First Soul Brothers - real Afros perfectly round!

[Stonigut]

http://www.adventureassociates.com/o...iaPainting.jpg

[Stonigut]

Wait a minute is that a helmet or is that an Afro, looks like they have a white cord running around the face under the black thing. Maybe it's a helmet or some kind of headdress.

[Mosiah]

Check these out. Scroll down the page.

http://www.somalinet.com/forums/view...?f=18&t=344338

And check this from Wiki:

Variations of the afro have been worn by one or both sexes in the many disparate cultures of the African continent. Due to the hairstyle's links to members of the African-American Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the Afro was seen by several outside cultures as a dangerous symbol of political unrest, including Tanzania where the Afro was banned in the 1970s because it was seen as a symbol of neocolonialism and as part of an American cultural invasion.[1][2][22][23] In the 1950s and 60s, South African women were also known to wear their hair in an Afro-type style.[2]

The Afro did not rise to the same level of popularity among the Afro-Caribbean community as it did in the United States, in part because of the popularity of dreadlocks, which played an important role in the Rastafari movement.[2] Not unlike the Afro's significance among the members of the American Black Power movement, dreadlocks symbolized black pride and empowerment amongst the Rastafari of the Caribbean.[3][10] The hairstyle was also banned in Cuba during the 1960s.[24]

[Mosiah]

I don't agree with the statement that afro was not as popular in the Caribbean.