Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College Thich Nhat Hanh, the monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, has returned home to Vietnam to enjoy the rest of his life. Devotees from many parts of the world are visiting the ailing 92-year-old, who has retired to a Buddhist temple outside Hue. This thoughtful and accepting approach to his own failing health seems fitting for the popular Buddhist teacher, whose followers include a thousand Buddhist communities around the world and millions more who have read his books. For everyone, his teachings encourage being present in the moment. As a scholar of the contemporary practices…
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I know you’re a virgin who didn’t know what men do with doors, what men do with buildings, what men do to doors, how men knock at doors, how men bark at doors to terrify it into running away, flaking away, rushing away to remove itself from its hinges, from its root, from its guardian angels. I know you don’t know how men shake doors, shake buildings, how men lay waste its flowers, lay waste its nectars, how men burn buildings down through sex and romance. You’re young with a voracious modulus for calculus; you’re probably naïve with the natives…
Bavesh Kana, University of the Witwatersrand The suffering and massive loss of life caused by Tuberculosis (TB) are proof that humanity hasn’t prioritised the development of tools to eliminate a disease dating back 9 000 years. Two stark facts highlight this: most of the antibiotics used to treat TB were developed decades ago. And, until very recently, some diagnostic approaches being used were a century old. There’s a chronic funding gap for TB research and development. The Global TB Alliance estimates that it’s as high as $1.3 billion per year. While still inadequate, there has been a shift towards reducing…
Pier Paolo Frassinelli, University of Johannesburg There is no better place to assess the state of “auteur” African cinema than at its premier showcase, the biennial film festival in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Popularly known by its acronym, Fespaco, the Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou recently celebrated its 50th birthday. Fespaco and the 1966 Journées cinématographiques de Carthage in Tunisia were the earliest concrete steps towards the idea of African cinema on African soil. These two film festivals were the first major African events entirely dedicated to showcasing movies from across the continent.…
Simon Chadwick, University of Salford Football’s top brass are heading to Miami as FIFA’s Council gets together for one of its regular meetings. Generally, these gatherings are tepid affairs as football’s world governing body works through the minutiae of governing a game that has an official membership of more than 200 countries. But this meeting will be different, as almost two years of high stakes manoeuvring should culminate in a decision that will not only determine what format the 2022 World Cup will take, but may influence the nature of country relations across the Gulf region for years to come.…
Hannah Brown, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute and Louise Hull, University of Adelaide If it’s not you, perhaps it’s someone you know. You don’t look infertile, you don’t feel infertile, but after many months (or years) of trying to start a family, followed by several months of monitoring your cycle in a fertility clinic, it’s time to discuss IVF. This is a big decision. It will impact your time, your finances, your emotions, your relationships and your dreams of being a parent. Despite the language of “falling pregnant”, inferring absolute simplicity, infertility is a reality for one in…
Samuel Greiff, University of Luxembourg and Jonas Müller, University of Luxembourg It’s no longer enough for children just to be able to read, count or multiply. With computers now doing many mundane repetitive tasks for us, many jobs in today’s world require analytical skills and the ability to solve unexpected problems. For the first time, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has attempted to measure countries’ progress at teaching children how to do this. The OECD hosts one of the major large-scale assessments of student competencies in the world, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). More than…
Our new column, Traditional and Contemporary, focuses on the Ankara fabric spliced with contemporary designs. 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 Loving this gorgeous outfit Ankara highneck two side split top #africanfashion#africanfabrics#ankarafashion#highnecktop#fashion#fashionblogger#fashioninspiration#stylebyesteesheridan#shakaramoments#bellanijastyle#style#model#fashionaddictfa#faboutfits#9naijafashiongallery A post shared by EsteeSheridan (@esteesheridan) on Oct 25, 2018 at 9:54am PDT…
The American sitcom, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, is the perfect example of on-screen 90’s fashion worth emulating. The 2019 version of the old school adaptation was sufficiently slathered on the runway as proof of fashion’s recycling abilities. Owing to the ’90s as a wellspring of fashion inspiration, this weekend take a cue from Will’s print clashing, Ashley’s boxy outerwear and Hillary’s classic style – there’s something for everyone. Print clashing To cop Will Smith’s (aka Fresh Prince) style, pair clashing prints, but for the sake of style sanity, skip shorts with a dog-print or just don’t have those in…
Laugh Quote Love is free, but the diapers are expensive… Wise Guys Answer To Stupid Question Question: Don’t you know that being fat is unhealthy? Wise Guy: My fat body is amazing and requires no justification. Your rudeness, on the other hand, is inexcusable. Corny Chat Up Line Smoking is hazardous to one’s health… and baby, you’re killing me! Business Joke Risen from the dead My boss asked me today, “Do you believe in life after death and the supernatural?” I replied, “Yes, I think so.” “I thought you would,” he said. “Yesterday after you left to go to your…