The Wife Stealing festival
This festival makes up a few unconventional yet interesting practices of the Wodaabe tribe. Known as the Yakke, the sexually liberated males come together with colorful paintings on their faces to attract their bride.
They paint their faces with red clay, apply thick black eyeliner to highlight the whites of their eyes and matching lipstick to show off their teeth.
In this festival, the status of a man is cast in stone. After spending as much as six hours preparing themselves for the big moment, they dance in circles shoulder to shoulder to attract applause from an all-female judge.
The female judges get to choose a winner who has the right to pick any woman from his tribe for marriage.
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