DEATH OF AFRIKAHAIR IN DIASPORA AFRIKA

DEATH OF AFRIKAHAIR IN DIASPORA AFRIKA or THE CRISIS OF PROGRAMMING DIASPORA AFRIKAWOMEN TO PREFER FOREIGN HAIR STYLES TO THEIR CONTAFRIKAHAIR STYLES THEY CHOOSE TO BE IGNORANT OF , By (c) 2012 by Prof. Afrikadzata Deku, Docteur d'Etat; Doctorat d'Etat (PhD [email protected];

The crisis of the loss of our Afrikan Hair is a very serious one in Diaspora Afrika.

Be it in USA, Europe or West Indies, about 90 percent of Diaspora Afrikans have completely lost their Afrikan Hair or no longer know what their AfrikaHair Styles are and who now prefer the White woman's hair styles as their own Hair Styles in self-ignorance .

The seriousness of their case lies in the fact that most Diaspora Afrikans in the "white" world cannot even distinguish between what is Foreign hair and Afrikan hair.

Their programming has been so thorough that their Foreign hair styles are no more considered Western/alien but their own.

As far as they are concerned, there is nothing like the loss of their Afrikan Hair.

Or rather, it does not matter what hair they have as long as they are "comfortable" with what they have.

And the thorny question becomes how can we as AFRIKAPEOPLE on the Continent and its Diaspora talk of self-pride, self-esteem, etc. when we have become so addicted to foreign hair styles and ways of life at the expense of our Continental AfrikaWay of Life which is the Mother of all today's World ways of life and being ?

How can we talk of "no problem" when we persist in refusing to recognize the obvious fact that we, as Afrikans, have different hair style that we should accept, honor and respect as they are?

At this Moon Age when every group of human family has accepted their unique/special Hair with pride and dignity, majority of Diaspora Afrikans in USA and elsewhere still do not see, know or understand why they must prefer their Natural Afrikan Hair and Hair Styles to those of others.

In this twenty-first century when all other groups of Human Beings are busy self-empowering and self-liberating themselves from all forms of alien/foreign ways of doing things, the bulk of our today's Continental/Diaspora Afrikans are still busy guarding, protecting, perpetuating, foreign/alien boundaries and ways of life that exist to dehumanize us as a people.

This explains why the Hair of the majority of Diaspora Afrikans in USA, Europe and West Indies is the most permed, the most re-permed, the most curled, the most recurled, the most relaxed, the most artificial, the most dead, the most tortured, the most suffering, the most disgraced, the most deformed and the most disfigured of all human Hair on earth.

In other words, the hair of the majority of Diaspora Afrikans in USA, Europe and West Indies is the most chemicalized and the most Artificial and Fake Hair of all hair on earth.

Their hair is the most heat treated hair of all hair on the surface of today's planet.

The majority of Diaspora Afrikans have become the most committed to preferring foreign/alien hair styles to their own Afrikan Hair Styles they will do everything and anything to be free from.

Evidence in support of the above observation can be found in the fact that Diaspora Afrikans in USA, Europe and West Indies (as a group) spend more time, more money, and more energy/attention on their hair than any other human groups in the entire world.

They are more concerned about the way their hair looks like than any other human groups in USA, Europe or West Indies.

Collectively, therefore, Diaspora Afrikans in USA spend billions and billions of dollars every year on turning their hair into everything except Afrikan .

This explains why hair business in USA/Europe today which has become the science and art of turning our Afrikan Hair into the perfect photocopy or counterfeit or caricature of the White Woman and White Man , is a non-stop fast growing multi-billion dollar enterprise.

All because, the 90 percent of Diaspora Afrikans who believe sincerely that there is something wrong with their Afrikan Hair will spend their last cent to "fix," "correct" or "make better" or "more beautiful" their hair if needs it.

Some go as far as spending from one-third to half of their monthly salaries on making their hair manageable and beautiful.

And because they believe strongly that their Afrikan Hair is no good, they also believe their Hair cannot be beautiful, elegant, fashionable and acceptable by their White counterparts unless they actively spend a lot of money, time, energy and attention on chemicalizing or de-Afrikanizing or Westernizing their AfrikaHair and Styles as their way of winning or gaining acceptability and respect in and by Foreign societies they have become addicted to and enslaved by .

But beyond all the explanations, excuses and rationalizations to justify the deliberate torturing and killing of our Afrikan Hair, lies the painful fact that wearing foreign hair instead of our own natural Afrikan Hair brings us more pain and shame than joy.

Because, we "perm" and "curl" our hair not to make it more manageable or beautiful.

This is only an excuse. The truth of our subjecting our Afrikan Hair to all kinds of chemical treatments is because we are not satisfied with the way it looks.

And we are dissatisfied with our natural Afrikan Hair because we have been programmed into disliking and rejecting it.

Our present slave/colonial mentalities will not accept anything Afrikan about us.

The more we lose our Afrikaness, the more comfortable and proud we think we shall be which is not true .

But the end-result of all these constant attempts to run away from our Afrikaness is deception, pain and frustration.

Because the end-result will never bring us the "white" satisfaction and acceptance we yearn for.

A look at the hair of most Diaspora Afrikans will reveal a state of chaos and confusion that is found nowhere else in the world.

