J.D. Okhai Ojeikere. 1974

Mother and Child.

“UNTAMED” is an ongoing portrait photoessay exploring people from different walks of life and how they choose to wear their hairstyles. Growing up in Ghana, it has always been important to wear your hair in a way that society feels comfortable with. In a close knit community such as the Ghanaian one, people are perceived by the way they choose to wear their hair.

UNTAMED celebrates the beauty of diversity and individuality by showing how individuals from different walks of life wear their hair in its natural state.

Ethereal beauty | Side profile of Mbombio | © of Eliot Elisofon

Quand @omar_viktor te prend en photo c'est toujours un moment de pur bonheur 😍😍 avec my @dakarfashionweek cover girls @therasta_soul make up @redlips_beauty hair @platinumsoins @imgrace.pj #omarviktordiop #dakarfashionweek17 #15hdfw @adamaparistudio #adamaparis

Grow your wishes before you touch them to the sky.

Inspired by the wonderful Sosena Ayele.

Artist Sean Kitt: Website / Tumblr / Instagram

‘Study Painting’ 

Photo reference from a picture on Tumblr 

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from Fela’s Queens series - Bernard Matussière, 1983

few things come together like black girls and braids in the summertime

Celeste Scott, the last of a series of staff portraits for @polychromemag thanks again to @micpegu 💖 . . . . #art #illustration #illustrationartists #instaart #portrait #polychromemag #poc #artistsoninstagram #procreateapp #插畫

Thuli !! OO: I did a redraw of her and I rly love how it turned out

She’s def one of my favorite characters to draw from Midday Coven

[On DeviantART]

Astro Afro by Helsic

Agony by LaReineDesVagabonds

Juju stars Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey and Dele Abiodun; Afrobeat originator Fela Anikulapo Kuti and ozzidizm originator Sonny Okosuns; highlife rejuvenators Victor Uwaifo, Prince Nico and the Oriental Brothers; fuji stars Ayinla Kollington and Ayinde Barrister; apala veteran Haruna Ishola; waka child prodigy Salawa Abeni; and roots-modernists the Lijadu Sisters. With the exception of Abeni and the Lijadu Sisters, the biggest names on the 1970s Nigerian music scene were all men. In Nigeria in the 1970s, only a tiny handful of female artists broke through the backing singer/dancer ceiling to become stars in their own right, particularly if they wrote all their own material – as did Abeni, with lyrics closely based on or taken straight out of Islamic scripture and folk wisdom, and the Lijadu Sisters, whose repertoire ranged from love songs and dance anthems through philosophy and political/social commentary. “The music business was hard for women in Nigeria,” says Taiwo Lijadu. “Back then, they didn’t think women had brains.”

More Vintage Nigerian photos

Shot by Yagazie Emezi

Lagos, Nigeria

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