Artists

Originally a graduate with a Civil Engineering Degree, Ken Nwadiogbu managed to worry his parents when he explained his plans to move from a career as a professional engineer, to being a professional artist. However, one look at his work and you’re immediately drawn to the conclusion that he’s taken the …

Our hair, we are born with it yet there is so much we do to try and change our natural hair texture, and our hair’s appearance. Antonia Opiah’s Huffington Post article  “The Changing Business of Black Hair”  reported that the black haircare industry is estimated to be worth half a trillion dollars, as …

What Is The Best Thing About Your Hair? Over the last 12 months, the Afro Archives series looked at how the acting industry is set up and compared experiences of people with different hair textures, ages, genders and cultural backgrounds. In answering the above question, this is what the actors …

Would You Shave off All Your Hair For A Film? This month’s Afro Archives Episode Eleven brought a mixed bag of responses to this question “would you shave off all your hair for a film?”: “I wouldn’t even consider it” – Ketorah Williams “I would do it in a heartbeat”  …

Afro Archives episode 10 asks “Why Go Natural With Your Hair?”  – “It’s important to go natural because it’s who we are…let loose…let ourselves out…just be you” – says actress Alice Fofana. I wanted to ask this question “ Why Go Natural With Your Hair?” for our October release because …

What Do You Do After You’ve Washed Your Hair? Shrinking hair, flexible hair, shiny, soft, fresh, bouncy – leave-in conditioner, no conditioner, blow-dry or shake it and go. Such variety among the actors in Afro Archives episode 9 as they describe what they do after they wash their hair. Washing …

How Do You Take Your Hair To Work? A reveal into the world of extensions and wigs. The fixable practice of hair for beauty and health reasons. I think of this part of the hair experience as being a secret world. You have to know where to go, what to buy, …

Does Your Hair Affect Preparing Character Parts for Auditions? Until now, the women have dominated Afro Archives, we have a lot to say! This topic of preparing character parts was no exception: “You don’t have an office worker with afro hair” is a theme running throughout. In Afro Archives episode …

Wherever she goes, Beyoncé courts controversy. Most of it is caused by the way this strong, successful black woman favours long, straight, light coloured hair – and the fact that companies like L’Oreal and Clairol have a long history of lightening models when post-processing images. So what happens when digital manipulation is …