If I hadn’t stumbled upon this photo album a few years ago featuring over 100 African women and the hairstyles they wore pre-colonization, I probably would have never started!
Hair played a major cultural role in precolonial societies. According to societies, they used hairstyle to communicate religion, wealth, age, social class, tribe, ethnic identity, marital status. Hair also had a lot of spiritual connotations communicating things like fertility, vitality (the more hair you have, the more fertile and strong, healthy, powerful) and hair was for wax have a way to communicate with the divine (mostly the The longer the hair, the more receptive you are to receiving messages from the spiritual entity).
In some societies only our loved ones could comb our hair because, due to the strong spiritual connotation of hair, the hair in the enemy’s hand could become an ingredient in the production of a ‘enchantment’ dangerous to reach the owner. Africans had a wide variety of hairdos. It wasn’t just limited to braids, twists and braided styles but sculptures. the styles also included trinkets such as pearls, gold, or rhinestones.
Roridula dentata, a resinous carnivorous plant native to South Africa. These plants eventually become medium-to-large shrubs, and have been know to snare small birds!
When you have to go to @sprytraining in the morning and you’re hoping this dinner will cancel out the 12 sweetsops and the mango guava paste plus all the other nonsense that you’ve consumed for the weekend
My quick and easy fully electric raw dinner wrap made with #nori #seaweed #romaine #lettuce #cucumberpasta #tomatoes #avocado #scotchbonnet #pepper #dulse #cayenne #cilantro #limejuice #blacksalt
Peace and blessings to all. Have a good one. #morningmeditation #meditation #jamaica #yoga #girlslifttoo #legionofboom #naturalhair #sisterlocks #natural #african #melanin #woman
African Print Canada is your home in Canada for African print designs. We diversify African print with modern, vintage and other traditional fabrics to express your true african taste in fashion.
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