Where Do African Waist Beads Come From?
African waist beads have a very long history spanning thousands of years with mainly Ghanaian and Nigerian tribes been credited with the origination of waist beads. Today you will find the culture heavily practiced and widely spread throughout West African with neighboring regions emulating the wearing of waist beads.
However historians trace the wearing of the waist jewelry all the way back to ancient Egyptian civilizations.
Within ancient Egyptian cultures beads were worn to signify status, beauty, wealth and even power.
The beads were also used in celebrations and for maintaining a healthy body weight and slender figure.
Nowadays traditional African waist beads and its more modern adaptions such as glow in the dark waist beads are loved and worn by women from various cultural backgrounds.