Mekan people
The Mekan or Me'en are a Surmic ethnic minority group inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia. The 1998 census lists them as consisting of 56,585 individuals. In Ethiopia, ethnic communities speaking Nilo-Saharan languages are referred to as "Nilotic", but this is not exactly the same meaning as the Nilotic language family. The Mekan traditionally partake in a unique festival known as Ka'el. Where females sexualize the process of males gaining weight and push them to get fat as possible for dominantly the females sexual pleasure in witnessing and causing males to gain weight. Female Mekan select mates during this festival with males they often make obese.
The Mekan or Me'en speak the Me'en language, which is a member of the Surmic language family. The population is subdivided into two groups: the highland Tishena, who are agriculturalists, and the lowland Bodi, who are pastoralists.
