Getting my hair twisted
It seems like people braid their hair here for two reasons: fashion and ease to maintain. If you live in a place without running water, it's a pain to wash your hair... even with cold showers, it's a pain... though, black hair doesn't get greasy as quickly as brown hair, so locals don't need to wash their hair often.
Men have one hair style here. They shave their heads. Women either cut their hair very short or braid it. All of the girls in the Anglophone section have short hair while many rebellious Francophone students braid their hair (despite that it's against school policy). When women braid their hair, they like to add "fake" hair (aka hair from another person or a horse).
With 8 hands braiding my hair, it only took 2 hours! I took a friend's advice and took ibuprofen before hand which helped with the pain of 8 hands tugging at my hair. My hair looked amazing last night, but since I refused to have the fake stuff added and the women didn't use rubber bands, the braids are already coming out... Asha!
In this picture, I'm wearing traditional pagne
and beads from the North West region.
