by Salha Kaitesi | Jun 26, 2013 | Development, Empowerment
Clean, safe drinking water is essential to life. Without water we wouldn’t be alive. It’s unfortunate that today, some people around the world have no source of water. In Africa, these cases are everywhere. There are stories of people who have to walk for...
by Teakisi | Jun 18, 2013 | Empowerment, Health, Love & Sex
Life experience teaches us a variety of lessons. Often we learn how to find our way by trial and error; both ours and of those around us. We learn how to maximize our strength while managing our weaknesses. For those who have faced trying times, those moments in life...
by Teakisi | Jun 17, 2013 | Development, Empowerment
As I planned my cancelled birthday trip to Ghana a few months back, I thought to myself why not do something worthwhile while I am away, instead of spend days sunbathing and stuffing my face with Ghanaian dishes? I researched small organisations that were empowering...
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...
by Teakisi | Jun 3, 2013 | Education, Empowerment
Sometimes feminists make me feel a little uncomfortable. I think they can be very extreme when it comes to interactions and relationships with the opposite sex. Many of them are out to get equality and prove to the world that women can do everything that men can do....
