Melissa's Blog_African Studies

For my blog post today, I am going to be speaking about teachers in Ghana. Madam Faustina Cobson was declared to be the number one teacher for this year, 2017. This teacher, teaches in Richard Acquaye Memorial School, which is located in a ‘suburbs of the capital, Acca. For all the hard work, time, and dedication into her students, she is rewarded with 50,000 cedis, which is approximately 11,000 dollars. This teacher is also guaranteed a life insurance package, and a three bedroom house. Madam and many other teacher, have been asking their government to have a day to celebrate the effort of teachers. But after some time, this dream was accomplished to Madam, because now we celebrate the 23rd National teachers day. Teachers are recognized for their hard work, that they are receiving, life changing gifts. Being a teacher in African I feel is a tough job, because not every kid is born with the right to go to school. At a young age, children began to help out at home, farms, and agri

In the capital of Liberia, as little as that country is Library spreads a big message to all of Africa. In Monrovia, young girls wear hats on their heads that say ‘ Equality ’, right on the center. The reason for the hat’s was to pass around the message of gender equality. The hats were worn on ‘day of the girl’, by most young girls in elementary school. In the image of that article you can see four young girls wearing tall white hats. Every hat says a different message, but all have the same context. If I was in school and I knew that girls were wearing those hats to get the message of equality passed down, I would too wear a hat. I feel like I would wear the hat with pride, because we do need more inequality in the US, and special Africa. Unlike the US, some parts of Africa are developing countries, or least developed; which means that they have old fashion ways of thinking. For example, the choice of marriage is not an option for young girls; it is a must. http://www.bbc.com/news/

For today’s blog I will speak about Afr ica’s fashion week. Many “stylist and fashion seekers met in Cote d’Ivoire in capital Abidjan, for the 12th edition fashion show”. After looking at some of the pieces that were modeled that night were a representation of Africa, itself. The colors that the designers used in there pieces are bright rich color, a lot of orange was used. These colors are known to be primary colors, which are colors in the color wheel that can not be created, because they are single toned colors. These colors are red, yellow, and blue; they are bright tones that are mostly used in Africa, because of their warmth. Today's the Ivory coast supplies 300,000 jobs of industry work, to people. The event was meant to represent modern Africa. I find it very special that African, runs fashion shows, to represent the pride they have. Africa expresses itself in events like these, and show the nationalism Africans have. http://www.africanews.com/2017/10/09/ivory-c

In the month of September, many Ugandans ran a 5km in color run for a good cause. By running this race, you are supporting literature, toward children. This run helped donate millions of books that went to the cities library's. In the run you would get splattered in colored dye, while you were running. These runs, do not ave long that they have been presented. In the year of 2015, the cause of the run was to help cancer awareness. These runs are for fun, and not actual races. There is not winner or loser; all you do is pay to run, and that money will be donated to the cause, or awareness you are promoting. I enjoy reading, about the good that is being done in Africa. And it is very heart warming to know that people are coming together for a good cause. For instance, the library in Uganda is nothing like out modern version of a library. For Uganda, new books are necessary. http://www.africanews.com/2017/09/14/ugandans-run-5km-in-colour-to-promote-child-literacy/