Writter Barbara Blake-Hannah has launched a new book – Growing Out - Black Hair and Black Pride.
It was launched at the Bob Marley Museum Thursday night.
Blake-Hannah says in Growing Out, she wrote about her early years growing up in Jamaica and how from childhood black women's hair influences their self-esteem negatively.
"I carried this self-hate to a decade in England in the 'Swinging Sixties', where the racism I encountered was counterbalanced by an education in black consciousness generated by the cultural, political and racial events of the time," she said.
"Growing Out describes how the psychological and actual experience led me to grow out my natural hair and emancipate my mind from colonial mental slavery." Blake-Hannah added.
Guest speaker at Thursday night's launch of the book was Beverly Anderson Manley.
The book is published by Hansib Publications, UK and the soft-cover can also be purchased online at Amazon.com.
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