"Their key is the [bigger] width between the teeth because African-type hair is very fragile," says Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, who curated an afro comb exhibition at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum in 2013.

So there's an Afro pick. You have the Afro comb. You have the Afro silhouette. So you have different variations of how Black folks wear their hair. JARED BOWEN: McCall often wears his creations ...

The Afro comb has been used by people in Africa and the continent's diaspora for centuries. An exhibition at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum looks at the Afro comb's impact as ...

With the rise of Black haircare brands over the past few years, there’s been an increasing number of hair tools better designed to care for afro hair. Along with more combs and brushes on the ...

A judge today warned of the dangers of wearing Afro combs as fashion accessories as he handed a life sentence to a 16-year-old girl who used one to fatally stab another girl in a dispute over boys.