Page 104 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 8

AFRIKA IS GOD'S

HEAD HUNTERS: WHO is after Afrikans?

Samuel Phillips

have come to realize that, das they have for the day. "Who is head hunting
somehow, most of my learn- Recently, as I was coming back
ing doesn't necessarily come from my long walk, I was passing Afrika and Afrikans while
I from external sources, as it through a small market hub along displaying their "skulls" like
were, but has a lot to do with my in- the road, when I saw someone
ner musings. Information comes to cleaning a shop, preparing to open trophies for racial pride and
me as insights, which I then do little for the day. My eyes went to the sports?
searches here and there concerning name of the shop on a sign that was
and by that I am able to either con- hanging on the wall. It read "Head "
firm what is coming from inside or Hunters Barber Shop."
gain a clearer perspective on what I Head hunters? My mind went into open role.
already have on the inside. So basi- a quick spin to confirm if what I just But I am taking my interpretation
cally I know nothing even though I read was the actual thing that was from the way the word headhunting
"know" all things, according to how I written. Affirmatively, that was the has been used in the old days in
am being helped on the inside. name of the barbershop. My mind different parts of the world.
started putting things together to try Head taking has been practiced by
Some of the most important to understand why a business owner numerous people throughout the
insights about the wisdom for life would name his barbershop "Head world from ancient times all the
and living that I have been blessed Hunters"! I don’t personally think way into the 21st century. The term
with are those that I get when doing I can enter that barbershop not to describes the practice of cutting off
my morning walks around the talk of letting anyone cut my hair and preserving the head or skull
neighborhood where I live. It's very there. It’s a capital NO for me, even of another human being, usually a
beautiful during such walks to see if they are offering a free haircut. fallen enemy. But why do people
the sun rise with its beautiful smile I know what you are thinking, take heads? Headhunting may have
on the horizon and how that smile especially when headhunting also originally evolved from cannibal-
creates a surge of energy on earth means executive recruiting, that is, ism. Many cultures believed that
that makes men rise from their an individual or company hired by the head represented the core of
beds to perform the various agen- an employer to recruit talent for an the personality and to take it was

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