text: how does a african american have red hair as there natural hair color? ok i was born a natural redhead and i've always wanted to know how come i am the only one with red hair in my family. if anyone has any links or suggestions on why this is please let me know because i hate saying to people what they ask me how come my hair is this color and i respond i don't know. wow..........i think that sounds quite beautiful especially on beautiful dark skin. it's funny that you would ask this question because i use to work with a gentleman a few years back who was from africa and he had red hair, pail skin with freckle's. i mentioned to him that i had never seen a black man with red hair and he told me that everyone in his tribe, back in his home country, all have red hair.  apparently somewhere in your ancestry, you may have family originating from this tribe. i'm sure you know that we carry all of our ancestors gene's. it's the dominate gene that gives us our characteristics.   don't fret, there is nothing wrong. we all (black's) come from africa. it's just real sad that we can probably never find out where our true home land may have been because of slavery separating families.  stay sweet and strut that red hair.