Is My Name Okolo Too? A new female friend leaves to study in USA for four years after a brief but interesting relationship with a guy. She returns as promised assuming his surname. In the Summer of 2015, I met and briefly befriended an interesting and pretty British-Nigerian lady in…
Tag: Nigerian women
Social Relations
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Part 2 Not all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers, medical laboratory technologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists etc.) married from Nigeria into diaspora (especially the USA and UK) are “medical mail brides”. Female medical professionals are human and just like other professional and non-professional women; someone…
Social Relations
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”
Nigeria’s “Medical Mail Brides”: Can the Men Handle Them? It has become increasingly apparent that the most desirable women in the eyes of Nigerian men in diaspora from Nigeria to join them in matrimony are medical professionals. Female doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiographers etc. that have already qualified in Nigeria are…
Institutions
Response: Culture is Not Costume
Response: Culture is Not Costume: Why Non-Africans Should Not Wear African Clothing http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/10/culture-is-not-costume-why-non-africans.html?m=1 Nneka Okona’s piece on the “wrongful appropriation” of female African dress is an interesting, challenging and well-written read but has a misplaced tone to it. The piece pleads for the Nigerian dress / attire for women to be worn…