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  • This is gonna give me nightmares tonight..

  • So they're Wodaabe supremacists.

  • what a finding!! excellent!

  • I have heard and seen many helarious things. But never did I expect a culture that finds making sick face expressions beautifull. PRICELESS.

  • @Superageofreason never watched porn huh...

  • What the !!

    OK, that is enough internet for one day.

  • 2:10

    NIGHTMARE FUEL

  • Smile a little for me, baby.

  • hey the narrators voice was in boondocks!

  • the girls look so angry....how could they keep a straight face when the men are making those faces. my sister thinks it was scary and creepy....but I loved it.

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    My favorite African tribes in no particular order are :

    Woodabe

    Khoikhoi and San of South Africa

    Samburu and Massai

    Mangbetu of the Congo

    and obviously Bamileke, my tribe (^_^)

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    I also really like the Himba tribe of Namibia

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  • the women are really beautiful

  • i know lil about anthropology and those people are not inbreeds . some racist cunt said that on here . and anyone saying theyre gay fuck you they are not they straight as hell

  • Maybe they would look better if their faces weren't painted and also weren't making such creepy expressions!

  • @ninorokr even creepier is this European music.

  • "they consider themselves the most beautiful people on this earth"

    what a bunch of arrogant cunts. either way they look fucking disgusting.

  • I think it's neat how the mean get dressed up and adorn themselves to be chocen by the women. They take pride in whitening their teeth and being the most beautiful they've been doing it for centuries.

  • What's up with the people at the end of the vid that didnt had any makeup or face paint on and were like trying to cover their faces??

  • Alot of Fulani people resemble East Africans like the Somali and the Ethiopians but nonetheless all Africans are simply gorgeous. We vary from the darkest to the lightest shades. Mash'allah!

  • @SUlAkHA1

    Fulani's are mixed with Berber and Sub-Sahara Africa origins and there are many Fulani's and Hausa's in Sudan and Ethiopia they were responsible for the the spread of Islam in Africa.

  • @shaqlal9 - these are not the Fulani that are mixed. They look just like they appear in their ancient Saharan rock art. Most Berber-speakers are mixed with Vandals, Romans and European slaves.

  • They look disgusting and inbred. I wouldn't even touch one of those things with a 10-foot pole!

  • @pxbnfreak1 lol i wonder where YOU are from

  • @mxdmama ?????

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  • the men are beautiful.....very interesting jawlines and nose structures...i want their DAMN TEETH!

  • The wodaabe actively reject modernization, they believe their culture is a gift from their ancestors. They also have no interest in settling down in agriculture , they prefer the freedom of a nomadic lifestyle. That is what makes them far more interesting than those who have abandoned their culture. People assume that everyone wants this bullshit society were people are so unhappy and sexually repressed, the wodaabe know how to really enjoy life.

  • Though I have no problem with the Woodaabe..they are a minority sub-group numbering 150000 out of 20 - 30 million fulani people..I don't know why the media focuses on them... They seem to only want to show either poor fulani or wodaabes..not the regular fulani who live in cities, drive cars, own houses and businesses

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    I am Cameroonian and Woodabes are my favorite fulani group because they are the ones that pride the most on their traditions instead of bowing down to the westernised materialist set of values

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    When I read your comment I was shcoked because you made it seems as if living in cities and owning cars make anyone superior. That model is dangerous for the environment and I now reject it. I am a bamileke and I am trying to go back to my indigenous roots like the WOODABE

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  • @kingmoneyG

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    There is nothing shameful in living a stress-free and simple life and honoring the spirits of your ancestors. For me it is better than the money-obsessed society where people are encouraged to chased down and accumulated items they don't really need and where they are made to feel insecure about their appearance ALL THE TIME

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    Woodabe are beautiful people. I would encourage you to celebrate the indigenous spirit in you and to be corrupted by materialism

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  • native beauty.........thanks to globalization its all gone now

  • These are the nature of the true human spirit.

  • Very interesting culture, the male has to look pretty for the female. The women look kind of annoyed. Their like; "do you mind I'm trying to choose the hottest stud?"

  • lol, the woman at the end is like thinking.... whatta bunch of faggots, and i still have to pick one to be my husband... ehmm... don't you hace anyone else?

  • If I seen these guys in a dark alley i'd blow them away with my 12 guage!

  • pause it at 2:51 lol

  • if people can get their heads out of their asses and realize that thousands of different human cultures have radically different customs regarding beauty, they'd realize that these people, men and women, are unbelievably beautiful! I think its a combination of the promiscuity which produces genetic variation and the intense pressure of female choice for male beauty, which allows the most attractive men to have by far the most offspring. These women are my heroes.

  • Is that music from one of those castratos? People who got their balls cut off before puberty so they could sing in high freeky pitch.

