The Pain of Love: Inside the Sharo Ritual of the Fulani
The air is thick with anticipation. Young men, bare-chested, stand in the open field, their bodies glistening under the northern Nigerian sun. Around them, the crowd swells—families, elders, maidens, and children—all waiting for a spectacle that is as old as the Fulani themselves. In a few moments, the silence will be pierced by the swish…