“The tiny African girl with the big afro”: Descriptive name by one of my World Bank bosses in my work-for-food-and-tuition days in the Early to Mid 1970s.
Way before the big Afro, however, there was the 1960s Big Hair all over the world, and Nigerian ladies were there …
Newspaper greetings at 60 but The Hair says the 1960s! Lagos, Nigeria.
AND THEN, THE BIG AFRO FOR THE TINY GIRL DAYS …
1970s; students’ dig; Greenbelt, Md. Furniture in sight is really all. Unframed Osogbo art pieces, at least make up for everything.
[Credits: Depo Adenle]
Now, where did the big Afro go? The way of the dinosaurs?
ABOVE & BELOW: D.C., post-college days with Significant Other…
And there were always hats, berets …
At an Ibadan wedding, the 1980s; Dress? An Elie Tahari dress.
Still the 80s; a Tahari reversible 2-piece dress + jacket & a lowfro to go with the tiny build …
[Credits for above & next four – Depo Adenle]
Nevada Desert, the “Andrew Years”, Late 1980s …
Day One in a newly-completed kitchen celebrated with face all made up – “for deficiencies”, to quote a Big Sis – and a lowfro making more than a peep from under my Yoruba(African) bandana! Vegas, 1992
50 Portrait – Vegas, 1996
Age 60 … Ibadan, Nigeria. April 2006.
Ibadan, Nigeria. October 2006
Above were all Then, below are Now …
All photographs from here: PRINCELY PHOTOS, Bodija, Ibadan, Nigeria.
