Putting on makeup, dressing in your finest clothes and doing your hair will be familiar parts of any woman's beauty regime - but for the nomadic African Wodaabe tribe it is the men who put in all the ...

How the men of Chad's Wodaabe culture put on their make-up and don their best clothes to impress would-be brides at a week-long festival. Wodaabe men perform the "Yaake" ritual dance as part of the ...

The Wodaabe tribe, a branch of the Fulani, maintain their distinct culture and traditions despite external challenges. Known for their Gerewol festival, where men dance and compete for the affection ...

Make-up, flirting, bling outfits. But this beauty contest has a twist - the men dress up, the women pick the winners. What does the Wodaabe people's pageant tell us about male beauty? Tall, slim, ...

This description explores the Wodaabe tribe's unique use of butter in hair styling, which results in beautiful and ...

The Wodaabe tribe come together each year for one of the most intense beauty pageant in the world. Wodaabe is a Fulani Islamic polygamous tribe of nomadic cattle herders dwelling in Sahel part of ...

Have you ever wondered why women always have to dress up for men? Well, this African tribe has turned the tables. Men of the Wodaabe tribe, in deepest Chad, are required to don sequins, facepaint and ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

Tall, slim, facial symmetry and good teeth - this could be the universal tick list of a beauty pageant judge. And when the contestants are men, their faces painted with red, white and yellow clay, the ...

Wodaabe men perform the "Yaake" ritual dance as part of the Gerewol, a week-long courtship ceremony in Chad. It must be one of the only African cultures which allows girls to take the lead in choosing ...