What does natural hair really represent?

Across African societies, hair has long been a form of identity — communicating status, culture, and belonging. But through slavery, colonialism, and global beauty standards, these meanings were reshaped.

In this episode of the Sankofa Pan African Series, we explore the history and meaning of natural hair across Africa and the diaspora.

As part of our International Women’s Month series — African Women: Roots, Resistance & Rising — this episode examines how something deeply personal reflects broader histories of power.

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Melodic Redemption song intro, courtesy of the Honorable Robert Nesta Marley, play by Alpha (Ayi)

Nana Frances Cress Welsing explains the role of 'the system of white supremacy' and aamw sexual predation of Black men

Gil Noble being honest about his initial thoughts on Nana Omowale Malcolm X and the reason why he had said thoughts -- within the larger context of whitenization .