Media | I talk to Koe’sister about hair
Thank you to Koe’sister for the interesting conversation about what drives our obsession with straight hair. I shared insights from The Big South African Hair Book.
Our past plays a large part in how we view the differences between natural hair and straightened hair, but so does our present conception of markers of status and success:
With many naturalistas embracing and promoting the natural hair community, as a society we still view natural hair hairstyles as ‘cheap’. Janine unpacks one of our nation’s biggest problem that contributes to this, but not after having a great laugh. “You know, South Africa, we are really a special nation. We love status.”