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Regarding conversations about whether SHS students should be allowed to keep long hair, travel vlogger Wode Maya has questioned why Ghanaian authorities seem to have different rules for ‘Black‘ and ‘White‘ students when it comes to hairstyles in schools.
In a post on X on October 28, 2025, Wode Maya expressed concern about what he described as a double standard, wondering why ‘Black’ students are mostly forced to cut their long hair while ‘White’ students are allowed to keep theirs.
The best education will not require that you cut off your hair – Okyeame Kwame
“So it’s okay for a ‘White’ kid to keep her hair in our schools, but that of the ‘Black’ kid is tagged waywardness?” Wode Maya wrote.
Wode Maya’s post adds to the national debate started by a viral video showing a young girl crying as her long hair was cut off before she could begin her first year at Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School.
The video, filmed by a barber and shared on social media, showed the student’s distress as her mother stood by during the haircut.
Responding to the issue, the Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, said, during an address at the Mawuli Senior High School’s 75th anniversary celebration in the Volta Region on October 25, 2025, that authorities were not prepared to allow students to keep long hair in senior high schools.
He added that educational institutions were not meant to be beauty platforms.
According to the minister, “education authorities are not going to tolerate any long hair today or tomorrow.”
So it’s okay for a “white” kid to keep her hair in our schools, but that of the “black” kid is tagged waywardness? 🤔
— Wode Maya ® (@wode_maya) October 28, 2025
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