Men of the nomadic Wodaabe tribe, also known as Bororo, are made up to participate in a Yakey dance, which doubles as a male beauty contest among members of a clan. Later, during the short rains, when pasture will be abundant enough for those people’cattle not to need to keep moving for a while, the clans will gather and compete in a Gerewol dance.
This will be a much more demanding beauty contest. This time it will oppose clans against clans, and the less-than-handsome will be ridiculed by the elders. The good-looking ones will hook up with potential wives.
The
Wodaabe canon of beauty demands light skin, thin nose and lips, high forehead,
and mostly shining white teeth and eyeballs. This invites much make-up.
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