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Hair - A Journey Into the Afro and African Experience: Poems, Stories, Styling Tips

by Shirley May and Pete Kalu - £8.99  Suitcase (2006)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781905778010 | ISBN 10: 1905778015

Hair: A celebration of Afro and Asian hair in poetry and fiction.
 
Hair is surrounded by traditions, legends, folklore, myths and everyday joys and frustrations.
 
Twists, dreads, comb styles, weaves, fluffed, afro'd, dyed, treated: every style has its own stories, occasions and meanings.
 
In this feast of a collection, over sixty writers from all parts of the world celebrate the joys and relive the trials of hair.
 

"A brilliant collection that evokes memories of joy and tears, as well as bittersweet relations between generations. Beautiful and profound."
(Anandi Ramamurthy Ph.D)

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