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Solomon Islands

There is a term I heard when I was growing up. It was “yellow-top”. It was also called “blondie top”. I have heard people from mine and other provinces used this term in Pap…

Makira, Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 Melanesia, Pacific Islands

Over the years, I have read books about the South Pacific that contained pictures of naturally blond-haired Black children. Seeing people of color with naturally-blond hair intrigued me. It is their presence that initially lured me to the South Pacific.

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Kali Biru, West Papua, Melanesia, Pacific Islands 📸ig: dorothy_hamadi

Teenage citizen of the Solomon Islands

Melanesian Blondes - Black People with Natural Blonde Hair. About a quarter of the Melanesian population in the Solomon Islands archipelago has an extremely unusual trait – they have the darkest skin in the world outside of Africa, but strangely, about one-fourth of the inhabitants sport blond afros.