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.
