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Anita Erskine, Bill Gates,Twitter Accounts Ranked Among Top 100 To Follow for AIDF

Media expert and Female Radio Personality of the Year award winner, Anita Erskine has earned a nod of influence on Social Media.

Her Twitter account, @theanitaerskine, has been ranked among the top 100 to follow for African Aid and Development.

Ahead of the Aid and Development Africa Summit in 2018, the  Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) created this list of the Top 100 Twitter Accounts to follow in African Aid and Development, which comprises of 50 humanitarian leaders and 50 organizations all working to advance Sustainable Development Goals in Africa.

The Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) is the world’s leading forum specializing in disaster relief, resilience, mobile for development, food security and water security.

Anita Erskine shares this prestigious space with Bill Gates (@BillGates), Melinda Gates (@MelindaGates), UN Secretary-General António Guterres (@antonioguterres), featured amongst the 50 best individual Twitter accounts to follow.

Whilst the Sustainable Development Goals Fund (@SDGFund), Farmerline (@farmerline), Médecins Sans Frontières East Africa (@MSFNairobi) and the World Health Organisation African Region (@WHOAFRO) are amongst top 50 organizations to follow.

‘I have always insisted on using my social media space to create impact. Much like what I may do on radio and television, Twitter is my channel to reach out to the world. Africa is an emerging market so it is very important for me to communicate our efforts to the World. And I do so unapologetically.” Says Anita Erskine.

Anita Erskine’s work as an advocate for Women in Entrepreneurship, Girls Education, Maternal Health and social welfare for displaced families is becoming a powerful movement single-handedly created and funded by the multi-talented media maven.

Fuse ODG Calls For Boycott Of Nivea Products

Fuse ODG yesterday took to Instagram to state his displeasure about a skincare brand.

On his Instagram he posted about a Nivea billboard that had a tagline “for visibly fairer skin”. He started a debate about how the brand is advocating for bleaching of the skin.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaWhRHkgO9h/?hl=en&taken-by=fuseodg

Fuse is pissed with that phrase because he thinks it’s a “shade” to the dark or black skin that encourages bleaching.

He started the crusade against Nivea, threatening that he’ll cause their billboards in Accra/Ghana to be pulled down if Nivea does not heed to his protest.
However, some of his fans stated that the product does not bleach the skin and the singer had the tagline all wrong.
Furthermore, he ahead to share a video of their advertisement that reinstates his claim.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaYkEvPgxv1/?hl=en&taken-by=fuseodg
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaZmTUdgmgY/?hl=en&taken-by=fuseodg

Also adding to the debate was Radio and TV Personality, Anita Erskine. She also posted on Instagram about the dangers of bleaching and rant against the skincare giant.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BaYwbLJAcWw/?hl=en&taken-by=theanitaerskine

Fuse ODG’s post is a continued debate on the dangers of skin bleaching. This highlights all the struggles several women have gone through to ban bleaching products in the country.
This debate seems unending and we hope the voices of celebrities like Fuse ODG, Anita Erskine and others would be heard and heeded to.

#AfiaAffairGate: Anita Erskine Weighs In

It seems like the Afia Schwarzenegger story has many sides that we will keep on finding out as the days progress. Media personality, Anita Erskine has also given her two cents about this escapade and the ramifications on Afia.

Anita Erskine in a lengthy post talked about the ‘weak’ side of Valentina Agyeiwaa popularly called Afia Schwarzenegger which most social media users have not had the privilege to witness.
Read the post below:
“For a very vocal generation, with the internet at our mercy, our silence is horribly loud! We maintain our silence about the truth that hurts us and would rather showcase a “forced” strength, camouflaged in laughter, smiles, and terms of endearment, in order to protect and shield the ones we love (even when we know they don’t love us back). And we have to start speaking up loudly and fighting back harder. Here’s what I concluded after the hearty discussion with @queenafiaschwarzenegger. Afia’s life is exactly that….her’s.
“It’s as simple as that. As a full grown adult, how she lives it and with whom for that matter, is her choice. As a citizen, human being and Woman, her protection is our’s…….ESPECIALLY when a clearly domestic affair, has become a public circus. She said something that hit and stung me into shame “If these threats were made towards any other woman and this video had been circulated with any other woman as the victim, every security agency, law enforcement body and social group would jump into action to protect her and prosecute the man….but I am Afia Schwarzenegger so you’re all going to sit, watch, laugh and say I deserve it….you forget that after everything is said and done, I am a human being and blood runs through my veins just like you.

This morning, I spent some quality time with my friend @queenafiaschwarzenegger. We chatted about motherhood, woman hood, work/life balance, the media industry and everything else in between. We laughed at some things. But then, as naturally as the current environment would have it, our conversation glided into her life over the last 144 hours and counting! A gorgeously hefty blend of humiliation, fear, confusion, emotional torture and above all, abandonment.
Our conversation spotlighted everything from the night of the now famously infamous #AfiaAffairgateto the importance of teaching her daughter Pena different languages. As much as I didn’t want to come off as a nosy reporter, my genuine zeal to discover and uncover stories for the sake of lifting my voice and roaring out the need to fight for justice for Women reared its ugly head. And I asked the question of doom. “Afia what happened that day?” At first, she smiled…..and then as if the veins in her throat were about to burst, she began to speak. Half way through, she broke down. I let her cry it out and waited a few minutes, distracting myself with her daughter, Pena, who was seated at my feet, happily distracted by cartoons. After a while, we resumed our conversation and spoke at length. We spoke about second chances and purpose. Here’s what I learned this morning…..1) If Journalists swore an Oath before assuming office or going out into the field of work, the way doctors and lawyers do, we would consciously research, powerfully inform, thoroughly follow through and aggressively protect the subjects of our stories. 2) Every human being, no matter how overtly and overly boisterous, seemingly nonchalant, can indeed hurt baldy and be broken into tiny pieces in a way that can have an eventual wholesome destruction if other parties don’t intervene. 3) Women, in particular, own what I call “The Skill to Create the Fabulous Art called Covering Up…” be it abuse, violence or anything that clearly poses as a threat to their lives.