Benin History & Research Centre in Diaspora

African Women's Cultural Fashion and Styles.   Modern West African women, both in the diaspora and Africa continue to affirm their cultural fashion styles. Being a West African, Nigerian woman is not about wearing the African style of clothing or the braiding of the hair. Having had an opportunity to observe the lived experiences of many African women, I recognized the strong sense of cultural traditions, beauty, talents and resilience among these women. Despite the hash conditions in many West African countries and the exclusion African women are facing in different parts of the world they continue to strive for economic and social wellbeing. Modern Nigerian women, for instance, have become the pace of fashion, beauty and style . These women are utilizing their unique talents to reinvent new cultural fashion to serve and transcend the beauty of African women. Factually, new generation of women are more beautiful than the previous ones.          The ad...

Life Satification: The Reasons Why Many Women Embraced Fashion.         Fashion and healthy lifestyles serve as source of happiness for many modern women. We are living in an ageless society, as the norms of our modern world tells us to keep our body young forever. Some women  found their happiness through fashion and healthy lifestyles. People have difference ways of promoting their own happiness. For example, majority of my African female friends who adopted fashion claim that fashion is giving them some sense of happiness! Women's happiness is very imperative, because life satisfaction promotes longevity. Statistically, life expectancy is very high among people who considered themselves to be happy! Therefore, those women who embraced  fashion are doing it for their self-satisfaction. Women are working hard for their material resources these days. They deserve the best for themselves.  By Nekpen Obasogie

Healthy Lifestyle               I decided to take a drastic action this month over my constant weight grain. Although, this is not my first time of taking such step. In 2006,  for instance, my partner encouraged me to start exercising with healthy dieting; I acted upon his advice by taking a trip to a sport store to purchase these sport wears that are still with me today. My exercising commitment started in May 2006 and within ten to twelve months I lost 36 pounds -all by myself- through exercising and eating right.  It was indeed a huge success! However, I began to gain the weight back in 2008 immediately I got pregnant with my first child. My doctor told me during the pregnancy period that the degree of my weight gain was too high for a normal condition. Since, then, it has been a struggle for me  to loose my post-baby weight. Whenever I try to regulate my weight I'm often faced with the challenges of maintaining frequent exercising...