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Video of a Guérewol performance. Participants in the Guérewol perform the Guérewol dance. The eventual winner was the tall young man in the middle. Photographed 1997 in Niger. A young maiden judges men competing in a Guérewol in 1997. The Guérewol (var. Guerewol, Gerewol) is an annual courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Fula ...
Niger seeds resemble sunflower seeds in shape, but are smaller in size and black. It bears a fairly thick, adherent seed coat and can be stored for up to a year without deterioration. Niger seed contains proteins, oil and soluble sugars. Niger seeds are used as bird feed worldwide. Commercial niger seed is grown in Africa, India and other areas ...
Niger '66: A Peace Corps Diary: Judy Irola: Documentary 2011 Koukan Kourcia (Le cri de la tourterelle) Sani Elhadj Magori Documentary English title: Koukan Kourcia (The Cry of the Dove) 2013 Those Who Veil: Daliso Leslie: Documentary short 2013 Lokkol. l'école. Alwasi et Aikije vont (aussi) à l'école: Francesco Sincich: Documentary English ...
The estimates for the total population of Zarma people as of 2013 has been generally placed over three million, [13] but it varies. They constitute several smaller ethnic sub-groups, who were either indigenous to the era prior to the Songhai Empire and have assimilated into the Zarma people, or else are people of Zarma origins who have differentiated themselves some time in the precolonial ...
Fachi is an oasis surrounded by the Ténéré desert and the dunes of the Erg of Bilma in eastern Niger, placed on the western edge of the small Agram mountain outcropping. It has a population of 2,215 people (2012). [2] It is also a stopping point of the Agadez to the Kaouar caravans of the Azalay.
Jonathan Adagogo Green (1900) Ovonramwen, the Oba of Benin, photographed by Green on board the Niger Coast Protectorate SY Ivy, while the Oba was on his way to exile in 1897. Jonathan Adagogo Green (1873-1905) was according to some sources [1] the first professional photographer in what is now Nigeria to have ethnic origins in that area. He is ...
The Elrhaz Formation is a geological formation in Niger, West Africa.. Its strata date back to the Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 112 million years ago.Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, alongside those of multiple species of crocodyliformes.
In 2023, Moctar embarked an American tour that included performances at the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Newport Folk Festival. [38] During the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état , Moctar and his band were unable to return to Niger and launched a GoFundMe campaign on August 3, 2023 for funding to remain in the United States indefinitely. [ 39 ]