Culture
Cloak of Invisibility
By Amandla Karungi When I was younger, I was the shy one who always got left out and was never the favourite. Not the crowd favourite, nor the sisters’ favourite, not the Aunt’s favourite or […]
Articles by Teakisi
Culture
Date Night
By Amandla Karungi She rolled her sheer black thigh length stockings up her legs and wobbled to the full-length mirror tilted across the wall next to their bed. The shirt she was wearing went down […]
Culture
The Boss’ Daughter
By Amandla Karungi She walked through the front door of our office strutting in as if it was her own. “I hope your sister is not coming too,” I said to her in greeting. “How […]
Culture
A Son to Calm My Nerves
By Amandla Karungi I stood in the kitchen, preparing supper, stirring something on the cooker, a dropped spoon in the sink and back to the cooker and as my mind came back to the same […]
Poem
Culture
We Are Turning One!
By Amandla Karungi It has been almost one year since I gave birth, and I remember many firsts I have experienced since then. I can say for certain that the biggest change has been clarity […]
Poem
The Way We Take
By Eunice Aber Where did the bubbles go?Where did the butterflies go?Did we get too comfortable?Did we get so used to…?Did the warmth cease to matter?Did the laughter cease to form?Did we, as we climbed […]
Affaires en Cours
Casualties of Failed States
By Amandla Karungi There are many reasons why Africans leave their homeland and start a new life in a place where they will forever be called foreigners. Most Africans have such a strong tie to […]
Culture
Qualified Beauty
By Eunice Aber Once again, Queen Bey drops a number that does not just turn ears, but hearts too. And it comes at an opportune time for me. Of late, I realised discrimination was far […]
Culture
Life Lessons From An Uneducated Woman, and Her Skill Of Washing Saucepans
By Eunice Aber Growing up, my mother engraved in me the idea that the litmus test for being an Acholi woman is how “bright and shiny” your saucepans looked, after you washed them. She literally […]