Emeka Esogbue

  Fatness or Slimness of Women: Africa Lost her Beauty Preference to the Whites - Emeka Esogbue Do you know that fat was African beauty of women until western orientation changed it? In traditional African society, men loved their women fat. For the true Africans in Africa, fat was the beauty of a woman. Her husband loved her fat, with large 'back' visibly thrown back to the welcomed delight of her admirers and the breasts have to be large and pointing to the sky, succulent in appearance even while wrapped inside the dress and easily noticed by prying eyes. Such was the African beauty of a woman in the eyes of the African man and in Africa. In cultural societies of the Efik, Ibibio and Calabari especially, husbands had to pay for their (future) wives to undergo what was called fattening room. This was a place young women that have attained puberty where taken to be prepared for womanhood. In this part of the world, it was a privilege to be fat and a sign of sexual purity to be ...