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With their hair meticulously styled, the nomads of East Africa’s Somalia display a custom in which young men (l,) wear their hair in enormous *afros smoothed out with homemade butter. When the men become older and marry (r,), they trim the afros somewhat, cease applying butter to it and wear their hair completely natural.
Ebony Magazine, February 1973
BlueNwhite, thanks alot for posting this wonderful pictures; you can also see Tubeec, Xasan Diiriye, Haboon Abdullahi, Axmadeey Cabdi Gaashan, Mecaad Megane etcTheblueNwhite wrote:
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TheblueNwhite wrote:Ii bashaal adeerkiis.
AFRICAN GLADIATORS: A WONDERFUL SOMALI WAR DANCE
One of the most striking dances in the Somali repertoire, called the "Bororoma-Boromsi" dance. Surrounded by an ever-restless chanting chorus of spearmen, the two combatants — one attacking fiercely with cutlass, the other defending desperately with his small Somali shield — seem to be in grim and deadly earnest, and none would believe them to be at play.
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I didn't know thisTheblueNwhite wrote:
With their hair meticulously styled, the nomads of East Africa’s Somalia display a custom in which young men (l,) wear their hair in enormous *afros smoothed out with homemade butter. When the men become older and marry (r,), they trim the afros somewhat, cease applying butter to it and wear their hair completely natural.
Ebony Magazine, February 1973
