NATURAL HAIR has come into its own in Barbados.
And according to Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner, it seems to be winning the race for the hearts of the people in a $10 billion global care products industry.
Speaking at the recent second annual Natural Hair Show at Christ Church Foundation School, Sandiford-Garner told contestants and their supporters that black people’s hair had more relevance and meaning attached to it and its bearers than that of any other race.
Looking back at the 1960s and 1970s, Sandiford-Garner said the Afro was viewed as a symbol of the Black Power Movement. Like the Afro then, she said, the way a black person wears his/her hair is still seen as a political statement.
“We have often heard our elders describe our hair as our beauty, our crowning glory. But, of course, they meant the long straight hair, even if that straight hair came from chemical straightener or the hot comb,” she remarked.
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