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  • Teach me how to dougie!!!

  • What's so amazing is that those people don't even have caucasoid features. Those people all look like my brothers, cousins and uncles. Lol. Now all of a sudden they have caucasian genes. Oh, I am Ghanaian. African tribes are the purest humans on this planet. Tribes don't fuck other tribes and they certainly won't fuck some weird looking foreigners with pale skin with tiny monkey-like lips. That shit scares them.

  • To all claiming the Fulanis(Woodaabes) are of mix with some other shitty caucasoids I have bad news. They're all haplotype E1a. Same as the all other subsaharan Africans. And they have no outside admixture. PURE AFRICAN HUMANS. Next..

  • What a good looking group of people are the Fulanis. All of them seems to have the perfect body and facial structure that we all envy. Very tall, square jawline, high cheek bone, big lips, nicely structured nose. And guess what? There are over 30 million of them in Africa. Plus, they're not the only tribe with those characteristics. The true, pure humans. What a great continent.

  • What an interesting ,yet beautifull culture!

  • I don't think he meant dresses...probably more like a tunic or toga.

  • lol, i want to take one to the bush, LOL

  • Beautiful people absolutely breath taking!!!

  • human peacocks beautiful!

  • interesting how ignorant people are , myself included. these are fulani's. It's cultural for them to paint their faces like this. As a matter of fact this is normal in most African cultures. The outfits aren't called dresses. You need to understand there is a whole different world out there and terminologies are autochonous.

  • I just want to travel!

  • bunch of fags

  • excuse me everyone ,but how do the braid their hair and what is this type of raids called? and the technique please somebody reply i would love to know thanks

  • i think they are litrally the most beautiful people in the world. just goes to show how distorted the western idea of beauty is

  • Very interesting..more similar videos pls :)

  • THE WORLD IS DOPE

  • i wanted to see the rest!!!! lol man -.-

  • your right some people are just stupid and simple minded hate that stuff

  • Sounds like San Francisco to me.

  • personally i think the makeup is just a little.. different. but thats only because its not what i'm used to. who are we to judge. "to each his own"... and the man from 1:53-2:16 is so charming ;)

  • They are very attractive people

  • I for one was interested in learning about their culture and their way of life :)

  • that's hawt 

  • @srpskiheroi probably the most ignorant thing i've heard in a while...

  • @jessicaissoawesome yeah but u know that more than 70% live their life like that.....I mean what the fuck is this?

  • @srpskiheroi again. ignorance. where are you getting your fucked up "facts"?

  • mmmm... sexy

  • I like their language.. It sounds very rhythmic... I don't know, just sounds nice

  • I think its cute :)

  • I love all the people they interviewed in this video! Those men were such ridiculous pimps!

  • This is my type of society, I wish America was like this so I wouldn't have to spend so much money on makeup and just have the guys be the ones who worry about that. lol

  • so much anger here

  • I watched this entire thing last night on national geographic.. its amazing! You also have to keep in mind this ONLY happens after a big rain season.. so this once a year festival may not happen every year if there is no rain. It must be so liberating!

  • At least there are black men in the world who are straight and comfortable with their masculinity good on them !!!

  • I heard one arabic word !

  • the things men do to get a woman....(one of my fav NG eps...)

  • They all have hair like Willow Smith.

  • yeah they may wear make-up and dresses but they get laid 3x as much!

  • . these ppl my marry 2or 3 but they are not sick as ppl in so called developed nations.......western culture is drowning in lust ..........

  • @atd87atd87 I agree with you 100%

  • Wow, they are gorgeous!!! With or without make up.

  • @MsCatskittens why don't you do yourself a favor and go watch the jersey shore. Something like this beyond your comprehension. It not meant to be watched by little children.

  • the culture of the western male is so rigid that any kind of emotion, touching or expressiveness is considered gay. No wonder people need therapy, its suppressive! In other cultures men can hold hands hug, express sadness, and still be a man. Think critically of your own culture before ridiculing another's.

  • lool taking a girl behind the bush

  • they all look the same especially when they put the makeup on!

  • I would not want to scare away children with those makeup on my face..

  • GET HER IN THE BUSH

  • Apparently the Gereewol ceremony is very rare these days due to various external pressures, which is a pity.

  • Beautifil Wodaabe people!

