President Ibrahim Traoré Makes Shocking New Law For Black Hair

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the president of Burkina Faso. He has sent a very strong warning to both private and public schools in Burkina Faso. He has instructed that no teacher should punish any student because of natural hair. Traoré claims that the African natural hair is strength. Student should not be forced to cut off the natural hair. Rather students should be guided and taught on how to dress the natural hair and keep it clean.

Any teacher that forces any student to cut off their hair will face six (6) months imprisonment.

Traoré is said to have been a strong man in his former life. Even in this life, he did not come to play.

The Colonizer Hoodlums and African Natural Hair

The policing of the African natural hair started during the colonization of Africa. When those colonial hoodlum saw how important natural hair was to the Africans as a people, they started attacking the African natural hair. They also demonized it. As they did to the African culture generally. Making and forcing the African people to cut their hair was used by these colonial oppressors as a humbling tactics.

This is what an African natural hair looks like. These are works of art.

The Dreadlocks Hair

Today this hairs style above is popularly known as dreadlocks. Unfortunately majority of us are not aware that the name dreadlocks came from the colonizers. They used to call it dreadlocks because they considered the hairstyle to be dreadful. Meaning something to be scared of. Dreadlocks means locks of hair that are dreadful. This was how they demonized locks during colonization.

The Mau Mau and Dreadlocks Hair

There is history about locks, that we don’t really talk about. For example the Mau Mau people of Kenya. They fought hard to be able to wear their locks. Colonizers used to kill people for refusing to cut their locks. Locks were like outlawed. There was even a point in Kenya that locks became a symbol of resistance to colonialism. Colonial hoodlum spent a lot of time to make sure that the African natural hair was demonized and hated by the African people.

The African Natural Hair and Its Aggressor

A people that started violence against African natural hair. This particular people styled their own hair as shown below. There is a reason why they denied people, as shown above, the ability to wear these natural hair at schools and work places. If people of African origin had been allowed the freedom to style their natural hair, they would have continued to design it in elaborate ways. They would have continued to know how to take care of it. The freedom for people of African origin to express their natural hair would have only been possible and flourish outside of white violence and oppression. Africans should go back to natural hair.

Policing of The African Natural Hair

The reason why African natural hairs are still being policed in school is because African schools are still using the colonizer’s blueprint in their educational system. Just as they still use the blueprint in other aspects. For instance why do we still have the concepts of borders in Africa. Why do we still need visas to travel across Africa as Africans, When the Europeans in Europe don’t use visa to travel across Europe. Why are we still cutting our hair in Africa so that we can get an education. But in Europe and USA, they over there are not cutting their hair. We as Africans need to think about this. I am happy that Traoré made this decision.

Racism

Let us not forget that racism is narcissistic abuse. Meaning at its core, it is deep sited insecurity. It is just a layer of violence to protect that inner core.