I have been visiting and experiencing this festival in Niger for the past thirty years and marveling that it exists. I cannot go this year because the Russians are taking over and making it difficult for Americans--the French are totally kicked out. So here I sit in my studio mulling over my sketches and photos and deciding which beautiful man I am going to paint. They are competing in a beauty contest that will be judged by the women. It is not the young men who ask the girls to marry. It is their job to make themselves so irresistible that the girls do the asking. Isn't it a great system?
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