Touba African Hair Braiding

Touba African Hair Braiding is an African hair-braiding salon at the eastern end of the Independence Avenue corridor in Kansas City’s Historic Northeast, in business on the Avenue since at least 2017 and one of the corridor’s most-reviewed personal-services businesses.

Description

Touba African Hair Braiding operates from a storefront at 4231 Independence Avenue, near the eastern end of the Independence Avenue Community Improvement District in the Historic Northeast.¹ The salon trades on Facebook as “Touba African Hair Braiding Saloon” and lists its own address, phone number and email on that page.¹

The business is one of a cluster of African hair-braiding salons that have opened along Independence Avenue as the corridor’s East and West African populations have grown — a category of neighborhood trade, largely run by immigrant women, that is common on the street and thinly documented in the local record. See also pachudas-african-hair-braiding, a separate braiding salon further west on the same corridor.

Its name refers to Touba, the holy city of the Mouride Sufi order in Senegal — a naming convention common among West African diaspora businesses. This reading of the name is editorial inference, not a sourced claim from the business. “

By review volume Touba is one of the more heavily used personal-services businesses on the Avenue, carrying more than 200 collected customer reviews across review aggregators.²

Ownership and history

The owner is not named in any source located during research. “

The Northeast News covered “Touba African Hair Braiding” in a November 2017 Independence Avenue Community Improvement District feature, which establishes that the business was operating on the corridor by that date.³ No founding year has been published in any located source. “

The salon’s Facebook page has accumulated roughly 2,600 followers.¹

Distinct from Pachudas. Touba (4231 Independence Ave, phone (816) 709-1138) is a separate business from pachudas-african-hair-braiding (3533/3618 Independence Ave, owner Regina). The two share a trade and a corridor and nothing else; addresses, phone numbers and contact emails are all distinct.

Links

• Website: https://www.facebook.com/toubahairsaloon/

Services

• African hair braiding¹
• Braiding extensions¹

A detailed service and price list is “ — the business publishes no first-party menu of services or prices.

Sources

Footnotes

1. “Touba African Hair Braiding Saloon — About / Contact and basic info,” Facebook (first-party page), accessed August 26, 2026. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. “Touba African Hair Braiding Saloon — 201 Reviews,” Birdeye, reviews dated to May 31, 2025, accessed August 26, 2026. URL ↩

3. “CID: Spalitto’s Pharmacy & Touba African Hair Braiding,” Northeast News, November 8, 2017. URL ↩