by Teakisi | Jul 4, 2014 | Empowerment
The phenomenon of getting bigger body parts keeps exploding with each passing year, with more and more females wanting to make their derrière bigger or to alternate any other body parts thanks to the likes of Kim Kardashian and others worldwide. All this is due to...
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’...
by Teakisi | Jun 3, 2014 | Empowerment
Last month I heard my neighbor’s one year old baby crying and frantically scratching at the door of their house. It was around 4:00pm in the evening (I work from home; the small joys of being a writer). I waited to hear if the house-help would rush to her and attempt...
by Teakisi | Jun 2, 2014 | Development, Empowerment
In 50 years, I fervently wish that my children – born in Senegal, will know more about Zimbabwe or Tanzania than about the United States or Europe. I hope they will choose to speak Kiswahili or Peul rather than Spanish or Italian as a third language. I would...
by Teakisi | May 30, 2014 | Empowerment, Feature
By Elma Asio I am deeply saddened by the passing of Maya Angelou. I did not know her. I did not truly know her and the only way to have a glimpse, and only a glimpse into one’s life is to read the stories they write. To see how they stretch their history and emotions...