  • These are real MEN in tune with nature

  • Yes it is.. You Should Judge it directly

  • Why do simple minded people even come on this channel and watch the videos if you can't understand that the American culture is not the only one out there and since BC times men have worn dresses, make up or other things viewed girly in some parts of American society all to attract as many women as possible and for everyone saying the men are gay in this video you clearly was not watching the video because one man said he loves meeting the women and taking them behind a bush clearly he means ha

  • @theJimBug Nicely said. So many people are so ethnocentric nowadays, criticizing Africans, Arabians, Asians...etc. So stupid, really.

  • @heyfkldsm yeah and its really sad that people cant see pass their own culture to realize the world is a big diverse place

  • @theJimBug HEY! shut yo ass up, I GOT 5 STACKS DAT, YOU CANT, LIVE , THERE 4 A DAY, any questions?

    I LOVE HOW YOU ALL UP IN THEY ASS! but... YOU ACTIN LIKE YOU A SAINT! word...HA! NIGGA U AINT SHIT! I WANNA SEE YOU GET ALL UP IN THAT AFRICAN SHIT! be...CRYIN LIKE A LITTLE BITCH! WIT YOUR TELL BETWEEN YOUR LEGS LIKE A HOT BITCH!

  • @wiibot15 I never said I was a Saint or that I could live there for a day I know darn well that I cant live the life they do and if you were to actually read my comment instead of trying to start an online argument, which by the way is kinda sad, then you would have read that I only commented on the fact that people cant see that the whole point of this video is to show how people around the world live and interact with other people so thank you for your ignorant comment and have a nice day

  • @theJimBug did I, get my, point across? Cuz when your body feels my shotty, your joints are tossed.

  • These people have been living their lives since eternity, way before your "race" came to existence.

    THEY COULD CARELESS TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND.

    Therefore, why bleed your heart spilling indignation.

    After all,,,

    NO ONE IN THIS VIDEO IS SEEKING YOUR APPROVAL SEAL OR BLESSINGS.

    Put up or shut up!!!

  • this has nothing to do with homosexuality.

    In many species, it is the MALE that does the attracting - usually through their appearance (the wild turkey, northern cardinal and house sparrow, peacock, lion, etc.) or call (frogs, elk, etc.).

    This tribe should be viewed in that way and WHEN viewed in that perspective makes a lot of sense. They are trying to attract a female.

  • i am soooo confused about everyone who brings up homosexuality, i mean they are taking on multiple wives and they are free to leave and go between mates, it seem very hetreosexual to me, its just like a very very very (creepily) open relationship. woot ploygamy

  • hey i understood what they said !!!!

  • to anyone who thinks this is gay this is no different from male birds showing off to females.

  • these men are really handsome and I love their hair styles.

  • GRACIAS!

  • Awesome cattle!!

  • I saw this on television. I find it interesting and a good 'change', yes let the men have to be picked on looks alone...These men are not gay, this is just cultural...

  • this is men attracting women, how is it gay? African culture was not made to please westerners or anybody, its made for the people, so plis stop trying to change our culture.

  • Maybe the big plan is to scare your wife so much that she ends up running away:)

  • i think this proves that our world is really amazing!

  • and takin them into the bush... hahahah...

  • @letskillgeorgebush that is right because of that wodabes are loosing so many aspects of tere culture!

  • @yllibotiv infact they are not all muslims and at the beginnig they weren't that's why they look so cool!

  • La plupart ne parle pas peul mais Haoussa une des langues nationals du Niger

  • This is how Barrok found Michelle. Michelle tried to play hard to get but Obama was able to roll his eyes and she gave in

  • @kerryfosterusa you're a dumbass. This tribe is genetically different from that of a kenyan.

  • @sugarbrownrabbit

    Its a tribe or family of people. Much to the extent that Germans and English and French are different tribes of Europeans.

  • @HaloedG Have you look at the genetic clusters of the black race?

  • @HaloedG but tribes are composed of people with the same genetic composition?

  • Why are they all so good looking? 

  • Take a look at this interesting Sahara tribe who has male beauty contests: The Wodaabe.

  • wow they are really pretty

  • Those women were WEARING that got-dam Janelle Monae puff!

  • @SiennaFreckle het you're right

  • @SiennaFreckle We can't outrun our culture. It's a shame the white man has to certify something as vogue for us to accept ourselves.

  • They are related partially to Alans , Vandals and other Indo-European ( so called whites") that migrated to Africa in the days long before christ and mingled peacefully with the locals. they also have Imanzigh and Arab descendants and a whole lot of African like hausa etc.

    atleast thats what i read ^^

  • @Romarinho89 Don't believe everything you read... they also said one day a bang occurred out of nothing and then monkeys started to walk upright.

  • @iamhonestjohn yeah thats why i said atleast thats what i read , meaning thats not my statement but the statement of someone else .