Most of them suffer from the pain of dead hair.

That is, their hair cannot grow any more.

Their chemicals have robbed their hair of their precious lives.

Their hair has been killed by chemicals they call “ care " and "maintenance" which is nothing but poisoning of themselves in the name of pleasing their White World .

Who will like to carry dead hair on his/her head without knowing it unless the person is dead himself/herself?

Besides, most Diaspora Afrikans suffer from broken or damaged hair.

Like dead hair, broken hair is also due to the chemicals they put in their hair.

Carrying damaged or broken hair on one's head is like carrying shame on one's face.

But most people with broken or damaged hair are not even aware of their statement of self-rejection and self-hatred and pain which they are trying to cover by desperately turning their Afrikan Hair into something it is not .

Others end up in having out-of-form and out-of-shape hair.

Their hair becomes so wild and so formless that they become living scarecrows without even knowing it .

Some of the Diaspora Afrikans suffer from the eternal restlessness and shame of ending up with artificial hair on their heads.

Because their hair has been over-cooked, burned, softened and heated and on a regular basis, they end up in having artificial hair.

Their hair has nothing natural (Afrikan) left in it.

It can no more stand up on their scalps as it used to be .

It becomes like scattered cotton wool to be blown by the wind at will.

The more their hair is "scattered" on their heads like that of the White Woman Hair, the more they think they have made it in USA .

The more it spreads into their faces, the more they spend their fingers removing it from their faces as does the White Woman they so die to imitate or become or turn themselves into her photocopy .

That mechanical gesture of fixing or adjusting their "flowing" hair every five minutes, to most Diaspora Afrikans, is a sure sign that they now look , feel and think they are now like the White Woman and her Flowing hair and styles.

In addition, some also suffer from the ridicule that results from blind imitations of others.

An Afrikan who deliberately stretches his/her hair to resemble that of the "white" hair is not only sick but a shame to his/her group.

The more some Diaspora Afrikans push or force their hair to flow to their shoulders to resemble the white woman's hair , the more they turn themselves into "white" caricatures without even knowing it.

Their desire to have a long hair like the "white" Woman is so intense and pathetic that some will do anything to have a hair that sleeps and flows from their heads to their shoulders.

But the more they do that, the more their hair runs away from them.

On top of it all, some end up having burnt scalps. Not to talk of the poison of the chemicals that go into the brain to damage it for life.

But luckily in Diaspora Afrika today, at least 10 percent of Diaspora Afrikans have and grow Afrikan Hair with pride and elegance.

Against all odds, these few true representatives of Mother Afrika (in Diaspora Afrika in USA, Europe and West Indies) have succeeded in keeping alive the elegance and beauty of their Natural Afrikan Hair.

Some still wrap their hair the AFRIKAWAY that shows pride in their Afrikan Heritage.

Some wear their hair naturally , the Afrikan way.

They accept and respect their hair as it is. They never put chemicals in it. All they do is to wash it daily, comb it daily, cut it if they want, trim it if they want.

In the sixties and seventies, we saw a glimpse of the beauty and elegance of this Afrikan Hair style called "Afro."

Afro Hair and Styles give Diaspora Afrikans the air of importance, elegance, self-pride, self-acceptance, self-love, self-esteem, etc.

Afro gives Afrikan Americans a unique Afrikan identity, pride and self-confidence that none of their present foreign/Western focus hair styles give them.

The Afro as a powerful statement became so threatening to the "white" power, supremacy and superiority philosophy and ways of doing things that everything was done to "kill" it.

It is not by accident that the majority of today's Diaspora Afrikans are afraid to wear Afro today. Not because it is out of fashion.

It is basically because to wear Afro today is considered "dangerous" and threatening to the "white" status quo.

In the same way as wearing long plaited hair called as Rasta. Which is also very Afrikan in origin and expression.

The fact is Diaspora Afrikans who prefer their Afrikan Hair to Foreign Hair suffer persecution for it.

Some have lost their jobs for it. Some have been denied promotions just because someone does not like their Afrikan Hair style.

Or, their persecution simply takes the form of in dire pressures ranging from the way others look at them when they arrive to the way they are treated.

A Diaspora Afrikan with a well-cooked hair or Foreign hair style is easily accepted, recognized, praised and rewarded by the "white" power representatives than a Diaspora Afrikan with an Afrikan Hair style in a "white" world.

Yet, Few but brave Diaspora Afrikans in USA and Europe and West Indies today continue to wear Rasta/Afrikan Hair in spite of everything.

Some continue to wear hats the AFRIKAWAY no matter.

Some continue to grow naturally, trim or cut their hair the AFRIKAWAY as their brothers and sisters still do in traditional continental Afrikan Society.

And as long as these believers in Afrikan Hair exist in both Continental/Diaspora Afrika, the fight for the total liberation of the Afrikan from Foreign hair styles and all other forms of slavery/colonialism by all awakened continental/Diaspora Afrikans is not only a Must but inevitable for the happiness of all.

By COPYRIGHT (2012) Prof Afrikadzata Deku, Docteur d'Etat, PhD; *Doctorat d'Etat (Ph.D.) * D.E.S.S. (M. Phil) * Diplome De L' I.I.A.P.(Post-Grad. Dipl.) * M.Sc. * BA. Double Majors *,

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