Issue Nine: Sep/Oct '22

Hairvolution author Saskia Calliste gets to the root of the most iconic moments in Black hair history T H R O U G H T H E A G E S ( 3 0 0 0 B C - 1 7 T H C E N T U R Y ) “You could tell a lot about a person from their braids,” explains Saskia Calliste, deputy editor of Voice Magazine . “What tribe they belonged to, their age, marital status, wealth, everything, by their hair.” She adds: “During the slave trade, slaves would communicate with different style cornrows: alerting one another that an escape was afoot or depicting maps showing the roads they would use to escape.” WO R D S A L I C E M A C FA R L A N E Saskia Calliste BLACK HISTORY MONTH