BlacK hair Issues!

Any black woman has gone through hair issues before, it is one of those topics that girls can spend time talking about and sympatising with each other. I have been meaning to write about this for a loong time, and a statement from my Cuban caucasian professor really hit me. She said she didn't understand why Ghanaian women liked wearing fake hair(weave-on) and in Cuba most black women had long healthy hair. As usual, people just laughed and left it at that but I wasn't to pleased. First of all that statement is a generalisation which cannot be applied to all Ghanaian women. I was chatting with a girlfriend today and she told we she was allergic to extensions! I bet she isn't the only one. Secondly, we cannot be compared to cuban blacks because they have a different type of hair texture due to the intermarriages between blacks and whites. Thus their hair is longer and stronger due to the white genes they inherited.
I'm typing right now with extensions in my hair not because I am ashamed of my medium length hair but because of various reasons.
1. Our weather is hot and its frustrating having your hair wet and sticking to ur skin.
2. It is time and money consuming going to the hair salon.
3. Combing  and styling your hair every morning  before going to school or work is not an option.
 I love my hair! Right now, my hair is relaxed but I have been fantasysing of chopping it off and going natural. Read somewhere about the hair industry and how huge corporations are becoming rich by selling human hair( taken from Indian shrines) and relaxer cremes which contain harmful chemicals to our hair and scalp.Guess what?? Their biggest market is in Africa!! Yes, you heard right.
So why do we keep on conforming to what Western culture is portraying as beautiful? Wasn't Cleopatra one of the most beautiful women that ever lived? And, am sure there wasn't Dark& Lovely Relaxer creme then lol.
Anyways this subject has been generating controversy on the blogosphere particularly with African women in the diaspora. Check these blogs.
http://www.msafropolitan.com/2011/09/the-fashion-and-politics-of-natural-hair.html
http://nachalooman.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/nappy-hair-its-not-just-a-black-thang/
http://nachalooman.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/at-what-cost-unnatural-white-beauty-black-woman/
http://www.curlynikki.com/search/label/Transitioning%20Tips%20and%20Resources