Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University A large number of artefacts held in Western museums and libraries are known to have been appropriated over the ages through conquest and colonialism. The looting of African objects anthropologists, curators and private collectors took place in war as well as in peaceful times. It was justified as an act of benevolence; as saving dying knowledge. Some museums have started to try and acknowledge that their collections have uncomfortable histories tied to colonial violence. Nevertheless, Britain’s long-standing policy is not to cease ownership over its looted treasures. As then-Prime Minister David Cameron said of Greece’s…
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Ruth Brooks, University of Huddersfield and Dennis Duty, University of Huddersfield One of the main reasons given by students for going to university is to get a good job afterwards, but with around 500,000 people graduating each year the job market is extremely competitive. A university course will help you develop some of the skills that employers are looking for, but you need more than a degree certificate to get a graduate-level job. Companies want to see other achievements as well as qualifications, and they also want to make sure you have the right employability skills to be able to…
Holy Humour Leave them in their ignorance. One day, 3 men died and went to heaven. “Religion?” God’s secretary asked the first man. “Jewish,” the man replied. “Okay, go to room 23, but be very quiet when you go past room 8,” the secretary said. “Religion?” he asked the second man. “Muslim.” “Go to room 10, but be very quiet when you go past room 8.” “Religion?” he asked the third man. “Agnostic.” “Go to room 71, but be very quiet when you go past room 8.” “Why must I be quiet when I go past room 8?” the man…
Bless the children. For in this world, They have no choice. With their little voices, hearts and spirits, They show us the innocence of life. Let us guide and guard them, For they are the future, And the purest of all. Look at that child, I can see how it moves. I can hear what it says. Carefree and careless, But gentle in every way. It explores; it searches Knowing and seeing what we can’t. Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe from her book of poems – Words from Beyond When Crying for Myself: Musings from Childhood.xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc…
Reading 1 Acts 8:1b-8 There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him. Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the Church; entering house after house and dragging out men and women, he handed them over for imprisonment. Now those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. Thus Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was…
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor people’s movement, health, mindfulness, sleep, eating habits and even sexual activity. Some of the more thorny problems arise from apps designed to track others, like those made for parents to track their kids. For example, there are specific apps that allow parents to monitor their child’s GPS location, who they call, what they text, which apps they use, what they view online and the phone number of their contacts. As a bioethicist…
Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan Transactional sex among female undergraduates in Nigeria is a social reality. The practice has been reported on regularly in the mainstream media and explored in various research papers. This cross generational relationship is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, and across the world where sponsors are commonly known as “sugar daddies”. In our study on transactional sex in Nigerian universities, my colleague and I looked at the symbiotic relationship between some female Nigerian undergraduate students and aristos – wealthy, married or unmarried men. The students have transactional sex with the aristos in exchange for financial, social or…
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 Mona (@ankarastyles) on May 10, 2019 at 12:07am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ankara Styles…
Oana Goga, Université Grenoble Alpes Facebook’s advertising platform was not built to help social media users understand who was targeting them with messages, or why. It is an extremely powerful system, which lets advertisers target specific users according to a detailed range of attributes. For example, in 2017, there were 3,100 people in Facebook’s database who lived in Idaho, were in long-distance relationships and were thinking about buying a minivan. That ability to microtarget specific messages at very particular groups of people can, however, let dishonest advertisers discriminate against minority groups or spread politically divisive misinformation. Governments and advocates in…
Edmund Keogh, University of Bath Men should take better care of themselves. We die at an earlier age than women, despite women suffering more health conditions and making greater use of health services. Life expectancy differences may be different because of biology, but we also know that men engage in riskier activities, including poorer lifestyle choices. Men are more likely to drink excessively and smoke, both of which are associated with serious health conditions and increased hospital admissions. Most worryingly, men are more likely to commit suicide, where they are three times more likely to take this route – percentages…