by TeakisiBy Felly Oyuga I am forty. They said this would be my sexual peak. I kind of thought they meant that I would have a lot of great sex. I was looking forward to that. I think they meant I would just look forward to great sex and not necessarily have it. I spent my […]
by TeakisiBy Eunice Aber 24 is obviously the age before 25. But it also is in a scary way, the age when it begins to dawn on you that you’re approaching quarter a century and have nothing you can put to your name. Given that the world follows the rules of normal distribution, this isn’t always […]
by TeakisiBy Racheal Kiiza Noeline Kirabo is a family therapist by profession but her passion is social entrepreneurship. She has over twelve years’ experience in the non-profit sector, mainly working with children, youth, women and community self-help groups. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Kyusa, a registered non-profit organization in Uganda that empowers out-of-school […]
by TeakisiBy 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 people in Africa. He was the perfect person to […]
by TeakisiBy Noluvuyo Bacela “We live with the hope that as she battles to remake herself, South Africa, will be like a microcosm of the new world that is striving to be born. ” Nelson Mandela Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1993. When I was little I would often sit by myself and try to figure […]
by TeakisiBy Noluvuyo Bacela When I was younger I had this unnerving fear of living in a shack. The idea of calling four rusty tin walls with only one exit and electrical cables dangling above my head a home didn’t really sit well with me and neither did watching my childhood friend run along into the death-trap […]
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. “ – Thomas Szasz – Hungarian Psychiatrist and Academic I have recently been reading quite a few blogs and articles about living life in your twenties and also […]
by TeakisiBy Attiya Karodia While driving through a part of land that I remember so well as a child, I compared what I experienced back then to the way I perceive the world now, and the more I notice how my youth has faded, the sadder I become. The smell of the air out in the […]
Really enjoyed Dan and Salha’s talk.
Dan obviously has a lot of passion for mental health. The lecture we had about Teakisi was particularly illuminating.
