by Teakisi | Mar 22, 2014 | Culture, Lifestyle
By Kye Makyeli A few days ago, I attended a craft show that was being held at the Yaya Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. After buying a beautiful pair of earrings at one particular stall, the elderly lady who sold them to me offered me a formidably colored string of beads as...
by Teakisi | Feb 24, 2014 | Culture, Development, Love & Sex
I’m a strong, intelligent and driven young black woman. My career is healthy, the world is my oyster. I’m also a part of the first ever breed of black middle-class South Africans. Our parents worked their way into the middle-class tier. We are an evolution...
by Teakisi | Feb 22, 2014 | Culture, Education, Empowerment
By Maria Dombaxi The greatest thing about having an older sister is the fact that you can talk about everything and anything. In fact, the other day we had a rather interesting conversation. I was telling her how my best friend who is a guy kept on calling me a dude....
by Teakisi | Jun 28, 2013 | Culture, Education, Family
By Maria Dombaxi I recently got back home for the summer vacation, and had to go around greeting all my aunties, who may not be blood relations but I love them dearly. The usual conversation starter whenever I get back home is school, health and the duration of my...
by Teakisi | Jun 14, 2013 | Culture, Empowerment
Article written by Likeleli M. Monyamane. In school, they did not teach me to have pride in my continent. They never taught me who I was or what being African meant. Growing up I wanted to speak English with a perfect American twang like the actresses on the Bold and...
by Teakisi | Jun 12, 2013 | Culture, Empowerment, Family, Lifestyle, Love & Sex
Only last week I had lunch with a very good male friend of mine who’s in a relationship. Almost predictably our conversation switched from Africa, tennis and banking to singleness, marriage and African women. A statement he made ‘I feel for women like you……’ was the...
