by Teakisi | May 6, 2016 | Current Affairs, Development, Education, Health
By Zerida Mponye So I read an article a couple weeks ago on The Independent’s website from Dr. Ian Clarke who allegedly said that Ugandans were partly to blame for the collapse of the medical system. The article said that Ugandans do not trust their own medical system...
by Teakisi | Apr 23, 2016 | Current Affairs, Development, Thoughts & Reflections, Uncategorised
By Vivienne Amijee The twenties are said to be the best years in a woman’s life, but those over 20 might dispute this. I’ll be crossing the “over 20” bridge soon enough so when I get there and taste the waters I’ll let you know. For now,...
by Teakisi | Apr 19, 2016 | Current Affairs, Empowerment, Feature, Thoughts & Reflections
Ketty Nivyabandi is a Burundian citizen, poet, writer and most recently has been described as an activist when, in protest to President Nkurunziza’s third term, she decided to organize peaceful women’s demonstrations. ElleAfrique had the pleasure of...
by Teakisi | Apr 5, 2016 | Culture, Current Affairs, Empowerment
By Divine Muragijimana About a month ago, I was browsing the net and found an article by a Nigerian (or for the sake of correct identification, a Nigerian-American) on why Africans in America should start identifying with “African-Americans”. Generally, I read these...
by Teakisi | Mar 31, 2016 | Current Affairs
By Reem Gaafar On Friday, the 25th of March, 2016, a picture of 6 Sudanese women went viral, after the picture was posted on the exiled religious leader Uosif Ali Taha Alkouda’s Facebook page, which he in turn had shared from a shady, previously largely ignored page...
by Teakisi | Mar 29, 2016 | Culture, Current Affairs, Education, Empowerment
Article written by Likeleli M. Monyamane. I don’t think that it is a coincidence that on a day that my sister and I were talking about the “danger of a single story” I had the AHA moment that I am going to share in the following paragraphs. My sister recently wrote a...
