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Hairstyles & Hairdressing Scenes

"It’s not just fashion or trends: throughout history, black women’s hair has fascinated artists and photographers and has been closely linked to radical political movements such as the Black Panthers and South Africa’s own Black Consciousness Movement. It then seems like a paradox for the young women at South Africa’s Pretoria Girls High School to be told that they should “discipline” their hair by relaxing it." [African Arguments.org] Read More

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Women of Grand Bassam

Bundle of Hair Extensions

Niam-Niam man

Coiffures of the Nsakkara

Banziri maiden with pearl-entwined head-dress

A Dragon claw hairstyle grips a Ugandan girl's fancy for a fashionable do

Nsakara Woman of the Court of Sultan Bangassu

Toilet of Gani Dandies

A Zandeh

A Malanshe Girl

Sharlular

Hairstyle of Tigray, Ethiopia

Head of a Man with Tight, Curly Hair

Matchstik I'm famous

Hairdressing Scene

Fantastic African head-dresses

Nosy-Be woman, , Nosy-Be Madagascar

Hairdresser Inu

Madam C.J. Walker

Women and male head-dress

Fang du Haut-Ivindo (Gabon)

Coiffure of the Mangbatu women

Pangwe Woman with Helmet Coiffure

Coiffure of a Bule woman