by Teakisi | Sep 8, 2017 | Family, Thoughts & Reflections
By Eunice Aber I spent last Christmas with my grandparents. I always spend Christmas with my grandparents. I don’t remember the last time I didn’t. Oh! The last time I refused to go to the village for Christmas was about ten years ago. In the “prime of my...
by Teakisi | Aug 31, 2017 | Thoughts & Reflections
By Lulu Akaki As a child, the twenties seemed to be the ideal age range, a bridge between being an adult and somehow still getting away with a few immature stunts. I always thought that by the time I turned 25, I would have life all figured out… confident that a...
by Teakisi | Aug 29, 2017 | Culture, Thoughts & Reflections
By Reem Gaafar Americanah I have recently discovered Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s writing: first, through her novel: ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, and then her feminist manifesto in a Facebook post last year, which I found to be genuinely interesting and well...
by Teakisi | Aug 25, 2017 | Culture, Development, Empowerment, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections
By Racheal Kiiza Society you have had your way for too long. You wonder how? Let me attempt to break it down and please, no need for you to justify yourself. For once listen. Genuinely listen. Listen not to respond, but to hear and understand a different perspective....
by Teakisi | Aug 14, 2017 | Empowerment, Thoughts & Reflections
By Felly Oyuga Ever wish you could travel back in time and give yourself some advice? I do. As I am getting older and, dare I say, wiser, I wish I could do so. Although traveling back in time is not possible, I can, however, share with others the 15 things I would...
by Natacha Umutoni | Aug 8, 2017 | Family, Lifestyle, Thoughts & Reflections
I miss you every single day. I see you in every stranger that I meet. I feel you in every song, the lyrics remind me of our conversations. Sometimes I stop at your scent, with hopes of seeing you. There are days when it’s easier, and those days I tell myself that you...