Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ahmadu Bello University: Dress Code

I remember at the Ibadan polytechnic in the 70s there was a  Yoruba llanguage Lecturer who used to lament openly about young female students wearing topless to classes asking whether they did not feel cold (even slapping them in the back).  Obviously they were a distractiin to us fellow students but it was a bid by the female students to show how westernized they were.

Also teaching in a U.S. college I also recall how every spring on approach to summer the college President always cautioned female students to desist from ' revealing everything in their dress codes and leave a little to the imagination of their male students counterparts.

Sensible dressing is a good idea not to distract fellow students from learning.  It depends on how far you want to enforce dress codes and each regions idea of what is appropriate is different based on how conservative the general area is in order not to offend the sensibilities even of the local population.

Not everything western is good even to westerners.

OAA

Not everythi

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From: Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com>

Date: 27/04/2019 18:24 (GMT+00:00)

To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ahmadu Bello University: Dress Code

I read the university bulletin and laughed. So, a university is now a
seminary? So, I would leave my research and begin to screen students
and ask them questions about why they are wearing this or that?

One is not surprised. When we have abandoned what we we were employed
to do, why won't we turn to caution prefects or police on dressing?

Quite ridiculous!

Obododimma.

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