{"id":375,"date":"2019-07-31T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haco.co.ke\/miadi\/?p=375"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:44:23","slug":"return-to-african-hair-roots-in-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/return-to-african-hair-roots-in-ivory-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Return To African (Hair) Roots In Ivory Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Remember the afro, the natural hairstyle forever synonymous with the &#8220;black is beautiful&#8221; movement championed by African-Americans in the 1960s? A group in Ivory Coast is trying to persuade black women to turn the page on their expensive hair-straighteners, extensions and wigs and go natural instead.<\/p>\n<p>Blending &#8220;natural&#8221; with &#8220;happy&#8221; to produce &#8220;Nappy&#8221;, the group calls itself Nappys de Babi \u2014 Babi being a nickname for Abidjan, Ivory Coast&#8217;s bustling economic capital. Founded more than two years ago, the support group now boasts some 2,400 members, meeting every two months in Abidjan&#8217;s trendy Cocody district to share advice, tips, and practical help about keeping their hair natural.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Remember the afro, the natural hairstyle forever synonymous with the &#8220;black is beautiful&#8221; movement championed by African-Americans in the 1960s? A group in Ivory Coast is trying to persuade black women to turn the page on their expensive hair-straighteners, extensions and wigs and go natural instead. Blending &#8220;natural&#8221; with &#8220;happy&#8221; to produce &#8220;Nappy&#8221;, the group<span class=\"read_more_area\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/return-to-african-hair-roots-in-ivory-coast\/\"> Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haco.co.ke\/miadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}