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 Powede Eniola Awujo (@powedeawujo) on Nov 21, 2019 at 6:12am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by IDIA AISIEN (@idia.aisien) on Nov 21, 2019…
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Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo, University of Benin The recent statement by Nigeria’s Imo State government making it compulsory to study the Igbo language at all levels of education in the state is one in a string of similar pronouncements since Nigeria’s political independence in 1960. Igbo is already spoken widely in the country, but efforts to promote it in education have been resisted. The three major languages in Nigeria are Hausa (60 million native speakers), Yoruba (40 million) and Igbo (25 million). The Igbo are found everywhere in Nigeria and their language is commonly spoken in major markets and trading points.…
Laugh Quote “To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.”– Ashleigh Brilliant Dating Joke 911 Boy: *calls 911* Hello? I need your help! 911: All right, what is it? Boy: Two girls are fighting over me! 911: So what’s your emergency? Boy: The ugly one is winning. What’s the buzz? Yesterday I saw a guy spill all his Scrabble letters on the road. I asked him, “What’s the word on the street?” Business Joke Three questions A man walks into a lawyer’s office and asks, “How much do you charge?” The lawyer…
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 Temi Otedola (@jtofashion) on Nov 17, 2019 at 9:23am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by StyleVitae (@stylevitae) on Nov 19, 2019 at 4:51am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by StyleVitae (@stylevitae) on Nov 19, 2019 at 4:51am PST View this post on Instagram A post shared by StyleVitae (@stylevitae) on Nov 17, 2019 at 10:52pm PST…
Marc Mendelson, University of Cape Town Antibiotics have been a miracle of modern medicine. From a chance finding in 1928 to the modern day, millions of people have benefited from these life-saving medicines. This week, the world marks World Antibiotic Awareness Week – both a celebration of the remarkable contribution that antibiotics have made to global public health and a clarion call to action to ensure their continued usefulness. The case for a clarion call is clear: overuse and misuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and the food production industry has seen bacterial resistance to antibiotics surge in recent years.…
Today, like most days, I looked outside my window and for the first time in a long time, I could see the buildings sitting afar off clearly. One building stood out with its blue and pink roofing, a perfect contrast to the yellow coloured walls – whoever was behind the marriage of colours must lead a colourful life. Contrary to what you may be thinking; my eyesight is and has (for the most part) always been perfect. However, something was different; I didn’t have a thousand thoughts and mental images obstructing my view. Two weeks ago, I made the much-needed…
Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Queen Mary University of London Moody’s, one of the big three credit rating agencies, is not upbeat about the prospects for the world’s debt in 2020 – to put it mildly. If we were to try to capture the agency’s view of where we are heading on a palette of colours, we would be pointing at black – pitch black. Moody’s rates the creditworthiness of 142 countries, which represent about US$62.2 trillion (£48 trillion) of debt. It sees a disruptive political environment both within various countries and at the international level. This, it says, is aggravating the slow-motion…
Fay Bound Alberti, University of York What does loneliness sound like? I asked this question on Twitter recently. You might expect that people would say “silence”, but they didn’t. Their answers included: The wind whistling in my chimney, because I only ever hear it when I’m alone. The hubbub of a pub heard when the door opens to the street. The sound of a clicking radiator as it comes on or off. The terrible din of early morning birds in suburban trees. I suspect everyone has a sound associated with loneliness and personal alienation. Mine is the honk of Canadian…
Sharron Hinchliff, University of Sheffield It’s not often you see people over-50 having sex on screen. It’s so rare, in fact, that the sex scenes in 45 Years, the recent film about the approaching anniversary of a retired couple, became one of the main talking points in its coverage. And yet a sizeable minority of people continue to have active sex lives into their 70s, 80s and even beyond. A recent study found that a third of over-70s had sex at least twice a month. So why do we so often shy away from talking about or portraying something so…
Black excellence is a big deal for us here at Pride Magazine Nigerian as well as celebrating women who continually accomplish outstanding feats. A woman of such calibre worth celebrating today as our Woman Crush Wednesday is Adesewa Josh. Adesewa is an award-winning broadcast journalist and philanthropist. In 2009, she received a Certificate in News Production and Reporting from BBC World Service while in 2012, earned a certificate in TV Presenting from UK’s Aspire Presenting Institute. She also holds a Certificate in Basic Presentation from Radio Nigeria. In 2011, she completed her postgraduate diploma in International Relations from Lagos State…