  • @Romarinho89

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    LIES!!!! I am fed up the appropriating of our cultures. So the Wodaabe are of European and Arabic background NOW???What u claim to have read was a TOTAL BS!!! Most Westerners cant appreciate something in other cultures without claiming it is theirs. Look at Egypt and the famous bust of Queen Tiye, grandma of King tut, despite the fact that she looked exactly like ANGELA DAVIS,afro n all,they r claiming she was white

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    Wodaabe r 100% West Africans.

  • @goyavesETmangues i said atleast thats what i read now i know since a few months that i was wrong sop dont cuss at me i was wrong i admit if u keep cussing at me i give u my adress and i rip ur face off

  • @goyavesETmangues 8 motherfucking moths ago i wrote this comment madooooo lan what the deal in another comment i already admitted beeing wrong to someone else so why u write me Jeboti picku

  • @goyavesETmangues go make love with youtube and stop writing me i already admit my  mistake and dont call me westerner you Gudjo

  • @Romarinho89

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    UMMMMH WTF is a "Gudjo"???? BTW I live in North East London, on Saint James Street. Anytime, u r there, u can come and visit me to "rip [my] face off" bwahahahahahahahah

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  • @goyavesETmangues the reason i am that angry is cas u send me an angry ass comment 8 months later although i have already learned my mistake so your wrong im just defensive as fuck and thats normal for me . and a Gudjo is an outsider to my people it means pretty much like gentile.

  • @Romarinho89

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    Oh OK, I didnt realised you admit being wrong, sorry about that. No hard feelings

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  • @Romarinho89

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    Their physical features (hair texture, nose, high cheek bones...) contrast from the BANTUS because they live in a very DRY place and not because they are supposedly mixed with Arabic or white or whatever lie you can come up with. Most Africans living in dry place such as BUSHMEN, East Africans and people from the Sahel share the same features

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    So stop LYING and rewriting history ONCE AGAIN!!!

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  • @goyavesETmangues so? calm dwn and get over Africa, U R making it TOOOOOO complicated, there are hundreds of African tribes, woodabe is just one of them, everybody looks different, BECAUSE OF GENETICS, NOT CLIMATE, im sitting here in the United States. IM STILL BLACK lol, its ALL genetics, thats why when a black lady and a white guy or vice versa make a child, its mixed, not colored accoring to the environment, hahahahahhaahha it's funny because your account isnt availible. CALM DOWN

  • @Zirious23

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    It is not my fault if it is too complicated FOR YOU!!!

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    Let me decipher: We ALL come from AFRICA!!! Many of the GENETIC differences between the peoples of this Earth stem from the variations in the climate. That is the reason why the skin of the Homo sapiens who left Africa n settle in Europe became lighter; A lighter skin absorbs sunlight better.Those evolutions take place over millions of years, it is not just a case of a "black lady and a white guy ". I hope it's clear now

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  • @Romarinho89 i was wrong about that !

  • @Romarinho89

    Stop reading eugenics. 

  • @HaloedG Ey Gudjo dont tell me about Eugenics if u knew what my ethnic make up was u would know i hate eugenics so dont tell me i read eugenics although my parents are of two very different races and people yet both of them have very bad relations to eugenics and its followers because my moms aswell as my dads people both have endured much suffering from the evil that eugenics spread in the minds of people .

  • @Romarinho89

    Lemme guess...Arab and Brazilian? Or is it Arab and Portuguese?

  • @HaloedG Sinti Manouche from Alsace, and my father is African American from Mississippi .

  • @Romarinho89

    Ok, I'll give it to you straight then...you don't know what you're talking about.

  • @HaloedG whats your problem what did i do to you?

    whats up wit your stupid Fro ?

  • @HaloedG dont give me your Bullshit . Hausmugga , GUDJO!! 66% of my mothers and my people were killed because of eugenics in WW2 and since 1300 we are repeatedly victims of Genocide and marginalisation in all of europe i know what im talking about . and atleast i have something in common with those Woodabe and thats beeing from a Nomadic People . 

  • whats the music at the beggining? sounds abit like ali farka toure

  • my favourite tribe in the world

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  • why cant men be beautiful? GO BEAUTIFUL MEN XD

  • @Animaboom "CAN'T"??? but they are wether you like it or not....

  • Hey they're kinda cute :D

  • Role reversal. Guys have to doll up for the women.

