by Teakisi | Mar 3, 2015 | Culture, Current Affairs, Development, Education, Empowerment, Entertainment, Family, Fashion & Style
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron Dear Organizers, As any other social media addict, I was privy to the infamous video that came out of last year’s Miss Rwanda pageant. I am going to spare you the details of the video as I am sure you are well aware of its content. Like...
by Teakisi | Feb 2, 2015 | Culture, Empowerment, Lifestyle
I often wonder who the first person to define beauty pertaining to human beings was. Did s/he also come up with the so-called standards of beauty? Or was that decided later on by a group who appointed themselves the keepers of beauty? With the diversity that exists in...
by Teakisi | Jan 20, 2015 | Culture, Current Affairs, Empowerment
By Attiya Karodia Last year, just a day short of the anniversary of Madiba’s passing, I witnessed an event that jolted me from the Suburban New South Africa dream we’ve seen reiterated in our rainbow nation ads and former model-c schools. Standing at the...
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 | Aug 12, 2014 | Culture, Education, Empowerment
Article written by Likeleli M. Monyamane. Yayyyyy!!! It’s August again, it’s Women’s Month. On the 9th of August, we celebrated women’s day. My social media timelines were filled with colourful posters advertising different Women’s Events and Conferences. From...
by Teakisi | Aug 5, 2014 | Culture, Current Affairs, Education, Empowerment, Lifestyle, Love & Sex
By Attiya Karodia A young girl comes home one day from school almost in tears with a decision based on nothing more than an aesthetic goal, to be ‘curvy’. The girls told her that she had chicken legs, that she was a toothpick, an ironing board, a frame...
