I think everyone agrees obesity is bad and unhealthy.
What we are saying is, curvaceous women takes the day anytime. Beauty, is in the eyes of beholder, so to you and Western standards skinny woman is beautiful, to someone else it is not the case. But when it comes to sexy, warmth, what attract normal man etc... @bigchick will always win.

Why do you want to see that? People don't display their valuables for everybody to see e.g. gold, pearls, silver, purses with money, etc. It is not for public display, it is private. You keep it safe.

What we are talking about is your own woman. If you prefer her slender, then it's up to you bro. We are not asking you to show her to us.

Sometimes those big mamas can mess you up, make you do yourself in before getting proper engagement. Wacha tu

A porcupine is the only animal that messes itself up just by watching.Be a man

In the advent of social media, so called journalists have discarded skills that were considered critical to good journalism. In the past, popular articles were well researched and fact based. Journalists would work with sources to extract facts.

Now lazy journalists just write as if they are posting on facebook or twitter.

Njoki's fat shaming article is typical of the genre of journalism. Daily nation has plenty of these nowadays.

Gracious,haven't met one that big!

TRUE DAT!

really? Ancient humans considered curvyness as a symbol of fetility as depicted in their art. the fertility goddesses were depicted in stone curvings to be

I actually think what is considered beautiful is what is rare - right? think about it - pointies in kenya, they are thought of as being 'wow'. When you go to a place like SA - they have no identity... literally. We embace them and esteem them. We hear this statement alot...

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I remember reading an article about muthoni wanyeki on how she was taken a back when she travelled to the US when she was young. She literally moved down the 'desirability' scale by changing cultures. So here .5 are rare and so we look at them in a different way, in the US or SA - we have generations of them! OK. I think it's the same with africans. We desired what was rare - fat people. the fat people sorry curvy people were rare due to our diet and exercice regime (manual labour). The curvy people were generally those who had people working for them. Does anyone remember the Kabaka Mtesa of UG? he had a thing for fat women - his wives were so fat that they could not move. and not the flowing white dressed venus de milo type people we see in greek/european art from antiquity.

You are basing your rounder/fuller observation on a very small set (middle class and upper class), those whose husbands can afford them house servants.

But look at the communities that still observe much of their traditional practices, you will see fuller, rounder was not a common thing. Infact the ronder/fuller women you se are mostly those that have aped a western lifestyle.

There is nothing african about curves and fullness, its very muzungu. if you ask @kiash he will confirm that you are more likely to see more curves and fullness in the west than in africa.

But in honesty, curves, fullness, big ... pose a bigger challenge in matters health, esteem, and generally everyday tasks like walking, hygiene, sharing matatu seats e.t.c

Every time I hear that lie that african women were fat I understand why the education system needs an overhaul.

How could they be fat eating fish and matoke? Or cassava for some?

Being Obese is a disease. Period.

Njoki was on point and our women would do well to listen to her.

Any man who tells you that he loves looking at a naked fat belly hanging over the crotch is lying to you. He has a ndogo ndogo somewhere. Where do you think the name ndogo ndogo came from?

There is rounder not skinny like mzungus. But fat, was not an african tradition.

I'm glad that her rant has made some women consider going to the gym. I promise you, doing so may save you from a ndogo ndogo.