  • The Music is the Ave Maria performed by Alessandro Moreschi. His voice is mediocre, with a very few musical value. The only interesting thing of Moreschi is that he was the last castratto singer in the history, and the only one that his voice was recorded.

    Why this music in this video? I think the person who made this video wanted to bring out ghoulish thinks about this wanderfull people. I think the woodabe deserves more respect than this

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  • I saw this film in Tampere, Finland yeasterday.I love these people so much.My name is from Sahara.

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  • I was lucky enough to play with some musicians in the states originally from Fulanis. I love you guys! And I love Fela.

  • Some of these women are hot and have very seductive eyes!!!

  • This is more freaking frightening than The Haka!

  • strangest people ive ever seen

  • black ppl an there many cultures 

  • I want to learn their teeth whitening technique!

  • This is witchcraft straight up and probably whoever filmed that has a dark attraction to some cult but i stand corrected.

  • lol imagine shrooming to this

  • Malice in the Dental Land.

  • this is one of the funniest tribes i have ever seen hahahahaha but they have well white teeth

  • Wow. So, uh, are they mentally retarded?

  • Obama wants to return to his Woodabe roots. He puts on his makeup every month and dances around the oval office

  • wtf???????????

  • are these muslim trannies??

  • @nipomocarlos84 hahaha

  • Your are lieyer!!! they do that just to get married nor becouse they consider themselves thebeutiest in the earth!!!

  • these people are so beautiful... especially after removing the makeup. they have rly nice features and they have great teeth(without the help of a dentist too)

  • WOW!

  • nice, and unique dance

  • Why in the world is Ave Maria accompanying this?? Totally does NOT fit. UGH

  • @yasmine181 your ignorance is astounding.

  • @skeletora your eurocentricity isn't

  • @yasmine181 yeah if you only knew that I was black. but you crazy afrocentrics and your need to accuse everyone of being 'eurocentric." give me a break. idk why you can't appreciate the beauty of a song.

  • @skeletora I'm not the first to comment on the poor song choice, my friend. Eurocentricity has little to do with the color of one's skin, it simply means one's view of the world is from a European perspective. Who cares if you're Black or purple or yellow? Why is that even relevant?

  • Why doesn't this video use the actual music of the Wodaabe for the dance portion. Playing awful western music while they do their dance is a jarring contradiction. The rithym is out of sync and it belittles their culture.

  • @ReligionOfNice this song isn't awful western music, but the version sure fucking is

  • Herzog told me the singer on this track is the last known 'castrato' of the opera world.

  • @pjbrubak

    He definitely castrated this video!

  • this stupid ass song doesn't go with this african tribe, have to f things up.

  • @giftofyah Exactly, what the F is with the music

  • a better song would be better to reflect this uniqueness

    even a better sound recorded version

  • just wear black lipstick and it makes your teeth look loads whiter!

    africans defiantley have the best smiles :)

  • David Bowie and Marc Bolan must have gotten their style from these guys...

  • I love me some Wodaabe men! They're fine as heeeelllll!!!!

  • Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)

  • they are beautiful..indeed

  • them niggas is like,,,hey choose me.them is my muthafuckin niggas

  • Hmmm. About the teeth whitening ... well, it's gotta be cheap, but how do they do it? My intuition tells me it can't be entirely healthy for one's teeth over the long run, or the secret of doing it would have spread all over the globe years ago.

  • The worst song I'v EVER heard in my life. You insult the Catholics!

  • @ASHL0TTE Use wikipedia, you'll learn that this singer had been appointed first soprano in the Sistine Chapel choir by the pope, whom - if I am not mistaken ;) - had no interest in insulting the Catholics... As for the worst song ever, I assume you've never heard of Vanilla Ice :p

  • @ASHL0TTE If you have not appreciation for other cultures then don't watch the video and shut the fuk up.

  • they are eautyful

  • this music suck big time""""hahahahaha

  • herdsmen of the sun....the sun people...with the feather of amun ra...the british monarch senior official they copied these people ornament for their military feature...now everything is clear.

  • Some of these women look down like they are shy but they hold so much power. Both the men and women are so humble

  • sounds like really bad opera....

  • @MrJufrow

    The person singing is Alessandro Moreschi, the last castrati of the Vatican. They were men who were castrated in their youth, which prevented their vocal chords from changing. This, combined with adult, male lungs would give them a unique vocal range. In addition to being the last official Vatican castrati, Alessandro is also the only one known to have recorded singing solo, heard here on a wax cylinder made at the turn of the century.

    I read his wikipedia page awhile back.

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    interesting

  • Truly fascinating, very unique! 5*****

    Jeanne

  • i'm fascinated by courting traditions of many cultures, and this is one of my favorites!!!

