"Dressing Fanti Lady's hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast, West Africa". circa 1900s. The image is part of the "GHANA, SIERRA LEONE AND THE GOLD COAST RAILWAY" photography album compiled by Harry Adcock.
Young women in a hair salon in Abetifi-Kwahu, Ghana, around 1890-1910. From Basel Mission Archives.
"Nosy-Be kvinde" ("Nosy-Be woman"). From the island of Nosy-Be, north west Madagascar. Circa 1868. Part of Photographs of the Mission Archives, School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
Portrait showcasing the "randrana dôdôk" hairstyle, worn amongst Betsimisaraka women from Madagascar. 1890s.
Postcard of women plaiting each other's hair. The picture was taken before 1900 by J.P. Fernandes in present-day Tanzania, with the postcard printed circa 1912.
Oromo woman from Jimma, Western Ethiopia. This hairstyle (a variation of Goferay called Gufta) was common around the time when Italy colonised Abyssinia/Ethiopia. Taken between 1885 & 1894 G.C. Source: Historic Ethiopia Through Camera Lens.
Kwaluudhi & Ngandjera woman wearing Eembuvi braids. Photo taken by A. Scherz (1940s). Source: Collection Antje Otto
Picture depicting Ojongo, a coiffure that was popular among Igbo women until the mid-20th century. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Hair - dressing as a work of art." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1966.
Pahouin man from Gabon, Central Africa. Circa 1910s.
![A woman of the Budja people in the village of Upoto, in the province of Mongala. Photo by Lang-Chapin, date: 1909-1915]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b41067c4042363cf11625f/3a72e003-d078-491f-920b-41894908ecc4/1000013419.jpg)
A woman of the Budja people in the village of Upoto, in the province of Mongala. Photo by Lang-Chapin, date: 1909-1915]
Foulbe hairstyle, Gaoundéré, Cameroon.
Mangbetu Cranal Binding, D.R Congo. Circa 1930. From "Christ in Congo forests" by Norman P. Grubb
Elaborate headdress worn by an Igbo woman c. 1900-1910, Nigeria.
Traditional intricately plaited and beaded hairstyle, characteristic of the Bougbou people from the Oubangui region of Congo. From www.delcampe.net "Congo - Série IV - Dans l'Oubanghi. Pur type de femme Bougbou - Mobaye" collection: Charbonneau
Fulani woman.
Mbuti man from Congo Basin.
Zulu man wearing isicholo. South Africa, 1879.
Postcard depicting a Walikuyu man, East Africa, circa 1912. From Missionary Sisters of Our-Lady of Algiers.
Aït Abd Allah woman wrapped in her tizakouin. Picture by Jean Besancenot, Morocco (1934 - 1939). From Women of the Anti-Atlas.
Fulani women from Chad. Photographer: René Moreau, collection from 1920-1939.
Yoruba woman with hair wrapped in black thread, Ife, Nigeria, 1970. Picture taken by Eliot Elisofon. National Museum of African Art.
Kélou Bital Diguel, Chad, 1950s.
Ancient Rwandan hairstyle called Amasunzu. From the book "Gari-Gari "by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, 1930.
Traditional hairstyle worn by a Nigerian woman. Published by Jungle Sonuga in 1976.