GEREWOL Courtship Ritual

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The Guerewol or Gerewol is an annual courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Fula people. Young men dressed in elaborate ornamentation and made up in traditional face painting gather in lines to dance and sing, vying for the attentions of marriageable young women. The Guerewol 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.

The most famous gathering point is In-Gall in northwest Niger, but the Guerewol is found wherever Wodaabe gather: Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad.

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