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‘Blackness is determined by more than skin colour’: Emma Dabiri and gal-dem on black hair

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff from gal-dem interviews Emma Dabiri on her debut book, Don’t Touch My Hair. From pre-colonial Africa and anti-capitalism, to European beauty standards and the experience of growing up mixed-race in Ireland, they discuss why black hair matters.

02 May 2019


This video was filmed at Peckham Palms with hairstyling by Augusta Sesay (for Emma Dabiri) and Ebuni Ajiduah (for Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff). Read the full interview at: gal-dem.com

 

Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African Languages, Cultures and Literatures section of the African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and the author of Don't Touch My Hair, which was an Irish Times bestseller. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain's Lost Masterpieces.

Emma Dabiri

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