Agbada
Agbada: an essay on the power of cloth; Worth a read.
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the ’’agbada’’, should be reserved for cultural celebration, a modern day nigerian politician should dress like his counterpart from other part of the world, this would bring more understading and trust, a situation were the national assembly is flowing with excessive clothing is not much help. a smart looking politician will attract more support from the people and breed transparency.
I really didn’t like that essay. So many of her ideas were incorrect, wrong explanations, wrong translations, wrong, wrong, wrong. Anything she was trying to say was overshadowed by glaring inaccuracies.
I have to read it again less critically, but it is difficult to swallow any of her ideas in light of so many wrong premises.
I totally disagree with the comment in her essay that the agbada as a form of clothing symbolises power or respect, I’d rather say that the agbada has come to symbolise corruption and clumsiness among nigeria politicians, As a foreign investor, I’d rather deal with a smartly dressed suit wearing associate, than an over clothed agbada wearing one, because I’ll be on the same wave lenght with the former, obviously I’ll be dressed in a suit as well.…
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