Elle Driver
Veteran
I hear what you're saying, but the only people who look like Alek Wek are south Sudanese people, particularly Dinka. I'm African, and have been to Africa, and I never saw anyone who looked remotely like her. No one in my family shares her features. Her beady eyes and round cheeks are not really "African" features, so much as they are North East African features I dunno.
I don't think she's ugly, but I also don't see why she's always singled out as the epitome of the African physical form or feminine beauty.
The women in Premeditated's post look closer to the people I saw all over "Congoid" populated countries like Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Kenya, as well as my African friends and family to tell you the truth (not that they were all models of course).
Well Lupita and Alek are both Nilotic peoples (Lupita is Luo, Alek is Dinka), those features are pretty very typical for their ethnic group. They're not Bantu, which makes them obviously stick out more, but I have seen them in Kenya (Masai) and Tanzania. I believe they even live in Congo too.