Birds of the Wilderness: The Dance Competitions of the Wodabe of Niger

The Guerewal dance competition of the Wodabe Fulani of Niger. Men dress in fancy costumes and perform for the women. They are judged on beauty, talent, and charm. Scenes of several dances, interview with a performer, applying makeup, scenes of Wodabe life. This video is significantly less idiosyncratic than &quot;Herders of the Sun&quot; by Werner Herzog. <br>+Phineas The majority of Fulani are haplogroup E-M2 (E1b1a1) not R1b1. Haplogroup E-M2 is indigenous to Africa not the Middle East. In (Tishkoff et al. 2009), the Fulani cluster with west and central African ethnic groups. Sarah Tiskfoff's study does not support a Middle Eastern or non African origin of the Fulani. The remainder belonged to haplotype 42/haplogroup E-M33. Both of these clades are today most frequent among Niger-Congo-speaking populations, <br>particularly those inhabiting Senegal. Similarly, 53% of the Fulani in northern Cameroon bore haplogroup E-M33, with the rest mainly carrying other Sub-Saharan clades (12% haplogroup A and 6% haplogroup E1b1a). A minority carried the West Eurasian haplogroups T (18%) and R-M173 (12%).[46] Mulcare et al. (2004) observed a similar frequency of haplogroup...