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Parchment-style illustration of a fat woman melting under the sun beside her thin husband, African folktale scene.

Of the Fat Woman Who Melted Away

African Folktales·Nigerian Folktales·West African Folktales

Long ago, in a quiet village surrounded by rolling fields and tall palm trees, there lived a husband and wife who could not have been more different in appearance. The man was thin, lean as a stalk of millet, with long limbs and narrow shoulders. His wife, however, was remarkably fat, so round and heavy that she was instantly noticed

Of the Fat Woman Who Melted Away

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