  • @gremlin05 well,actualy, since onbviously you do not know, I tell you that the further back we go, we see that it is the men who would preen themselves more than women...but even in western sub-cultures or the aristocracy of europe , we see dressing thmselves up and wearing make-up (I am not refering to homesexuals by the way) and in japan men use to wear make-up/face powder too. So what you think of as masculine and feminine is very limited in scope, awareness and understanding of human nature

  • @TZAVELENA Thanks for sharing that historical, multicultural information! It's so limiting to think that what is considered the norm in OUR culture has always been the norm or is the norm now in other cultures.

  • very interesting!

  • They are so beautiful.

  • o......m.......g

  • Those ppl are so right! We are animals and animals don't live with a partner all trough their lives. We only base this around morality and forget that we are animals with animal needs! :)

  • @GlitterXStarzz : YOUR INTELLIGENCE WROTE' LOL, stupid monkeys': = BEAST-comment, by your A/B/AB BLOOD-GROUP, HERITAGE AND ANCESTRY AND YOUR APE-LEGACY BY YOUR GENETICS-CAUCASOID-FREAK-BEAST­IAL-BITCH: LOOK IN THE MIRROR & THERE YOU ARE, BY LOOKING AT YOUR THIN-LIPS, FLAT-ARSE, WHITE-SKIN, FLANK-HAIR & TAIL BONE= u = ape by your confirmation! Damn lying freak!

  • Wonderful stuff but the English voice over is so stilted and unnatural sounding.

    As we speak, muslims are trying to overcome these tribes with their erroneous beliefs - if they are successful, then these tribes would not only lose their own beliefs, they would lose their beautiful culture too.

    Let's hope it never happens - long live natural Africa without religious nonsense.

  • they dont need to join any religion, but they have rights to come out from the miserable life they are spending in the wood...they deserve also to live like americans black community.

  • @afferencia:

    You are a very stupid and ignorant asshole.

    These Wodaabe people are some of the happiest people I know. I have visited Niger and seen it for myself, so how would a uneducated shit like you know what they need?

    Most blacks in American live in squalour and deprivation and are comfined to a society that pisses on them.

    Africans are no longer slaves to what an irrelevant white man thinks.

    Just go and mind your own business you homo freak.

  • yes, you are output of ill-fated parents,grownup in a inadequate youth, you have visited these people, then you must have noticed ,each hut has a pot full of old radio battries, they breake the batteries and use black powder on there lips and other makeup,there bodies are intoxicated, they are foccused to die out, to speed up the process you have left AIDS there. you are right, the black americans living in squallid settlements but they have running water, electric, normal bed and their churches

  • @afferencia:

    Listen you fat loving homo asshole, please just go and boil your stupid head.

    You know nothing of Africa or its beautiful people and the only reason you looked at this video is in the vain hope you would see some black penis.

    You are just like all your type - you pretend you love men - but actually you just hate yourself for what you are.

    Now fuck off and leave me alone.

  • @throbule that is right i am half bororo and it is an other way of life it is not because they don't have electricity or anything that they are unhappy!

  • @afferencia oh god i can't believe what i am reading i don't even know what to say!Racist!this is not a question to deserve or not!you are very narrow-minded!

  • lol they got Rihanna's hairstyle lmao :D

    looks...a lot better on them :X eee!

  • It's the other way around. She has THEIR hairstyle.

  • @alesbica LOL! SO TRUE!!! :D

  • wow some of them were sexy haha

  • Yea . LOL!!i saw a few i'd f!@# with

  • inconsistency in translation and they made of some parts. They changed what he said about his wife wanting to go he wasn't even talking about his wife.

  • Interesting, why did they change it?

  • what did he say???????

  • @sockslynee ah I know this is an old comment and stuff....... but what was he talking about then?????????????

  • hahaha@taking them into the bush.

  • the man at 0:25 looks like boy george

  • Hey, I give the Wodaabe guys alot of credit. They dress up and spend days doing exhaustive dancing just so a woman will notice them.

    I can respect a guy who is willing to put the work in!

  • you can't compare american gay culture to this culture. it's completely different.

  • @ncfwhitetigress It's not comparable to American gay culture because it's a completely different gay culture minus the preppy metrosexuals. Instead, we have girly guys, in this case. That's still quite an issue, however...a role reversal, if nothing else (leaving out morals, beliefs, etc.). If the men are wearing makeup...what are the women doing? The same?

    The lady at 2:51 looks like a fake Tina Turner and like a typical black lady in the United States with freaking huge earrings.

  • Wow....the women are so beautiful and I love their clothing and accessories . African culture is so diverse and versatile that it takes my breath away.........

