Holy Humour A fitting place. A pastor fell out with his church council over various church policies and procedures, including how the finances were handled. After bitter arguments and many nights of lost sleep, he decided to leave the congregation to take a job as a prison chaplain. He preached his last sermon at the church on John 14:1: “I go to prepare a place for you.” Sunday Quote The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Sunday Joke Effective remedy Bent over and obviously in pain, the old man with a…
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Nick Hopwood, University of Technology Sydney The idea of teaching parents how to parent makes many of us uncomfortable. However, educating parents is a positive step towards a society that provides all children with the best possible start in life. It is also better for the economy in the long run. State interventions in the home: unwelcome meddling? Parenting programs are a touchy subject for many people for a range of reasons. For those who advocate greater personal autonomy and distrust the state, parent education can be seen as the epitome of unwelcome government meddling in private family life. The…
Sarah Pitt, University of Brighton There’s been a surge in measles cases across Europe, putting people’s lives at risk according to new findings from the World Health Organization. The official figures show that approximately 90,000 cases have been reported for the first half of 2019. This is already more than the number of cases recorded for the whole of 2018 (84,462). This has in part been put down to disinformation about the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine on social media putting parents off vaccinating their children. Recent outbreaks of measles, which is much more infectious than mumps and rubella,…
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 Ankara Styles by Mrs Nobody (@ankarastyles) on Jun 27, 2019 at 1:09am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ankara…
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 Ini Dima-Okojie (@inidimaokojie) on Oct 19, 2019 at 10:37am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by StyleVitae (@stylevitae) on Oct 22, 2019 at 5:19am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chinyere Chi-Chi Adogu ???? (@the_real_chi) on Oct 17, 2019 at 8:12am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Angel Obasi (@styleconnaisseur) on Oct…
Dr Morna Cornell, University of Cape Town Men make up slightly less than half of the adults living with HIV across the world. Yet they account for nearly 60% of the AIDS related deaths. This is one of the observations from the The Lancet Commission on HIV, which looked at the global response to the pandemic. According to the report, the key driver of this gender difference in health outcomes between men and women is that men use health care services less than women. This isn’t a new observation: for more than 10 years antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan…
Fiona Ramsay, University of the Witwatersrand Every few months there’s a fresh outcry from South African actors complaining about exploitative working conditions in the film and television industry. Last year cast and crew were up in arms about an actor who needlessly fell to his death from a waterfall during a film shoot. Most recently award-winning actress Vatiswa Ndara penned an angry open letter to the country’s arts and sports minister. Among the issues she raised were that actors are underpaid, particularly given the excessive workload being placed on them. Jack Devnarain. SAGA Adrian Galley. SAGA Ndara also took aim…
Lee Smith, Anglia Ruskin University; Daragh McDermott, Anglia Ruskin University, and Sarah Jackson, UCL Sexual activity is an essential part of intimate relationships, though it tends to decline as people get older. But although research shows that frequency of sexual activity can decrease with age, for many older people, sex still remains an important part of their life. There’s a common misconception that as people age, they lose their interest in sex and capacity for sexual behaviour. But as a UK survey shows, this isn’t the case. Indeed, the survey found that 85% of men aged 60–69 report being sexually…
Financial responsibility is a huge part of adulthood. Once you grow older, you realize saving is not an option but an integral part of survival. Howbeit, this is easier said than done thanks to factors like human impulse. Sometimes, impulsive buying is springboard from our lack of self-control which can only be curbed by discipline. That’s what our Woman Crush Wednesday, Ufia Aniebietabasi, comes in. As the founder of Kolo Lagos, Ufia saw an opportunity to help people save by building a successful business that manufactures piggybanks (or like it’s popularly called in Nigeria, Kolo). Her personal experience in university…
Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh, loses his dad. Making the announcement yesterday on his social media, Chris, who is once again grieving, shared an emotional caption to go with an image of his dad. In the post, he thanked his father for all the good memories and gave him credit for the man he is today. He wrote: “Fred Attoh 1927 – 2019 : My father always said “Believe in yourself Nii, you can do anything, it may seem Impossible at first, but never Impregnable!” Daddy, everything you did and taught me has left a profound influence over my life and…