Where Are the Women of Class and Style in Nigeria?
It is now a rarity in the Nigerian society to see a woman with class and style.
Majority of Nigerian women cannot differentiate between class and luxury. They mistake luxury for class. But class is above luxury.
Money can buy luxurious living and lifestyle, but money cannot buy class.
You don't have to be Lady Oprah Winfrey or former First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama to have class and style.
Class is defined and epitomised by three pillars of virtuous personality; Dignity, Integrity and Nobility.
You cannot have class without DIGNITY and INTEGRITY and the NOBILITY of having or showing fine personal qualities and high moral principles. And you cannot claim to have class when you don't even have the expertise in enunciation.
Having expensive designers' couture and being glamorous at special events and posing on the red carpet does not mean you have class, even though you have got style.
I have had the privileges of knowing two undisputable women of class and style in Nigeria in their golden days when I was in my teens and when I was in my twenties. Both are now in their 70s and the older one, famous actress, Dame Taiwo Ajai-Lycett is still walking tall and upright with class and style, while the other one is in a class of her own in dignity, integrity and nobility. She is not on social networks and not competing for celebrity status on #Instagram and does not pose with any luxury car or designers' couture to impress anybody.
How can one have class and style?
You start by learning good manners of social etiquette and high moral standards from your childhood; regardless of your social class backgrounds; going to a good school for good education; fall in love with reading good books, especially classic prose, drama and poetry and philosophy; grooming yourself to become a LADY (because not every woman is a Lady); master your language of communication and the enunciation for articulation; collect and read COSMOPOLITAN, VOGUE, ELLE, FORBES, EBONY, ESSENCE, OPRAH MAGAZINE and HOMEMAKER. From these magazines, you will learn a lot to become an Alpha Female; brilliant, intelligent and a Virtuous Woman of class and style.
Recommended reading:
The Alpha Female: 9 Ways You Can Tell Who is an Alpha Woman
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/alpha-female/.
- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.
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