Those iconic Nigerian hairstyles from the '60s

From Africa is a Country Wed Nov 5 2014, 18:30:57

Long before Chris Rock wondered what was up with black women's hair ("Good Hair" 2009), black women in Africa were busy engaging in acts of self-fashioning that married their political sensibilities and their aesthetic leanings in ways that defied limitations of imagination and gravity. And photographer J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere was there to document that [...]

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