"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.

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 ...

A Black woman in the United Kingdom who invented a new comb for Afro hair is using her success to educate and empower young Black women. Youmna Mouhamad’s new comb, the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler ...

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.