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Letter from Africa: The woman bucking the trend in Ghana to embrace her grey hair



I recently took a major decision about my looks.

No, I haven't gone under the plastic surgeon's knife to tighten up the wrinkles, nor have I attempted a Botox treatment.

Instead, I am walking around with my grey - more like white - hairs exposed.

At 76, it is not exactly news that I should have white hair, but believe me, it has been a dramatic decision.

Time was when you could tell what stage in life a Ghanaian woman had reached by the way she wore her hair.

Up to about age 16 or 17, a girl kept her hair short. From then onwards, she could plait or braid or do whatever fancy things she wanted with her hair.

The end of grey hair
The boys and men kept their hair short, the time of "Afro" hairstyles being an exception, of course.

When it came to colour, everybody's hair was uniformly black from birth until old age, when everybody had grey hair.

But at some point that changed.

I am not quite sure when black hair dye was introduced into Ghanaian society - some time in the 1950s, I have heard it said - but come it did. It was given the name "yoomo b3 Ga", or abbreviated to "yoomo", which is the word for an old woman in Ghana's Ga language.

The full name for the dye translates as "there is no old woman in Accra".

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