‘We have to keep our culture’: indigenous pageant celebrates Fiji’s traditional afro hairstyle
The Buiniga, a unisex hair style that looks similar to an afro, is in danger of dying out due to western representations of beauty
At the annual festival celebrating local culture in the province of Cakaudrove in northern Fiji held in November, alongside celebrations of traditional dress, dance, poetry, song and craftsmanship, the festival held a pageant paying tribute to indigenous hair.
Nine women, representing the different districts in the province, wrapped in tapa, or masi, a traditional printed cloth made from the beaten bark of the mulberry tree and escorted by representatives from their district, showed off their traditional Fijian Buiniga hairstyles.
Buiniga (pronounced: Boo-e-ning-ah), is a unisex hairstyle that looks similar to an afro. Buiniga refers to the shape of the hair and how sometimes the hair comes away from the neck in the shape of a duck’s tail – “Bui” means tail and “ga” means duck.
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