Wearing of waist bead has remained an adorable Lifestyle among African female gender.
.jpeg)
This has been from generations to generations and understanding of Beauty in African ways. Waist beads are African Traditional accessories women wear around the waist both old and young and It is usually made of shells or bead seeds; stones and small bead connected together by a thick thread.
The growing interest of individuals in the existence of waist beads is evident in their rebranding effort in ensuring that waist beads components are running along trending accessories. Now, they are produced in more colourful and attractive sizes.
Coupled with the above, the importance of waist bead cannot be over emphasized. Research has revealed that, waist beads performs numerous funtions.
One of them is the ornamental function.
Waist beads can be used for beautification, most ladies wear beads to look attractive and also, it can be use as an aesthetics tool by African dancers.
You can agree with me that Waist bead can be for indicating one's social status or identity in the society. A woman wearing a bead speaks the language of royalty.
However, we cannot undermine the fact that waist bead are used for spiritual purposes especially by the Kayamata girls. This kind of bead are worn with the sole aim of attracting good fortunes. It is widely believe that spiritual waist beads protects one from evil or negative influence.
Irrespective of the diverse reasons for wearing bead, one thing remain true- Waist beads are significant part of the Africans and it is a Life on its own.
Felicia Fredrick