Rwandan girls are beautiful. This is something that Rwandans, Ugandans, Congolese, Kenyans and Westerners all seem to agree on. But there’s something interesting because they’re pretty for different reasons. My Rwandese colleagues told me the other day that the most beautiful girls have big eyes, ‘with a lot of white, just like cows’. Like cows? Yes like cows. (They love them here and I can always count on some approving looks especially from elderly people when I say we are from Holland)
Back to the girls. They should also have big legs. Not skinny ones like us white girls. ‘Legs just like cows?’ I ask my colleagues. But no-no-no that has nothing to do with cows, and they look at me as if I just said something completely stupid.