I give African chicks especially those not from West Africa a pass on hair hats. Not to shyt on them but men do t know how involved it is taking care of Black hair. Go past a number two guard on your hair and you have to really take care of it especially if you want long hair. Shea butter is made in West Africa you can get that shyt by the bucket full in Ghana. But that shyt in Kenya costs like 20 dollar s a pound, you need deep conditioners apple cider vinegar and shyt like that. It's cheaper to get some braids or a weave. At least in East Africa you'll see chicks rocking a short 'fro here and there. But the average chick doesn't have the money to properly manage natural hairstyles.
If ADOS women wore natural hair more often it would inspire African women to do the same.
I didn't voice an opinion here about hair pieces or wigs, other than to say that they are and used in most places where Black people live.
I partnered with somebody who sold beauty products and I've done papers about that industry. Black entertainers in America set global trends, and that's been the case for a while.
Actress Cicely Tyson helped spark a global natural movement in her hey day, perhaps the first one.
She was Nevisian American,.
I agree but it's like trying to kick knowledge to an African. I had an ex girlfriend who went to EL Mina in Ghana, she was disgusted. It was a tourist trap and no acknowledgement of the genocide that happened there. There's a collective amnesia about it. You try to have a conversation about the slave trade and it will make an ardent pan Africanist start sounding like Tariq Nasheed. In fact I'm surprised he didn't count that as a reason he started going in on Africans.
The atrocities of colonialism and the fights against that would be more fresh in the collective memories of the average (insert nationality/ethnicity, than the slave trade, correct?
For example, you mentioned Elmina in modern day Ghana, what is the counterpart to that in Kenya as a remembrance of the Arab slave trade?
I assume that more people are aware of MauMau/Jomo Kenyatta era than the Era and details of the slave trade.
the theory about tariq flipping that makes the most sense is one that somebody put together, from having followed him in that time.
he tried to get dual citizenship from a country on the continent, and it didn't work out. My theory is that during the standard background check, his past caught up to him. He plays up his past association with violent gangs and pimps/human traffickers, so you do the math.
legal immigrants usually have to jump through all types of hoops to become residents and citizens of another country...and red flags will block you.
Tariq's past caught up to him, and instead of accepting that.......he pivoted into "they" and "us"."pan africanism is a one way street" and other juelzes to avoid accountability for his actions and why his file was denied/blocked.