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African hair at Berlin’s Fashion x Hair x Design

Paris Adama’s installation titled Shameless Afro Hair. PHOTO | OTHELLO DE SOUZA-HARTLEY

By  Bamuturaki Musinguzi

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

Black hair has always been a topic of cultural debate as to what defines world beauty standards.

In 2017, Oscar-winning Kenyan Hollywood star Lupita Nyong’o vented her frustration on Instagram when the UK-based Grazia magazine digitally altered her hair for its front cover of the November edition, essentially to cater for its Caucasian readership.

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