Ancient Luba hairstyle. Circa 1888.
Cameroon, Tikar people, 1920.
"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
Femme Sangho (Ubangi)
Femme Manama, (Province Orientale)
Congo, a Mangbetu woman with fine coif
Excerpt from ‘400 years without a comb’ documentary
Excerpt from ‘400 years without a comb’ documentary
Mauritian Hairstyle
Scanned image from the book 'Traditional hairstyles for the black woman' privately published by Kunle Sonuga, 1976, showcasing traditional hairstyling options from Nigeria.
Portrait of a Toucouleur, Fula woman, 1910.
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.
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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.
Ghana Hairstyles, 1881-1895 Source: University of Southern California. Libraries.
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 10-11)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 12)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 14)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 15)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 17)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 20)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 22)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 25)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 26)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 27)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 28)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 30)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 31)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 37)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 38)
Sagay, Esi. African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. London; Exeter, N.H., USA: Heinemann Educational Books, Internet Archive, 1983. (Page 42)
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French Guinea, Africa, 1902
Wakikuyu Man, East Africa, 1912
Vintage Postcard, A Haussa Woman, Southern Nigeria, West Africa, 1910
African Woman from Foumban, Cameroon, 1911-1915
Aro-Chuko Woman, Nigeria
Bamoum, Foumoum, Cameroon, 1911-1915
Head wife of chief Abiembali: Mayogo Tribe, Ituri District
Azande Woman
Oromo hairstyle in Jimma, Oromia, 1885 - 1894.
Amasunza man with styled Afro.
Pre-colonial Hairstyle
Senufo woman. Published in Himmelheber (Hans), "Negerkunst und Negerkünstler", Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1960:64.
Congo, Traditional Mangbetu Hairstyle.
Nasara, one of the wives of Akenge with typical fan-shaped style of the Zande, Democratic Republic Congo. Photo by Herbert Lang Expedition, 1909-1915.
Swahili woman. Dar-es-Salaam, Vintage postcard.
Afro-knots.
Nigerian Hairstyle, 1976.
Fulani (Peul) woman from Fouta Djallon, central Guinea.
Zulu women in traditional hairddress.
Fulani, Burkina Faso, 1930.
Married Ova Wambo woman wearing the Omhatela headdress, c.1940. Namibia/Southern Angola. Photo by A. Scherz.
Hairdressing in Nigeria, c.1965.
Foulbe hairstyle, Gaoundéré, Cameroon.
Hairstyle in Jimma, Oromiyaa, East Africa.
Guerret woman, Ivory Coast.
Young Swahili girl from Zanzibar.
A woman from Dakar, Senegal.
DR Congo
Fula (Fulani/Fulbe) woman from Guinea.
Owambo braid hairstyle, c.1920.
Ukuanyama (Ovambo) woman from South West Africa (now Namibia), 1936.
Two Mbalantu (Wambo group) women whose braids have been lengthened to their ankles through the use of sinew (eefipa) extensions. Namibia, c.1940s.
Indigenous hairdressing in Cameroon. She is the favorite wife of King Njoya, c.1911-1915.
Watutsi woman, 1975.
Dominique Darbois, African dance, Artia, 1962.
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Precolonial West African Women, via Eccentric Yoruba Wordpress
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.
Madagascan women, showcasing their hairstyles, early 20th century.