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<h1>Regardless of how talented you are, your behaviour could get you easily dismissed or replaced.</h1>

Your supervisor is rarely the one who keeps track of your conduct.

<a id="58e3ba17-3cdb-53c8-bab9-3df61aba0ad4" href="http://www.pulselive.co.ke/lifestyle/money/how-to-deal-with-job-rejection-id7987067.html">Recruiters, human resource managers, talent managers etc.,</a> are the ones that do and their parameters for judging employee behaviour are within a set of rules less to your professional skills and more to the company's code of conduct.

While that's going on, your seniors and peers also monitor your behaviour and if you come up short, you could cost yourself a promotion, or a raise and at worst, your job.

1. Under-delivering

This is chief among workplace sins. Your role has already been described. It's always best to be honest about what you can achieve rather than fail to meet the goals set every single day. If allowances can't be made for you, try to get to work a bit earlier to make sure you deliver or ask for assistance from your peers.

2. Making it hard for people to work

This consists of generally being an a**hole. You are unapproachable, negative, yell at people, belittle their work, call people names and have even made people cry or threaten to quit. In most companies, this is known as "emotional hijacking" according to Huffpost and it can easily get you fired.

3. Being a boot licker

This when you always suck up to your boss to levels that make it uncomfortable for your workmates. Be friendly and respectful to everyone. Be proactive, not a reactive runaway who takes every little issue to the seniors so as to get noticed. Don't step on people's toes to impress your boss.

This leads to embellishments and tarnishing of people's reputations at work. The price of momentary entertainment can become very costly when the stories eventually get revealed.

5. Announcing that you hate your job

This is something your employers don't need to know.<a id="01f56992-7f90-5045-8774-7b85ba21bebe" href="http://www.pulselive.co.ke/lifestyle/money/signs-its-time-to-leave-your-job-id7936973.html"> If you're biding your time until you get a better offer</a>, keep your mouth shut, your attitude in check and share your work-related grievances in a mature manner. Nay-saying can also affect morale of your peers and this is discouraged by employers.

You should stop these if you want to grow your career.

5 common mistakes you make at the workplace that you need to stop

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<h3>Marvels most highly anticipated movie Black Panther finally premiered on Monday at the Marvel Studios in Los Angeles.</h3>

The stars arrived, bedecked in luxurious Wakanda themed regalia and Twitter was all aflutter about it.

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Lupita Nyong'o melted hearts with her custom purple Versace gown, shoes by Giusepe Zaroti and jewels by Beladora Jewelry.

Marvel's purple carpet was also graced by the film's main star Chadwick Boseman who arrived in style, dropped by a Lexus at the premiere grounds.

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Boseman showed off his T'Challa style on the purple carpet.

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The movie has gained positive reviews from critics and fans already which will raise even more excitement as the film is released in different parts of the word.

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The long awaited film premiered in Los Angeles.

Lupita steals the show at Black Panther world premiere

<h1>These rich African precolonial hairstyles have gone extinct or are on the verge of disappearing altogether.</h1>

That means that they are ripe for a comeback. If not at least a brief foray into one-hit wonder territories like the apple bottom jeans or the 90s box cut.

Here are 4 traditional African hairdos we believe should make a comeback

Last seen among Rwandese men almost a hundred years ago. It has lines sleeker than a fighter jet and the streamlined quality of a predatory raptor. This really has to make a comeback.

Won by young Himba men of Angola before marriage. And once he is off the market, the braid will be split into two. Functional and beautiful. Isn’t African hair gorgeous?

A collection of hairstyles favoured by women in Ethiopia BM (before Mzungu) c.1885.

Whatever this is.

Most beautiful traditional African hairstyles.

4 traditional African hairstyles that need to make a comeback

<h1>Following the first list of some of Africas most brutal dictators, our readers asked us to update our list .</h1>

<h1>We added another 9 of Africa’s worst.</h1>

Find the first list here: <a href="http://www.pulselive.co.ke/bi/politics/eleven-most-brutal-african-dictators-id7451480.html" id="d344becf-a00c-5e85-a64f-146b8d293b7c">11 worst African dictators</a>

Sani Abacha| Nigeria| 1993-1998

He rose to power after he sacked the interim president following the annulment of the 1993 elections.

He was responsible for the looting of USD 5 billion in funds. Abacha was accused of gross human rights violations and most infamous for the public hanging of political activist Ken Saro Wiwa.

Abacha was killed in the president’s palace in 1998 where it is suspected that he may have been poisoned via two Indian prostitutes, a plan said to have been orchestrated by political rivals. He was buried on the same day without autopsy so reports were never confirmed.

Sekou Toure| Guinea| 1958- 1984

A pioneer for trade unions in Guinea, Toure ended up becoming president in 1958 after leading a referendum to vote against continued French association. As a result, Guinea became fully independent from France in 1960.

Toure declared his party to be the only legal political party and ran unopposed in 1968, 64 and 72.

