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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Ilekeh(f): 4:59pm On Sep 02, 2015
Been natural since 2010 cool

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Ilekeh(f): 5:00pm On Sep 02, 2015
gabpaul:
True but i want to marry white.. grin

Racist police will love to meet you.
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by kaboninc(m): 5:01pm On Sep 02, 2015
Ilekeh:
Been natural since 2010 cool

Evidence.... cool cool
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by OdenigboAroli(m): 5:03pm On Sep 02, 2015
Moana:


if your wife keeps long hair. what does she have to do with her hair before going to bed and how long does she take doing her hair before work?

Shampo and coconut oil or some other good products. Please,do your research you are a woman. But stop wearing fake hair,biko. Its degrading and shameful.

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by OdenigboAroli(m): 5:04pm On Sep 02, 2015
Ilekeh:
Been natural since 2010 cool

Make we see am.
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by TurboTee: 5:10pm On Sep 02, 2015
Fabrepass:
THE NATURE OF SELF-HATE
----------------------------

By NAIWU OSAHON
-----------------
In 2008, when I launched the campaign with two versions of this article, inviting our African mothers, wives, sisters, and women folks worldwide to stop wearing White female hairstyles and damaging their hair with dangerous chemicals, many said I was dreaming and that it is impossible to change our women. Some even said I was mad trying. Our queens have heeded my call to the happiness and pride of our race. See how beautiful African women now look worldwide. Other races are now copying our women and that is how it is supposed to be, because our Mama is the mother of the human race. We do not copy others, we lead the way as the ancestors of the human race. See catwalks from Europe to the Americas, other races are copying us and looking good as a result. The most beautiful women in the world now wear and look typically African. That is what we now want to do with our spirituality. All Africans must go Ma'at from this moment on. Many are asking for the publication of the original document I published that transformed our female hairstyles and gave us our Nubian Queens world wide. Thank you, thank you, great sisters, mothers, daughters. We can't thank you enough. We are very proud of you all. Here is the original article published around the world.
...............................................


African women are losing sense of self-worth. Their idea of feminine elegance is to wear White female hair styles. Flip through any issue of our week-end newspapers and picture magazines to see how far this disturbing trend of self-hate by our females has gone. No class of Black women is exempt: film and sports stars, musicians, students, models, literary gurus, politicians, academics, business executives, civil servants, religious leaders and followers, unemployed or working class spinsters and housewives, are trying desperately to pass for White. They are all pampered as teenage daughters, with charming African hair styles, which they promptly abandon for White female hair styles as soon as they become of age to choose hair styles for themselves.

We were taught through slavery and colonialism that Black is shit and White is right and supreme. So, they gave us their God and His White son to worship and look up to for redemption. Our brainwashing has continued since unabated. All our flagship media sources routinely carry without qualms, adverts that demean our race. Advertisers of cosmetic products are a major front of the assault on our sense of self-worth, telling our women that light skin and long, shinny, bodiless, straight, White female hair styles, are the ideal for our women. The advertisers hide the truth that light skin colour crack and age faster than dark skin, and that every race has natural hair styles that suit and complement her.

For instance, AMBI (meaning Africans May Be Improved), skin cream was first developed in apartheid South Africa to promote bleaching and lighten ‘the African Black skin blemish.’ Dr. Miracle tells us to be ashamed of our Afro, kinks, braids and natural hair styles, because White female bodiless, stretched hairstyles are the ideal for African females. Wild Growth Co., makers of wild growth hair oil, do not even attempt to conceal their disdain for the African race. Wild Growth claims to make our savage female animal species look human by removing their kinks, naps, braids, and rendering their hair shinny and long below the shoulder. Nivea skin cream advert on page 39 of Ebony magazine of April 2008, spells out their racial hatred for the African race in even more unequivocal language. It says a beautifully toned skin is White full stop. Motions’ Shampoo advert on page 4 of Ebony of February 2006, claims to detangle and render African hair weightless, thus implying that God made a mistake tangling and giving body to the African hair? Otherwise, why would any one want to detangle what God has tangled? If as the Bible says, God is in human image and likeness, then God is Black with thick, tangled hair, since He created the Black race and the weather created Whites. Who is Motions shampoo, therefore, to detangle God and His creation?

No amount of money in the world would buy space in a White journal for an advert that insults the sensitivities of the White race, but with us anything goes; individual survival is the language. The advert that takes the cake was by Hennessy on page 73 of Ebony magazine of May 2006, which claimed that the privileged African is the one who has been ‘convicted.’ To make the use of the advert to perpetrate our continued genocide irresistible, while making Hennessy look like our friend, Hennessy donated opposite the page 73 insulting advert, $15,000 to Howard University, at the Ebony presents Hollywood in Harlem Pre-Oscar Gala, to honour Black stars. I attacked these adverts at the time. My protests were not published but generally sent to the advertisers. The cosmetic people changed their promotion tone to ‘even tone.’ It took three critical letters to shift Dr. Miracle to their current abuse zone, and Hennessy dropped ‘convicted’ for ‘ennobling’ etc. I wonder when alcohol began to straighten mankind up, clear-eyed? Well, since they claim that Blacks are not humans, it probably works on Blacks.

[b]Africans have the greatest variety of elegant, feminine, beautiful, sexy, creative, ennobling, envied, open to further innovations, female hair styles, than all the other tribes of the world put together. Our women have hundreds of matchless teasers from the ancient Nubian, Kanuri, Calabar, Edo queenly varieties, to the modern exquisite resourceful African tribal traffic stoppers. The proper African female hair styles, fall in the range of low/full cut, to thick, rich, woolly, curly, kinky, alluring, lively, dramatic, healthy, luscious, moist, sheer, knotted, plaited, jumbled, tangled crown of part-collected, massed or cascading hair, confirming (like the peacock’s crown for the birds’ kingdom, or the lion’s for the animals’ dominion), our females’ ordained status as the human queens: brave, proud, confident, real, important, dignified, feminine, irresistible. In fact, the most stunning women in the world, wear African female hair styles, and, by the way, are not ‘I’ or pencil thin, but ‘S’ shaped. All female species of nature are invariably sexually endowed, so, the most irresistible human females are not fat or thin, but shapely, with generous front and back sides, to distinguish them from men.

African women, wearing hot combed, straight, stretched, compacted or other white female hair styles, look inferior, like cheap substitutes and slaves, standing beside their true to nature white female peers; and like grandmas beside their proudly African peers with African female hair styles. They invariably look like white headed black dolls, doubly empty inside, or like cats emerging from a forced bath of hot oil: ugly, slimy and abnormal. So, one is tempted to ask, do our women wear white female hair styles out of a feeling of self-hate or because they are angry and want to shock and terrorize with their, I don’t care how I look pose, blacks they are ashamed of, and whites that reject them? [/b]

There was this actress looking like a precious jewel in her African hair style at the Pan-African Night of Tributes in Los Angeles and a few hours later, was looking like grandma in her white female hair style, at a Pre-Oscar Gala. Every April, Ebony magazine features black College Queens who all wear white female hair styles that make them look like jokers and pretenders to the throne of beauty queens of any tribe, black or white. Obviously, a great deal of confusion is going on in our women’s heads at the moment, a kind of split personality crisis. If they cannot change their ‘black skin blemish’ fast enough, they can, at least, jump start this with white female hair styles.

[b]Of course, 400 years of slavery dealt a devastating blow to our feeling of self-worth. While Hiroshima bombing happened over a few days and the Jewish holocaust lasted a couple of years, without causing either of them the loss of cultural focus and identity, our dehumanization went on for 400 years and it was brutal and total. It obliterated our languages, culture, traditional mores, religions, history, individual names and identity. It was 400 years of no industry, learning, or progress, because we were running and hiding, not knowing who they would kidnap or murder next. Over two hundred million of our relatives died on the run or during the Middle Passage. It was 400 years of unbridled rape of our women and the inhuman and ungodly castration of our men; 400 years of slaving like beasts of burden without pay on the plantations of Bible totting slavers; 400 years of not knowing what we did wrong to be visited with so much hate, violence and destruction; 400 years of not knowing if and when it would end, and it has not ended 550 years after.[/b]

The Jews and the Japanese received compensation for the terrible wrong done to them but our tormentors do not consider us human enough to deserve their apology and reparations. We do not count in their records of human history, not even as a footnote and we are powerless to exert restitution because we are not united. When men are powerless, their female folks tend to ride with the winners as booties, or in the hope of some of the master’s spoils robbing off on them.

In a recent Ebony magazine feature on Black female senior executives, directors, and vice presidents of some leading US corporations, all of them wore White female hair styles that did severe damage to their look and age. They obviously believed they reached their merited heights by being dowdy and loyal servants. White leaders and bosses are not likely to be telling themselves, “I trust her absolutely because she is not true to her nature?” There is courage and strength in not living a lie, which all sane leaders and bosses, whites inclusive, recognize and quietly respect. Our girls cannot hide their basic nature under alien and unbecoming hair styles and assume that all is well.

Mitchell Obama would have eclipsed her husband’s audacity, if she had worn Afro or plait or any other African female hair-style at Obama’s inauguration as the first African President of the USA. Senior Black female holders of political offices in the US and African governments, think, passing for white with white female hair styles, encouraged their ascendance or appointment, and that foreign white leaders would resent them if they looked their natural African selves from head to toe. For a start, it makes them look older than their real age, and unattractive and undignified. It definitely offends the trust implied in the truism that: ‘real is more likely to be honest and reliable to deal with.’ That is a conflict we all face right now, we are not real but we think we are, or do not care. When our women, at whatever age, are true to their nature, they look ageless, regal, strong, trustworthy, dependable and beautiful. They inspire our confidence by being proudly African. That is what African women not contaminated by Western decadence look like.

It confirms that the Queen of Sheba’s extended family has not been completely wiped out by European’s plastic culture. We have great female poets who, despite their age, could still win the Miss World title if they would be true to their African nature. We have others in public eye, people others look up to, such as artistes, authors, film stars, who ought to know better, in terms of the correct public image to project, who do not feel there is anything wrong with their unnatural hair styles. We have daughters with long straight hair, of course, who look becoming because they are natural, but we also have black female TV hosts who wear pathetic, short or long, weightless, graceless, revolting, fake, white female hair styles, thinking they look cute. Such hosts would not get me out of bed in the morning to watch a ‘Good Morning’ TV show?

