A university in Mozambique’s northern Nampula province has banned workers, students and teachers from coming to the campus “improperly dressed.”

In a notice stuck on walls at Unizambeze university, administrators prohibit women from wearing:

  • Tight-fitting dresses
  • Miniskirts
  • Sleeveless tops
  • Cleavage-showing tops
  • See-through cloths
  • Slippers
  • Body tights
  • Ripped jeans and
  • Blouses showing bras.

It also bans men from wearing:

  • Vests
  • Shorts
  • Ripped jeans
  • Low-waist trousers and
  • Slippers and
  • Plaiting their hair.

Reaction to the ban has been mixed, but most people  I spoke to said it was “appropriate for the African culture” and an “important rule to ensure decency in a learning institution.”

* The notice does not refer to dreadlocks, as we earlier reported.