Last week we ladies met in the afternoon with Toba. What a cute lady. She came into the room singing and carrying a basket on her head filled with cloth to teach us how to wear the African head wrap. One by one she wrapped our heads, each one slightly different from the other.
I'm afraid we all looked a little silly. Or a lot silly. We white folk just don't look the same in a head wrap (dukie) as our beautiful black sisters. Toba taught us how to tie a baby (she used a pink teddy bear) onto our back and other cultural things like how they have special songs for so many different life events or even activities including washing! They sing so beautifully. I can't quite put my finger on it but the harmony is just so different than our ears are used to hearing. We all had so much fun trying to be African for an hour, then we unwrapped our heads and went back to work.
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| Toba (orange head wrap) and missionary sisters. |
I'm afraid we all looked a little silly. Or a lot silly. We white folk just don't look the same in a head wrap (dukie) as our beautiful black sisters. Toba taught us how to tie a baby (she used a pink teddy bear) onto our back and other cultural things like how they have special songs for so many different life events or even activities including washing! They sing so beautifully. I can't quite put my finger on it but the harmony is just so different than our ears are used to hearing. We all had so much fun trying to be African for an hour, then we unwrapped our heads and went back to work.
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