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Across the continent, a hairstyle could announce a marriage, a season of grief, a coming of age, or a kingdom. Before words, the head spoke. A reading of African hair as the oldest social language we have.
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Before they were a style, cornrows were a technology of survival — carrying seeds, hiding gold, and tracing escape routes in the grooves of a braid. The oldest hair pattern on the continent, and what it was really for.
In many pre-colonial African societies, hair communicated everything: age, marital status, clan, grief, celebration. Colonisation disrupted this. Here is an attempt to trace what was there.
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