I don’t remember ever having long hair in my #childhood not even #teenage years…never!
My #memory will similarly resonate with many African…
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girls even today at almost over 99% across #Sub-Saharan #Africa. Well, I would say with increased westernisation in Africa that #people get through #movies and more #international schools perhaps more girls especially in the cities may be growing more hair. But that increasing change will be far away in our #traditional African #cultural #villages.
We keep our hair short. And if going to #school it may be close to a bald hahaha even if one is a #girl or #boy.
Some #students confidently wish for a #French cut #hairstyle to pause at #friends.
Though #hair today is preferred to be #shaved in contemporary #saloons using #electric #equipment, in traditional Africa hair has been shaved by other means such as sharpened edge #stones, broken #pots, #knives, including new methods like the #razor blade as we share in this #documentary.
(I would add some people may use broken #bottles too but that would be ridiculous hahaha)
What most of us know today is that razor #blades or #scissors are what have been used for shaving the head. It will require more in depth #research what stone edge Africa our #ancestors used and when I equipped further this question among a group of #elderly women they mentioned- in the #Acholi or #Acoli culture, sharpened broken pot pieces were used.
However, we could not use the pot piece on the child.
The’re are still many means we are yet to #explore what methods other #ancestry #cultures used. #Subscribe
However, that’s not to say we hardly plait hair, there are many #African #tribes whose high #tropical #temperature places is associated with long hair that’s #plaited to perhaps shield from the #sun but also a sign of #beauty and #warrior for #women and #men respectively such as the #Karamojongs, #Masai #cattle keepers living on the borders #Uganda, #Kenya and #Tanzania including #Himba tribe of #Namibia, #Fulani-
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8 июл 2023