Any opponents of his government often risked police intimidation or staying in detention camps. He was responsible for the arrests, detention and executions of opposition members who had attempted to lead a military operation to rescue political detainees and capture Toure. According to Amnesty International 2,900 of 4,500 political detainees had unknown fates.

Toure had a cabinet minister who had attempted to assassinate him die in prison at the same year of the minister’s arrest- without a trial.

He died while receiving cardiac treatment in the US.

Macias Nguema| Equatorial Guinea| 1968- 1979

He was the first president of Eq. Guinea.

Nguema granted himself all direct powers of government and institutions. He declared private education rebellious and banned it outright in 1975. He banned western medicines, ordered the executions of entire families and towns; and mandated the deaths of people who wore spectacles.

He was extremely paranoid, banning all boats so as to prevent people from fleeing his rule. He also banned citizens from shorelines.

Nguema ordered all citizens with Hispanic names to Africanise their names.

He had the governor of the central bank killed and had all national treasures transported to his rural village.

He forced cultural regression and an intellectual purge which had majority of academics fleeing the country which Eq. Guinea has never recovered from.

Nguema constantly referred to himself as Unique Miracle. He consumed copious amounts of bhang and psychoactive drugs.

He was overthrown by his nephew in a military coup after he ordered the death of several of his own family members and sentenced to death 101 times by firing squad for crimes of genocide against the Bubi people.

Obiang Mbasogo| Equatorial Guinea| 1979- present

He overthrew his uncle, Macias Nguema, in a bloody military coup. The state’s radio declared him a god with all power over everything.

He granted amnesty to political prisoners from his uncle’s rule.

But he has no opposition as he has the power to rule by decree. There is no free press in Eq. Guinea.

Calling himself El Jefe (the boss), he is responsible for unlawful killings by security forces; government-sanctioned kidnappings; torture of prisoners and detainees by security forces; life-threatening conditions in prisons; impunity; random arrest and has even been rumoured to be a cannibal.

Gnassingbe Eyadema| Togo| 1967- 2005

He conducted Africa’s first coup d’état.

In 1998, he organised a presidential election but upon realising he was losing, he cancelled it stating that it was in the interests of National Security.

He was accused of countless human rights violations.

Eyadema had an entourage of 1000 dancing women, bronzed statues in the capital and even had a comic book that portrayed him as a superhero with powers of invincibility.

He died of heart failure while on a flight to seek medical treatment.

Jean-Bedel Bokassa| Central African Republic| 1966- 1976

He took power from the president David Dacko in a coup d’état in 1966 and was subsequently overthrown in a France supported coup in 1976 where Dacko was reinstated.

Bokassa supervised judicial beatings and ruled that thieves should have an ear cut off in the first offence.

He appointed himself as Emperor of the Central Africa Empire in 1977 in a coronation ceremony that cost $80 million today (Sh8.2 billion) which bankrupted the country.

In 1979 he had schoolchildren arrested for refusing to buy expensive school uniforms that were made by one of his wives’ companies and bore the image of his face. He allegedly supervised the massacre of 100 of the children.

Bokassa decreed that adults between the ages of 18 and 55 had to have jobs or they would face imprisonment. He banned begging and sought to control all “extracurricular” activities that adults engaged in.

Yahya Jammeh| Gambia| 1994- 2017

Jammeh took power in a bloodless coup in 1994. He was exiled to Eq. Guinea after pressure from ECOWAS, the AU and the UN to concede defeat in the 2016 elections- which he had at first conceded then contested.

He was accused of human rights abuses.

Jammeh claimed to have the cure for HIV/AIDS and asthma.

He was awfully homophobic declaring the LGBT acronyms to stand for Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis. He also declared that any LGBT people should be beheaded.

He suppressed free press and had anti-government stations closed or even burnt down.

He engaged in illegal trade with Senegalese rebels.

He had fourteen students killed during a protest.

He was responsible for the disappearance and detention of journalists and was responsible for up to 1,000 Gambians who had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to detention centres where they were forced to take poison. This was because he believed the death of his aunt had been caused by witch craft.

Gaafar Nimeiry| Sudan| 1969- 1985

He took power in a 1969 coup ending the first Sudanese civil war.

His indiscriminate borrowing led to hyperinflation and a resulting sharp decline of the value of the Sudanese currency which lost a reported 90% in value.

Nimeiry imposed Sharia Law in 1983 that led to a religious war between the Muslim centric North and Christian based South.

He was ousted in 1985 and went into exile in Egypt and was allowed to return in 1999.

Mobutu Sese Seko| Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo)| 1965- 1997

He gained power during the Congo Crisis, leading a Belgian sponsored coup against nationalist Patrice Lumumba then had him executed by firing squad.

Mobutu had the support of the US and the UK due to his anti-communism stance.

His legacy was one of an authoritarian regime, amassing personal wealth and attempting to purge all colonial cultural influence.

The nation suffered uncontrolled inflation, currency devaluation and large debt.

