There’s a guy who works at the local vegetarian food co-op I’ve been wondering about. He has a huge head of (possibly) dreadlocked hair. I say possibly because he always has it covered by a colorful knitted or woven hat with a large poufy top to hold the hair. He also wears a beard.
Recently I saw him walking with what I presume were his wife and young children–2 boys and a little girl. The wife and girl wore long dresses with long sleeves and scarve with sort of bags at the back to hold their hair, although there wasn’t an attempt made to completely cover the hair at the front. The dresses and scarves were pale, solid blue. The boys were dressed pretty much like their father–long sleeve shirts, pants and hats. The family has the general appearance of fairly light-skinned African Americans.
Somalian comes to mind, with the headscarves and all, but the Somalians I’ve met have been unusually formally dressed. There’s a woman I see on the bus who brings a young boy around 8 years old on with her and the boy is dressed in a suit.
I can’t add much too the thread other than say that it doesn’t sound like Somali or Somali Bantu to me.
If it was either of those I would expect if the man were wearing a hat it would be something like these and the women would have definitely had their head covered. Plus, the Somali Bantu women are colorful!!! Something like this …well, the faces are blurred…but, you can see the clothing.