Jean-Nicolas Reyt, McGill University As part of the fight against COVID-19, Canada is urging “employees at all work sites … to work remotely whenever and wherever possible.” Although we might find comfort in thinking switching between office and remote work is mostly an IT problem, three decades of management research on telecommuting tells us that the real challenges are just starting. Thousands of teams across Canada are going through the difficult transition of redefining the way they function. How teams tackle these challenges will have profound consequences on their productivity and the well-being of their members. Below are three challenges…
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Natasha Himmelman, University of the Witwatersrand; Nicole Sarmiento, University of Cape Town, and Thuto Thipe, University of Cape Town I wish I could let the language of the chained roar let loose rivers of rage to cleanse this land… And build for you a memorial ageless as your love. – Harry Garuba, Memorial wish, Animist Chants and Memorials: Poems (2017) Professor Harry Garuba died on 28 February 2020. Harry’s investment in words and their power started early in his life. He was born on April 8, 1958 in Akure, Nigeria. Growing up in a household with a healthy library, he…
Christopher Ballantine, University of KwaZulu-Natal Joseph Shabalala was the leader of the internationally renowned Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the best-known exponent of the unaccompanied male choral style known as isicathamiya. Appropriately, tributes following his recent death have reminded us of the extraordinary achievements of this most celebrated of South African composers working within a popular endogenous idiom. But they have left largely untouched questions about what lay behind those achievements: the sources of his creative energies, his beliefs about what he was doing, his wishes about what he wanted to achieve. I came by the some of that information along…
Kindel Turner Nash, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Because I conduct research about reading, parents often ask me the same question: “What can I do to help my child become a better reader?” I always give them the same advice: “Read with your children. Enjoy books together, and whatever you do, don’t worry about teaching them to read. Leave the teaching to the teachers.” This reply draws on my research regarding the literacy practices of high-performing teachers, as well as my experiences as a parent, teacher and literacy specialist. Ample evidence indicates that a solid foundation of reading, writing, talking…
Traditional and Contemporary focuses on Ankara fabric spliced with contemporary tailoring. African fashion has taken a spike in creative designing over the years and we are ultra-excited to be documenting its progress one stylish picture at a time. Every Fashion Friday, we’ll be surfing through social media streets to find design inspirations for our Pride Woman (which is you, by the way). See our weekly style catalogue. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ANKARAFASHIONGALLERY (@ankarafashiongallery) on Jan 28, 2020 at 9:05pm PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mabelle Ndongo?? (@mabellendongo) on Jan…
This week, we’ve curated our favourite fashion styled looks found on Instagram from the most stylish pages. Check them below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BellaNaijaStyle (@bellanaijastyle) on Feb 14, 2020 at 2:42am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by BellaNaijaStyle (@bellanaijastyle) on Feb 12, 2020 at 1:32am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by BellaNaijaStyle (@bellanaijastyle) on Feb 10, 2020 at 7:59am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by BellaNaijaStyle (@bellanaijastyle) on Feb 7, 2020 at 12:35pm PST…
Today, we celebrate our Woman Crush Wednesday, Rashidat Adebisi, who has garnered experience in different areas of the service industry covering customer service, financial advisory service, accounting and audit services. Currently, she is the Chief Client Officer and formerly head of the Retail Solution Division of AXA Mansard Insurance Plc, and has held other positions in the company since joining in 2005. She has also worked in various organisations including Churchill Insurance UK (Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group). Her educational background, dedication and hard work in her field has secured her career standing and climb. She holds a bachelor’s…
At this time, the whole world is confronted with an unprecedented pandemic that demands our human capacity to care for one another and our consciousness of the moral imperative to do our individual part for our community’s well-being. We are called to be members of a community in which the interest of our community takes precedence over our own individual interest – sacrificing our daily routines and our inclination to move freely. Whilst this remains vital to the interest and well-being of the community, it also serves the interests of our own personal health. Perhaps now more than ever, we…
You are gone. Completely vanished to me, I have no trace of you left. You are finally gone. You who made me so angry; and so sick. You are now gone. Then why am I so sad? I suppose it was when I searched for you That I realised how much you meant to me. And I also realised you knew how I felt about you, So much you let go and showed off your character – even the bad ones To make me angry and sick. And you loved me too, so much You placed that trust in showing…
Reading 1 Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim, who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah; her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the Law of Moses. Joakim was very rich; he had a garden near his house, and the Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most respected of them all. That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, of whom the Lord said, “Wickedness has come out of Babylon: from the elders who were to govern the people as…