Nope incorrect . The darker Somalis have the most softest hair and the lighter skin tones have thicker curlier hair .
2026-08-14 05:00:01
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🧍🏾♂️ :
I’ll never understand why people discuss Somalis as if they know us, but then say Somalian. I genuinely stop listening after I hear that😂
2026-08-14 05:12:19
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MDMX86 :
its Somali and Somalia, never Somalian!
lets be more inclusive.
2026-08-14 03:05:23
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Aluoch :
Mind you east Africa has some of darkest people on earth (me being one of them).
2026-08-13 23:47:34
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🅽🅸🅼🅲🅰 :
You are confusin Ethiopia with somal, darkskin somal rarely have kinky hair. That's the rarest hair texture amongst darkskin ethnic somal
2026-08-14 10:48:49
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️CannonBorn05🏴 :
Calling Ethiopia “whitewashed” is funny 😂 when they are the only African countries that successfully resisted (white) European colonization and defeated European colonial forces for the first time.
2026-08-17 03:14:58
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Daisy :
Horn of Africa is just Somalia tbh that’s Somalis nickname
2026-08-16 02:39:35
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valora_starlight :
East Africa is diverse and dark skin Somali have softer hair but that’s never mentioned because the dark skin Africans with 4C hair are the ones who get highlighted as “real Africans”. Africa is a continent not a single country so all this calling our Ethiopians and Somalis will get us nowhere also it’s Somalis not Somalians and honestly this is giving jealousy towards both groups. Africa doesn’t have a representative or a certain look it’s a very diverse place and that’s the beauty of it all. You can either accept Africa is a diverse place or fight people and create more African wars.
2026-08-15 15:56:58
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christfollower88991 :
Ok but really kinky hair is rare in Ethiopia at least my ethnicity
2026-08-14 04:06:36
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Guure :
Nope incorrect . The darker Somalis have the most softest hair and the lighter skin tones have thicker curlier hair .
2026-08-14 19:30:28
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A 🎀 :
In Somalia, those with darker skin tend to have very straight hair, while those with lighter skin have curly hair
2026-08-14 18:58:30
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Notes & Nonsense :
Somali !!!!
2026-08-14 20:47:34
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konichiwagwan :
it's Somali, not Somalian, there is no "an" suffix...
2026-08-15 08:08:00
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Yasmin🏝️🐚 :
Why do people expect all of Africa to be looking the same . Apparently if you don’t look west African you’re not African enough. Somalis and Ethiopians have deferent looks but that’s doesn’t equate us to being mixed .
2026-08-14 16:15:08
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☭ | ABEL :
Somalis are more featurist and texturist than colourist. Who do you think will get better treatment: a dark-skinned Somali or a light-skinned Bantu?
2026-08-14 14:33:03
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H :
Most Somalis are brown or dark in shade. The hair mostly is soft though. Also, Somalis are of east African origin.
2026-08-14 17:18:23
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Addy :
Yep they’re almost always talking about horners (Ethiopians, Eritreans, & Somalis) specifically the lightskin & brownskin ones with type 3 hair
2026-08-14 00:20:02
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. :
Majority of Somalis have curly to soft hair, even dark skin Somali. Those with kinky hair are bantu who lives in Somalia
2026-08-14 14:43:20
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EMEKA UNDERWATER 🌊 :
True, so many Kenyans are DARK
2026-08-13 21:56:05
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Soni wa Kariz🇰🇪 :
East Africa is Kenya Uganda and Tanzania ... anybody else is a neighbor
2026-08-14 13:22:03
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Nirvana(=_=) :
There are Kenyans,Ugandans,Tanzanians,Djiboutians,Rwandans,Sudanese,South Sudanese and Burundians💯Include us all,we are heavily diverse
2026-08-14 05:25:27
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Steezus :
Yep I was so shocked when I found out most of Somalia and Ethiopia was brown to dark brown and the lightskins were the minority 🥀
2026-08-14 01:36:54
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lorry harbet :
They usually refer to the Horn of Africa and the thing is with somalis (I am one) nobody will deny you are somali if you’re dark . Our culture views the standard (somali asal) somali as dark skinned eventhough light is upheld. But you’re right the erasure online exists but irl you come across all different types of tones. Who wants to be fetishised anyway lol
2026-08-13 21:46:00
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ataimusic :
This pisses me off so much because I’m dark skinned East African and I’m genuinely darker than most West African people. And in Uganda, where I’m from there are plenty of people darker than me. Even within countries like Ethiopia there are dark skinned people whose experiences somehow get completely left out of the conversation.
2026-08-14 02:53:52
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Zar :
not going to lie no hate but this isn't really accurate most dark skin Somalis and dark skin Habesha have a loose of hair texture than the light skin ones tbh and Nilotic populations in Ethiopia are less than 1% (the whole population of a lot of people anything to combined being just less than 1 million) of the population and Bantus in Somalia are less than 8%. these groups deserve respect(and to address anti-blackness within these nations) but in terms of media at least in Ethiopian media that often over represented because the Cushitic/Semitic are the vast majority of the nation and are related to one another. I am a deeply dark skin Habesha(Semitic speaker) with wavy hair so I would never not talk about colorism and anti-blackness in the nation I'm just giving an explanation!
2026-08-14 13:17:34
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