These two young men are putting on the ritz (and the heavy make-up) to face the judges. The competition is fierce in the annual Beauty Contest for the title of ‘Mr Sahara’.
Male beauty is a prized asset among the Wodabe tribe which inhabits the fringes of the Sahara.
What is male beauty anyway? Good health which shows in bright eyes, clear skin and strong white teeth. These boys have all that.
They’re also nice and tall like my original Hunk de Jour in an earlier post.
The mothers in Niger begin the beautifying process in a boy’s early infancy, they pull and stretch the little arms and legs out, ensuring long and slender limbs in adulthood.
Sounds a trifle screwy to me, I can’t imagine it working, but who am I to argue with generations of doting Wodabe mothers?
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?
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