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Ivorian Painter Celebrates Africa’s Big, Beautiful Women

An exhibition celebrating the ample figures of some African women has opened in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan. “I wanted to fight the corner for so-called ‘big’ women who in their day were disliked and even imprisoned by the attitude that they weren’t beautiful,” Ivorian painter Augustin Kassi said at the opening.  “I took [...]