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Nairobi hair salon defies pandemic with 'coronavirus' style

Photo|Courtesy: Martha Apisa, 12, and Stacy Ayuma, 8, get plaited with the "coronavirus" hairstyle at Mama Brayo Beauty Salon within Kambi-Muru village of Kibera

Through winces and grins, two girls wearing face masks and surrounded by posters of different hairstyles bowed their heads for their hairdressers. But the spiky look they were getting – “the coronavirus” – was still too new to appear on any poster.

In Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum, hairdressers have created a new style, designed to emulate the prickly appearance of the virus under a microscope.

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