Editing Niger (section)

==== Guérewol festival ====
{{Main|Guérewol}}
[[File:1997 274-5 Gerewol.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Participants in the [[Guérewol]] perform the ''Guérewol'' dance, 1997.]]
The Guérewol festival is a traditional Wodaabe cultural event that takes place in [[Abalak]] in [[Tahoua Region|Tahoua region]] or [[In-Gall|In'Gall]] in [[Agadez Region]]. It is an annual traditional courtship ritual practiced by the Wodaabe (Fula) people of Niger. During this ceremony, young men dressed in elaborate ornamentation and made up in traditional face painting gather in lines to dance and sing, vying for the attention of marriageable young women. The Guérewol festival is an international attraction and was featured in films and magazines as prominent as the [[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]].