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The politics of negro gals’ hair
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Lifestyle The politics of negro gals’ hair

By Chika Oduah on May 8, 2014

Why are we still putting chemicals in our hair? It’s 2014, black people have supposedly shaken off the chains of mental slavery, yet when it comes to black women’s hair we have division. Reaction in Nigeria to my natural hair: ‘Is this your hair? Chineke!’

Love and fear: Tanzania’s albino women
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African identities Love and fear: Tanzania’s albino women

By Chika Oduah on October 23, 2013

For reasons still unknown to scientists, albinism seems to be most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania has one of the highest incidents of albinism in the world, roughly 1 in 35000. The country’s albinos live in fear of their lives.

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