What's your favorite African tribe?

Karb

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Shabaz:troll:

I like these folks
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The women wear the pants in that tribe :francis:

The men have to wear makeup, stand in line and basically participate in a beauty pageant. The women then pick who they are going to sleep with.

And black, to darken lips and emphasise eyes, is a favourite hue, partly because it is the opposite of white - the colour of loss and death, says Bovin in her book Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty.

Adding to the black lipstick's significance, it is made from the charred bones of the cattle egret, a bird the Wodaabe associate with "expressivity", says Bovin. "To have charm - that is to have expressivity and charisma - is highly valued in a young man."

The dance moves emulate the poise of the egret, and the men sing by vibrating lips painted with this "bird-lipstick", as Bovin describes it.

And the prize? Each judge chooses her champion and may take him as her lover - even if both already have partners - and the winners are celebrated for years to come. Nor is the potential for match-making limited to judges and winners.

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My two favorite African ethnic groups are Tigrayans and Hausa Nigerien (Not Nigeria)


Ethiopian Tigrayans Ethnic group.
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Hausa Nigerien (Not Nigeria)

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The unemployed troll posted this picture in the Somali thread but they are not Somali, The girl in the middle is Somali, the others are Hausa Nigerien (Not Nigeria).
 
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