Kampala — ON her first day at school, she sported a hairstyle with long hair at the front and sides, covering her ears and collar. The teacher on duty ordered her to go back home and cut her hair to at least one inch long.
The first thing the matron scrutinises before even asking for the bank slip at this up-town girls school is the length of one's hair. If it is beyond one inch, a student is not allowed in. While in the developed world, the debate is shifting to whether boys should also be allowed to have long hair like their female colleagues, in most traditional African schools, it is against the school rules to have long hair.
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