by Teakisi | Dec 31, 2014 | Health
By Reem Gaafar The young lady delicately adjusted her multicoloured tob and dabbed at her multicoloured face, looked down at her notes, and cleared her throat. ‘These days, doctora,’ she chirped at her middle-aged scholarly guest, ‘we bear witness to a certain...
by Teakisi | Dec 29, 2014 | Feature
By Kye Makyeli “Be the change that you would wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi. Esther Kalenzi is the brain behind the 40 days over 40 smiles Foundation. From fundraising for the construction of a dormitory to ‘pimping’ a children’s playground,...
by Teakisi | Dec 26, 2014 | Current Affairs, Empowerment
Article is by C.J Npowa Doesn’t it just amaze you that women who have been abused but only to come out about it decades later, whether they were abused by a family member, a friend or a community leader. Doesn’t it just amaze you that people always cross...
by Teakisi | Dec 24, 2014 | Culture, Development, Empowerment, Health
In my previous article, I talked about how the African Diaspora is failing in responding to Ebola. While we are hopeful about Liberia, we are seeing a rise of cases in Sierra Leone- a country that we thought was out of the red. Frustratingly so, the zeal we saw in...
by Teakisi | Dec 23, 2014 | Current Affairs, Empowerment
By Attiya Karodia The topic of Cultural Appropriation is touchy to say the least, but the more I encounter what would be deemed by the masses as unacceptable, the more confused I become about the more subtle offences that slip by, and furthermore, whether there are...
