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…
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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…
Yesterday, I came across a post on Instagram by Nigerian actress, Beverly Naya, urging men to give relationship advice to women (because sometimes seeing things from a rarely explored perspective is a brilliant idea), and surprisingly the responses it garnered were quite insightful. With over a thousand responses, it’s quite obvious that men have a lot more to say and give in terms of relationship advice. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Beverly Naya (@thebeverlynaya) on May 15, 2019 at 2:01am PDT See a few responses: In addition, the best relationship advice I ever received…
Sallek Yaks Musa, Stellenbosch University Governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens against external aggression and internal violence. The first is usually the responsibility of the military. The second duty falls on the police. But in Nigeria, the government often deploys the military to restore order and to keep the peace. This is largely due to the inability of the police to contain violent conflicts, particularly in areas where armed groups are active. This is the situation in Jos, the capital of Plateau State in the centre of Nigeria, just north of the administrative capital Abuja. The military has…
Robert Merkel, Monash University It’s been a day of high-profile security incidents. First there was news the popular WhatsApp messenger app was hacked. Updated versions of WhatsApp have been released, which you should install if you’re one of the more than one billion people who use the app. There was also news of several security flaImage by Alfredo Rivera from Pixabay ws in the majority of Intel processors, found in many of the world’s desktop, laptop and server computers. Software patches to prevent exploitation of these hardware flaws have been released by several vendors, including Microsoft. You should install security updates from vendors promptly,…
Women are constantly faced with the need to hide their truth because of societal pressures. These buried truths are oftentimes pregnant with meaning and lessons that when amplified on social media, could change the lives of women (and possibly men). Our Woman Crush Wednesday, Nse Ikpe-Etim, is given the honour today not just for her acting prowess or movie making brilliance, but for her transparency and strength. In a recent video done with BBC Pidgin, Nse opens up about her childbirth challenges, the difficult choices she’s had to make and her battle with depression. View this post on Instagram…
Christiaan De Beukelaer, University of Melbourne and Andrew J. Eisenberg, New York University Abu Dhabi Last year was a good one for the music recording industry. After years of decline 2018 marked the fourth consecutive year of growth in music industry revenues. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, this was driven by a significant rise in “digital” revenues which accounted for nearly 60% of the total. The federation also points out that the music industry is now more “global” than ever thanks to the successes of Korean and Latin American artists, among others. But one very important…
Bettie Jenifer, the wife of Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh, is dead. The tragic incident which has the markings of an assassination took place on Friday the 10th. According to reports gathered, she was shot dead while leaving her office in Maryland in the United States of America. Washington DC-based TV network, NBC, reports that she was shot in the head by a gunman on Friday evening around 5 pm and was pronounced dead when police arrived at the scene of the crime. Report states she left the office in the 6300 block of Ivy Lane and was walking to her…
Miemie Struwig, Nelson Mandela University Women in 2015 have to admit they are lucky. They don’t live in the world that their mothers or grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were limited. Most have grown up in a world where they have had basic human rights. But, amazingly, some still don’t have these rights. And women are still not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world. Why is this still the case? I would like to challenge every woman and ask: what would you be if you had no fear? To answer this,…