Author: Pride Team

Michelle Stratemeyer, University of Melbourne; Adriana Vargas Saenz, University of Melbourne, and Elise Holland, University of Melbourne A man sits in a doctor’s office after months of his wife’s increasingly desperate pleas for him to seek professional help for his constant coughing. In the end, she was the one who booked his appointment and even drove him there. Another man is meeting with his manager, anticipating derision and mockery when he mentions he needs to reduce his workload to accommodate the birth of his first child. A third man has a violent encounter outside a pub, fuelled by binge drinking…

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Clement Prince Addo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China All over the world, the internet has provided extraordinary socioeconomic opportunities to businesses, governments, and individuals. But less developed countries still face numerous obstacles to maximise its potential. The problems range from obsolete infrastructure, the nonavailability, non-accessibility, cost, power fluctuations, policies and regulation. Many countries on the continent still have bandwidth as low as 64 kilobits. This is in contrast to the 270,000 megabits per second in the US. Data also shows that downloading a 5GB movie took 734 minutes in the Republic of Congo, 788 minutes in Sao…

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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 Eva (e25dresses) (@e25dresses) on Aug 20, 2019 at 1:07am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ankara Styles And Inspiration…

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I was born into a Christian family to parents with the parenting motto that was a springboard from the Biblical scripture that says, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. This scripture is a parenting 101 tip with worldwide relevance, even today. I personally believe in children being disciplined, but where do we draw the line? Months ago, there was an uproar on social media over a video that showed a young boy being beaten by an older lady with a stick and locked up in the dog’s cage, afterwards. The video which prompted the lady’s arrest yielded more dreadful…

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In Nigeria, prisons are perceived as places where criminals are sent to be punished, however, this only works in theory. Oftentimes, after ‘punishment’ is meted and they are subsequently released, these individuals fall back into the same (or progressively worse) patterns of criminal activities. This proofs that our criminal laws ought to go beyond the scope of punishment to reformation. This is where our Woman Crush Wednesday, Funke Adeoye, comes in. Funke is a public interest lawyer who is also the founder and executive director of Hope Behind Bars Africa, a community of volunteers building a social profit organisation committed…

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Roberto Musotto, Edith Cowan University and David S. Wall, University of Leeds Facebook is planning end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services to increase privacy levels. The tech giant started experimenting with this earlier this year. Soon, end-to-end encryption will be standard for every Facebook message. But Australian, British and United States governments and law makers aren’t happy about it. They fear it will make it impossible to recover criminal conversations from Facebook’s platforms, thus offering impunity to offenders. For instance, this was a major concern following the 2017 London terror attacks. Attackers used WhatsApp (Facebook’s end-to-end encrypted platform), and…

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Miemie Struwig, Nelson Mandela University Women in 2015 have to admit they are lucky. They don’t live in the world that their mothers or grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were limited. Most have grown up in a world where they have had basic human rights. But, amazingly, some still don’t have these rights. And women are still not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world. Why is this still the case? I would like to challenge every woman and ask: what would you be if you had no fear? To answer this,…

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Holy Humour Windmill At his first service, the new preacher had a pitcher of water and a glass on the pulpit. As he preached, he drank until the pitcher was completely empty. On the way out, someone asked the elder matriarch what she thought of the new pastor. “He’s great,” she said with a smile. “But he’s the first windmill I ever saw that ran on water.”   Sunday Quote       Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man … living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a…

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Reading 1 Is 40:1-11 Comfort; give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins. A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley. Then the…

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