LOVE EVERYTHING THAT MAKES YOU AFRICAN

PART2 I AM MORE THAN JUST THE COLOUR OF MY SKIN
Sources Youtube video history of black hair by rEdward chime and Wiki story of Saartjie Baartman

african history from before bantu, cushite and nilote
 The topic of African hair in general, can be very controversial ,and after a friend of mine sent me a screenshot. Of a post that was asking people, to Google images of professional hair, and after you see the results Google images of unprofessional hair. The results of the first search shows that professional  hair is  Caucasian (wavy or straight) hair and unprofessional hair is African (kinky curly or locked) hair which didn’t come as a shock to me.

Let me give you a short history lesson ,on African hair .African hair is hair that is found on people
 with African decent it is either curly or kinky.

African’s throughout history. Were subjected to harsh treatment, because the white man did not understand black people and treated them as if they were just like animal’s. The sin’s of which, we pay for, this very day. We don’t see the colour of our skin as beauty! instead we opt to lighten our skin on this quest fo . What we perceive to be beauty . We don’t see the uniqueness of our hair as beauty ,  but instead are the largest consumers of human hair . The sources of which are highly questionable. (I would Urge you to research before you opt for human hair extensions.)We buy Caucasian hair which is straight or wavy. (but undergoes processing to get it to various looks and textures) yet we get offended, when we see posts like the unprofessional hair. Talk about double standards. Nobody will appreciate us until we learn to appreciate our selves. We have  fallen for all that we were told and we are comfortable with it.


 When Africans were sold as slaves they were put in
chains, stripped naked to demoralize them. Told that they where the lowest form of human .They were then  not allowed to communicate in their native language nor allowed to sing or perform rituals as they did back at home. In an effort to strip them of their culture and history .Which has worked perfectly African Americans barely know anything about their past before they were slaves. African women, were told to shave their hair and not to style it as they once did. They were then denied styling tools .
Which made their once beautifully styled hair become a real mess and the term dread locks came about because the hair looked dreadful .Little did they know that in Africa some tribes did their hair that way and unluckily people who put locks on their hair to this day are looked at as rebels forcing many people to cut them off when seeking formal employment.

Lupita Nyongo pulled off  this very hairstyle at the 2016 Metz gala, and the press claimed the hair was adapted from a famous designer where as  it was taken from the hair of Vernon Françoise .A style that women from central and western Africa wore.
 This is not the first or last time that African lifestyles ,ideas or ways of life have been used edited and stripped of the fact that they were African so as to look like they were or are western concepts. We as Africans are special we are the root of humanity and I think that is why for so long we have been oppressed so that we don’t see the power within us or utilize our resources from our continent.

The story of Saartjie Baartman is a story of a woman taken into slavery from Cape Town South Africa to France. Where she was displayed in various human zoo’s because of her curves which was considered abnormal and as a result of all her hardships later died a lonely death. Little did she know she would later inspire the stiffs worn under the garments of women in the Victorian Error and now the obsession of women having a “Big booty”.  The sad thing is just like various women in history whose hardships in life changed history and little is done to acknowledge them and the likes of Kim Kardashian take the Credit for making curves fashionable .Yet Africans have been living with it and people like Saatjie Baartman who were displayed in human  zoo’s because they were considered abnormal their lives go Untold and uncredited.