Wodaabe wife-stealing ceremony — Str8talk Magazine
Wife stealing ceremony
This is practised by the Wodaabe tribe, a subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group found in the Sahel region.
During the ceremony, which is in a form of a beauty pageant, men dress and make up, with their faces usually painted with different colours.
They do a spectacular Gerewol dance just to attract a woman at the ceremony, irrespective of she being married or not.
The women can also choose as many men as they want and have sex with them before they settle on one.
The interesting thing is it’s no big deal how long the woman has been married; once she has picked a man, the tribe accepts the new union and regards it as a genuine marriage.
