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Accra fashion week fights for women empowerment

  Accra / AFP As the music booms and the lights flare, a model sashays down the runway at Accra Fashion Week in Ghana. But the focus isn’t on her high-waisted black pleather skirt, it’s on something more risqué: her sheer, very tight top. “Everyone should be able to express themselves and not be oppressed in any way,” said designer ...

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Rise of webcam job interview

  Bloomberg The future of job interviews might horrify you. It horrified Jake Rosen. A recent graduate of UCLA, Rosen was applying to be a page at NBC (yes, yes, just like Kenneth) when he learned he wouldn’t be going to an office to talk to a human being about his skills. Instead, he interviewed by webcam, on a laptop. ...

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Tradition gallops in Morocco’s ‘tbourida’

  El-Jadida / AFP The equestrian art of tbourida, inspired by the historical charges of the feared cavalrymen of Morocco, fascinated Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix two centuries ago and still draws enthusiastic crowds today. At this week’s “Salon du Cheval” show in El-Jadida, western Morocco, thousands have been enthralled by the spectacle of groups of riders in colourful traditional dress ...

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