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Nigeria: brides' fat camp
Nigeria: brides' fat camp
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2007
By:
Andrew Thomas
More4 News on a ceremony in which men require brides-to-be to bulk up before marriage.
News programmes and politicians in Britain love the subject of obesity - every day there's news of another initiative to make us slim.
But perhaps the ways in which other countries see fat can help us recognise our own obsessions.
In Nigeria, brides go to 'fat camp' to ensure they are big enough on their big day.
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