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EVOLUTION OF AFRICAN NATIVE ATTIRES IN THE CORPORATE WORLD: SOMEFUN GARMENTS QUOTA

 The discussion around the eligibility of native African attires to serve as a permissible corporate dress or outfit have been juggled around for quite a long time now and despite the fact that our leaders hold the baton in not relenting on that end, it has shown less or relatively slow effect in our corporate settings and organizations. Our natives, Kaftans, blouses and short pieces are unarguable the most comfortable high end fashion and style pieces around the world. There is no limitation to the types of fabrics, accessories or sewing styles to be achieved on a native wear and the options widen up with each passing day. We have grown our style consciousness to a level where we can level up globally both in quality, creativity and finesse but have been reneging very badly on the general acceptance into all institutions. This is where Somefun Garments comes in. We consider ourselves a vital cogwheel in the movement of gaining native wears its deserved global acceptance where necessar

Africans Vs African Americans: Battle of black superiority

This back and forth arguments and  deliberations  have gone on for some time now and shows no sign of simmering down.  The concept of attaching the adjective ‘African’ to non African people spurs from the chain of history between the groups and largely for the heritage of slavery. Africans think the African Americans look at them from a demeaning point of view, while African Americans think the Africans look at them as outcasts, uncultured and without traceable roots. Well, these claims are contextual and in some situations have proven to be right. There’s a rich heritage of culture shared between these two groups of people dating back from the origin down to slave trade. For me, I’ll not attach behavioral inadequacies to an ethnicity or cultural divide and I’ll try as much as possible to treat this void of sentiments but at the same time, it will be coming from an African point of view.  So, it will highlight the concerns majorly from this side of the divide.