Johnson Elijah Amamnsunu

Rethinking hair cropping in Ghanaian schools: coloniality, discipline, and the path to reform

Grooming rules for Black hair are contested as racialised discipline, yet their colonial afterlives in African schooling remain underexplored. This article examines Ghana’s compulsory hair-cropping mandate for girls in Senior High Schools as a socio-legal problem of embodied gove...