African beauty sensibility is located in a naturalist understanding of what is productive. So while flat bottoms and starvation thin pale bodies are considered beautiful on the catwalks of Europe, in Africa fertility and viability for motherhood is the benchmarks of beauty.
So wide hips and a large bottom become attractive. Those features which are visible signs of fertility and sexual dimorphism.
The foundational paradigm which informs all African aesthetics in the diverse continent is not located by a European benchmark built in a European environment.
So when we look at the music, the dance, and sexualized beauty, we see a unique cultural lens unique to Africa. Scarification is almost continent wide, as well as tattooing. And in African dance and music it is not abstract, but rooted in the Earth and spirituality.
