Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria I am regularly asked how I have managed to juggle the demands of a family and a career in science. The short answer to the question is ‘with difficulty’ and while this is the easy truthful answer, it does not really help to guide women grappling with the problem. I should include men in this equation as these issues should be as important to women as they are to their life partners. But my focus is as a mother and my suggestions are from a personal perspective. The first and most important advice I can…
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Greg Putnam, University of North Carolina Wilmington WeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth just $8 billion in a matter of months. It did so in part by wrapping its real estate sublet business in the cloak of a tech startup destined to “change the world.” Were investors like SoftBank and JPMorgan duped by the hype of a charismatic founder, as happened with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos? As a lecturer in finance and someone who managed investments for 20 years, I believe that there was some of that,…
Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan Hiring domestic servants is a common phenomenon in Nigeria. More often than not this involves vulnerable children being made to work as live-in domestic servants mostly in middle class urban households. Researchers have investigated what creates the supply of child labour, but few have attempted to understand the demand. My research produced some pointers to why households use children as servants. This is why I chose to investigate factors that propel demand for domestic servants in Oyo State, southwest Nigeria. Oyo State is known as a hot-spot for child trafficking – as source, transit and…
American artist, Kanye West isn’t slowing down with the gospel of Jesus Christ just yet. In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple music’s Beats 1, Kanye West who revealed that he is going to run for United States president someday said: “Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me, I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessy had done for…
Not in my backyard, yet. Leftover ruins shell by shell Impunious mounds pile by pile Deserted streets As tribes decrease piece by piece Izge weeps First hit by camped scorn Chibok mourns daughters She may never again see Haram in Higi As Margi are displaced within walls of own home Lodestone hatred rapidly spreading Like cattle of normadic descent Ubiquitous terror Fly incessant by night sky Across Biu, Shani and Hawul Buratai is without walls! Orphaned amputees of land mines Of warlike cause Litter like lush lands Hurriedly emptied out Numb-nimby To nebulous cries East-west…
Reading 1 Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 The LORD said to Moses, “These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrate at their proper time with a sacred assembly. The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month, at the evening twilight. The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD’s feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assembly and do no sort of work. On each of the seven days you shall offer an oblation…
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…
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…