I read this book as a companion to my Enchantment: Senegal book. It’s a book that is supposed to highlight the beauty of the female African body. West African, specifically (but not just Senegal). Unlike Native, the photography book that I read last month in my Brazil studies, this book didn’t feel beautiful or striking at all. It felt cheap. The pictures felt horribly stereotypical (because African women hunt naked with a rudimentary bow and arrow, right?) and on top of that, they were more p*rnographic than beautiful. There were actually pages torn out by former patrons who checked this out of the library, which is really disturbing to me. I generally like nude art, but I found this book to be in poor taste. Maybe it was just the time period – it was published in the mid-80s and feels very dated – but I didn’t like it at all.