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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica May 7

    One of Zambia’s top universities has urged female students to stop visiting the library "half-naked" because it distracts male colleagues https://bbc.in/2KJDU1u pic.twitter.com/k6vMyegVyU

    7:13 AM - 7 May 2018
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      2. Phenomenal Femme‏ @bougiefeminist May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Dear Africa, At what point will you stop allowing men in academia to continue shamelessly body-shaming and dress shaming female students? From, A Fed Up African Woman. Cc: @YatiNsoY3nfa @PepperDemMin @efplange_gh @MsEffieSpeaks @AmazingGraceLD

        5 replies 17 retweets 43 likes
      3. Okumu‏ @Okumu79 May 7
        Replying to @bougiefeminist @BBCAfrica and

        If you are a child of God, as stated on your profile, then you probably know that God commands His daughters to dress modestly, to cover themselves so that they don't draw men to lust after them.

        6 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
      4. Zodwa Bongo‏ @ZodwaBongo May 7
        Replying to @Okumu79 @BBCAfrica and

        Please stop interpreting the Bible wrongly. Who are you to tell women how to dress. You are not God.

        1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      5. Phenomenal Femme‏ @bougiefeminist May 7
        Replying to @ZodwaBongo @Okumu79 and

        Too many men use the Bible to justify their sexual irresponsibility then blame it on a woman's 'indecent dressing.'😑

        0 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Sunset  🌅 Love  ❤️ Bitches  😎‏ @Tlho_tlho May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        And men claim to be the rational sex, but can have their attention diverted from books, by BARE SHOULDERS and LEGS. K.

        1 reply 5 retweets 44 likes
      3. Jeremiah Mongayo‏ @JMongayo May 7
        Replying to @Tlho_tlho @BBCAfrica

        I refer you to psychology and understand how the mind works. Health environment is essential young lady

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Sunset  🌅 Love  ❤️ Bitches  😎‏ @Tlho_tlho May 7
        Replying to @JMongayo @BBCAfrica

        How patronising

        0 replies 0 retweets 26 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. MK‏ @UmkhontoweSizwe May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Another case of majoring in the minors. Instead of managing the institution better & improving its academic ranking, management is concerned about what the students are wearing?🤔🙈pic.twitter.com/FTENLagBsv

        1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
      3. MK‏ @UmkhontoweSizwe May 7
        Replying to @UmkhontoweSizwe @BBCAfrica

        I think women's lobby groups in Zambia need to take this issue to the Constitutional Court for interpretation. In my opinion Management can and should be sued for sexual discrimination! @LauraMiti @PamChisangapic.twitter.com/4caIyhFe97

        2 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
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      1. Cathy Kowet‏ @CathyTK May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Sho!!! It's exhausting being female in Africa...with men using us as excuses for their weaknesses.

        0 replies 4 retweets 13 likes
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      1. Tasteless Gentleman  🇿🇲‏ @Sakkur_D_Geloo May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        What’s wrong with just dressing modestly? Lol people are really strange. The other day. Some girl on Twitter was saying she wish she could just be naked because clothes are a form of oppression. 😂😂😂 HOW??? How are clothes oppressing you?? Educate me please 😂😂😂

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      1. Watanga Ngulube  🇿🇲‏ @WatangaW May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        The so called modest dressing came with the colonialists before that we all know how exposed our bodies were and yet our ancestors had self control,

        0 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
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      1. Little Lady 💋‏ @Roxy_Hrt May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        That's a wrong picture to use. The woman is decent....

        0 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
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      2. Teflon General‏ @TeflonGeneral May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Teflon General Retweeted BBC News Africa

        Every time international media tweets about Zambia it's more embarrassing than the previous headline 😢😢 Has anyone been keeping count..?? (What number are we on now??) 😂😂https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/993493919043411971 …

        Teflon General added,

        BBC News AfricaVerified account @BBCAfrica
        One of Zambia’s top universities has urged female students to stop visiting the library "half-naked" because it distracts male colleagues https://bbc.in/2KJDU1u  pic.twitter.com/k6vMyegVyU
        1 reply 4 retweets 8 likes
      3. Currently Nasilele‏ @ChiqqaShanna May 8
        Replying to @TeflonGeneral @BBCAfrica

        Like 5th or 6th. Zambian news mist be stocked under Comedy Section in their library 😓

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      4. Teflon General‏ @TeflonGeneral May 8
        Replying to @ChiqqaShanna @BBCAfrica

        I honestly think it is. It's getting out of hand. I get the impression we are being trolled at this point Lol.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2.  🇬🇭 🔥Love & laughter 😃 🇬🇭‏ @faroukand84 May 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        ......and I saw this in a library somewhere in GH and I thought it was a joke?pic.twitter.com/VWEPIcqt7e

        1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes
      3.  🇬🇭 🔥Love & laughter 😃 🇬🇭‏ @faroukand84 May 7
        Replying to @faroukand84 @BBCAfrica

        Pls, our ladies need to be free and be free from worry too....pls pls pls...

        2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      4. FROM THE KING‏ @ONSTONES May 7
        Replying to @faroukand84 @BBCAfrica

        pls pls pls. When you are done being free and exposing your privates to all, do not come crying wolf when 'they' flock after you to have a taste of your advertised goodies. ADVICE: Be 'free' to your spouse and you will enjoy this freedom you crave

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5.  🇬🇭 🔥Love & laughter 😃 🇬🇭‏ @faroukand84 May 7
        Replying to @ONSTONES @BBCAfrica

        Advise well noted even if not welcome but again freedom is when one can choose to expose all her privates to all and still not be worried that she will be flocked after by men, let alone be harmed or raped for being herself. Patriarchy must end!!

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. FROM THE KING‏ @ONSTONES May 7
        Replying to @faroukand84 @BBCAfrica

        Not patriarchy. Most Africans were ok being naked before the advent of the colonial lords. Religion brought a new awareness. The Almighty creator clothed man. We aligned to this as best for us. We can't go back to the pre-knowledge era

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7.  🇬🇭 🔥Love & laughter 😃 🇬🇭‏ @faroukand84 May 7
        Replying to @ONSTONES @BBCAfrica

        so u r suggesting every lady must live in perpetual fear or the only way to avoid that is to be robed like a nun? Think about your daughter living like this for a sec...

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. FROM THE KING‏ @ONSTONES May 7
        Replying to @faroukand84 @BBCAfrica

        Living in fear will not be part of the things to worry about for a lady who dresses respectably. The advise says: stop dressing half-naked. You don't need to dress like a nun before you accept you are not half naked. Half-naked in not an ambiguous term

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9.  🇬🇭 🔥Love & laughter 😃 🇬🇭‏ @faroukand84 May 7
        Replying to @ONSTONES @BBCAfrica

        so u describe the lady in the pic of the story as "half-naked"? Hello Mr. Not-An-Ambigious-Term man...

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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