Sometimes its hair, Sometimes its not hair

I often talk about my passion for cultural tourism, and my fascination with the wide variety of social systems that exist around us.
Kenyans have much rougher hair than the average Indian. It makes it tedious to maintain, and hence you see a lot of women braiding their hair. My natural reaction was to admire the ones who did not braid their hair and chose to make the effort to maintain it.

One afternoon, I was walking to lunch with a group of friends when I saw one of them had stopped behind us. One of the braid-less ones. I turned to see a pony-tail on the floor next to her, and as I looked around in gross bewilderment I found that nobody bothered to give it a second glance. Surely, it has to some shock value when you find your fine-haired friend was literally wearing a pony-tail, I thought. She, noticing my discomfort, scurried to pick it up and re-attach it, while laughing at my state of confusion.

I was later told that there are no admirable ones. They are all wearing some kind of hair-extensions. Its not a wig - which covers the whole head, but an accessory. Majority of these extensions are made with hair from India. 

If you have the hair for it, you could sell it for $100-$1000. Though the higher price is mostly reserved for exotic Peruvian hair.