Dressing and fashion in general is a very important factor taken into consideration by most institutions in Africa. While Nigerian students decry the rigid rules set around dress codes in their schools, Kenya's female university students also do the same
Recently, most of them have taken to protesting about the fact that their dress sense should be their choice. Now, students in Uganda are beginning to lament about this same issue.
Some of them from one of the country's leading universities are suffering big time when it comes to dressing withing their institution.
These students at Uganda's Bugema University who have to report back to school in 2019 are alarmed after learning that a lot has changed. The institution have taken to banning some, if not all the things they love, including mini-skirts and lipstick.
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In an official notice published on Wednesday, December 12, Bugema University management banned female students from wearing mini-skirts, lipstick, earrings, bangles, coloured nails, trousers and sleeveless tops while in the institution's premises.
University bans female students from wearing mini skirts. Photo: UGC
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According to the notice, female students who will not adhere to the aforementioned will face thorough disciplinary action.
Legit.ng gathered that the university is a private institution fully sponsored by the Seventh Day Adventist Church and this religious affiliation could have played a major role in the ban.
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Bugema is a part of the Adventist church education system which is the world's second largest Christian school system.The school is located in Kalagala Sub-county, Bamunanika county, Luweero District in the Central Region of Uganda.
Female students in Nigeria hold their breaths when it comes to the banning of certain dress items by schools. Earlier, a Nigerian college in Bauchi
banned indecent dressing among students and also instructed them to stick to a particular dress code.
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