Po seduce a man, women have several tips. Each chooses what appears to be the most effective. Make-up, clothes, hairstyles come to decorate their parade. Some tactics are universal. Others are specific to peoples. In Africa, this little thing is the baya.
The baya is a set or a necklace of pearls used by African women as an ornament of their hip. Affléma in Akan or Baya in Malinké. It has a particular objective: Seduction.
Baya or afflema is made of various raw materials such as porcelain, rubber, excrement of a rare species of butterfly, rock and wood. These pearls generally come from Indochina, Morocco and Lebanon. In West Africa, these are Mali, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana. The baya is made in Senegal by the Laoubè who are Fulani.
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