Hair in Americanah
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Updated: 26 Jan 2018
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Ifemelu is said to have "coily" hair that is braidedIfemelu is BornIfemelu move back to NigeriaMother Ifemelu is said to have thick, black hair.Mother Ifem Shaves her hairMother Ifemelu stops fasting and begins to regrow her hair.Ifemelu's Hair was hot stretched by Aunty Uju as she had lice.Ginika is said to have long and wavy hair.Ifemelu moves to the Red White and BlueGinika picks Ifemelu up from the airportMeeting KimberlyKimberly's FamilyAmerican TribalismCurt's Description of IfemeluCurt and His MotherThe Relaxing AdventureCutting it OffHappilyKinkyNappy.com"She fell in love with her hair"Aunty Uju does not approveMeeting BlaineObama Wins ElectionTrenton Hair Salon"An overly youthful weave, the wavy hair trailing all the way to her back""I can get you a job at a good bank, but you have to cut off that dada hair""Each nursing a self-styling quirkiness - a ginger coloured Afro""They talked about hair salons here, where the hair dressers struggled and fumbled to comb natural hair as though it were an alien eruption...it's ridiculous that Africans don't value our natural hair in Africa"" 'Aunty, your hair is jaga jaga' with a kind of sad honesty, about what Ifemelu considered an attractive twist-out style""And her Afro was, thankfully, not yet too shrunken from the humidity""People want to drink milk straight from the cow and that sort of thing. I thought maybe you're into that, now that you wear a flower in your hair."Periods
Ifemelu growing up in NigeriaIfemelu in USA
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