Everything You Need to Know About Hairlocking, Dread, African & Nubian Locks [Paperback]

Nekhena Evans (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: A & B Book Dist Inc; 2nd edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881316580
• ISBN-13: 978-1881316589
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,141,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unfortuantely, people will accept this book as authoritative, October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything You Need to Know About Hairlocking, Dread, African & Nubian Locks (Paperback)

eventhough it contains very little information about dreadlocks, and the majority of the information that it DOES contain is erroneous, incomplete, or simply made up by the author and her clique. She is apparently ignorant of the fact that dreadlocks date back to the beginning of time in ALL cultures, not just black culture (for example, ancient celtic warriors wore dreads, as did the Maoris of New Zeland), although she makes up for this in part by classifying dread-wearers such as the Shivites of India as "african". This is an even greater pity considering that THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE originated in Ethiopia, a fact she is ignorant of, eventhough it would support some of her claims. (Should I tell her that Bob Marley's father was white?) It is a damn shame to see a book like this used to perpetuate the isms and scims of Babylon (and hustle customers into her hair salon), rather than to promote the upful and positive dread vibe and the truth of Rastafari. If this book goes into a second printing it should be retitled: Everything My Guru And I made Up About Hairlocking (Including The Awkward And Inarticulate Term "Locktician").

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars everything i wanted to know "NOT", September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything You Need to Know About Hairlocking, Dread, African & Nubian Locks (Paperback)

This was an amusing little book that was about a 20 min read start to finish.(I'm by no means a speed reader. Too much quasi-spiritual blah blah and not what I wanted to know. What I wanted to know was much more in the way of technical information and illustration, and nice photos. Nice try trying to market everything from products, to videos, classes etc etc etc. In a word this book was "boring".

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless dribble, February 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything You Need to Know About Hairlocking, Dread, African & Nubian Locks (Paperback)

If you are in the process of locking or thinking about locking, this book will provide no useful information as to how to go about it. The author is more concerned with imparting her concept of spirituality rather than facts. It takes about an hour to read through this mess, and I'm still wondering what the 40 commandments of MAAT have to do with locking ones hair. What I was looking for was some real information regarding starting, maintaining and caring for locs, types of products to use (other than the authors own). No wonder this mess is out of print. The entire discussion on coiled hair as antennae and electromagnetic fields was entirely too comical!