These days societal prestige somehow inexplicably has become tied up with the cost of your weave-on. I don’t know when or how it started, but that is the norm these days and our ladies never shy away from getting the most expensive weave they can get their hands on.
Whilst better people than me have gone on rants about how we can tie all our self worth into the type of (other people’s) hair we can put on our head, it seems now to keep up with the insatiable demands of the business, people in China have resorted to adding goat hair to the weaves they export to Africa.
The BBC made a whole report on it, which confirms that goat hair is now a crucial ingredient in the weave-on industry down there. The merchants who buy it and bring it down here to sell know, but they buy it anyway because of the market for it; and I suspect most of us down here also know, or at the very least suspect, but buy anyway.
Unsurprisingly, it also confirmed that Africa is the biggest hair market now. One shopkeeper said most of their business used to be with Europe; now, almost exclusively African buyers.
