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Lele va au collège | Paris Global Forum
Francesco Sincich, anthropologue pour MSF, lance un appel pour aider Lele, une jeune collégienne Wodaabe, à poursuivre ses études.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Sudosukai - Wodaabe people celebrating the Gerewol festival (Chad 🇹🇩)
The Gerewol occurs each year as the traditionally nomadic Wodaabe cattle herders gather at the southern edge of the Sahara before dispersing south on their dry season pastures.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Sudosukai - Wodaabe people celebrating the Gerewol festival (Chad 🇹🇩)
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The Gerewol is an annual courtship ritual competition mainly among the nomad people of Niger and Chad.
This is a beauty pageant for the young men so that they might be selected by the girls of the tribe.
December 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Gerewol is a Wodaabe courtship festival in Chad
where men dance, chant, and display bright eyes, and white teeth
to attract women.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The Gerewol is a Wodaabe courtship festival in Chad where men dance, chant, and display bright eyes, and white teeth to attract women.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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THE WODAABE: A LIVING STORY OF BEAUTY.
By AI ChatGPT5-T.Chr.-Human Synthesis-20 November 2025.

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THE WODAABE: A LIVING STORY OF BEAUTY.
By AI ChatGPT5-T.Chr.-Human Synthesis-20 November 2025 They are a nomadic people, guiding their herds from one fragile grazing ground to the next, always carrying their culture with them — not in st...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun” (1989) boxd.it/19B2
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
judisutherland.bsky.social
I’m not sure why you raised this example. Nowhere in the documentary do they say that Wodaabe men are acting as, or pretending to be, women. Quite the opposite in fact. Their beauty standards are just different from ours. So this culture doesn’t seem to tell us anything about performative gender.
October 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Among the Wodaabe of Chad, beauty and identity are etched into the skin itself. From a young age, children undergo scarification—a practice where fine cuts are made with blades, then treated with a blend of coal and butter.
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
michaeljjohnson.bsky.social
RuPaul, his colleagues as well as men of the Wodaabe tribe prove your point.

Hell, in make up, I might even look beautimous!
Here I come Wodaabe tribe.

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Wodaabe tribe where MEN spend hours doing their hair and makeup
The Wodaabe tribe are often known as the vaniest in Africa because of how their culture prizes beauty - but it is the men who are expected to make the effort, especially during the annual Gerewol fest...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
flashmaggie.bsky.social
2/2 there've always been people who wore unconventional clothing, cross-dressers, and so on. Social conventions have varied over time and place. Men wore curly wigs, women wore trousers.
Would the Wodaabe people fit into a gender category?
Gender's behavioural.
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Wodaabe : A tribe that steals someone else's wife through singing and dancing.
YouTube video by Joledar
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September 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Yes, and the Wodaabe men do it big time in the Sahel
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Zoom into the Wodaabe Sudosukai dancer being embraced by the white photographer guy, looking at the camera with approximately the same pained-neutral expression as an Office character talking about Michael Scott
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Seems I posted this before about Wodaabe children and will delete it🙂
September 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Wodaabe believe in various bush spirits that live in trees and wells and are reputed to be saddened by how people have treated them. All spirits are intertwined in taboos pertaining largely to ecology. Some spirits are dangerous.
August 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The Gerewol festival is an annual courtship ritual and beauty pageant held by the Wodaabe, a nomadic Fulani subgroup in Niger. The men paint their faces with red ochre, often mixed with clay or saffron, to create striking red or orange hues that highlight their features.
The red face paint, especially prominent among clans like the Sudosukai, serves to emphasize facial symmetry, a long nose, and expressive charm, qualities prized by the women. The men spend hours preparing, using mirrors to perfect their look, and wear elaborate costumes with feathers and beads to appear taller and more striking. During the Yaake dance, they roll their eyes and bare their teeth to showcase stamina and beauty, aiming to impress female judges who may choose them as lovers or husbands, even if either party is already married. This tradition, held at the end of the rainy season (late September or early October), is a cultural cornerstone for the Wodaabe, reflecting their emphasis on beauty and social bonds. Losers are criticized and mocked by judges for failing to live up to the stringent boodal criteria. In Niger, men often use a superior orange powder from Jongooria, requiring long journeys to obtain it.
August 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Fille Wodaabe - Marie-Laure de Decker (1947-2023), photographe et journaliste française, portraitiste sur le vif, photographe de guerre, de plateau et de mode.
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August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Fille Wodaabe, Mbororo, Nigéria, Afrique, 2005 - Marie-Laure de Decker (1947-2023), photographe et journaliste française, portraitiste sur le vif, photographe de guerre, de plateau et de mode.
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August 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Sorry, not seeing that? If frame 3 to you is the Wodaabe painted face?
June 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"Mirror, mirror, in the hand, who's the fairest in the land?"
"Celestial Nymphs." Nineteen-year-old "Oun Sopheaktra" and seventeen-year-old "Srey Leak" are reflected in the mirrors as they apply their makeup. They have been training in classical dance since the age of nine. Their transformation into "celestial maidens" is about to begin. Trained in Thai classical dance, twenty-six-year-old Prowrave Chinkamol undergoes the long ritual of getting ready. She uses her handheld mirror to apply eye makeup. Prowrave Chinkamol has trained in Thai classical dance since the age of six. "People Of The Taboo" At the end of the rainy season in September, Wodaabe clans gather in several traditional locations, before the beginning of their dry season migration. The best known of these is In-Gall's Cure Salée salt market, and Tuareg seasonal festival. Here the young Wodaabe men, with elaborate make-up, feathers, and other adornments, perform the Yaake: dances, and songs, to impress marriageable women. The male beauty ideal of the Wodaabe stresses tallness, white eyes, and teeth; the men will often roll their eyes, and show their teeth to emphasize these characteristics. Wodaabe clans then join for the remainder of the week-long Guérewol, a series of barters over marriage and contests, where the young men's beauty and skills are judged by young women. In addition to the richness of their material culture, the Waura possess a complex and fascinating mytho-cosmology. The links between animals, things, humans, and extra-human beings permeate their conception of the world and form crucial aspects of their shamanic practices. The body painting expresses the role of the individual, both in everyday life and in the spiritual life. Waura Village, Xingu, Brazil.
June 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Concours de beauté des nomades Gerewal Bororo Wodaabe. Les yeux et les dents blanches sont les critères retenus par le jury féminin. Crédit photo : Katya Tsvetkova/Shutterstock
June 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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À la fin de la saison des pluies, près du lac Tchad, au nord du Niger, les Wodaabe se rassemblent pour Cure Salee , le « Festival des Nomades ». Au cœur des festivités se déroule le Gerewol , un concours de beauté masculin et un rituel de séduction. Les jeunes hommes – traditionnellement des bergers
June 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Un joven Wodaabe revisando el maquillaje y los gestos antes de participar en el festival Gerewol de Chad.

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May 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM