Some Hair Styles Worn By Black Girls In Africa And In The African Diaspora, Part III

Raylece Z Hart, Feb 27, 2019

Kiddies Carnival 2019 [Trinidad and Tobago]

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part III of a five part pancocojams series that showcases several YouTube videos of Black high school students from various African nations and various nations from the African Diaspora.

In alphabetical order, the nine countries that are featured in this post are Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Lesotho, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe.  

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/videos-examples-of-black-high-school.html for Part I of this ongoing pancocojams series. In alphabetical order, the nine countries that are featured in that post are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/some-hair-styles-worn-by-black-girls-in.html for Part II of this ongoing pancocojams series. In alphabetical order, the nine countries that are featured in that post are Belize, Cameroon, Cuba, Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Jamaica, Namibia, and Tanzania.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/some-hair-styles-worn-by-black-girls-in_27.html for Part IV of this pancocojams series. In alphabetical order, the nine countries that are featured in that post are Burundi, Cape Verde, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Mali, Madagascar, Mauritania, and Rwanda. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/some-hair-styles-worn-by-black-girls-in_28.html  for Part V of this pancocojams series. In alphabetical order, the nine countries that are featured in that post are Angola, Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone. The Bahamas, and The Dominican Republic. 

The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural purposes, and educational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the producers of these videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/african-american-elementary-school-age.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled African American Elementary School Age Students' Hair Styles As Documented In Five Black History Month Performances (2013-2023)

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
The YouTube videos that are showcased in this five part pancocojams series focus on some hair styles that are worn or were worn by Black females in an African nation or among females in the African Diaspora. In selecting African nations, I've limited my focus to countries in West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. I didn't include North Africa because of the difficulty finding YouTube videos of females who didn't have their hair covered. I apologize if this series doesn't focus on your country.

The videos in each post in this series are given in alphabetical order, except for Video #1. The geographical continent and region for each nation is given in parenthesis after that nation's name.

I had a few criteria for the videos that I selected for this blog series. I searched YouTube for videos of a particular nation and selected one for this series that featured girls and were of reasonably good visual and audio quality. I was interested in showcasing videos from 2019 on, but couldn't find videos from that period of time for a few of the nations that are featured in this series. I particularly favored videos for this series that featured Black female students in schools. Watching those videos show how similar and different schools are throughout the world. 

None of these YouTube videos have "hair styles" as their theme. However, I'm using these videos to document hair styles that some Black girls wore/wear in those countries when those videos were produced.

In addition to documenting certain female hairstyles within a specific nation during the time periods noted in this post, these videos can serve as an introduction to certain nations. The content of these videos can also be viewed for aesthetic purposes (particularly those videos that showcases the singing, music, and/or the movement routines of the choirs/school student assemblies).

These videos aren't meant to suggest that the way/s that any population wear their hair should be an issue of concern or was/is one of the most important issues of concern for that population or for other people regarding that population. 

These YouTube videos in this pancocojams series weren't meant to document all of the hair styles that have been worn by Black high school females in these nations during the time period noted in this post. However, I believe that these videos are representative of a number of the hair styles that population wore/wear during those periods of time.

Click the "Black hair styles throughout the world" tag that is given below and/or the other tags that are found below for more pancocojams posts on the subject of Black people's hair styles. 

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS

BOTSWANA (Southern Africa)

Mmadinare Senior Secondary School

 

B&M CONNECTIONS STUDIOS. Apr 23, 2021  SELEBI PHIKWE

School Choir

Singing Botswana National Anthem (Fatshe Leno La Rona)

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BRAZIL (South America)

Meet Swaymmy from Brazil - A day in her life



Plan International Ireland,  Mar 30, 2017

Meet Swaymmy, a Plan International sponsored child from Brazil. We gave her a camera to show us a day in her life. Swaymmy attends a school built by Plan International. There she participates in a children's club called The Happy Childhood project where she learns about her rights as a child. She learns that she does not have to be married at an early age. She also learns about clean water and sanitation, economic security, her right to an education and health.

Her favourite subject is maths and she hopes to be a Doctor when she grows up.

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CANADA (North America)

Black Children Share How Their WS Classmates Treated Them In Canadian Schools

African Diaspora News Channel,  Premiered Jul 21, 2023  African Diaspora News Channel Podcast

Emma Ansah reports on how Black children are treated in Canadian schools by their WS classmates.

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (Central Africa)

World Vision School Feeding Programme, Central African Republic.

 

World Vision International,  Nov 1, 2023  #WorldVision #SchoolMeals

Every month in CAR, we help feed 24,000 students and their families through School Feeding Programmes. This work helps children in poverty access nutritional food, and it also keeps them in school and out of child labour.

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ERITREA (East Africa)

Global Partnership for Education visits Eritrea │Education for All │UNICEF Eritrea

UNICEF Eritrea, Jun 9, 2023   

Global Partnership for Education (GPE) visited UNICEF Eritrea on February 5-15 2023, to kick off work on the transformation of education in Eritrea under the leadership of the Ministry of Education of Eritrea. This video captures the joint mission with the Ministry of Education, GPE and UNICEF.

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LESOTHO (Southern Africa)

PGM MELOLI RE HETLA MORAO 2019

Lesotho National Broadcasting Services, December 21, 2019 

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MEXICO (southern part of North America)

Afro-Mexicans: Dancing Their Way Back To Their Roots

 

AJ+, Dec 6, 2016

Obatala is an Afro-Mexican dance troop that travels and performs throughout southern Mexico. The  dancers learned the steps by watching YouTube videos. Through their performances, they express their pride in their African heritage and stay connected to their roots.

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (the Caribbean) [This video is given as video#1]

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ZIMBABWE (Southern Africa)

Musengezi High School - Ngaisangane Africa (Video) 

Manyils64, Nov 5, 2018

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