This may sound bizarre, but it is true that African men do love fat women. This may have a legacy implication. In Africa, being fat has only one nuance: wealth. And parents pass this indulgence down the generations. A culture in Cross River State of Nigeria, West Africa, demands that a young bride be kept in a native fattening facility to be fattened prior to her wedding day. It is easy to understand, because African marriages are pure carnivals, featuring colorful costumes decked with fanciful beads and ornaments. It is believed that the beads and ornaments are better appreciated if they grace the waist of a dancing bride with protruding love-handles.
This weird obsession with wife fatness is perhaps the reason for the longevity of African marriages. Africans consummate marriages with the consents of both parents. Young people do not marry “the love of their lives”; rather they settle for the choices of their parents which take months, and months of background scrutiny. Upon marriage, it becomes incumbent on the husband to ensure that his wife gets bigger, and bigger. This allows him to visit his in-laws as a hero. A slender or little wife draws anger and resentment to her husband who is seen as not caring, and miserly.
Somehow, this preference for big women by African men has made the rounds in Detroit, and big women (and they are many) are cashing in. There are two hot spots Africans frequent in Detroit: The Archers, and the Tropical Hut night clubs and these two clubs attract the biggest of women than any other night hangouts in Detroit. Back home in Africa, stories about these two night clubs and their unique female clientele are told with relish on the streets of Lagos, Dakar, Abidjan, Accra and so on, and young men are left salivating, in utter amazement. It is easy to understand therefore, that when some of these men found themselves in the United States, either through Diversity lottery, visitor or student visas they gravitate to Detroit for obvious reasons.
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