00:00How do we go from this to this woman with the hair lacy borning every rizzo that she had to
00:06do with her?
00:07This question has several answers, I'm going to focus on two, in the colonization and the
00:11paradigms occidentals. The story extends, but we go to the grand.
00:16In Costa de Marfil, the artist Laetitia Key, since the year 2016,
00:21construed sculptures with her own hair, human figures, women, women who carry the world,
00:26but all with her hair, without any editing. But the most interesting of her proposal is the
00:30ability to return to the images that seemed raras or even feas. But there is a much more
00:36long story, that that we told them to medias. And it is that before the colonization,
00:40the hair in Africa was not only aesthetic, it was also identity, memory, history.
00:44The women spent days creating these designs in a collective collective that could even
00:48lead to the libertad. The tresses in shape of gusans marked the river, the nudos bantues,
00:54the hair was a map of resistance. So, it came to the colonization and with
00:58it a very concrete message. The beautiful, the occidental. The
01:01alisados, the agresives, this was not part of a moda, it was totally natural. It was completely
01:08acquired, obligated and imposed. And this model caled. During generations, women have been
01:14obligated to odiar that hair before it is that one day, it will be news that a
01:20representative of an African country would be present in the UN, for example, with
01:24his original dress or that a vice president, like the case of Francia Márquez in
01:29Colombia, enter to the Palacio de Gobierno with his hair without alisar, tal cual es.
01:33So, the next time that someone tells you that hair is only superficial, tell us this story,
01:39tell us this story, tell us this video. And this leads us to the history of Africa,
01:43the history that no escribieron the africans. And it is that during centuries, this version was the
01:47only one that turned around the world, that occupies our screens and our books.
01:51A history that presented Africa as the place where it needs to be civilized. And it is that revisar
01:56our history, the history of our afrodescendants, is not revanche, it is justicia intelectual.
02:01It is to understand that there was an African-American empire that existed much
02:04before that Europe knew that that this continent existed. And it is that it is necessary to
02:08learn to look at Africa with our own eyes, from our own history. And that
02:12we do not do it the Occidental, we do it when we decide to ask, question, question what
02:18they taught us as neutral and universal. And it is that on Africa and our people there is
02:23a lot to say. The history is huge, but we are at the ground. I'm Sarah Yamos.
02:29I'm Sarah Yamos.
