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Seeing Beyond the DRC's Misery

At Global Post Finbarr O’Reilly finds that beneath the horrors of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is real humanity, which he sees revealed in women’s hairstyles. I have to admit, I’m not sure if I find this touching and revelatory, sort of creepy and exploitative, or reductive like the tabloid magazines you find in the checkout line of a grocery store. Probably bits and pieces of all three. The pictures in the accompanying slideshow are striking, to be sure. I do know that the title of the feature, “Perhaps it could be called ‘Congo chic’,” strikes me as tacky.

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