by Teakisi | Sep 12, 2016 | Business, Culture, Current Affairs, Empowerment, Fashion & Style, Hair & Beauty
By Mako Muzenda There are many misconceptions around what African women can and cannot do, linked to the image of Africa as a backward and deeply repressive continent where women are incapable or prevented from certain activities. While this is a reality for many in...
by Teakisi | Sep 2, 2016 | Culture, Current Affairs, Short Story
By Ifedayo Ward He pushes me violently to the wall and rips off my dress. His breath stinks of cheap liquor and tobacco. Saliva drips from the side of his mouth as he laughs greedily at my efforts to shove him off…I cry helplessly as I hear my mother shout...
by Teakisi | Aug 1, 2016 | Business, Culture, Current Affairs, Development, Education, Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
By Lerato Chiyangwa. Nelson Mandela was an inspirational person. He wanted to improve the lives of everyone in Africa and, in my view, was one of the greatest men who walked the earth. Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates is known for improving the lives of...
by Teakisi | Jun 13, 2016 | Culture, Current Affairs, Development, Empowerment
By Amanda Nasinyama From the 16th to the 18th of May, 2016 Uganda had the newly elected Members of Parliament take their oaths during a very colorful swearing in ceremony. One of the highlights of the event was the swearing in of the Gomba district female Member of...
by Teakisi | Jun 1, 2016 | Current Affairs
By Amandla Karungi “Stella” was a good girl. She was also a shy, easily embarrassed Puritanical church girl. Four years after diligently earning her place among the holiest in her high school society, Stella fell in love. Love, like money and power, make the biggest...
by Teakisi | May 13, 2016 | Culture, Current Affairs, Empowerment
By Divine Muragijimana After spending 15 years in the US- it took my coming back to Nairobi to encounter a manist. Yes- that’s right. Feminism has a partner now. And for a movement that seems to be growing teeth, I am just encountering this…out of all the places...
