Beards in African cultures and global ones

An overview of ancient and modern cultures that wore beards

Mark Odecho
4 min readFeb 15, 2021

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Nowadays, a beard is simply worn as a fashion choice or statement . However, back in the days men in different cultures wore beards for various reasons. Some of them include:

  • As a sign of masculinity
  • For religious purposes

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Mark Odecho

A writer with a passion for stories on people of African Descent.