by Teakisi | Nov 17, 2014 | Education
By Attiya Karodia We like to rant about respect; it’s importance, and most of the time, we rant because we feel a lack of respect from someone or something around us. But how many times a day do we take into account how human we are, and how that also includes...
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...
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...
by Teakisi | Jun 24, 2014 | Development, Education, Empowerment
If you are anything like me, chances are you are a very lucky woman! You have lived a happy middle class type of life in Africa. You graduated from a private high school and went to university in Europe, Canada or The United States. And it’s while being outside of...
by Teakisi | Jun 23, 2014 | Education, Empowerment, Family
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron Growing up, our mother would always tell us how lucky and fortunate we were for having food on the table, a roof over our head and a great education. My brothers and I would always disappear when one of those ‘starving children of Ethiopia’...
