Award winning and author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has criticized the use of Brazilian/Indian
hair attachment by African women, implying that they have low
self-esteem by feeling insecure with their natural hair.
Adichie made this known while in an interview with The Observer,
stated that African women should be proud of their natural hair, which
is the pride of Africans instead of having inferiority complex carrying
it
.
When asked to discuss about her new novel ‘Americanah’ that includes
the detail descriptions of black women having their hair done and also
to give a brief description of her own hair, she replied;
“That is the best question! My hair is in tiny cornrows; I have a big
ponytail on the top of my head. I quite like it. It is natural. I am a
bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women’s hair. Hair is
hair – yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and
what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of
wearing their hair naturally is unbearable”.
The hair industry is worth billions of dollars with massive
importation of the attachment to Africa as the female beauty trends is
largely about fluffy long Caucasian hair instead of their natural kinky
hair..
who's complaining???.....
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