A group of Wodaabe women and girls at a Gerewol festival, celebrated around the world for its ancien
A group of Wodaabe women and girls at a Gerewol festival, celebrated around the world for its ancient and unique male beauty pageants. You’ve probably seen photos in National Geographic of the young men with the yellow ochre facepaint, black lips, big white grins, and wide, rolling eyes. This is the stereotype of the Wodaabe; their most famous symbol.The pageant judges are high-ranking young women–like those seen in the top row of the group of women in front of the camels–who will determine the best and most beautiful contestant during dances and displays.Wodaabe are renowned for their beauty across the entire region. Their own standards of good looks demand long, slender noses; wide, bright eyes; dark lips and eyelids, and towering height: not unlike our own Western standards, really. After the Gerewol dances, the final winner is indicated with an almost undetectable gesture by the supreme judge, the young woman considered the most beautiful in the tribe.The chosen men are usually taken to the bush by their judges, where they are usually obliged (and probably happy) to have a tryst.Gerewol (by upload) -- source link
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