In fact, if a barrister were to turn up to court wearing a wig before the 1700s, they would be breaking the dress code as the expected style up to this point was for lawyers to have clean ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online ...

Burkina Faso has now joined countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in taking steps to ban the usage of wigs.

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to ... Christophe Birba, a lawyer at the Burkina Faso Bar, told AFP Fact Check that the colonial-era wigs were never a part of the dress code in ...