A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told the BBC that YouTube allows nudity when “culturally relevant or properly contextualised”.

Users who had uploaded reed dance videos were angered when it was classified as age-restricted content.

YouTube has denied accusations of racism, saying it was keen to be culturally sensitive.

The move was in response to a campaign led by Lazi Dlamini, the head of TV Yabantu, an online video production company, featuring Africa’s “finest culture… as seen, and recorded by the African people”.

Its YouTube channel – which launched in 2016 – had been adding up to 4,000 new subscribers every month until the platform started to flag its content as inappropriate, South Africa’s Mail and Guardian newspaper reports.

It also put a label on the channel advising advertisers that its content was “not suitable for most advertisers”.

According to Mr Dlamini, he had contacted YouTube’s parent company Google to say that he was simply reflecting the cultural values of his community, but the company said that the content violated the platform’s standards.

He then organised a series of protests, working with more than 200 cultural groupings from Swaziland, with the first one taking place on Saturday in Durban, a city in neighbouring South Africa, the Mail and Guardian says.

It included at least a dozen women who posed bare-breasted with placards that accused Google of racism.

One placard read: “My breasts are not inappropriate”, the Mail and Guardian said.

–

Source: BBC

The post YouTube lifts Swazi bare-breasted dancer restrictions appeared first on Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always.

A special delegation sent by the King to Ghana on Wednesday, February 8, 2017,  to convey the message, assured the President of the co-operation of the King, and the people of Swaziland over the course of the tenure of office of President Akufo-Addo.

It was the hope of King Mswati III that bilateral relations between the two countries will grow to the mutual benefit of the people of the two countries.

The King of Swaziland also extended his deepest condolences, through the President, to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asanteman and Ghana, on the passing of the Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II.

On his part, President Akufo-Addo thanked the King’s envoy for the message, and used the opportunity to congratulate the King Mswati III on his election as the Third Vice-Chairperson of the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union.

President Akufo-Addo also congratulated King Mswati on his nomination as Chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), during the 28th African Union Summit which was held in Addis Ababa this January, and assured the King of Ghana’s support to help achieve a malaria-free Africa.

The President recounted how he, as Ghana’s Foreign Minister and Chairman of the AU Ministerial conclave in Swaziland, in 2005, together with his colleague AU Foreign Ministers drafted the Ezulwuni consensus, which called for a more representative and democratic Security Council.

The goal of the AU, as contained in the Ezulwuni Consensus, was to be fully represented in all the decision-making organs of the UN, particularly in the Security Council, which is the principal decision-making organ of the UN in matters relating to international peace and security.

Full representation of Africa on the Security Council would mean having not less than two permanent seats with all the prerogatives and privileges of permanent membership including the right of veto; five non-permanent seats; and that the AU should be responsible for the selection of Africa’s representatives on the Security Council.

Nearly 12 years after, President Akufo-Addo lamented the fact that little progress had been made since the drawing up of the Consensus in Swaziland. He, thus, urged King Mswati III and his colleague African leaders to help in the advocacy towards the full realization of this consensus.

–

By: citifmonline.com/Ghana

The post Swazi King congratulates President Akufo-Addo appeared first on Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always.

This follows widely-held perception that majority of university graduates are not trained to suit the job market; leading to rising levels of graduate unemployment in the country.

Speaking to Citi News however,  the Minister refuted this saying, “I don’t believe our graduates are useless, I take very strong exceptions to these comments,” she said.

She opined that graduates who are deemed useless may “need is a little push and a little help but we know they are not materials we cannot use.”

She also took the opportunity to encourage industries to disclose their preference to the Education Ministry to enable them include them in the curriculum.

The President, John Mahama on Monday called for greater collaboration between industry and academia to ensure graduates are trained for the needs.

According to him, the collaboration will reduce the rising figures of unemployed graduates in the country

He made this known during a two-day national conference on bridging gap between education, training and industry.

A communiqué issued at the end of the conference called for an urgent review of Ghana’s educational system to allow tertiary institutions produce all rounded students who will easily fit into the job market.

By: Benjamin Epton Owusu/citifmonline.com/Ghana

The post Ghanaian graduates are not useless- Education Minister appeared first on Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always.