Dreadlocks have grown in the popularity in South Africa, so popular is the twisted hair that it has now spiralled into crime, with people being robbed of their hair writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.

South African thieves are walking around with knives, robbing people of their dreadlocks they’ve taken years to grow and selling them on the streets. It’s known that dreadlocks take a lot of ...

The U.S. Army’s new ban on many types of ethnic hairstyles has African-American women who wear their coifs in dreadlocks, braids and cornrows in a twist.

But, aside from being a rule that falls disproportionately on African American workers, a ban on dreadlocks carries some jarring historical resonances.

Dreadlocks on white people: Cultural appropriation, fashion faux pas or both? ... hairstyles associated with African-American culture can make a statement before their wearers say a word.

Brian Terrell, a Morehouse College graduate, was urged to cut his dreadlocks as a student and refused. He went on to intern at the White House. (Image: Terrell) For many African Americans with ...

Locs, or dreadlocks as they are more commonly known, have a long and complex history that twists together many cultural strands spanning centuries and civilizations. In their book Hair Story ...

In his newest novel, Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, Bert Ashe uses his own hair-locking experience to explain the history of dreadlocks, and unpack complicated issues of identity, gender, and ...

Dreadlocks have grown in the popularity in South Africa, so popular is the twisted hair that it has now spiralled into crime, with people being robbed of their hair writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.