by Teakisi | Oct 3, 2014 | Current Affairs, Empowerment
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron Pride. Humility. Hope. Those were my feeling during Rwanda Day 2014in Atlanta, USA. Proud to be Rwandan. Humbled by what Rwanda and Rwandans have witnessed and survived. Hopeful for our future as individuals, as a Country, and as a...
by Teakisi | Sep 30, 2014 | Empowerment
By Wanjiru Kihusa About a month ago I attended a training session on Op-ed writing. It was at Pawa254 in Nairobi and was dubbed ‘Sauti Ya Dada’ which loosely translates into the voice of women. I had an amazing time meeting women writers who were passionate about the...
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 | Jul 14, 2014 | Empowerment
By Nellie Umutesi-Vigneron ‘The thing I learned is that you don’t invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were’ – Viktor Frankl If you know me, you know that I am all about personal and spiritual growth. I recently picked up a book that I read years...
