Afro

"Once you are eight, all hairdressers say, oh you have to relax your hair... we can't manage your hair, you have to relax it, it will be beautiful," says Mariam Diaby, a hairdresser and founder of Nappys de Babi, an online community focused on promoting natural hair.

Her group, based in Ivory Coast's capital Abidjan, encourages and supports African women to wear their hair curly, instead of using popular chemical straighteners known as relaxers.

Parisian confidence

Sybil Taule is one of the very few models that have been walking catwalks and runways, killing the Afro look.

Afro is a hairstyle consisting of a mass of very tight curls that stick out all round the head, like the natural hair of some black people.

And to Bilee, as commonly called, afro definitely shows the true identity of a Papua New Guinean girl.

Since starting her modelling career in 2013 with the Fiji Fashion Week, Bilee prefers to go with the ‘fro.