Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has slammed black women who wear Brazilian human hair as wig, saying they have subjected themselves inferior to the race whose hair they wear.

According to him, those whose hairstyle we copy often laugh behind our backs for attempting to be like them.

Omokri also stated that imitating foreign beauty is casting disdain on black beauty.

He said on Facebook, "When you, as an African woman, buy a so-called Brazilian human hair rig (which is really an offering to a god in a temple or ashram in Far East Asia(, what you are really saying is that 'I am inferior to those whose hairs I am wearing. That is why I am hiding my God-given hair beneath theirs'.

"And by the way, you are also vicariously serving the god to whom the hair was sacrificed.

"We have been forced to speak foreign languages, practice foreign religions, bear Western or Eastern names, and wear foreign clothes. Can we not at least reclaim some control by reclaiming our beauty standards from being Westernised?

"In the eighties, Guinness, a foreign brewer, launched the 'Black is Beautiful' campaign. And we saw if embodied in Maryam Babangida, the dark-skinned, natural-haired, and culturally conscious wife of the dashingly handsome General Ibrahim Babangida.

"They were Nigeria's power couple and promoted the idea of Black is Beautiful.

"How could our culture have receded so much that in just forty years, we as a nation spend $200 million annually on importing human hair? More money than we spend importing books.

"Do you think you are fooling the world? You are not.

"One of the most famous Black models in the world, who has a biblical name and has visited Nigeria, once got into a quarrel with her White colleague in the dressing room of a fashion show, and she was mocked for her fake hair and lashes.

"Only in your head and among our kind do we feel these hair pieces make us look beautiful. Behind our backs, those whose hairs we want to copy look at our attempts to Europeanise ourselves with scorn and derision. They just don't say it to our faces!

"Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And when you wear these hairs, you are disdaining Black models of beauty and flattering White Western beauty standards.

"This is why I threw away or gave away all my Western-style clothes, except for my mountain climbing and gym clothes.

"I now wear exclusively made-in-Nigeria fabric, which is designed in Nigeria. I am Itsekiri, and my people originated from Ike-Ife by way of Benin. Right there in the British Museum, there are thousand-year-old Ife Bronzes of men and women from Ancient Ife dressed in clothes, riding beasts of burden, and adorning their hair and bodies with jewellery.

"The attached photo shows me side by side with an Ooni of Ife from antiquity. That is my natural hair, and my wife tells me I have never looked more dapper! You may disagree, but the point is that we have great forebears and do not have to ape those with a different type of hair.

"So, why should we, their descendants, a thousand years later, bleach our skins, hide our natural hairs with Western and Eastern hairs, and wear not-fit-for-Africa clothes that make us sweat in the tropical heat?

"Why must we get married in a church with a suit and tie for the man and a white dress for the woman? Why can't we wed in our native clothes in the homes of the couple's parents?

"Are you aware that a church wedding is actually a European CULTURAL wedding that predates Christianity? The word church predates Christianity and was first used to describe places of worship of European deities, e.g., the Church of Diana.

"The word 'Church' is not even in the Bible, neither in the Jewish Tanakh or Torah nor in the Christian New Testament. The word used in the New Testament is the Koine Greek word Ekklesia, which translates to assembly.

"When you marry in a Church, you are not having a Christian wedding. You are having a traditional European wedding.

"Instead of a wedding cake, we can have local delicacies.

"When marriage produces children, let us teach them A for Akara, not Apple. B for Boli, not Ball. C for Chewing Stick, not Cake.

"Why do we think our local masquerades are evil, but Father Christmas or Santa Claus is good and posh when they are BOTH not in Scripture and are actually cultural figures?

"Awaken the Maryam Babangida in you. Get rid of your bleaching cream, human hair, and Balenciaga, Channel, and Louis Vuitton. Know that Black is Beautiful, and use that knowledge to channel your inner Maryam."

ASA