Alun Withey, University of Exeter Personal grooming has perhaps never been so important, so popular and so well-served by “product”. For men at least. Male grooming products are now part of a huge industry, worth hundreds of millions of pounds, with a bewildering array of skincare products on offer, from moisturisers and eye creams to makeup. Although it has ballooned, the market for men’s cosmetics isn’t just a modern phenomenon. In fact, over the past three centuries or so, shaving soaps, paste and scents have often been linked to contemporary ideas about what men should look like. In the 17th…
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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 @edwigealamode ?? Outfit @grass_fields ? @dorcas.pw ✨ #ankarastyles #africanprint #style #africanfashion A post shared by Ankara Styles by Mrs Nobody (@ankarastyles) on Jul 19, 2019 at 1:18am PDT …
Millennials may never be privy to the luxury of privacy. This fact transcends the bane called capitalism which big companies like Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat, et cetera, use as the perfect excuse to get into our lives for their personal gain. It is broader than their so-called financial agenda. We are contending with the new innate need to tell the world what we are up to even though they really don’t care. (We aren’t just publicly washing our dirty linen, we are tossing our entire laundry to the streets. And we are okay with it.) Or are we? I’m not.…
Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex President Donald Trump has been denounced by the US House of Representatives for tweets attacking four Democratic Congresswomen of colour calling on them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came”. The resolution, which passed by 240 to 187 votes on July 16, condemned the “racist comments that have legitimised fear and hatred of New Americans and people of colour”. In response to Trump’s threat, the four Democratic Congresswomen, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, who have come to be known as “the squad”,…
Laina Bay-Cheng, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York When it comes to power in romantic relationships, men are often cast as dominant and women as deferential. But working against this are caricatures of domineering women with their “hen-pecked husbands” and “whipped boyfriends.” At the same time, popular culture is replete with representations of striving and self-serving women – from celebrities like Beyoncé to the TV show “Girls” – who engage in relationships with men as social equals on a level playing field. The idea that during relationship conflicts, women can be just as volatile, combative and aggressive…
My Dear Daughter, Difficulties, challenges, trials and tragedies strike randomly and nobody is immune to it. Yes, there will be good times too. This is life. Since good and bad times go hand in hand, you should learn to deal with the bad times with the right disposition. This is where the admonition of St. Paul in Thessalonians 5 verse18 comes in handy: “Give thanks in every circumstance.” My take on St. Paul’s advice is that we should try to put a positive spin on every circumstance we face. By looking at circumstances, trials and tribulations with a positive mindset,…
Everyone knows that starting a business and ensuring its sustainability is one of the most tasking endeavours in Nigeria. For this reason, most people prefer the safety net that 9-5 jobs offer. Nevertheless, more millennials are branching out into entrepreneurship and a major reason for this besides their thirst for exploring their creativity, are the success stories of those that have dived into the entrepreneurship head-on and survived. One of those people is our woman crush Wednesday, Tara Durotoye. Tara is Africa’s leading beauty and makeup entrepreneur. She’s the founder and CEO of House of Tara International which has become…
Every baseball team that has ever had a short or long winning streak is faced with a time where that streak comes to an end. They hit a point where they realize what got them “here” won’t get them “there” and they must act to stay in the game. A business is much like a baseball game where every company that stands the test of time ends up faced with a time where what they have done in the past may not work anymore, therefore they must reinvent themselves. They must have the courage to think beyond their past successes,…
Leila Patel, University of Johannesburg; Lauren Graham, University of Johannesburg, and Zoheb Khan, University of Johannesburg The picture in South Africa is a bleak one for the average 15 – 24 year old. Many have finished their schooling with a qualification of little value in the eyes of employers. And they lack the basic skills that employers now need. The result is that a staggering 39,6% (narrow definition) or 55,2% (expanded definition which includes those who have stopped actively looking for work) are unemployed. South Africa has grappled with high unemployment for many years and the private sector, civil society…
Joshua Krook, University of Adelaide At the end of 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that close to two-thirds of all Australians had completed a degree or apprenticeship. The growth in the number of people attending a university or TAFE has risen out of a cyclical demand-driven system called “academic inflation”. Think supply and demand. If an employer can hire someone with a degree or someone without, they’ll hire the person with a degree because they are seen as the superior candidate. This puts pressure on everyone to get degrees. But once everyone has one, the value of…