Nanka: Enugu's Hair Market For Every Woman
Virtually 10-15 years agone, my family unit lived at Chime Avenue, New Haven, on the first flooring in a 2-storeyed building. It was a slap-up compound with great people. I remember my cousin Chinelo who lived with united states of america. She was and still is very creative in all areas of mode. What we enjoyed most from her, albeit with tears and pain was her hair-making expertise. But as the saying goes, Ochomma adiro ebe akwa[1] Nosotros e'er walked with our heads held high because we knew our hairstyles were unique. Whenever Chinelo was not in Enugu for some reason, our recourse was Nanka.
We all know what Nanka symbolizes in Enugu and I would not go into definitions and descriptions. Growing up, it was always with a sense of wonder and excitement that my sister and I trooped to Nanka whenever the occasion called. It was lovely seeing women of different sizes making dissimilar lovely hairstyles. Stories went round and then that people had ideas of what hair to make but inverse their minds when they enter Nanka because someone must have invented another lovely fashion and it was the rave. The catcalls of the hair makers and their adverts were as well funny and innovative. Unfortunately, we but visited Nanka on very rare occasions, if I call up correctly, I tin can count the number of times nosotros went to Nanka off the fingers of one hand and probably have some left.
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Now, Nanka holds a unlike appeal for me. I am no longer in awe of its significant and its people, (information technology may be because I'1000 older and more than jaded hahaha, or considering my family stays in a place where I pass through Nanka every other 24-hour interval) simply I concord a deep appreciation for its services. I find it almost incommunicable to braid my hair anywhere else, Nanka ever calls me dwelling -like Mother Idoto to Okigbo- and I always reply.
The last time I was at Enugu Dad asked when I was going to make my pilus because oma na adirom agbajo ya agbajo.[2] My friends who live in dissimilar parts of Nigeria but who have felt the pull of Nanka cannot keep away too. Even men have gotten into the spirit of Nanka. It seems there are more men hair stylists than females in recent times. The competition is stiff and at the same fourth dimension healthy (to the all-time of my knowledge)
It is a great place with rich history and ambience, peradventure one of these days I would look into making a documentary of this identify, because apart from the fact that it has forth the years become a movement, an attitude, an sensation, I e'er wonder who started the business of pilus-making in Nanka and how it spread wide and strong.
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[1]No pain, no gain
[2] He knows I cannot do without information technology
Nigh Writer
Twinkle, twinkle Chino star.
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