When African American men were wearing pressed or hot combed hair styles not too long ago, many of us pined and prayed for the phase to pass. Our urgent critical worry now is that we may not find proudly African sisters to marry by the morning. May be we should buy our African American females, mirrors to look at themselves with the African eye every morning, before stepping out into the world? Better still, we could send them the mirrors left behind in Africa in payment for slaves by slavers? That way we might find some value for the mirrors, by using them to see what the slavers are still doing to our daughters’ mentality because, Diaspora African women are continental African women’s mirrors in modernity but most Black women abroad are ashamed to be African and African continental women are copying their African American peers.

Female newscasters and talk show hosts on African television stations, habitually wear white female hair styles. NTA is the only exception and I influenced them when a listening patriotic African, Segun Olusola, was in charge of programmes there. Typical African cultural programmes are routinely hosted by females unsure of their correct racial image. The confused message they pass on with their unsightly non-African look, as against what they say on the programmes, apart from irritating their proudly African captive audience, discomforts the non-African viewer, eager to be treated to genuine and honest African scenes and entertainment.
There was this presenter the other day on a Nigerian television programme wearing long, straight, artificial hair, drooping all over her face to below her shoulders. She was shaking her head every few seconds to re-arrange the hair, and using her hands to transfer hair falling over her eyes to the back of her ears in typical White female manner. It was a lot of trouble for her, but that is not the issue here. On the programme, she was admonishing her listeners for not being true to their nature. “We should be proud of our culture, stick with it, and show it off to the world,” she said, stoned face. I had to touch my television set to assure myself, I was not dreaming.

Many of us see nothing wrong bowing, kowtowing, kneeling slavishly before images of White Jesus or Muhammad who we proudly call our husbands, messiahs and saviours. The Punch newspaper of Nigeria, of June 7, 2012, showed Access Bank, Nigeria, rewarding a Nigerian pre-school teenage explorer heroine with a Nichalodeon’s Dora the explorer White baby doll. The wife of the Governor of Lagos State was trapped to witness the ceremony and was showing deep appreciation for the event, not realising that Access bank had used her high public figure profile to promote an award that demeans African self worth in the eyes and psyche of the innocent Black child recipient of the award for being smart and clever. We as a people reinforce this self denigrating notion of ourselves in a million and one ways daily without realising the depth of damage we are doing to our self-esteem.

When a Nigerian won the Miss World title in 2001, she was looking like a delectable African queen. A year later, after her European sponsors had taken her around the world as their queen, she visited Nigeria looking like a masquerade. No one could recognize her. She had added 30 years to her age in twelve months, with her European hair style. If you ask our females why they take so much trouble to disfigure themselves, they say it makes them look beautiful. It is all so very sad for our race because they (as our mothers), pass their feelings on to the average African child who prefers a white baby doll to a black one because the white one is more beautiful. Then when you ask the child to point to the doll that looks more like him or her, he or she, helplessly and slowly points to the black one. If the White race is your image of God, your symbol of excellence and beauty, your summit of intelligence, virtue, success and heroism, what chance have you of ever liberating yourself mentally, at least, from emasculation?

The typical African right now, would tell you he or she is proudly African, wearing a suit in our noon day heat, and answering names like John, Jane, Stella, Stephen, Muhammad or Abdulai. The young men are wearing hair styles the females should be wearing, with earrings and all to boot; the women are looking like scarecrows or extraterrestrial beings, repulsive, masculine and strange to our environment, in compacted, stretched, alien, unbecoming hair styles. They look neither black nor white from bleaching to sore point, with accentuated stretch marks all over the covered body. Non-African tribes that would not try to change their nature as a race, by switching wholesale to African hair styles, religion, fashion, or answering African names, or burning black (in counterpoise to us bleaching), with injurious health consequences, that include kidney ruin, aggravated or heightened diabetes and hypertension, are difficult to fault for thinking that black IQ might be lower than that of the Chimpanzee.

*This campaign by me has been published profusely all over the world since 2008. It was launched as a damage control measure or palliative of sorts, and it has proved immensely successful, giving us our current over 90% potential Nubian Queens worldwide. We are very proud of our mothers, sisters, wives, partners and friends who have listened to their inner voices. You are all amazing amazons and your actions confirm that the Queen of Sheba is still very much alive; you are all her great heirs. The campaign also demonstrated that to tackle our ugly brainwashing against our best interests, we need to go beyond surface values to reach deep inside our selves. Our race is still very confused right now by the many alien distortions and contradictions, particularly religious ones, competing for our attention, and we are at a critical crossroads.
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NAIWU OSAHON Hon. Khu Mkuu (Leader) World Pan-African Movement); Ameer Spiritual (Spiritual Prince) of the African race; MSc. (Salford); Dip.M.S; G.I.P.M; Dip.I.A (Liv.); D. Inst. M; G. Inst. M; G.I.W.M; A.M.N.I.M. Poet, Author of the magnum opus: ‘The end of knowledge’. One of the world’s leading authors of children’s books; Awarded; key to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Honourary Councilmanship, Memphis City Council; Honourary Citizenship, County of Shelby; Honourary Commissionership, County of Shelby, Tennessee; and a silver shield trophy by Morehouse College, USA, for activities to unite and uplift the African race.

