Untangled from Covid-19, the proud Afro hairstyle rises again

Man rocking an afro [Photo: Shuttertstock]

In the mid-1990s, the song ‘Afro Puffs’ by the Lady of Rage shot to onto the billboard charts, like a crowning afro puff on top of a square neck. ‘I rock rough n stuff with my afro puff,’ she raged, as a corn-rowed young Snoop Doggy Dog encourages her with ‘yeah, rock on, Lady of Rage.’

For sure, by 1996, it was an act of defiant rage to wear an afro-puff on your head, especially if you were a man. By then, the hairstyle fad, courtesy to the worldwide black male adoration of Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, was a ‘Jordan.’ (A ‘Jordan’ being the fad, then, of shaving off all your hair, till your crown glistened).