Molara Wood

Writer, freelance journalist and sometimes, a poet, MW has lived and studied in Nigeria and the UK. She has lived in the 3 Ls in fact - Lagos, London and Los Angeles - more life spent in the first 2, than the third. Her writings have appeared in a number of publications. She writes on a broad range of the Arts, mainly for The Guardian on Sunday, Lagos, Nigeria. Visit her blog.

Genevieve, Betty Irabor and “AIDS PEOPLE”

Publishers of glossy magazines should be careful what tales they tell. But no one seems to have warned Betty Irabor, Editor-in-Chief of leading women’s magazine, Genevieve...

Lost in a Sea of Hair Weaves

One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?

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