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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Masculinity

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Africa

Africa is the world’s largest market for Guinness beer – how its ad campaigns exploit men

    By Jordanna Matlon, American University   Africa is the world’s largest market for Guinness beer (and Nigeria is second only to Britain for the most consumers in one country). The Irish brand’s success on the continent is regarded as a trailblazing business model. And that has a lot to do with their advertising campaigns over the years. Award-winning sociologist Jordanna Matlon recently published a research paper that analyses […]

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Africa

Africa’s ageing leaders: succession race in Cameroon, Congo and Equatorial Guinea could destabilise the region

    By Serge Loungou, Université Omar Bongo (UOB)   Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is 82 and has been in power for 45 years. Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo, 79, has held on to power for 40 years. Cameroon’s Paul Biya is 91 and has been president for 42 years. Their extended tenures are largely due to a lack of constitutional limits on presidential age and terms […]

todayAugust 23, 2024 10

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Sex sells in these Zimbabwe take-out chicken ads – showing how fragile masculinity is

Mambo’s Chicken ads are the focus of a new study. Rustic/Getty Images   By Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University   Around the world, fast food advertising has been called out for sexualising and objectifying women’s bodies. In South Africa in 2019, for example, one fast food chain was castigated by advertising authorities for “the gratuitous use of sexualised women and sexual puns, with no product relevance”. At the same time, UK authorities […]

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