Don't Touch My Hair Affirmations Contributors: K

Contributors: K

She wanted to create a menu that represented who she was as a chef and it emerged as a love letter to her mother

The pandemic has only heightened the desire for drinks on the go

Washing Instructions: handwash preferred

until one morning when they both wake up to the same message:'Oh my god

Don't Touch My Hair Affirmations Contributors: KStraightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'. This book is about why Black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation. Over a series of wry, informed essays, Emma Dabiri takes us from pre colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, Black Power and on to today's Natural Hair Movement, the Cultural Appropriation Wars and beyond. We