  • Africa...beautiful, my goodness! our creator created everything including all africans, so if you can't see our creator beauty in them, that means you are no longer in touch with spirit. worshipping the bible then going agaisnt oneness is living a lie. peace

  • Can we just leave the bible out of this and i'm sure those people never heard of your holy book.

  • @parkout233 They're mostly islamic.

  • @parkout233

    why would you even bring it up, this has nothing to do with our religion, its a different culture, a remote moveable culture but what does it have to do with the Bible

  • cant there ever be just one video on youtube where there is PEACE?

    gosh, why do whites bring their racist selves here just to talk.

    maybe if you white people HAD CULTURE you would research and be in your own and not even everyone else'

    i respect everyone for their culture, even though some might be stupid in my eyes, but who am i to judge.

    to them, i may have stupid culture.

    so you people really cant judge someone's culture.

    shut the hell up.

  • that is a very ignorant comment, for one, whites do have culture, look at Europe are you saying white people there is no culture? second, whites are not the only racist people on earth. Uneducated people are. Biologically, (don't need to go further than our DNA) we are all related and are cousins of one another, the more people realize that the better our future.

  • oh please! if i was talking about europeans i would have said so.

    im talking about whites, white americans. they have NO culture. thats why a lot of them come here and watch and then bad mouth or say ignorant things.

    maybe if they had their own culture they would keep themselves busy with that.

    why should i claim something that probably happened 1 million years ago?

    did i say that white people were the only racist? but they are the main people that come on AFRICAN videos just to talk shit.

  • Well idiots will be idiots, some are 'trolls' who just like to see peoples reaction. So I wouldn't take anything here that seriously, if somebody says that to your face then that's reality, otherwise its font. I'm not from America so I can't judge but they sure do have bloody history. btw I learned a little trick on youtube, see the little arrow next to Text Comments, if you click that, it will turn off comments, I hardly ever see comments anymore, it makes for a far better youtube experience.

  • @BirdFantastic

    your no cousin of mine.

    If you want to speak on genetics we have some similarities but we are diff.

    which is why people can do a DNA test and find where they come from.

  • I do not care about thumbs up or down i just dont.

    but white people do not proclaim yourself to be in relation to us.

    YOU ARE NOT AFRICAN, WE ARE NOT BROTHERS NOR COUSINS.

    the closest you all come to us is being our kids our ungrateful greedy ass kids.

  • I second that Darkness8Random! And anybody that wants to give me a thumbs down is irrelevant with no feedback. I see some of you do not like to hear/see the truth, but it WILL be told - one way or another.

  • From a beautiful mold is the human being indeed.

    Mashaallah

  • beautiful cuture cause the married women can also choose to leave their husband for another man its not a chauvanistic culture but a beautiful one with equality for all

  • m'kay

  • All Jamaicans are directly related to people form Niger proven by DNA analysis.

  • being a jamaican myself could you tell me where you get your facts from

  • Moneybanks - Where have you been doing your research? Are you saying that everyone in Jamaica and Niger have had a DNA test? There was a documentary TV prog some time ago about 1 Jamaican from London whose DNA proved that he was related to people in Niger and I'm sure by the law of averages (and the facts of slavery), but you are not only being ridiculously general but a bit silly too.....

  • throbule: I watched that programme too! And you are spot on! The programme also proved that he also had German, and Turkish ancestry! Furthermore the DNA testing only went down 1 line of ancestry! Many people in West Africa where slaves were taken, have all sorts of mixtures, because the ones from the coastal areas ALL migrated from somewhere else, hence there looks and cultures vary so much! You can drive say 20km and you find a tribe with a totally different language and culture than the next!

  • MONEY: That's a total lie!!! most Jamaicans came from GHANA!! Even your patron,NANI ASANTEWA(FROM THE NAME NANA) was Ghanian! the maroons were Ghanian slaves that fought off the slave masters! Anansi the spider man, is a fable from Ghana! You even have 'villages' named after places in Ghana! in Jamaica

    You guys came mostly from GHANA, the Ashanti tribe to be precise NOT NIGER!!!

  • @Moneybanks21 but wodaabes are a nomad people they don't come from Niger!they have always mooved!

  • They all look pretty cool in their regular outfits but the stuff they wear at the beauty contest is just silly.

  • the second guy is quite hot! lol...

  • YEAH his sexy rotating eyes ahahaha

  • im not saying people should be ashamed of their beauty, no on the contrary they should be happy and grateful for it, but not seeking something from society as though it owes them something for simply waking up in the morning and looking great.

    beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is not something to be judged. everyone has their own individual look which makes them uniquely beautiful.