Naiwu Osahon, Sage: New World Order, renowned author, philosopher of science, mystique, leader of the world Pan-African Movement.


http://saharareporters.com/2009/11/06/nature-self-hate
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by cynthiaibeabuchi(f): 5:14pm On Sep 02, 2015
Natural hair rocks ...tho it isn't easy to maintain

2 Likes

Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:14pm On Sep 02, 2015
Fabrepass:
THE NATURE OF SELF-HATE
----------------------------

By NAIWU OSAHON
-----------------
In 2008, when I launched the campaign with two versions of this article, inviting our African mothers, wives, sisters, and women folks worldwide to stop wearing White female hairstyles and damaging their hair with dangerous chemicals, many said I was dreaming and that it is impossible to change our women. Some even said I was mad trying. Our queens have heeded my call to the happiness and pride of our race. See how beautiful African women now look worldwide. Other races are now copying our women and that is how it is supposed to be, because our Mama is the mother of the human race. We do not copy others, we lead the way as the ancestors of the human race. See catwalks from Europe to the Americas, other races are copying us and looking good as a result. The most beautiful women in the world now wear and look typically African. That is what we now want to do with our spirituality. All Africans must go Ma'at from this moment on. Many are asking for the publication of the original document I published that transformed our female hairstyles and gave us our Nubian Queens world wide. Thank you, thank you, great sisters, mothers, daughters. We can't thank you enough. We are very proud of you all. Here is the original article published around the world.
...............................................


African women are losing sense of self-worth. Their idea of feminine elegance is to wear White female hair styles. Flip through any issue of our week-end newspapers and picture magazines to see how far this disturbing trend of self-hate by our females has gone. No class of Black women is exempt: film and sports stars, musicians, students, models, literary gurus, politicians, academics, business executives, civil servants, religious leaders and followers, unemployed or working class spinsters and housewives, are trying desperately to pass for White. They are all pampered as teenage daughters, with charming African hair styles, which they promptly abandon for White female hair styles as soon as they become of age to choose hair styles for themselves.

We were taught through slavery and colonialism that Black is shit and White is right and supreme. So, they gave us their God and His White son to worship and look up to for redemption. Our brainwashing has continued since unabated. All our flagship media sources routinely carry without qualms, adverts that demean our race. Advertisers of cosmetic products are a major front of the assault on our sense of self-worth, telling our women that light skin and long, shinny, bodiless, straight, White female hair styles, are the ideal for our women. The advertisers hide the truth that light skin colour crack and age faster than dark skin, and that every race has natural hair styles that suit and complement her.

For instance, AMBI (meaning Africans May Be Improved), skin cream was first developed in apartheid South Africa to promote bleaching and lighten ‘the African Black skin blemish.’ Dr. Miracle tells us to be ashamed of our Afro, kinks, braids and natural hair styles, because White female bodiless, stretched hairstyles are the ideal for African females. Wild Growth Co., makers of wild growth hair oil, do not even attempt to conceal their disdain for the African race. Wild Growth claims to make our savage female animal species look human by removing their kinks, naps, braids, and rendering their hair shinny and long below the shoulder. Nivea skin cream advert on page 39 of Ebony magazine of April 2008, spells out their racial hatred for the African race in even more unequivocal language. It says a beautifully toned skin is White full stop. Motions’ Shampoo advert on page 4 of Ebony of February 2006, claims to detangle and render African hair weightless, thus implying that God made a mistake tangling and giving body to the African hair? Otherwise, why would any one want to detangle what God has tangled? If as the Bible says, God is in human image and likeness, then God is Black with thick, tangled hair, since He created the Black race and the weather created Whites. Who is Motions shampoo, therefore, to detangle God and His creation?

No amount of money in the world would buy space in a White journal for an advert that insults the sensitivities of the White race, but with us anything goes; individual survival is the language. The advert that takes the cake was by Hennessy on page 73 of Ebony magazine of May 2006, which claimed that the privileged African is the one who has been ‘convicted.’ To make the use of the advert to perpetrate our continued genocide irresistible, while making Hennessy look like our friend, Hennessy donated opposite the page 73 insulting advert, $15,000 to Howard University, at the Ebony presents Hollywood in Harlem Pre-Oscar Gala, to honour Black stars. I attacked these adverts at the time. My protests were not published but generally sent to the advertisers. The cosmetic people changed their promotion tone to ‘even tone.’ It took three critical letters to shift Dr. Miracle to their current abuse zone, and Hennessy dropped ‘convicted’ for ‘ennobling’ etc. I wonder when alcohol began to straighten mankind up, clear-eyed? Well, since they claim that Blacks are not humans, it probably works on Blacks.

