Ex-BB Naija 2018 house-mate, Iheme Faith Uloma popularly addressed as Ifu Ennada, has launched her clothing line.
Ifu Ennada took to her Instagram page to make the announcement and post pictures. The clothing line is called, “beautIFU by DND”.
The clothing line is a collaboration between the former BB Naija housemate and the CEO of Duke and Duchess designs. The first collection will be unveiled on the 27th of September, 2018.
Reports from a UNICEF research found that 65% of females in the Kibera slum in Kenya, the largest urban slum in Africa, have at one point traded sex for sanitary products.
The girls are forced to have sex with older men because it is the only way they can access sanitary products due to poverty and the stigma surrounding menstruation.
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The research also reports that 54% of Kenyan girls still have problems accessing feminine hygiene products and 22% of schoolgirls still have to buy their own even though the Kenyan government signed a bill into law last year that says girls in public schools will receive free sanitary towels.
90,000 girls in 335 schools in Kenya now have access to safe and clean facilities because of that bill, but there’s clearly still more work to be done. Andrew Trevett, UNICEF Kenya chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, hypothesizes two reasons why girls have to trade sex for sanitary products:
“One obvious reason is poverty – girls and women don’t have the financial means to buy sanitary products. But there is also the issue of supply.
Transactional sex for sanitary items happens because the items are not available in girl’s villages.
In the countryside, girls are faced with no transport and can’t afford a bus fare. In some remote villages, there are no roads and there isn’t a bus service.”
UNICEF found that 7% of women use old cloths, chicken feathers, mud and newspapers in the place of pads or tampons — while some dig a hole in the ground and sit there for days till their period passes.
UNICEF also found that only 50% of girls felt they could openly discuss menstruation at home.
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On Thursday, September 20, 2018, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, held a lunch on the grounds of Kensington Palace to launch a cookbook she helped create with women affected by the Grenfell fire.
Meghan Markle was accompanied by her husband Prince Harry, and her mom, Doria Ragland for the celebration.
Meghan joined the women from the Hubb Community Kitchen to prepare a meal of coconut chicken curry, aubergine masala, and chapatis from the recipes in the book.
The Hubb Community Kitchen (Hubb translates to love in Arabic) was founded in 2017 by a group of women as a place to cook for their families and neighbors affected by the Grenfell fire.
Funds gotten from the sale of the cookbook will help support the community kitchen.
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LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 20: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex helps to prepare food at an event to mark the launch of a cookbook with recipes from a group of women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire at Kensington Palace on September 20, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Ben Stansall – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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According to SDK, Miss World 2001 Agbani Darego, and her husband Ishaya Danjuma, welcomed their son in a London hospital in July 2018.
The couple who likes to keep their private lives private as much as possible decided to conceal the news of the pregnancy and the birth of their son.
Agbani and Ishaya had a quiet wedding in Morocco in 2017.
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Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been named the winner of the 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award.
The award has been presented every year since 2005 in honour of Everett M. Rogers, whose “Diffusion of Innovation” is the second-most cited book in the social sciences.
Willow Bay, Dean of USC Annenberg, who presents the award, said of the writer:
Her voice and her power to inspire made Chimamanda Adichie the unanimous choice for the 2019 Rogers Award.
She will receive her award at the school on February 7, 2019.
The Wodaabe are a nomadic sexually liberated polygamous/polyamorous tribe who allow the tribe’s women to have sexual intercourse with whoever they want before they are married. The women are also allowed to have numerous husbands. Women have all the power when it comes to intimacy.
Women who attend the Wodaabe festival may or may not be married, but they come in search of their next husband. Each female present gets to choose her own winner and escape with him.
First marriages are traditionally arranged by families while parties are still children. This marriage is called Koogal.
According to the Daily Mail, ” A bride stays with her husband until she becomes pregnant, after which goes to live with her mother. She delivers the baby at her mother’s home when she becomes a ‘boofeydo’, which literally means ‘someone who has committed an error’. While she is boofeydo, she is not allowed to have any contact with her husband, and he is not allowed to express any interest in either her or the child. After two to three years, she is permitted to visit her husband, but it is still taboo that she should live with him or bring the child with her; this only becomes permissible when her mother has managed to purchase all the items that are necessary for her home. But by then the woman maybe ready for her second marriage…”
This second marriage might be due to love and attraction — probably from the Gerewol — and it is called Teegal.
