Mabutu Popularly known in America as Bantu Knots, popularly known in UK as
China Bumps. However, contrary to what foreigners would believe and have
previously read, it is not referred to as Bantu Knots in Africa. Infact
across our continent the hair style which is so common in all countries
hasn’t got a particular general name. Bantu Knots is hardly even used by the Bantu speaking people as the
word knots would obviously not be a part of their dialect. However, the
the sake of debate and with the globalization of the world, it seems
Bantu knots is most likely the general term to now address this
hairstyle.
The truth is to get the history of ‘Bantu Knots’ would be like trying
to discover the first time man shook hands. It is the far one of the
most common hairstyles amongst our African women prior to weaves and
permed hair. It was a way of preventing our hair from tangling by
combing it out and tying it up. In fact what is called Bantu Knots was
actually part of a wider family of hairstyles being tied to prevent
tangling, which came in various styles which let to various artistic
designs as seen below.
The hairstyle is not easily worn with non Afro hair as it doesn’t
stand as firm, however there are threading ways around this. American
designer Marc Jacobs models also rocked the runway with this hairstyle
at his SS15 fashion show last year which made headlines with a few
shoots to follow afterwards.
For those who are not aware, the style was not created by Marc Jacobs.
Despite the hair style being very simple to apply and the fact that
it has been around, it seems to be heavily picked up amongst their
natural hair movement across black women around the world and has
recently been spotted in various selfies and instagram images. See some
pictures below.
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