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A fact from Afro appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 March 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Afro hairstyle (pictured) was once banned in Tanzania and Cuba?

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Is an "Afro" just the hairstyle, or is it a combination of the hairstyle combined with social and cultural aspects?

I ask this question because the article has a particularly heavy focus on black people, and the culture around afro hair. Which is all fine, but clearly, such hair is not completely unique to black people, and can be found worldwide in other groups of people. For example, some white people have very tightly coiled and kinky hair, and will also grow an afro-like hairstyle naturally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:731:4601:7CE6:26D2:EB26:1C17 (talk) 20:47, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The world doesn't center around white people, jeez 2601:8C:B80:6660:E0C2:2A67:452E:1B68 (talk) 14:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Should we add more Jewfro images

https://imgur.com/a/IIXunNf Walapo (talk) 00:59, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a hair style to us it’s just the way are hair is without chemicals 2601:441:4980:4E00:A156:36:F680:8B95 (talk) 15:46, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]