In the last couple of years i saw a TV documentry perhaps on BBC in
England of some beautiful African people. They were unique in the
sense that they had very sharp features and had beautiful teeth and
smiles. They appeared to be very untouched by the modern world. I
would like to know if someone recalls this program and let me have
details of the programme/location of these people

Dear charlotte2206-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. There is no way to know exactly which documentary you are
referring to of course because there have been so many, but they are
easily obtained. I do know of some fine examples that are probably of
the type (if not the same) shows you have seen, such as the BBC
produced shows narrated by Michael Palin and the Werner Herzog
documentary ?Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun? being only two of the many
produced, but probably among the most popular.

The undeniably beautiful people you are talking about are the Wodaabe
people of Northern Nigeria and southwestern Niger. Wodaabe peoples are
actually a subgroup of the larger Fulbe-speaking Fulani, a nomadic
herding tribe who prefer to call themselves Bororo.

SAHARA WITH MICHAEL PALIN: Episode 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/10_october/02/sahara3.shtml

WODAABE: HERDSMEN OF THE SUN
http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?product_id=592
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/HerdsmenoftheSun-1037314/about.php


You can see many images of the Wodaabe people using Google?s image search feature:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Wodaabe

And in this gallery:

PHOTOGRAPHY BY AMANDA JONES
http://meanda.net/photography/photography_images/africa/niger.html

These people have been the subject of many documentaries in the past,
many focusing on the captivating, almost mesmerizing physical beauty
they display during their Yakke (or ?Yaake?) charm competition, and
their ceremonial courtship ritual known as Geerewol which is also a
primitive beauty pageant of sorts held during their annual ?Cure
Salee? or Salt Festival:

AFRICA: WODAABE: CHARM
http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Aug00/2215.html

WODAABE BEAUTY CONTEST
http://www.rosemarysheel.com/NigerImage1_Wodaabe_Touareg_Geerewol.htm

AFRICAN CEREMONIES PHOTO GALLERY
http://www.africanceremonies.com/ceremonies/largephotopages/16wodaabebeauty.html


I hope you find that my research exceeds your expectations. If you
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request prior to rating the answer. Otherwise I welcome your rating
and your final comments and I look forward to working with you again
in the near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.

Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga ? Google Answers Researcher



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WODAABE

BORORO

YAAKE

YAKKE

GEEREWOL

CURE SALEE

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. You deserve the $20.