This chapter dwells on the beauty of a woman’s hair and explains the cultural value attached to the head. The hair is seen as an agentive part of the body, crucial to the wholesome understanding of the entire human framework. It can distinguish gender. For example, the Kojusoko hairstyle is “forbidden” for men. Furthermore, Kojusoko (meaning “face your husband”) is not only known for distinguishing between gender, but also for describing women. The discipline and values inherent in the message being expressed are the typical moral standards of the Yoruba. Besides the gender role and message being conveyed by hairstyles, hairstyles also express spiritual connotations. For example, there is traditional importance to the loose state of the hair of a mourning woman. Other occasions include “naming, cult festivities, pageantry, and celebrations.” With pictorial evidence, the chapter emphasizes how hair shows age, identity, religion, political status, or social categorization and differences in the styles adopted at executing the patterns and drawing the lines, as well as the length used.

This chapter considers how revolutionary memory served as the cultural conditioning for key foundational aspects of the People’s Republic, starting with land reform. It aims to demonstrate how revolutionary memory served as a moral resource for those seeking to instil ideological discipline and justify radical intervention in communities by the revolutionary state, or by activists acting on its behalf, while also assisting the Communist program more generally in fostering acceptance of the New China’s growing pains along the way. The chapter opens by accounting for the potency of discursive strategies employed in the land-reform struggle sessions, which sought to expose the old society’s void of beneficial communal relations that the party structures and forms of association would step in and fill. The chapter also explores how revolutionary memory of the recent past, which suppressed the very possibility of community mutual aid and wider civic measures within the context of the old society, was foundational to the socialist imaginary as articulated through the rural cooperative movement.