[b]Africans have the greatest variety of elegant, feminine, beautiful, sexy, creative, ennobling, envied, open to further innovations, female hair styles, than all the other tribes of the world put together. Our women have hundreds of matchless teasers from the ancient Nubian, Kanuri, Calabar, Edo queenly varieties, to the modern exquisite resourceful African tribal traffic stoppers. The proper African female hair styles, fall in the range of low/full cut, to thick, rich, woolly, curly, kinky, alluring, lively, dramatic, healthy, luscious, moist, sheer, knotted, plaited, jumbled, tangled crown of part-collected, massed or cascading hair, confirming (like the peacock’s crown for the birds’ kingdom, or the lion’s for the animals’ dominion), our females’ ordained status as the human queens: brave, proud, confident, real, important, dignified, feminine, irresistible. In fact, the most stunning women in the world, wear African female hair styles, and, by the way, are not ‘I’ or pencil thin, but ‘S’ shaped. All female species of nature are invariably sexually endowed, so, the most irresistible human females are not fat or thin, but shapely, with generous front and back sides, to distinguish them from men.

African women, wearing hot combed, straight, stretched, compacted or other white female hair styles, look inferior, like cheap substitutes and slaves, standing beside their true to nature white female peers; and like grandmas beside their proudly African peers with African female hair styles. They invariably look like white headed black dolls, doubly empty inside, or like cats emerging from a forced bath of hot oil: ugly, slimy and abnormal. So, one is tempted to ask, do our women wear white female hair styles out of a feeling of self-hate or because they are angry and want to shock and terrorize with their, I don’t care how I look pose, blacks they are ashamed of, and whites that reject them? [/b]

There was this actress looking like a precious jewel in her African hair style at the Pan-African Night of Tributes in Los Angeles and a few hours later, was looking like grandma in her white female hair style, at a Pre-Oscar Gala. Every April, Ebony magazine features black College Queens who all wear white female hair styles that make them look like jokers and pretenders to the throne of beauty queens of any tribe, black or white. Obviously, a great deal of confusion is going on in our women’s heads at the moment, a kind of split personality crisis. If they cannot change their ‘black skin blemish’ fast enough, they can, at least, jump start this with white female hair styles.

[b]Of course, 400 years of slavery dealt a devastating blow to our feeling of self-worth. While Hiroshima bombing happened over a few days and the Jewish holocaust lasted a couple of years, without causing either of them the loss of cultural focus and identity, our dehumanization went on for 400 years and it was brutal and total. It obliterated our languages, culture, traditional mores, religions, history, individual names and identity. It was 400 years of no industry, learning, or progress, because we were running and hiding, not knowing who they would kidnap or murder next. Over two hundred million of our relatives died on the run or during the Middle Passage. It was 400 years of unbridled rape of our women and the inhuman and ungodly castration of our men; 400 years of slaving like beasts of burden without pay on the plantations of Bible totting slavers; 400 years of not knowing what we did wrong to be visited with so much hate, violence and destruction; 400 years of not knowing if and when it would end, and it has not ended 550 years after.[/b]

The Jews and the Japanese received compensation for the terrible wrong done to them but our tormentors do not consider us human enough to deserve their apology and reparations. We do not count in their records of human history, not even as a footnote and we are powerless to exert restitution because we are not united. When men are powerless, their female folks tend to ride with the winners as booties, or in the hope of some of the master’s spoils robbing off on them.

In a recent Ebony magazine feature on Black female senior executives, directors, and vice presidents of some leading US corporations, all of them wore White female hair styles that did severe damage to their look and age. They obviously believed they reached their merited heights by being dowdy and loyal servants. White leaders and bosses are not likely to be telling themselves, “I trust her absolutely because she is not true to her nature?” There is courage and strength in not living a lie, which all sane leaders and bosses, whites inclusive, recognize and quietly respect. Our girls cannot hide their basic nature under alien and unbecoming hair styles and assume that all is well.

Mitchell Obama would have eclipsed her husband’s audacity, if she had worn Afro or plait or any other African female hair-style at Obama’s inauguration as the first African President of the USA. Senior Black female holders of political offices in the US and African governments, think, passing for white with white female hair styles, encouraged their ascendance or appointment, and that foreign white leaders would resent them if they looked their natural African selves from head to toe. For a start, it makes them look older than their real age, and unattractive and undignified. It definitely offends the trust implied in the truism that: ‘real is more likely to be honest and reliable to deal with.’ That is a conflict we all face right now, we are not real but we think we are, or do not care. When our women, at whatever age, are true to their nature, they look ageless, regal, strong, trustworthy, dependable and beautiful. They inspire our confidence by being proudly African. That is what African women not contaminated by Western decadence look like.

It confirms that the Queen of Sheba’s extended family has not been completely wiped out by European’s plastic culture. We have great female poets who, despite their age, could still win the Miss World title if they would be true to their African nature. We have others in public eye, people others look up to, such as artistes, authors, film stars, who ought to know better, in terms of the correct public image to project, who do not feel there is anything wrong with their unnatural hair styles. We have daughters with long straight hair, of course, who look becoming because they are natural, but we also have black female TV hosts who wear pathetic, short or long, weightless, graceless, revolting, fake, white female hair styles, thinking they look cute. Such hosts would not get me out of bed in the morning to watch a ‘Good Morning’ TV show?

When African American men were wearing pressed or hot combed hair styles not too long ago, many of us pined and prayed for the phase to pass. Our urgent critical worry now is that we may not find proudly African sisters to marry by the morning. May be we should buy our African American females, mirrors to look at themselves with the African eye every morning, before stepping out into the world? Better still, we could send them the mirrors left behind in Africa in payment for slaves by slavers? That way we might find some value for the mirrors, by using them to see what the slavers are still doing to our daughters’ mentality because, Diaspora African women are continental African women’s mirrors in modernity but most Black women abroad are ashamed to be African and African continental women are copying their African American peers.

