Now that Libyan dictator Moummar Ghadaffi has been done away with, the whole of Africa is suddenly singing his praises. He was the guy who tamed the West for so many decades, ensuring his nation’s wealth of human resources was completely deployed for the good of the citizens of the country from which the resources were removed.
With entertainment dominating television in the last decade, Big Money has gone more into financing the ambitions of would be singers and dancers via a dozen and one reality shows. Name the multinational- if they are doing television, they doing song, dance and reality. It was only a matter of time before fashion would catch the attention it deserves.
WITH the advanced development of literature in Africa and the award to Wole Soyinka of the Nobel in the 80s, no one might have thought Peace would turn out to be the subject the continent would be most awarded for.
WHENEVER there is talk of domestic violence, a common standing joke is of women who beat their husbands up. Definitely a very uncommon phenomenon, there is every possibility of seeing a rise in the phenomenon in our society in the near future.
MRS Ebun Clark has modelled her life after four remarkable female academics, accomplished individuals who, for the sake of modesty and their privacy, have mostly avoided the public eye. Amongst these are Professor Bolanle Awe of the Ibadan University, Professor Mrs Olurin and Professor Oyin Elebute of the Lagoon hospitals.
Not every woman was born with the dream of one day holding her own kind in her arms in the form of a baby, but surely, that instinct catches up with nearly every woman at one point or the other. Beyond the biological, there is the social expectation that every female, whether or not she is married, should give birth to a child.
You feel you are in their lives, those sometimes doubtful characters that live inside your television and get you holding your breath every so often when you watch them. You get sucked in, too involved. You take sides in the conflicts. You feel their fears, tensions, joy.
As if president Goodluck Jonathan has not made enough history, he comes down once again as only Nigerian president living or dead who appointed so many women into his cabinet.
Yet, the women in Jonathan’s cabinet are more of the same: political appointees brought on to fill the quota. Fortunately every last one of them are of no mean accomplishments in their own rights. What chances do they have of proving having women on board will make a significant difference? It’s been a hundred days, so who will hit the ground running?
It would have been the perfect case, particularly given the crime scene, as it were. The French had a poor (or no) history of giving up their indicted. Creative America was still smarting from the Roman Polanski, the hugely talented French-Polish movie director, producer and actor who was arrested in 1977 for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polanski had fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France.
Rita Dominic’s heavenly skin is even more famous than her luscious lips, get-lost eyes and sweet voice and acting ability. Once asked the secret, she replies:”Bright skin?. I’ve always been called silky skin and you even used to call me that. I thank my parents for my skin. I’ve been using the same cream for about five years now. Two years ago, I added a few things to my beauty regimen.
