It took a 13-year-old girl with an Afro to make South Africans notice their racist school dress codes

It took a 13-year-old girl with an Afro to make South Africans notice their racist school dress codes

A hairstyle should not have to be a radical political choice, especially for a girl only just beginning to navigate high school. But this week, a 13-year-old girl’s determination to wear her Afro revealed how race still informed school policies and social perceptions of what is acceptable behavior for black South Africans. Students in school…