Female newscasters and talk show hosts on African television stations, habitually wear white female hair styles. NTA is the only exception and I influenced them when a listening patriotic African, Segun Olusola, was in charge of programmes there. Typical African cultural programmes are routinely hosted by females unsure of their correct racial image. The confused message they pass on with their unsightly non-African look, as against what they say on the programmes, apart from irritating their proudly African captive audience, discomforts the non-African viewer, eager to be treated to genuine and honest African scenes and entertainment.
There was this presenter the other day on a Nigerian television programme wearing long, straight, artificial hair, drooping all over her face to below her shoulders. She was shaking her head every few seconds to re-arrange the hair, and using her hands to transfer hair falling over her eyes to the back of her ears in typical White female manner. It was a lot of trouble for her, but that is not the issue here. On the programme, she was admonishing her listeners for not being true to their nature. “We should be proud of our culture, stick with it, and show it off to the world,” she said, stoned face. I had to touch my television set to assure myself, I was not dreaming.

Many of us see nothing wrong bowing, kowtowing, kneeling slavishly before images of White Jesus or Muhammad who we proudly call our husbands, messiahs and saviours. The Punch newspaper of Nigeria, of June 7, 2012, showed Access Bank, Nigeria, rewarding a Nigerian pre-school teenage explorer heroine with a Nichalodeon’s Dora the explorer White baby doll. The wife of the Governor of Lagos State was trapped to witness the ceremony and was showing deep appreciation for the event, not realising that Access bank had used her high public figure profile to promote an award that demeans African self worth in the eyes and psyche of the innocent Black child recipient of the award for being smart and clever. We as a people reinforce this self denigrating notion of ourselves in a million and one ways daily without realising the depth of damage we are doing to our self-esteem.

When a Nigerian won the Miss World title in 2001, she was looking like a delectable African queen. A year later, after her European sponsors had taken her around the world as their queen, she visited Nigeria looking like a masquerade. No one could recognize her. She had added 30 years to her age in twelve months, with her European hair style. If you ask our females why they take so much trouble to disfigure themselves, they say it makes them look beautiful. It is all so very sad for our race because they (as our mothers), pass their feelings on to the average African child who prefers a white baby doll to a black one because the white one is more beautiful. Then when you ask the child to point to the doll that looks more like him or her, he or she, helplessly and slowly points to the black one. If the White race is your image of God, your symbol of excellence and beauty, your summit of intelligence, virtue, success and heroism, what chance have you of ever liberating yourself mentally, at least, from emasculation?

The typical African right now, would tell you he or she is proudly African, wearing a suit in our noon day heat, and answering names like John, Jane, Stella, Stephen, Muhammad or Abdulai. The young men are wearing hair styles the females should be wearing, with earrings and all to boot; the women are looking like scarecrows or extraterrestrial beings, repulsive, masculine and strange to our environment, in compacted, stretched, alien, unbecoming hair styles. They look neither black nor white from bleaching to sore point, with accentuated stretch marks all over the covered body. Non-African tribes that would not try to change their nature as a race, by switching wholesale to African hair styles, religion, fashion, or answering African names, or burning black (in counterpoise to us bleaching), with injurious health consequences, that include kidney ruin, aggravated or heightened diabetes and hypertension, are difficult to fault for thinking that black IQ might be lower than that of the Chimpanzee.

*This campaign by me has been published profusely all over the world since 2008. It was launched as a damage control measure or palliative of sorts, and it has proved immensely successful, giving us our current over 90% potential Nubian Queens worldwide. We are very proud of our mothers, sisters, wives, partners and friends who have listened to their inner voices. You are all amazing amazons and your actions confirm that the Queen of Sheba is still very much alive; you are all her great heirs. The campaign also demonstrated that to tackle our ugly brainwashing against our best interests, we need to go beyond surface values to reach deep inside our selves. Our race is still very confused right now by the many alien distortions and contradictions, particularly religious ones, competing for our attention, and we are at a critical crossroads.
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NAIWU OSAHON Hon. Khu Mkuu (Leader) World Pan-African Movement); Ameer Spiritual (Spiritual Prince) of the African race; MSc. (Salford); Dip.M.S; G.I.P.M; Dip.I.A (Liv.); D. Inst. M; G. Inst. M; G.I.W.M; A.M.N.I.M. Poet, Author of the magnum opus: ‘The end of knowledge’. One of the world’s leading authors of children’s books; Awarded; key to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Honourary Councilmanship, Memphis City Council; Honourary Citizenship, County of Shelby; Honourary Commissionership, County of Shelby, Tennessee; and a silver shield trophy by Morehouse College, USA, for activities to unite and uplift the African race.

Naiwu Osahon, Sage: New World Order, renowned author, philosopher of science, mystique, leader of the world Pan-African Movement.


http://saharareporters.com/2009/11/06/nature-self-hate
ABEG. POST TOOOO LONG. undecided

WHO READ THIS THING

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:17pm On Sep 02, 2015
what kind of long article is this?