The Gerewol is a seven-night festival which occurs at the end of the rainy season in September and it’s a time for the tribe to relax after months of travelling across the Sahel desert.
Where the festival will hold is hidden till days before the event. Though a time for music and dance, the main attractions of festival are the beauty pageant and mating dance contest, Yaake.
The men, while in makeup and dresses, are judged by the women of the tribe who may take any of them as a mate as she pleases.
The men spend as long as six hours preparing their faces for the festival. They believe bright eyes, white teeth and a sharp nose are the attributes that make a man beautiful so the make up enhances these features — red clay as foundation, white stripe to make the nose look sharper, and black eyeliner and lipstick to highlight their white teeth and eyes. White ostrich feathers are placed in their hair to make them appear taller and pull the look together. They bare their eyes and teeth at the festival.
Yaake is a mating call for men to battle it out for sexual supremacy — for the chance to be regarded as a sex god.
The main judges of the dance are three of the tribe’s most beautiful women whose fathers have won the Yaake in the past. However, women from all over the tribe still attend to find new husbands. A woman with an ugly husband would want to escape her marriage and find a more good-looking mate. Sometimes, a husband might stop his wife from going to the Gerewol.
If the new couple is able to run away undetected, society recognises their marriage from then on.
One man proudly revealed to the Daily Mail that he had stolen 30 wives in his life: “You know, stealing wives is not an easy thing. Only the Wodaabe know! You steal a woman from others and she will give sons to your lineage, even grandsons. Only the Wodaabe know how to do that.”
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Veteran actress and director, Genevieve Nnaji, spoke on CNN as a guest of Richard Quest on his Tuesday night show. She explained how difficult it was for her to get funding for the production of her directorial debut movie ‘Lion Heart’ which was acquired by Netflix.
She said:
“For money, we had to self-fund unfortunately, she says, we don’t have adequate funding for movies that we actually intend to go global, there isn’t that provision yet.”
She also mentioned the reason the movie made history as the first one to be acquired by Netflix.
In her words,
“I think the authenticity of the story, which is what I loved about it. It provided an environment which showcases things that makes me proud of our culture, talents, values and the story speaks for itself plus, we focused on the quality this time.”
Genevieve also shared her thought about Nollywood going global. She said,
“What I discovered was that everyone was able to relate to the story at the cinema. I”ve realized that language was the only barrier that we have. We can all identify with culture, pain and love. Our stories are very similar and I think its important that we stay true to ourselves. It was amazing. We had a very diverse crowd and everybody was able to relate to it. It was remarkable, the kind of accolades I got for the film.”
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The Federal Government of Brazil has decided to recognise Yoruba as an official (foreign) language spoken in the country.
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Last weekend, during the fourth edition of the National meetings of the African-Brazilian storytellers, Yoruba culture was celebrated at the region of Quilombola, where many of the early Yoruba victims of the slave trade and their descendants have been located since the 13th century.
The Brazilian Minister of Culture, Dr Sergio Sa Leitao, at the weekend said that the government has introduced the compulsory study of African History and Yoruba language into the primary and secondary schools curriculum.
The program tagged “AYO” featured prominent names in African literature, including Prof Wole Soyinka and the first female doctorate degree holder in Yoruba Philosophy, Dr Sophie Oluwole (aka Mamalawo of the University of Ibadan).
Dr. Sá Leitão made it clear at the event that the government will continue to promote the importance of African culture in Brazil, bringing back to Afro-descendants the culture and tradition of the African people.
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Nollywood actress, Iretiola Doyle, has taken to Instagram to announce that her daughter, Abimbola Kachi Ozofor has given birth to her first child. Bimbo and her husband Kelechi got married in 2014.
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BBC’s documentary has revealed that among the Becheve tribe of Cross River, girls are sold into marriages, sometimes before they are even born, to settle debts.
Described as “money marriage,” and the girls as “money wives,” these girls are owned by their husbands in exchange for money lent to their parents.
Watch the documentary below:
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