[Delivery of black African women in France]

The African population is a specific entity. It is younger, the women have more babies and the pelvis is frequently narrow. Caesarean section for a narrow pelvis should be considered very carefully in this population, while the idea of feto-pelvic disproportion has to be a clinical one. Radiological pelvimetry and the use of Magnin's diagram play no part in deciding which way to deliver the women.