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 Jul 31, 2019 at 2:31am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ankara…
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Edmund Keogh, University of Bath It’s a commonly held belief that women are better able to tolerate pain than men. The reasoning behind this is often that women are built to withstand pain because of how frequently they experience pain in their lives from events such as periods and childbirth. On the other hand, when a typical man gets a cold he’s often laughed at for suffering a bout of “man-flu”. There are clear and consistent gender differences in the perception and experience of pain. But are such views really a helpful way of thinking about men and women’s pain?…
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 Juliette Foxx (@romeosfashionfix) on Jul 25, 2019 at 7:37am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bengine Beauty (@bengine.eliscar) on Jul 23, 2019 at 12:23pm PDT View this post on Instagram Hello les beautés ! J’espère que vous avez passé un bon dimanche par la grâce de Dieu. Je suis actuellement dans le sud pour partager des bons moments avec ma famille et ma fille ?. C’est trop…
Zoe Strimpel, University of Sussex Matchmaking and dating services used to advertise in small rectangles on tube carriages, next to the vitamin drinks and food delivery services, and in smaller rectangles still on the classified pages of newspapers and magazines. But the online dating industry has matured into bigger and bolder campaigns: the world’s largest online dating site, Match.com recently launched an ad campaign that featured dozens of giant posters in prime advertising locations, slots normally taken by the likes of Sky, Eurostar, or the high street banks. But the campaign, with its slogan “love your imperfections”, was not universally…
Stella Kivila is a qualified pharmacist, seasoned trainer, facilitator, speaker and consultant who helps businesses accelerate revenue generation, employee engagement and customer loyalty by building high-performance teams. She is also a Mentor, Team Leader and a Board member with the Girls 4 Girls (G4G) Global Mentoring Program. Before starting Performance Point International (PPI), Stella held various leadership positions at Vine Pharmaceuticals Limited (a retail pharmacy chain) where she led a team of over 100 people across numerous branches. She designed a Community Pharmacy Program to equip the team to deliver knowledge-based care with every patient interaction. This was aimed at…
Tosin Durotoye, our Woman Crush Wednesday is the director of GreenHouse Lab, the first female-focused tech accelerator program in Nigeria the only “Powered by Google” accelerator program in Africa. She’s also the Chief Operating Officer at FilmoRealty – a leading real estate services and PropTech solutions company based in Lagos, Nigeria. Before joining GreenHouse Lab, Tosin worked as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Framework – an edutech company focused on affordable housing and based in Boston, USA. She also served for 8 years as a Manager at NeighborWorks America – an NGO founded by the United States Congress. In this role,…
Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in a number of countries across the world including Brazil and India. Because WhatsApp is encrypted – and so offers users far greater protection from prosecution than Twitter or Facebook – it has become particularly notorious for spreading “fake news”. This is a major concern in Africa, where WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in 40 countries. This is due to its low cost and the ability to easily share messages with both individuals and groups.…
Jennifer Grygiel, Syracuse University Facebook has announced a plan to launch a new cryptocurrency named the Libra, adding another layer to its efforts to dominate global communications and business. Backed by huge finance and technology companies including Visa, Spotify, eBay, PayPal and Uber – plus a ready-made user base of 2 billion people around the world – Facebook is positioned to pressure countries and central banks to cooperate with its reinvention of the global financial system. In my view as a social media researcher and educator, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is clearly seeking to give his company even more political…
In today’s business world driven by information and communication technology, one important communication tool we cannot do without is- electronic mail or email. According to email now takes up a significant portion of our workday. According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) workers spend 28 percent of their workweek reading and answering email. While we try to work faster and more efficiently, we must not forget the social rules that accompany any form of communication. We are happy to share with you dos and don’ts of email as written by Jacqueline Whitmore for the Entrepreneur. Do have…
Stephen Billett, Griffith University This article is part of a series on the future of vocational education and training, exploring issues within the sector and how to improve the decline in enrolments and shortages of qualified people in vocational jobs. Read the other articles in the series here. The low status of vocational education and training (VET) is a growing problem. Many young Australians and their parents don’t consider VET as a potential post-school pathway, even if it might be more suitable for them than university. In an era of high aspiration, VET is often seen as an option only…