East Africa.
In the Wodaabe ethnic group I notice that man behave like woman. Men applied makeup on their faces and participated in beauty pageant were they are trying to seduced Wodaabe women. The Woodabi ethnic group was probably a matriarchal society because Wodaabi women today can have more then one husband.
Stunning photos have emerged showing tribesmen celebrating as they take part in a traditional courtship competition in Niger
Members of the country's Wodaabe Fula tribe are seen competing in the Gerewol, a week-long festival where bachelors compete for the attention of young women
The ritual makes up part of the Cure Salée - the 'Festival of the Nomads' - where the Wodaabe and Tuareg people gather to mark the end of the rainy season in Niger, Western Africa
Dressed to impress: The pictures were captured by a photographer as he travelled through Agazed, in northern Niger, in September
Courtship: During the festival, the tribe's young men perform a ritual designed to attract a group of eligible women
Competition: Young men and women from the tribe take part in the ritual with batchelors hoping to attract partners
The Wodaabe wife-stealing festival: Stunning images from the world's vainest tribe where men dress up to take each other's women - and the women have as many husbands as they please Wodaabe tribe men put on a spectacular show to impress the tribe's women who can take them as their husband The put on a mating dance in the hope of stealing another man's husband, but the women have all the power The tribe's women can have sex with whoever they want before they are married and have have numerous husbands Wodaabe are the world's vainest people and believe they are the best-looking. Men are rarely found without a mirro
Beauty: The Wodaabe tribe, who live in the Sahel, come together each year for arguably the most intense beauty pageant in the world
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posted Dedication: It can take as long as six hours to get your face ready for the dance at the Gerewol festival, held in September
Choices: The women, who are married, could chose to be 'stolen' by one of the better-looking men, leaving their husbands behind
Eye-catching: They have their standards of beauty, including up to eight earrings in each ear, and tattooing their faces
Home: The Wodaabe live in the Sahel, an inhospitable desert which stretches across Africa
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They are becoming darker. They are going back to black.
If you go back 30 years ago and earlier, many of them, both men and women were the red ochre color the men paint their faces with, which probably accounts for why that complexion is their beauty ideal.
I have a feeling the gene for the ebony complexion is dominant one over the red/ruddy complexion, which is why the black South Sudanese, Northern Kenyans and Ugandans don't display the ruddy complexion preferred in ancient Egyptian paintings.
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