Divorce celebration custom

“Divorce” celebration in Mauritania is one of the strangest customs and traditions of the Mauritanian people. In contrast to the rest of the world, the Mauritanian people place a high value on divorce, and the divorced woman holds a big party to celebrate her divorce, and she is treated well by everyone and is regarded as a strong personal woman, whereas the rest of the world regards divorced women as low and unjust.

The divorced woman is treated in high regard by all and is the focus of men's attention, as the desire to marry a divorced woman increases, which is strange and is confined to the Mauritanian people only, and when the woman announces the news of divorce her mother is keen to dance and celebrate. Her friends quickly organize a music-filled celebration with the attendance of a few poets who lavish her with praise for her beauty and glowing characteristics. Their poems rise and fall with the intensity of their emotions, gathering strength and reaching a crescendo as they describe the countless suitors standing in line to ask for her hand in marriage.