Black People Sound Off On African Author, Economist, & Scholar Dambisa Moyo’s Controversial Weave.

Here are a couple of comments from the black website BN Village. Some black people are not impressed that the author  Dambisa Moyo wears a weave. After all, Dambisa Moyo’s bestselling book “Dead Aid”  is preaching to  African people that we must release ourselves from European domination. However, here is an African woman and her mind is colonized she is wearing a weave instead of her true, natural, African hair. Does Dambisa Moyo have a problem with her blackness?

Brooklyn Gal says this about Dambisa Moyo’s weave:

“But on another more pedestrian tip, the first time I saw her on TV, I was quite taken aback by that very shiny plastic-looking weave she had on her head. It looked so weird and unnatural. ”

“Here was this pretty sister, with very obviously beautiful African/Black features, talking about emancipation, and she had that thing on her head.”

“I know Black women come in all shapes, sizes and looks, but the comment about “our mentality and perception of ourselves with respect to others” hits the nail on the head for me, especially when I see Dambisa with her caucasian ‘hair’.”

“I’m not a hater, and she can do whatever she likes, but sometimes I think white folks don’t take Black folks like her seriously because they can see that on a conscious or subconscious level, people like Dambisa aren’t exactly comfortable with their ‘natural’ selves.”

“A lot needs to happen to Black people mentally, before we can even begin to talk about how the West, Aid etc. affect our ‘development’.

“The first thing that needs to change is the way we view ourselves. We have to be able to be comfortable and confident when we look in a mirror and see our unadulterated Black self staring back at us.”

Shemsi En Tehuti  says:

“You are so right about her hair…and I hope this doesn’t hijack the thread onto that subject…but Europeans/Americans do not take us seriously at all, especially our women, in discussions about integrity, liberation, or any kind of independence when we obviously cling to their standards of “development”, “beauty”, “modernity”, “education”, and so forth.

“We would be so much better if we would just stop giving them our attention and focused on making our homes better in a way most consistent with Afrikan life and our traditional values.”

Another blogger Djtothe says about Dambisa Moyo’s weave:

“Back to this sister. I honestly don’t know how much white people know about Black people. You’re a Black woman, you grew up in a diverse area….you’ve seen wide range of people. You spotted the wig/weave right away.”

“I’m not certain white people have been around enough black people to know what we look like naturally or not. I think outside of her showing up in a blonde wig, that it wouldn’t register with them. White people are notoriously self-centered and oblivious to the rest of the world.”

“I’m not sure if her wearing a weave coincides/contradicts with her talk about “emancipation”..and I’m certain it sends mixed signals to the Black people who follow her public career especially, as you say, BG, that she got a blatantly synthetic looking weave.”