As one of the panelists, newsreader Lukwesa Burak pointed out, when she made the decision to big chop (cut off her chemically processed hair, in favour of a short afro) her producer shrugged and was more interested to know why she hadn’t had her natural in the first place. He pointed out that as a white man, nobody would expect him to manipulate his hair into an Afro were he to work in Africa, so why then did she feel she had to manipulate hers to fit another cultures image?

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