Fortune Musengeiwa Natural In Zimbabwe
My name is Fortune Musengeiwa I am 31 years old and I live in Zimbabwe.
I believe that I am one of the few men, especially in my country that carries my hair natural other than in dreadlocks.
My name is Fortune Musengeiwa I am 31 years old and I live in Zimbabwe.
I believe that I am one of the few men, especially in my country that carries my hair natural other than in dreadlocks.
I started my natural hair journey in 2012. I have actually always been natural since I never chemically treated my hair. Back then, I started with locks. In 2016 I cut them all off and started to keep my hair as it is. No locks, just my hair. I am on this journey for 4 years now. I would describe my journey as amazing but challenging at the same time.
What drove me to “go natural” was that in my country, Zimbabwe, I saw that everyone likes to keep Locks instead of their natural hair. I am one that always wants to be different, so, instead of locks, I decided to keep my hair loose. I thought “why not just have my own natural hair instead of these Locks”?.
I also wanted to be the first blogger and the first king of natural hair in my country and which I believe I am today.
Zimbabwe is a beautiful and great country. However, when it comes to this – keeping my hair the way I do as a man-, People are not really used to that.
What even motivated me more was the announcement of the Natural hair Fest in Zim that was going to be held in April 2020. Unfortunately, due to COVID, this event had to be postponed. I have to say that I was very disappointed. I was looking forward to meeting new people and get more insight into my new natural hair adventure. This would be the first time ever for me to attend such an event, and I was really looking forward to it.
I do believe that there are qualified natural hair care workers in my country but at the same time, there is a lack of education and exchange of knowledge in that field.
Being natural in schools here in Zimbabwe is not even acceptable especially not for boys. With that, I mean wearing dreads or growing your hair long. I started keeping my hair after I finished high school, for girls it is acceptable in most private schools and a few government schools.
In my country now I would like to consider myself the first blogger of natural hair in which I would like my fellow Zimbabweans to at least be able to showcase their beautiful hair .
In the past 3 years I’ve learned to treat my hairstyling and cleaning it all by myself. I did a lot by myself until I met Janine Van Throo, a natural hair therapist, who is now helping me with things I didn’t know.
In addition, as it stands right now basing on the past, the future of natural hair in my country according to my own looks it’s going nowhere unless us as Zimbabweans we stand as one not to look down upon our natural hair. We need to embrace our natural hair.
I do believe that natural hair movements is not driven by the influences from outside countries for example we have Tshepang from South Africa our neighboring country. Unless we Zimbabweans see the good in natural hair, only then can we start to talk about the future of natural hair here in Zimbabwe.
Now everywhere I go with my hair, everyone just admires my hair, people wanting to touch my hair. That’s my dream as a blogger, I want everyone to have the same vision so that in the future no one will be amazed and the world to admire our African natural hair at large.
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