by Teakisi | Jul 6, 2020 | Empowerment, Family, Health, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections
By Chido Chirumuta If anyone asks me one more time, I might just explode or say something rude. People just need to mind their own business! My mama raised me right, so I am sitting here trying to find a polite way to tell people to mind their business. A week after I...
by Faith Mangwanya | Jul 1, 2020 | Current Affairs, Thoughts & Reflections
June, what a month! News has been filled with images of marches worldwide, toppling of statues, discussions on subtle racism…Meanwhile, somewhere in Africa we look on and wonder how movements like Black Lives Matter really mean for us? Perhaps, it’s just me. However,...
by Teakisi | Jun 24, 2020 | Culture, Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
By Eunice Tossy I always imagined how my mom would react to me telling her I was being sexually assaulted in our own home. To the extent that when I did, her response was good, but it wasn’t what I had expected. She was mad the first night, but later on she...
by Teakisi | Jun 17, 2020 | Current Affairs, Thoughts & Reflections
By Caroline Numuhire The 2019 International Women’s Day’ theme was Balance for Better. I loved how, as women, we did not focus on the traditional fight against men, but rather on women taking care of themselves, and each other. My intimate, personal experience with...
by Salha Kaitesi | Jun 8, 2020 | Affaires en Cours, Current Affairs, Thoughts & Reflections
When you are black or a person of colour in the UK, the United States and in many other countries where white people are the predominant race, you get to know of all the ‘intricacies, contradictions and double standards’ of racism. There is no such thing as being...
by Teakisi | Jun 5, 2020 | Culture, Thoughts & Reflections
By Winnie Kyomuhendo “I am not my hair I am not this skin I am a soul that lives within” India Arie A woman’s hair has often been described as her crown, a symbol of her identity and sometimes a window into her personality. If you wear your hair pony-tailed without a...