In 1991, due to economic deterioration, he was forced to share power with the opposition but used the army to prevent any power sharing until 1997 where he was expelled by Kabila.

He embezzled an estimated $5 billion and was accused of widespread human rights violations. He died 3 months into exile from advanced prostate cancer in Morocco.

A list of more African dictators

Nine of Africa's worst ever dictators revealed

<h1>According to most dictionaries, a dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power and wields it in an oppressive or abusive manner.</h1>

Dictatorships are characterised primarily by the violation of basic human rights and a lack of freedoms for its citizens.

In Africa, many nations are enduring or have been forced to endure dictatorships.

Here are ten of Africa’s most notorious dictators.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Egypt | 2013- present

Sisi overthrew the country’s elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in a military coup in 2013.

He gunned down 813 peaceful protestors of his presidency and has imprisoned 40,000+ dissidents.

He has been accused of gross human rights abuses and plunging the country into further economic turmoil.

Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe| 1987- present

He is the oldest serving president in the world at 93 years old.

After Zimbabwe was declared a one party state, Zimbabwe’s parliament amended the constitution and declared Mugabe executive president meaning he was head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

Over the years, Mugabe’s nationalist and Lenin-Marxist policies led to the sharp economic decline of Zimbabwe. His rule has led to high rates of unemployment- up to 80%, low life expectancy, hyperinflation making the Zimbabwean currency useless and the collapse of local manufacturing industry.

Eduardo Jose Dos Santos| Angola| 1979- 2017

Father to Africa’s richest woman, dos Santos came to office when the country's first post-independence president, Agostinho Neto, died, inheriting the civil war with the Unita party.

He is credited with leading the country to recovery after the end of its 27-year civil war in 2002 and turning the economy into one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

However, he was accused of authoritarianism, corruption, misuse of public funding, human rights abuses and repression of political opposition.

Paul Biya| Cameroon| 1982- present

He became president after a power struggle in 1982.

Biya has all-encompassing executive and legislative powers. Biya stages sham elections every few years to justify his reign and even paid for his own electoral observers (6 ex-US congressmen) to declare the elections credible.

Footage has emerged since early 2017 where it appears that a state sanctioned genocide is occurring in Southern Cameroon.

There have been reports of massive arrests, use of military tribunals to try civilians, inhumane treatment and murder.

Omar al Bashir| Sudan| 1989- present

Bashir took power in a military coup in 1989.

There is currently an International Criminal Court warrant out for his arrest on charges of genocide, war crimes, murder, rape, torture and crimes that occurred during the war of Darfur.

Bashir is also accused of the oppression of non-Arab tribes residing in the Sudan.

Hissene Habre| Chad| 1982-1990

Habre seized power in 1982 from newly elected Goukuni Oueddei.

He then lost power to Idriss Deby in 1990.

He fled to Senegal when insurgents marched into Chad’s capital, N’Djamena.

Habre is responsible for 40,000+ political murders and 200,000 records of torture.

Idriss Deby| Chad| 1990- present

Deby sacked the incumbent president using Libyan and Sudanese insurgents.

He has been re-elected every five years.

Deby was accused of using famine relief funds to purchase weapons and strengthen Chad’s military.

Charles Taylor| Liberia| 1997- 2003

The former Liberian president is currently serving a fifty year sentence for what was recorded as the most brutal war crimes in human history.

He was charged with acts of terrorism, unlawful killings, murder, forced labour and torture.

Taylor gained the presidency after running for elections in 1997 after the end of the 1996 civil war. Taylor won by a 75% landslide, having taken over state radio and using the fear that he could restart the war should he not win.

He was alleged to have been involved in Sierra Leone’s civil war, trading weapons for blood diamonds. He was charged with aiding and abetting Sierra Leone’s rebel forces atrocities against civilians, which left many thousands dead, with people abducted and tortured. He was also accused of assisting the recruitment of child soldiers.

Siad Barre| Somalia| 1969- 1991

He took power in a coup d’etat in 1969 and was overthrown in1991while attempting to retake Mogadishu in a military showdown. He was defeated by General Mohamed Farrah Aidid's army.

Barre left the country without central rule and plunging Somalia into a debilitating civil war that went on for more than 20 years.

Barre’s rule was characterised by persecution, jailing and torture of political opponents and dissidents. It is estimated by human rights’ groups that 50,000 to 60,000 people were killed from 1988 to 1989.

Hastings Kamuzu Banda| Malawi| 1963-1994

Banda lost power in 1994 after he had to go for emergency brain surgery in 1993 in South Africa.

He left a legacy of poverty, starvation, repressed opposition and is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 6,000 people and thousands of torture and wrongful imprisonment victims.

Idi Amin Dada| Uganda| 1971- 1979

Amin seized power in a military coup in January 1971 deposing Milton Obote.

He was rumoured to be a cannibal, had frightening records of human rights abuse, extra judicial killings, squandering of public funds, repressing the opposition.

The death toll under his 8 year rule was estimated to be at least 500,000.

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