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by repogirl(f): 5:20pm On Sep 02, 2015
OdenigboAroli:


You lack the ability to reason properly....First off,I want you to admit that you are wearing a fake white woman's hair. Get that in your head and we can move to what is wrong with your hair. And that trash about hair breaking comb is not smart....Tell that to the birds because I have dated black women who are natural and guess what,they don't have problem with combing their hair. Insecurity is a psychological problem....hehe
why the thing dey chook u like this na....abi do you wish you were a woman with long hair? If you like as a man grow afro and keep it, afterall that is how your ancestors carried dia hair until slave trade when the slave masters began scraping the hair of slaves...does that mean you are now a slave as you keep your hair short?

Since we are on the issue of being natural sef, I hope your natural girlfriends were all natural oooo, as in no shaving of pubes, no deodorant, no bathing soap, chewing stick instead of toothpaste, after all these are all white men inventions and you want african women to remain true to their heritage, rubbish!

Please, if you feel inferior, keep that one in your pocket...no bring your foolishness near my side. I love my hair the way it is, it doesnt even determine who I am so if you want to commit suicide on my behalf...please proceed to the nearest three storey building and jump off.

Tenk grin angry

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by agrovick(m): 5:21pm On Sep 02, 2015
preciousMI1:
I'm not guilty of this....

I'm on dreadlocks and its my natural hair
Stop lying jor, if at all you are all on dreads, you must have recently switched to it. Check your profile for proof
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by safarigirl(f): 5:26pm On Sep 02, 2015
That one concern una. I suck at hair care, so the only way to keep my hair is by using weave-on when I can, braiding is a task, both to make and to loosen, though I've fixed once this year, I'll still fix cuz I hate braiding and I can't deal with my natural hair, it consumes money to wash and blow-dry/stretch weekly. Una go dey copy articles from jand, dey form 'African women'

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by dboss444: 5:27pm On Sep 02, 2015
Beautiful piece, God bless U for spreading this gospel and give u strength to sell this gospel to the world. On your journey to self discovery you'll discover that there is nothing like reality and what u think is real is only mirage and mind control. Our black divas worldwide, when they enter stardom their skin begin to change colour, gettin lighter by the minute, even the male too check out most of them before and after you'll c dat thr skin has turned white.
It has gotten so bad dat i quaralled seriously with a female friend of mine cos she said Mercy johnson and wande coal r dirty cos they r black. #SAY IT LOUD I AM BLACK AND PROUD#

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:30pm On Sep 02, 2015
So long a letter.

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:33pm On Sep 02, 2015
Even celebrities most African women adore dont apply makeup that much,they only dabble when it is called for,our own women go apply makeup before dem wan sleep..smh

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by MrBasketball: 5:37pm On Sep 02, 2015
sonofananimal:
ABEG. POST TOOOO LONG. undecided

WHO READ THIS THING
Read am na. grin

Am vêry sure 95% of viewers didn't read it... Just too long, only the ladies will read it.

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:37pm On Sep 02, 2015
Nobody can convince me to wear my natural hair! Tried it twice was not easy combing it ooo,used shea butter,coconut oil was still strong like granite rock and sturborn. Even breaking combs sef
Nobody told me to go and relax it.every man to his opinion,whatever rocks your boat and works for u sha.
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by anonymous6(f): 5:38pm On Sep 02, 2015
aim5:


Good to see that you're natural. Nothing more sexierr than a black woman who wears her natural hair... it's so beautiful.

well I mentioned that I don't wear weaves(never have) but I do relax my hair and I am not ashamed of it
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:44pm On Sep 02, 2015
mtcheeeww
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by pansophist(m): 5:51pm On Sep 02, 2015
Realities that existed during one's formative years are perpetuated, not necesarily because of inferiority or otherwise. In as much as it may be logical plausible to deduce it to inferiority complex, its might not be the case.

The reason I perceive as behind this has to do alot with our societal definition of beauty. We live in a world where our life patterns are engineered and ushered to us through the media, celebrities, media personalities etc. Specifically, toys, mannequins and the society around has subconciously program you to perceive beauty in a specific way thus, you wil find people adjusting to the fad and trend of beauty regardless of educational and professional background.

Majority of humans are mentally docile hence, manipulation and distortion of facts is a quotidian event the escapes intense scrutinity. It starts with education and as the mass become aware, it would prevent and rewind the encroachment of such.

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by emitheo(m): 5:54pm On Sep 02, 2015
educative but dammmn...its lenghty like d sambisa forest! i'm dizzy already!
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by bukster(f): 5:55pm On Sep 02, 2015
I tried a weave once and I couldn't stand it and I've never done it again. I've relaxed my hair since I was young but when I saw all of the beautiful style you could do with natural hair, I decided to go natural. I've been transitioning for 1 year now and I can't wait to chop off my relaxed ends.
One of the main things that put me off natural hair before was that I believed the only style possible with it was an afro which I didn't really like. that are many different styles you can do with natural hair and they can look professional too!

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by UjSizzle(f): 5:56pm On Sep 02, 2015
Methinks the men who make a big deal out of the hair issue are being delusional undecided
I mean it's just hair! Why must it be tied to her self-worth in this present age?
I might understand the need to admonish young African women a decade ago, but this is the age of enlightenment; there are very few women out there today who really give a damn about being light skinned, skinny or nappy haired.

