Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University About three years ago, a teenage girl was talking with me and other students about using her cell phone late at night. She told us how she waited until her parents were asleep, then spent at least four hours every night texting with her friends. Her parents thought she was asleep in bed. “I’d sleep a few hours, then get up at 6am,” she told me. “My parents always thought I had slept through the night and was just the first one up.” The kicker? She reported doing this virtually every night. I was sure…
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Erni Juwita Nelwan, Universitas Indonesia News of a recent case of monkeypox in Singapore has made countries in Southeast Asia wary about the spread of the disease. There has not yet been any reported case in Asia outside Singapore. But we need to know about the disease that has plagued other countries, particularly in Africa. Singapore is the fourth country, and first in Asia, where the monkey smallpox virus has infected humans. Cases were reported in the United States in 2003 and Britain and Israel last year. This disease is very contagious and we have yet to find a cure.…
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 Fashion | Styles |Ankaralooks (@ankaralooks) on Oct 19, 2018 at 1:00am PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Xzendaofficial (@xzenda)…
Natasha McKeever, University of Leeds The recent spate of sexual harassment accusations against prominent men in Westminster comes as no surprise to many of us. We expect them to know better – to have been better people – but we have also seen this kind of behaviour before … over and over again. It isn’t just powerful men – but it is almost always men. It’s time to start looking at the deep-rooted causes of harassment. We need to try to understand why sexual harassment is carried out much more by men against women than vice versa. And this is…
Innan Sasaki, Lancaster University Japan is home to a number of the world’s oldest companies. There is even a specific Japanese term for companies that have survived for more than a century, retained ownership within the same family and continued plying the same trade for the duration. They are called “shinise” firms. Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, holds the highest proportion of these century-old firms. They operate in traditional sectors such as sake brewing, sweet making and arts and crafts. The Gekkeikan sake company, for example, is nearly 400 years old and has been run by 14 consecutive generations of the…
Weeks ago, two mutual male friends came for a visit. They are both married. One had been married for 15 years, while the other, for 3 years. In the course of our conversation, they shared their experience within marriage, a few which was laced with a bit of sadness and frustration. One complained that his wife has stopped wearing heels which were one of the things that attracted him to her; the other complained that his wife barely talks to him and instead, the attention has been diverted to their kids (especially with a daughter who is now of age…
Juliana Claassens, Stellenbosch University This is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published “Teaching for Change”. In 2016 female students at South Africa’s universities started the #EndRapeCulture campaign to mobilise against the pervasive culture of sexual violence on the different campuses. In Stellenbosch the campaign was marked by two striking occasions. One evening in April 2016, the fire alarms went off at 2am across the Stellenbosch University campus. This was to signal the message that the student community would no longer be silent about their fellow students being raped. A month earlier, a group of young women…
My Darling Daughter, Beware of getting caught up in the “bright shiny objects syndrome”. That is, becoming so consumed by inconsequential things that may sometimes take you off course, or as some will put it, divert our destiny. It is easy to get distracted, my dear. You should be mindful to avoid those distractions, which might be attractive but are not necessary for your growth. In this social media era, it’s harder to be immune to the fabulous and extravagant lives portrayed by people. You may be tempted to strive for the things which will supposedly make your life better.…
Our Woman Crush Wednesday, Omoni Oboli, is an actress, scriptwriter, film director, producer and a trained digital filmmaker. She’s basically a master in a plethora of trades, making her nothing short of a Super Woman, though she might have no cape, neither is she a fictional crime-fighting vigilante. In addition, she’s a mother of three boys, a doting wife, and a fitness buff. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Omoni Oboli (@omonioboli) on May 20, 2019 at 12:45pm PDT Through her movies, her excellence and brilliance can be spotted from a mile away. And what…
Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University Corruption can have a crippling effect on a country’s economy. This is why African businesses have described ending corruption as “priority number one”. Take Nigeria, where the basic infrastructure deficit is huge but funds to improve its infrastructure always seem to end up missing or misallocated. In addition, projects are started and never finished. As a result the country’s roads, rail and ports are in a deplorable state. Nigerians also suffer from persistent electricity shortages. They lack pipe-borne water and proper sanitation facilities. Housing provision is a problem too. The country has spent billions of US…