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Dread and Alive: Your dreadlocks might be from the Morgue

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Take a walk along Nairobi streets on any given day and you will bump in to several men and women with dreadlocks. Some look absolutely gorgeous but others are plain hideous. Dreadlocks are not for the impatient. They take many years to grow and this is why for others like Brenda grafting is the solution. "Growing dreadlocks needs a lot of patience and nice locs can take years to grow," she confesses.
"I had to buy dreadlocks and have them grafted," she says. To many dreadlock lovers grafting guarantees instant gratification.

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