Perhaps what the men need to understand is that every woman has a right to decide what works best for her. It is her body after all. It is her hair!

Ask yourself one question. When you see a white woman rocking a 'fro, do you also assume she's plagued by low self-worth? Yes? No?
I'll take your latter to be the answer. You'll likely say to yourself that African style is going global ad you'll super proud to see other races grow their boobs and arsee into the full figure of the African woman. But where is their self-esteem? Better still, where is YOUR self-esteem? You worship these women who imitate our natural looks and yet castigate us for imitating theirs (even when our reason could be something as simple as switching our look--like women are prone to do.) and yet WE are the ones with low self-esteem?

Men need to ask themselves some serious questions.
More so, you folks need to leave women alone. We love being complex beings. We love to play with a variety of looks. And when it suits our fancy, we'll try our hands out on the African 'fro (but I won't hold my breath on this one. Maintaining a 'fro is one helluva task!)

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by straynger: 5:57pm On Sep 02, 2015
Hmmm!
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 5:58pm On Sep 02, 2015
MrBasketball:

Read am na. grin

Am vêry sure 95% of viewers didn't read it... Just too long, only the ladies will read it.
I MAD NEH!!

WHICH GUY GO READ THIS THING. grin grin
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Moana(f): 6:00pm On Sep 02, 2015
OdenigboAroli:


Shampo and coconut oil or some other good products. Please,do your research you are a woman. But stop wearing fake hair,biko. Its degrading and shameful.
you failed to answer the question. how long does she take to do that? what does she do to her hair before sleeping?

FYI i will not stop putting in hair extensions because it takes me 3mins to straighten the hair before lectures and all i have to do before bed is tie it up in a bun and go to sleep. i have fine hair that breaks like no man's business in winter. i will not move around with hair that i know is hard to maintain because someone somewhere thinks its degrading and shameful to put on extensions.

Maybe your wife has the time and energy some of us don't have to spend hours on her hair before going out of the house all in the bid of pleasing her husband. I content with my extensions that take lesser time to maintain. If it gives you sleepless nights oh well thats your problem and i will not lose an eye because of it.

While you are still forming undiluted African kindly ask your wife to stop shaving and using tampons on her periods, because this was influenced by white people. Black people never shaved. Thank you smiley

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Nobody: 6:06pm On Sep 02, 2015
anonymous6:


well I mentioned that I don't wear weaves(never have) but I do relax my hair and I am not ashamed of it

As long as you don't wear weave.. it's fine to me.
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by anonymous6(f): 6:08pm On Sep 02, 2015
aim5:


As long as you don't wear weave.. it's fine to me.

Amen lol
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by edrys(m): 6:17pm On Sep 02, 2015
600 years of mental and physical slavery. Until we Africans start appreciating our culture, language et al, these slavery thingy is not ending soon. My Opinion.

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Enoquin(f): 6:24pm On Sep 02, 2015
Some ladies in my church rock their natural hair. One sleeps every midnight because she has to moisturize, her hair is long. I don't envy her or them. I don't have the patience to comb my hair for more than 5-10 mins, style and decorate. God bless those that can.

When I use weaves, it saves me so much stress and time. I bathe, clothe, rub powder,oil and brush the weave and I am out! grin God bless us all.

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Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by bukatyne(f): 6:25pm On Sep 02, 2015
UjSizzle:
Methinks the men who make a big deal out of the hair issue are being delusional undecided
I mean it's just hair! Why must it be tied to her self-worth in this present age?
I might understand the need to admonish young African women a decade ago, but this is the age of enlightenment; there are very few women out there today who really give a damn about being light skinned, skinny or nappy haired.

Perhaps what the men need to understand is that every woman has a right to decide what works best for her. It is her body after all. It is her hair!

Ask yourself one question. When you see a white woman rocking a 'fro, do you also assume she's plagued by low self-worth? Yes? No?
I'll take your latter to be the answer. You'll likely say to yourself that African style is going global ad you'll super proud to see other races grow their boobs and arsee into the full figure of the African woman. But where is their self-esteem? Better still, where is YOUR self-esteem? You worship these women who imitate our natural looks and yet castigate us for imitating theirs (even when our reason could be something as simple as switching our look--like women are prone to do.) and yet WE are the ones with low self-esteem?

Men need to ask themselves some serious questions.
More so, you folks need to leave women alone. We love being complex beings. We love to play with a variety of looks. And when it suits our fancy, we'll try our hands out on the African 'fro (but I won't hold my breath on this one. Maintaining a 'fro is one helluva task!)

Beautiful
Re: Why African Women Must Go Natural by Chommieblaq(f): 6:26pm On Sep 02, 2015
Why make a mountain out of a molehill, It's called civilization!!! Our grand parents for rock am if dem see am dem. I wear afro, braid, ma natural hair n weaves. I love to try different look and that doesn't make mi inferior. why do guys barb low cut? Una for dey carry afro as our fathers do na, mind u many things we have or do ain't Africa, even d whites many things they do now are bore out of civilization. I might agree with some things buh d hair stuff is a no no

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