When you buy through our links, we may earn fees from our affiliate partners. Learn more. With the COVID-19 pandemic that held us all hostage for many months, we’ve all had to spend more time indoors than was considered normal for us. While we work and pursue our dreams from the comfort of our homes, sweatpants...
In his best-selling book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century , historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari explains that the principle of democracy operates on the aphorism that “you can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all...
Last month Netflix released a 90-minute documentary on the darker side of our continual dependence on social media titled The Social Dilemma. Jeff Orlowski’s documentary focuses solely on the dangerous human impacts of social media, how addicted many have become to it and how social media companies design their apps to adversely affect our lives....
In retrospect, I think you would agree with me that this year started innocently enough. We all screamed “Happy New Year” at the stroke of midnight, celebrated with our loved ones and laid out all our plans and personal goals for the year. By the end of January though, we had already survived a World...
With every advancement, there are usually people and companies who take it upon themselves to push the envelope and create novel ways of doing old things. Now the fashion industry for all its innovations and astonishing designs has largely remained very traditional. Fashion powerhouses along with their clothes and designs may undergo modifications in various...
The US presidential election is barely a month away (Tuesday November 3) and as usual, the anticipation of who the masses elect as their leader has become the single biggest news item across the globe. With just weeks to go and with results of numerous election polls flooding in, the actions, inactions and every little utterance...
Fashion is an expression of art because we live it out daily as a form of expressing ourselves and our various cultures. Some argue that the origins of fashion can be traced back to the day Adam and Eve decided to wrap leaves around themselves; while others believe it began with cavemen making loincloths from...
The hashtag #CancelNetflix recently trended on Twitter, and the reactions it has elicited from individuals across the globe is a clear indication that Netflix may have crossed the line. This public outcry for the cancellation of Netflix was in reaction to the release of the movie ‘Cuties’, and far from being another baseless example of...
Cooking is a fundamental aspect of human life and an activity we can all identify with, irrespective of our nationalities. Not only is cooking pivotal to the preservation of humankind, it is also with immense cultural and social significance around the world. It helps us understand world customs better and more often than not, provides...
One of the best features of capitalism is the fact that it promotes the culture of work across all human societies by actively and steadily rewarding innovations. This enforces efficiency while increasing competition, all of which is great for economic growth. Economic freedom helps political freedom and so capitalism if more often than not, is...
The first time I became aware of the various unpleasant nuances associated with the issue of race and racism in modern America was when I was about 10 years old. Right about that time was when I read James Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man along with The Ways of the White Folks by Langston Hughes, both...
If I had to guess, the question on the lips of anyone who has come across the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter on Twitter would be: what is happening in Zimbabwe? And the answer is, well, a lot; but for everyone’s benefit, let’s start with the basics. Zimbabwe is a landlocked African nation with a population of about 15.6...