afro

("afro" is also a: user.)

by pingouin

Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:51:44

An African-American hairstyle from the late 60s, part of a wave of Afrophilia in pop culture, e.g., the wearing of dashikis and other fashion victim activities. In the 70s, a "bigger is better" aesthetic took root, leading to notorious 'fros: the Ohio Players' Sugar Bonner, Sly Stone, a young Melba Moore, baseballers Oscar Gamble and Cliff Johnson... There were also "white afros": Formula 1 driver Jody Schecter and That Guy on Room 222, for example.

It was a politico-cultural statement at first, but years after afros went out of style, they were brought back, first as pop-culture afro-wig kitsch, like in Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!, and in the rap group The Afros. In more recent years, according to a quip by ESPN basketball commentator David Aldridge, an afro is "a good way to meet women".
A prefix for all things African.

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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	African American	Afro puffs	Jheri curl
fro	Ohio Players	Sly Stone	Black Power
The Hair Bear Bunch	Aphrodite	Afro Ken	do rag
ganguro	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Earth, Wind and Fire	ESPN
African-American	American Basketball Association	Angela Davis	October 31, 2000
Soul Train	Pop culture	Africa	basketball

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