MEN OF BODI TRIBE COMPETE FOR POT BELLY EVERY YEAR

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Along the lower Omo valley river in Southern Ethiopia, resides the Bodi tribes. 
The Bodi people are neighbours to the Mursi tribe. 

The Bodi people are agriculturalists who still engage in trade by barter system.
In an unusual ritual, the men from the Bodi tribe compete to become the fattest during the new year or ka'el ceremony.

They spend six months guzzling a mixture of cow blood and milk in a bid to fatten up as fast as they can.
The winning fat man doesn't get a price but is feted as a hero for life by the rest of the tribe.








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