The Gerewol Festival is a yearly courtship custom competition among the Woddabe Fula people in Niger. Young fellows wearing elaborate ornamentation and made up in customary face painting compete for the consideration/attention of single young ladies. The Gerewol Festival happens every year as the customarily migrant Wodaabe dairy cattle herders accumulate at the southern edge … Continue reading The Gerewol Festival’ The Wife Stealing Festival of the Woodabe Tribe in Chad