Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Kenyan President Assent Polygamy Into Law
A statement from the presidency confirmed that the bill, which it said “consolidates various laws relating to marriage”, had been signed into law.
The bill, which amended existing legislation, was passed by parliament last month to formalize traditional practice regarding marrying more than one person.
“Marriage is the voluntary union of a man and a woman, whether in a monogamous or polygamous union,” the presidential statement added.
The initial bill had given a wife the right to veto the husband’s choice, but male members of parliament overcame party divisions to push through a text that dropped this clause.
When the bill was passed last month, female members of parliament stormed out of the session in fury after a heated debate.
The National Council of Churches in Kenya (NCCK), which groups more than 40 churches and Christian organizations from across the east African nation, has also spoken out against the bill.
The national Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA Kenya) has also said it would mount a legal challenge against the law.
“We know that men are afraid of women’s tongues more than anything else,” female legislator Soipan Tuya told fellow MPs when the bill was passed.
“But at the end of the day, if you are the man of the house, and you choose to bring on another party — and they may be two or three — I think it behooves you to be man enough to agree that your wife and family should know,” she added.
As in many parts of Africa, polygamy is common among traditional communities in Kenya, as well as in the country’s Muslim community, which accounts for up to a fifth of the population.
Many have said the legislation merely acknowledges something that is already widespread.
“When you marry an African woman, she must know the second one is on the way, and a third wife… this is Africa,” MP Junet Mohammed told the house during debate on the bill.
Why are women not allowed to marry more than one man?
Who Steal Tiwa Savage’s idea oo?
In the message, Tiwa said: “Be careful who you share your ideas and vision with.#They will steal your dream #you know who you are #God don’t like ugly #it will never be # as good as the original #gbam #back to my honeymoon”.
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Hot Question: Is Lupita Nyong’o the Fastest-Rising A-lister in Hollywood History?
Lupita Nyong’o, while undoubtedly radiant, talented, and on the rise, isn’t even in the same league as an established star, someone who has played the Hollywood game since before the birth of Twitter. Could Nyong’o land the cover of a glossy magazine tomorrow if she felt like it? Possibly; she’s already graced New York, W, Marie Claire, and Entertainment Weekly, to name just a few.
But could she command, say the $20 million that Angelina Jolie reportedly got for “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” — the same amount she’ll supposedly make if she stars in “Salt 2″? Or even the $10 million that contemporary Jennifer Lawrence won for “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”?
Not necessarily.
What Nyong’o is isn’t an A-lister. Not yet, though you should check back with me in a year or two. No, Nyong’o is something very different, and, potentially, just as powerful, though in a different way. Nyong’o is an “It Girl.” And in that regard, she may very well have risen faster than any other It Girl in recent memory, having skyrocketed from nobody to media darling in the course of a single movie.
“She’s only been in the spotlight for a year,” veteran fashion publicist Cole Trider of Autumn Communications tells me. “That’s huge. As careers go, that rarely happens so quickly.”
In comparison, let’s look at old-school it girl Julia Roberts. Teens of the late 1980s liked her early performances in small movies such as “Mystic Pizza.” But she’d worked in the film biz for about two years before breaking huge as the female lead opposite Richard Gere in “Pretty Woman.” After that movie debuted circa 1990, big, wavy, barely controllable hair became the rage.
Late ’90s it girl Gwyneth Paltrow spent even longer rising to the top of the publicity heap; she spent either five or seven years building her film resume, depending on whom you ask, before she became a household name. “Emma” was in 1996, the same year she scored her first Vogue cover; “Shakespeare in Love,” the film that won her an Oscar nomination and the chance to wear the terribly tailored, and yet somehow historic, Pink Ralph Lauren Gown Seen Round the World, debuted in 1998.
Plum Sykes of Vogue called that Oscar night Paltrow’s “Grace Kelly” moment, but, really, it was her debut as a fashion It Girl.
“Her Grace Kelly moment, when she won Best Actress for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ at the 1999 Oscars in Ralph Lauren’s pink princess dress, transported her from starlet to icon,” Sykes recalled in a hard-to-find 2002 homage.
“Afterward, I kept seeing that dress everywhere, BCBG knockoffs or whatever,” Paltrow told Sykes at the time. “And I was like, ‘I hate that dress! I can’t stand that dress!’ Now when I see that dress I die for it. I think it’s so beautiful.”
Even the aforementioned Lawrence didn’t shoot to the top of the fashion-and-lady-mag game right out of the gate a la Nyong’o. After two years in movies, Lawrence landed her first Oscar nomination for “Winter’s Bone, wearing Calvin Klein to the ceremony. It was a nice dress. Some people liked it. But Calvin Klein is certainly no Dior, which reportedly is paying Lawrence a pretty $15 million for an extended three-year endorsement gig.
As for why Nyong’o was able to shoot to the absolute top so quickly, Trider credits several factors. Nyong’o, unlike some of her contemporaries, genuinely cared about fashion from the get-go. It doesn’t hurt that Nyong’o also happens to be a bona fide Stunner. But the biggest factor may be one big, very lucky, meeting, with a stylist named Micaela Erlanger. Vanity Fair has called Erlanger the “woman behind the star,” and it may be right.
Nyong’o met Erlanger through Michelle Dockery, another stylista, while the two were shooting the film “Nonstop.”
“She and Lupita were talking, and Lupita said, ‘I have this film coming out, “12 Years a Slave,” and I need a stylist,’” Trider explains. “The first major red carpet Lupita and Micaela did together was for the Toronto Film Festival… and after that, it was like, boom.”
Boom indeed.
Barcelona right-back Dani Alves eats banana thrown onto pitch during La Liga match
Alves said after the match that humour is the best way to combat racism in sports.
“We have suffered this in Spain for some time,” Alves said. “You have to take it with a dose of humour. We aren’t going to change things easily.
“If you don’t give it importance, they don’t achieve their objective.”
Alves had already played a key part in sparking the team’s 3-2 comeback when his off-target shot was turned into an own goal Gabriel Armando in the 65th.
And shortly after the banana incident, Alves launched a cross that Mateo Musacchio headed into his own goal in the 78th before Lionel Messi scored Barcelona’s winner.
The win kept Barcelona four points from league leader Atletico Madrid.
Alves has often been subjected to racist taunts and called fighting racism “a lost war” in January 2013, after segments of Real Madrid’s fans abused him with monkey chants during a match.
Watch the video to see Dani Alves eat the banana.
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