    This is truly unique and suureal!

    10 stars!!!!

  • the music sucks

  • thanks a lot for sharing this marvelous vid... regards

  • They are beautiful. Oh and their feature are African. African feature have always covered the entire spectrum of facial shapes, sizes, color, texture and so on. I think it's the music that makes it so creepy.

  • @blacklifemedia NOPE!!!! NEGATIVE!!! Fulani are 20% mixed with White, proven scientifcally.

  • @Rockstafeller , stop lying, i am Fulani with type E3A ,NOT mixed with whites, our beauty is 100% West African, BLACK in other words

  • @Rockstafeller , whites make up crap about Africans, Fulanis have pointed nose because of our natural environment not because of racial mixture. Blacks from dryer parts of africa have pointed noses and more ovalfeatures in comparison with blacks from the wetter areas, so stop making up shit

  • @Rockstafeller Nothing can be scientifically proven. You wish Fulani were mixed white so you can have an excuse that anything tampered with white dna creates a more beautiful race! Stop the nonsense and show me the evidence.

  • @bahiyyah19 I stopped reading after nothing can be scientifically proven.

    Do your own research like I had to.

  • @Rockstafeller stop playing. You did not do any research

  • @Rockstafeller as far as scientific proof, I sugjest you read this article.

    blogs. nature. com/charlesdarwin/2009/01/08/w­hat-does-scientifically-proven­-mean

  • @Rockstafeller Theres actually no proof of that we have observed at the most 8.5% eurasian frequencies occur. lol you just made all that up. Hausa have r1b frequencies up to 97% that does not mean they are europeans....lol why do people try to use genetcis when they dont understand it

  • KIND OF CREEPY...SORRY

  • I second that. I was bugged out in class when I saw this.

  • Acting like fucking birds in order to mate

  • y does the women look sad and the men looked demented..lol

  • HELL NO!

  • their goofy as hell. Is that classical music? lol

  • It's western music sung by a castrato (Alessandro Moreschi).

  • cool

  • I actually thought the music went with it quite well. Even if it was interesing just 'cause it looked like they were singing along with the song at some points, I thought it was nice. Different. You can wear plaid with stripes, ya know...

  • Who needs professional teeth whitening, when you can ask these guys how they do it.

  • It is called not eating candies and sweets, and having a diet based on milk, yogurt and tea.

  • nice

  • @hosway1992 right i noticed alot of africans has pretty whit teeth

  • @sirblake3 we'd have nice teeth too if we didnt eat as much salt

  • @RomiLeMot Yeah, and sugar, greace etc.!

  • This is one of my favorite african tribes. They don't fight, love to party, and the guys try to look good girls. They do "steal" women, but if the women don't want to be taken, they repect that, and wont take them. I love their way of thinking.

  • lol, shaysmith says they dont fight? lololyet they are the biggest slave raiders in africa

  • @shaysmith18 Yeah, I totally agree! I feel hypnotized by them. It's almost as if I was watching some kind of bird mating ritual, but with humans, that's just unbelievable!

  • @shaysmith18 You can't steal someone who wants to be taken just as you can't rape the willing so your statement makes no sense!

  • @FieldMarshalRommel23 actually, the "steal" of a woman is just a tradition and not a real kidnap; is just the way they propose marriage. Even more, if the woman was the wife of some man, she can decide if she run away with the new pretender or stand with her current husband.I think that is pretty romantic

  • There guys turn me on like hell. 2:31 is among the best, perhaps.

  • The background music sounds like Alessandro Moreschi. It's an odd choice considering. What was the inspiration behind that?

  • great thing, but hard to choose

  • whats up with that background music

  • This is such great footage unfortunately ruined by horrible background music. Of all the music in the world - how about something that relates to the subject??

  • that's some nightmare fuel right there.

  • damn,panzer! (lol)

  • Their smiles are kind of unsettling but their clothes and face paint are awesome.

  • The women look immensely unimpressed.

  • wtf did I just watch?

  • This is a great version of ave maria.

  • I remember looking at my cousins geography book when I was 7. I was creeped the fuck out and spent the next 10 years thinking THIS is what Africa was like.

  • they have beautiful hair. i wonder what they use to take care of it and keep it long and thick. i keep my hair natural and its growing at a steady rate (afro-american, i am), but i have had less time to comb through it after a wash and usually end up finger combing and plaiting until dry. but i cannot comb it when it is dry. so i want to know wha these people do. any help??? thanks.

  • they are born that way!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • born what way? c'mon. people have to take care of their hair in order for it to reach a certain length/healthy thickness. i just want to know what they do. they must do something since they are so into beauty, afterall.

  • that is just a ritual they do....society has different perspectives on beauty.

    I think it sounds like you're trying to sexy instead of beautiful and that's a big difference.

