World Afro Day: A day to celebrate coiled or curly hair | Newsround

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World Afro Day is on 15 September every year.

It's a time where people are encouraged to celebrate kinky, coiled or curly afro textured hair and to learn more about it.

Michelle De Leon is the founder of World Afro Day and she believes there aren't enough examples of natural afro textured hair being celebrated in adverts, movies and even in music.

She wanted her daughter and other children around the world to grow up seeing more examples of people with hair like their own and for people without afro hair to understand more about it.

Michelle told Newsround "Unfortunately there's been a long history of people with Afro hair not being treated as valuable as other hair types, and that means sometimes they don't get the same opportunities as other people sometimes have."

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