Goodness agreed, adding: "The normal comb feels like someone is pulling your hair, when it's tangled it hurts. But with this comb, it's very soft and easy to untangle." ...

A comb and jug from the post-emancipation period at the exhibition It is estimated that 11,640,000 Africans left the continent between the 16th and 20th Centuries due to the transatlantic slave trade.

These picks rejoice in individual flair and narrate stories of migration and its effect on Swedish culture. ‘The Afro comb has a strong symbolic meaning and as an object it carries an interesting ...

Youmna Mouhamad’s new comb, the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler, provides an easier, gentler way of combing Afro hair. The BBC reported that she first got the bright idea for the comb while studying to ...

Origins of the Afro Comb can be seen at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, until 3 November 2013. Images courtesy: Fitzwilliam Museum, AP, AFP, Getty Images, Alexis Akwagyiram.

A girl of 16 was today given a life sentence for murdering another teen with an Afro comb. Rebecca Douglas was just 15 when she plunged the spiked metal handle into Julie Sheriff’s head during a ...