    They are just the scattered tribes of Ancient Egyptians, what Afrocentrists call Kemetians.

    If you notice the big eyes on Ancient Egyptian statues this is who Woodabe men resemble.

  • are you commenting to the right person? what are you talking about? what ritual? what about society? what does taking care of one's hair have to do with being "sexy instead of beautiful"? or did i make an earlier comment you are responding to?

  • @hisboo911 worldworks is right, they are born that way. They are a people OBSESSED with physical beauty. So much so that if a Wodaabe man sees a very beautiful man he will allow his wife to have sex with that man in the hopes that she will have a beautiful baby. Elongated features and white teeth are passed on because the men who have these features are sought after as mates. So generation after generation the people end up with these features. They ARE born that way...

  • i dont get it. where he says "it sounds like you are trying to be sexy instead of beautiful." i dont know what you guys are talking about. im talking about taking care of my hair. what in the world are you two talking about??!

  • The women are so beautiful.

  • they really are beatiful people, specially the women. it looks like the east africans have competition lool.

  • they are the tru Pharoh of Egypt

    they Arabs stold our culture

  • Yes they do look like ancient egyptians. But the arabs kick them out and replace them with bunch of lunatics. Man how can we get back our continents. These arabs dominate the north period.

  • scared of what chump?

  • "the images show men who dress like women to seduce real women..."

    I don''t see anything women-like about the way they dress. People need to stop projecting their Western notions of sexuality and what makes for men and women onto Africans. The garments that they are wearing go back thousands of years and are found in ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom tomb paintings of the dark brown-skinned Tjehenu-Libou. The same decorative designs are also found on them. See the book, Nomads of the Niger.

  • It is not thin noses that make Fulani attractive. Its the symmetry of their faces. Just like the symmetry of anything makes it beautiful or pleasing to look on.

  • Let us not get silly. Does snoopdog get his elongated features from Europeans? Some Africans have been that way for thousands of years. As for the music, yes we all could have done without it, but that's just my opinion.

  • first of all the background music is all OFF! It isnt fulani music ! you messed up a good video! second keep the camera out of the womens faces cant you see they are private people and not used to that

  • That music actually originally came with the documentary. I agree her singing is painful to listen to though. :)

  • You are backwards. If anything, it is europeans and "arabs" that have THEIR features. The child doesn't make the parent.

  • @lionzion22 long time ago but good point

  • Have you ever thought that features of different groups overlap.  Fulani tend to have small noses and plumb lips while europeans have long thin noses and thin lips.

  • Do those women look like they have elongated /European / Arab features to you? And they are gorgeous!

    Bone structure / cheekbones & symmetry like this are African.

  • I can't even concentrate on the video when I hear this singing. its as ugly as these men are beautiful.

  • @ananse77 they look like the ancient-egyptian, real african, but this music suck big time. hahahahaha

  • I wonder why the music is so Western?

  • If i married one of these i would have nightmares for the rest of my life... Tnx but no tnx.

  • My Fulani people are attractive

  • Not only attractive but once considered by Europeans colonialist the most courageous and warlike in Africa because "they never turned back in battle". Many Fulani as prisoners of war were brought over to Africa from Senegambia and elsewhere during the Atlantic slave trade along with other west African people according to U.S. scholars. They, along with other Africans are the documented ancestors of millions of African Americans in the U.S.

  • They arent despised by the people around them....Wodaabe are Fulani/Fulbe/Hal Pulaarin/Peul people

  • wow, the tribeswomen that they show at the very end are stunningly beautiful

  • lol

    i would so agree

    yet this is NORMAL behavior :]

  • Look no cavities !! you all look beautiful mate,lovely teeth,no tooth decay,no gum diseases,what's your secrets ? please do tell,is it camel milk ? you must share your beauty secrets to a brighter teeth for without it,i shall never find me a wodaabe maiden ;))

  • Reminds me of Jim Carrey in 'The Mask.'

  • that is some fucked-up music.

  • the wodaabe in west africa, this is a tradition but notice how the men crouch up and down and their eyes widen as the stand while the women move their eyes and cover half of themselves as the camera comes to them, in saharan tribes like these women are more kept behind the husbands before they talk to a foreigner so they are alon here and try not to notice.

  • while the women move their eyes and cover half of themselves as the camera comes to them, in saharan tribes like these women are more kept behind the husbands ...

    Nope wrong continent. First of all these women look more like girls and they are there to choose a man . Fulani society was once very matrifocal like the Tuareg and other African peoples. I don't know what they are now but they were certainly not to be be compared the submissive women of other cultures.

  • That is true, African women in general have always played big role in Africa. Even now, our women are not nearly as submissive as those in middle east.

  • worst choice of music for a video ever.