Chad
18m
Sep 09, 2026
The Men Who Dance to Be Chosen: Wodaabe Beauty and the Gerewol Festival of Chad
In the Sahel, at the end of the rainy season, Wodaabe men spend hours applying makeup, arranging their jewelry, and perfecting their expressions — then stand for hours in the desert heat while women walk slowly along the line and choose. This is the Gerewol festival, and it inverts almost everything the outside world assumes about gender, beauty, and the right to judge.