Thursday, June 5, 2014

Niger: Wodaabe Man Preparing To Participate In A Male Beauty Contest


Looking into a small mirror, a man of the Wodaabe tribe, also known as Bororo, is painting his face to participate in a Yakey dance, which doubles as a male beauty contest among members of a clan. Later, during the rains, when pasture will be abundant enough for those nomads’ cattle to stop 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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1 comment:

  1. Women, beware that men too always do have some dying interests for your future too, and they will do almost anything to win your hearts! This very really fascinating humanity picture justifies my premise!

    So, whenever you see such move from men, please consider them to be very serious. And then soften your hearts and accommodate them. That is, if your hearts were as solid as a piece of "diamond!"

    Meanwhile, as you do so and we obtain satisfaction; then would society gracefully progress! And then we all in general, would not also forget about all of the many other following causes that we could be caring about in society to achieve rapid growths: -

    1. Animal Welfare
    2. Arts and Culture
    3. Children
    4. Civil Rights and Social Action
    5. Economic Empowerment
    6. Education
    7. Environment
    8. Health
    9. Human Rights
    10. Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
    11. Politics
    12. Poverty Alleviation
    13. Science and Technology
    14. Social Services

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