Blogs & Updates
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...
Leota’s Garden – A Tale Of Forgiveness
Francine Rivers is by far my favorite author simply because she has a unique way of telling stories and bringing up mundane issues in such a graceful and heart drawing manner. Leota’s Garden is a story of a woman, in her eighties, estranged from her children, and...
You Can’t Afford My love
By Marie-Helena Mekolo I know what I want. I recognize and value my worth. All the men before you taught me to love and cherish the “unwanted” parts of me. Your predecessors were all lessons that I carefully jotted down in my journal. They will serve as navigators and...
The Internal Clock
By Noeline Kirabo As women our life experiences are deep and vast: from the stresses of family life, the joys of motherhood (for some), the pressures and satisfaction of having and maintaining a successful career, while still being personally fulfilled, womanhood is...
Tale Of The African Woman
She was born prepared. Prepared for marriage. She was conceived, born, weaned, raised for one purpose: marriage. It might not look like it in this day and age, with many parents now sending their girls to school, but when it comes down to it, for many, it all still...
Excuse My African
By Stella Demasus I never had any issues with my being African, until I started living in the United States of America. That was when I realized that my kind of "African" is different. I’m not talking about racism between just white and black, but also from black to...
Quick, Easy and Yummy Vegetable Stir-fry!!
By Pholosho Matondolo Have ever wondered how easy and quick a vegetable stir-fry can be?? It's a simple: peel, cut and chop chop! This dish was inspired by a vegetarian lady I met at an event. We touched on the topic of healthy living, how has it been for her as a...