#guerewol

[salchicharandom]

Male Wodaabe dancers performing the Yaake line dance during the annual week-long Guerewol or Gerewol ceremony in Chad, Central Africa.

[messoamerica]

Wodaabe men during the Guérewol festival, Chad

Once a year, the Wodaabe, nomadic cattle-herders and traders, gather their different clans on the central plains of Chad. In their finest costumes, the men dance and sing to impress women of marriageable age.

Photograph by Jimmy Nelson on display at the Brussels’ La Photographie Galerie. 

[polychelles]

Woodabe man attired in Guérewol courtship ornamentation, photographed by una banda de dos