There seems to be a change in the wind these days, I’ve noticed more and more Ghanaians are coming back home. I don’t mean that literally, although that might be true also (I should look into it) but I have noticed a reversion to our origins.
For example, just a few years ago it was hard to find a salon you could go to have unpermed hair twisted or locked. But now there are even people in the market advertising the service of getting your natural hair twisted (no, I didn’t go to the salons myself, the girls told me).
And just the other day I heard on the radio how parents are favouring local names for their children to the foreign ones we grew up with.
I was talking about it with my sisters and one of them said it was probably a fad. Is it? I don’t know but I think it will stay this way for a long time (or am I just hoping).
Personally, if I were a girl, I’d prefer to keep my hair as it is. I’ve heard quite a few stories and complaints about perming creams that burn you scalp and leave you with sores, how uncomfortable it is to sit under a drier, how taxing it is on your wallet (or purse) to go to the salon every week to get a ‘retouch’.
African print is also becoming more popular than it used to be with designers incorporating them into their clothes for fashion shows and women taking designs they see and like to their tailors and seamstresses to be reincarnated with local textiles.
What I’m hoping for is a spread of this sentiment into all facets of our life, a sure-fire way of improving our country and the conditions we always complain and incessantly whine about.
