The Sunday Mail
Leisure Correspondent
WHAT is going on? There is a shockingly growing trend of African women donning hair, either from India or Brazil, sometimes synthetic – the final look, looks anything but African.
The origin of this fashion remains a mystery. There must be some African men who admire this fashion. Perhaps the ladies follow this fashion because they believe they look more beautiful, or they think men appreciate them more.
I am of a different view. A lot of black men, in private, have expressed consternation and disbelief in this growing trend. It is my view that black women are endowed with incredible hair.
Black women look good, even when clean shaven, with short hair, with an afro or plaited hair, which can be done in so many different ways. Some can wear their hair long and dreadlocked, and they can also have straight hair which looks Indian or Caucasian style.
I remain to be educated of women from any other race who are as blessed with hair amenable to so many styles as black women. I am also not aware of any other race that has women that purchase and don other people’s hair.
It appears no other race buys African women’s hair.
Our down-to-earth, frank and honest Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, informed us that Zimbabweans spent US$13 million last year purchasing foreign hair.
The country could have used this thirteen million dollars to provide water and sanitation in rural areas, and providing books for the underprivileged school children.
According to CNN (Cable News Network), Africa spent six billion dollars (US$6 000 000 000) purchasing foreign hair last year. The Republic of Zimbabwe’s current budget is about four billion dollars! Recently there was a well-attended “Hair Show” at the Harare International Conference Centre at the Rainbow Towers Hotel. Fantastic prizes were given to the winners. I asked a friend who attended, “How was the Hair Show?”
“Fantastic!” the friend replied. I searched more, “But who sponsored the Show?” The answer was, “South Koreans”!
I am informed that, not only is this foreign hair expensive, it makes the head hot, sweaty then itchy, uncomfortable and eventually smelly!
Skin
Dermatologists remark on how aesthetic and healthy the black woman’s skin is. The skin is smooth, radiant and wrinkle-free until much later in life.
Other races spend billions to fight wrinkles. Some races need sun tanning and exposure to look “darker and more attractive”.
Unlike other races, our skin is not prone to develop skin cancers like melanoma.
Today some of our women, even men, use dangerous skin-lightening creams and drugs to look “white”. Does this make any sense?
Lips
There are well-known plastic surgeons especially in the West Coast of the United States, who inject chemicals into lips of their rich female patients to make them look fleshy, look African, like Angelina Jolie, because these are deemed “sexy”.
Men get excited about what these lips can do, to give them pleasure.
The black woman is endowed with these lips that some people pay a lot of money to have. Do we fully appreciate these lips that God gave us?
Bums
I cannot think of women from any other race who have bums like those of black women. There are ladies’ panties which are padded at the back, just to give the appearance of well-endowed bums.
In Colombia and Brazil, there are plastic surgeons that specialise in performing bum enhancement surgery.
These surgeons are very busy and very wealthy. Overall, most black women do not need this kind of surgery as they have amazing God-given assets.
Our Role Model:
We applaud and celebrate Lupita Nyong’o, Kenyan, natural African hair, natural black skin, juicy lips, lovely bum, Hollywood actress, gracing modelling magazines, a Yale graduate. We hope our children use her as a role model.
Conclusion:
Should we not pose and ask ourselves some poignant questions?
1. Do we hate being black, do we hate ourselves, our hair, our skin?
2. Do we have such an inferiority complex to fail to appreciate the wonderful assets the Maker endowed us with?
3. Do our women lack confidence; do they need reassurance that they are beautiful with their natural hair and skin?
4. Is the black man the root of all this?
5. What are we teaching our children and future generations?
