This Centuries-Old African Natural Hairstyle Is Staging a Stateside Comeback - Vogue

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Busayo Olupona has vivid memories of emigrating to Davis, California, from Nigeria with her family when she was 12 years old, down to the way she wore her hair. “I had circular bantu knots tightly wrapped in thread, so of course I stood out in this very white university town,” she says. “As the new kid, it was a disaster! I had no idea how fabulous I looked.”
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