The Remarkable Wodaabe. The Nomads of Chad

Tariq Zaidi has spent the last 10 years photographing tribal and indigenous people in over 30 countries in Africa. The nomadic Wodaabe tribe graze their cattle through the Sahel desert from northern Cameroon to Chad, Niger and northeast Nigeria. Crossing countries riven by drought, poverty and war, they shelter in the most basic of structures with few possessions and are totally dependent on their animals for survival. Yet despite the harshness of their environment, its beauty that the Wodaabe prize above all else and once a year, the men don elaborate costumes, daub their faces with makeup and dance for hours in the hope of finding love at the weeklong courtship festival called the Gerewol. To see more of Tariqs work from Chad published bbcnews bbcafrica please copy, paste this link for full article: In search of truly unique images, Tariq continues to travel around the world. He can be contacted through his