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OMG…LOL…I went out today
with a “head Rag” on! I have this stigma
about the head rag thing from growing up in the 50’s and 60’s when “Black” women were depicted as “Aunt Jemima’s”, cleaning women, cooks, ignorant cotton-pickers…Aaaw, yawl know what I talking about!
Anyway, in my research, I found that Black
women were required to wear head coverings because we got so fancy with our
hairstyles that White women complained and it was actually initiated into law in some states that we could not go out in
public with our hair uncovered! Just
thought that I’d throw that in there.
Needless to say, since I
have retraced my royal beginnings, all those negative depictions were not
negative at all but portrayed our status as royalty; as being married and
unmarried and for religious purposes!
Many of you know that my heart has been for Afrika (even since I was a child). For some time now, I have had a vision to take the ministry I have been given to Afrika called MISSION GHANA.
With each passing year and with each revelation of truth, this innate desire has increased as returning to Afrika has been tugging profusely at my heart; connected as a navel cord that has never been detached in the birth process from my mother.
I guess I should say that I
very conspicuously displayed the Christian Dior writing on the scarf that I was
wearing just in case there was some of those Aunt Jemima cultured people who
might have seen me.
The ways of our Ancestors, I
am still working on from head to toe mostly the spiritual aspects then the
physical. I do have a way to go when it
comes to things such as the head wraps.
None the less, I threw my head up, held high as I walked around in public; hoping that the people of West Linn, Oregon would see, wonder or know the concept of rich Afrikan heritage that lays behind the head wrap.
None the less, I threw my head up, held high as I walked around in public; hoping that the people of West Linn, Oregon would see, wonder or know the concept of rich Afrikan heritage that lays behind the head wrap.
Just FYI some of the terms
used for Afrikan head-wraps are 'duku’, 'ichafu’, 'dhuku' , 'tukwi', and 'gele'. I know that I did not
list them all because of the many and varied Afrikan dialects. However, no matter the dialect or language, in
the Mother Land, the head-wrap is used as an ornamental head covering, fashion
accessory, religious modesty or for functionality.
You best believe that I will learn much in
the upcoming years.
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