by Teakisi | Sep 19, 2014 | Current Affairs, Development
By Maria Dombaxi Young African students, graduates and undergraduates living abroad are told to go back home. They’re told that Africa is the future, and they’re told that they can help change their countries. Young European graduates are told to try their luck in...
by Teakisi | Sep 17, 2014 | Food
By Ozoz Sokoh I came to smoothies when I could not eat. Not for lack of appetite but for the pain of toothache. Toothache. Heartbreak. Two pains I cannot fathom or explain. And now that I’m done with the pain of an impacted wisdom tooth, and can eat...
by Teakisi | Sep 15, 2014 | Entertainment
It was my twenty-second birthday. I had never conceived the thought of being a mother of two at this age. In high school, I was known for being a feminist, an advocate for what I had called “unmanned independence.” “Zainab and her husband are coming for dinner...
by Teakisi | Sep 4, 2014 | Food
The fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the fruit. This is up my alley – the desire to explore the entirety of a fruit. From skin to core and many fruits lend themselves beautifully to this. This desire, this knowledge comes from my father. My late father who...
by Teakisi | Aug 20, 2014 | Education, Empowerment, Family
By Maria Dombaxi Life isn’t exactly white or black. Sometimes it’s grey and other times its blue, life is complicated. You can tell a woman to put her life in the back burner to make her marriage work, but how do you tell a woman to leave a man she gave up her life...
