Afro kinky

(This is an extract from an email I sent my best friend in France)

My latest pondering is on NATURAL HAIR so I’ve decided not to relaxed my hair anymore and keep it natural, that's a beautiful way to reconnect with myself, and how God created me, mammy said it's hard to manage but she's letting me do it, she even agreed to let me cut it!!! Can you believe it? But that's a bit extreme; I’ll just braid it until it grows back. I really believe in having my hair natural, people tell me it's not nice etc... but I see what hair relaxers do to us and I’m ready to go natural (there are plenty of hairstyle I can do with ma natural hair, more than what I can do with ma relaxed hair right now) ... ANYWAY (...) I want locks!!!! yep like you wanted a while ago and I was like "what is she on, she crazy!!" well now I crave them, but I know it's a big no no by ma mum, and church (the French one) but I found out that having dreadlocks don't mean you’re a Rasta it's just a hairstyle, they (Rastafarians) have locks because they don't do ANYTHING to their hair except wash them (organic dreadlocks), that's why it's weird long and big and seems dirty... in my Zimbabwean church they'd let me do it without fuss, they know appearance is just that... appearance, but right now I’m tied.
I’d be content with twists once again... with my own hair this time!!!... I’m ok because I found this site: http://naturalfreedomjourney.com (Go through it all when u can.)

Its only natural that someone who decides to go natural, also uses natural hair product, eats healthy etc… well I haven’t been eating healthy yet, but I am wiser in my choice of hair product. I’m definitely going on natural, not only because it goes with all I believe in but also because it’s healthy and it makes sense, if we say black and proud and while always denying what makes us of african descent… what’s the point? I’m glad I’ve never bleached my skin, because there’s no turning point with bleaching, I'm also glad i do not wear contact lenses to have a different eye colour.
Gosh… I can’t wait, I am aware that it will be hard but I’m sure I’ll make it through, I want it desperately, and face it, my hair will never looked like those models and singers actresses on TV, might as well have it natural. If I want it straight, I’ll go to the hairdressers and use a hot iron, no longer putting no chemical in my hair…no no no and NO.

PS I have nothing against people who do relax their hair... it's a personal choice and not everyone believes in what I believe... TO EACH HIS OWN.