In the last few years, bantu knots have popped back into the mainstream with a trail of cultural appropriation behind them. The protective hairstyle, which naturalistas either use to create heat-free ...

Paper presented at a symposium on Tradition, Innovation and Interpretation: Issues in the Collection and Display of the Arts of Zaire in Historical Perspective, held at the American Museum of Natural ...

There are many things that separate Hawa Juma, a 25-year-old Utica resident and first generation Somali Bantu, from her parents, who arrived in Utica in the early 2000s to escape the country's war.

The singer Adele has been accused of cultural appropriation after sharing a photo of herself on Instagram with her hair in Bantu knots — a traditional African hairstyle. The photo, in which she is ...