The Gerewol is an annual beauty pageant with a difference – it is the men who wear the make-up and compete for the attention of female judges, in this annual courtship ritual of the Wodaabe people, Niger.
Wodaabe-Bororo men with faces painted at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, a general reunion of West African Wodaabe Peuls, Niger, West AfricaNiger, A Wodaabe-Bororo man with his face painted for the annual Gerewol male beauty contestGroup of Wodaabe (Bororo) men with faces painted for the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, the general reunion of West Africa for the Wodaabe Peul people, NigerWodaabe-Bororo men, Gerewol festival, NigerBack view of a group of Wodaabe (Bororo) men at the annual Gerewol male beauty contest, the general reunion of West Africa for the Wodaabe Peul (Bororo Peul) people, Niger
Robert Harding
