What's your understanding of 'Kinky' a.k.a 'Afro' hairstyle and the biological genesis of it?
It all originated from Africa many years ago, before the slave trade. The hairstyle used to be a means of identification.
In fact these hairstyles such as 'kólésé', 'ìpáko éledé', 'pàtéwo,' 'koroba', 'suku', and a host of others, used to be what depicts the compound, village, tribe, marital status, age, wealth, and religion.
But today a lot of my fellow blacks have lost our cultural values to civilization, disregarding the traditional ethics of where we all migrated from known as our root.
During the slave trade in the 1600's, the fate of any captured and sold African was that the enslavers will shave their hair to strip them of their identity, while they also forced them to work long hours to hinder them from being able to care for their hair which leads to curly, thick, faded and shabby looks.
Today every black deserves the right to be beautiful, handsome, strong, bold, unique and be treated with love.
So after the abolition of Slave trade in the 1900's, to enable the black Americans get jobs they had to start looking presentable by straightening their hair until activists like Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, and the Black Panthers stopped straightening their hair as a rejection of white beauty standard and a reclamation of African identity which says "Black is beautiful and I'm not hiding my identity, because the bigger the Afro, the prouder the statement"
The basic premise of this artwork is to exhibit and encourage us to embrace our culture, heritage and figure out our roots.
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KINKY
Mixed Media
24 x 36 inches
2026
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AS AFRICANS What's your understanding of 'Kinky' a.k.a 'Afro' hairstyle and the biological genesis of it? It all originated from Africa many years ago, before the slave trade. The hairstyle used to be a means of identification. In fact these hairstyles such as 'kólésé', 'ìpáko éledé', 'pàtéwo,' 'koroba', 'suku', and a host of others, used to be what depicts the compound, village, tribe, marital status, age, wealth, and religion. But today a lot of my fellow blacks have lost our cultural values to civilization, disregarding the traditional ethics of where we all migrated from known as our root. During the slave trade in the 1600's, the fate of any captured and sold African was that the enslavers will shave their hair to strip them of their identity, while they also forced them to work long hours to hinder them from being able to care for their hair which leads to curly, thick, faded and shabby looks. Today every black deserves the right to be beautiful, handsome, strong, bold, unique and be treated with love. So after the abolition of Slave trade in the 1900's, to enable the black Americans get jobs they had to start looking presentable by straightening their hair until activists like Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, and the Black Panthers stopped straightening their hair as a rejection of white beauty standard and a reclamation of African identity which says "Black is beautiful and I'm not hiding my identity, because the bigger the Afro, the prouder the statement" The basic premise of this artwork is to exhibit and encourage us to embrace our culture, heritage and figure out our roots. - KINKY Mixed Media 24 x 36 inches 2026 : : : : #art #painting #hairstyle #africanart #fashion
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