by Teakisi | Aug 14, 2015 | Culture, Development, Education, Food, Health, Travel
Article by Christelle Mekoh As a child in Cameroon, one of the things I loved most about growing up was the variety of fruits I was able to get, depending on the season. Rainy season meant juicy mangoes and guavas. Some fruits were only available in certain parts of...
by Teakisi | Jun 30, 2015 | Culture, Entertainment
Uyai sat up and crawled quietly away from her sister who snored loudly beside her on the mat. The small, stuffy room was dimly lit by the dying lantern her maid had placed beside the door. She didn’t know the exact time, but she held on to all hope that she...
by Teakisi | Mar 23, 2015 | Empowerment
Article written by Evelyn Masaba I sat up the other morning and looked at my laptop trying to formalize the words to an article that I wanted to send to our editor to publish. I told myself “this time we can do it”. I couldn’t do it at all, but I did get to stare at...
by Teakisi | Aug 5, 2014 | Culture, Current Affairs, Education, Empowerment, Lifestyle, Love & Sex
By Attiya Karodia A young girl comes home one day from school almost in tears with a decision based on nothing more than an aesthetic goal, to be ‘curvy’. The girls told her that she had chicken legs, that she was a toothpick, an ironing board, a frame...
by Teakisi | Apr 11, 2014 | Development
By Attiya Karodia I am a realist, forced into the ideology after being subjected to both the best and worst of the world we live in. I therefore am very honest about what I like and what I think can be better, but my negativity is always laced with a way forward, a...
