Gerewol Festival
The pageantry of beauty and talent is something that has been used to evaluate a woman’s worth since time immemorial. However, in the Wodaabe tribe, it’s the men who have to be all prim and proper. The courtship festival known as Gerewol is where men dress up in all their finery and appear in front of the women to show them what they’ve got.
They take part in a dance competition called Yaake where the winners are chosen based on their overall good looks and dancing skills.
