
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...