This is London's first Afro hair and beauty show in 1983. It was started by Len Dyke and Dudley Dryden, owners of Dyke and Dryden, the UK's largest provider of Afro hair care and cosmetics. Despite their success, racist attitudes in the UK during the 70s and 80s were holding them and other black businesses back. Rudi Page, Marketing and Sales Manager for Dyke and Dryden, tells @anoushka_md how there was a time that despite having a tunrnover breaking £1 million, banks were turning them down on £