Blogs & Updates
Cries Of A Child
“I need you!” her heart screamed. “I’m dying, I need help!” it cried out. But it went unheard, drowned by other voices; “My husband is a monster; he hit me every chance he got.” one said. “My parents don’t want anything to do with me and the man who impregnated me...
A Letter To My Love
By Marie-Helena Mekolo To the man I love dearly: Lately, I’ve found my thoughts drifting back to you….. Remembering our last encounter, trying to decipher some moments and actions, attempting to get a peak at the side of you that’s hidden. I start seeing the good in...
Show Me Something Else!
By Ariane Kamdoum I don’t know if you are aware of this but the entertainment industry in Africa is going through a massive stage of growth. Be it movies, music, sitcoms or TV-shows, the continent is going forward and holding its head proudly up as it should be. Kudos...
A Different Kind Of Bribery In Today’s Corporate World
By Josephine Amoako As if having to toil endlessly through school to earn a decent degree isn’t enough, now one has to worry about the battleground which is the job market and play the reality show called the survival of the fittest. Just as one's fingers are not...
Solome Basuuta: The Queen of Love
By Racheal Kiiza Solome Basuuta is a songstress who launched her music career in 2015 and has, since then, graced both Christian and mainstream stages. Her music has her fans screaming "Walala!" and falling in love with her brand. Who is Solome Basuuta? I am a...
Of Bridal Showers & Sex
Addressing women during an RPF-Inkotanyi Women's League Congress in Kigali on April 22, 2017, the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, warned elder women against terrorizing the younger ones about tolerating domestic violence during bridal showers. The president was...
Generation Y and The Smartphone : Friends Not Foes
By Kye Makyeli Somehow, like every single thing ever invented, the smartphone has managed to become an instrument of worry among many people. Especially non-millenials. When the older generation expresses concern about how smartphones are damaging our young people, I...
Tinder Me Please!
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron My dating life has been suffering a slow and painful decline that will only result in an unfortunate and untimely death if I don’t take action and attempt to resuscitate it. In short, I am single! Please spare me the following comments:...
Teakisi Receives The Versatile Blogger Award
Teakisi is more than a blog to me. My focus from the beginning was that this was going to be a blog that makes a difference. I have and always seen and perceived Teakisi as a means to empower African women - whenever they may be in the world. This morning I was...