Monday, 26 January 2015

Battling The Bulge

You will quite agree with me that looking plump; well-rounded with rolls of fat evenly spread all over the body was a much desirable look by our grandparents.  Oh yes, men of old believed that for a woman to be considered beautiful she must be ‘well-endowed’. These women often called ‘thick madam’ were our original African Queens. In the Efik tribe of Calabar and Akwa-Ibom, young girls preparing for marriages were usually taken to a fattening...