Norah Owaraga

Gregorian calendar and climate change in Teso – November

Today is the first day of the month of Osuban, as we, Iteso, the fifth largest first nation of Uganda, named November. In our Iteso agriculture-based seasons, Osuba is the last of four months in “The season of Plenty.” The other three months in the season of plenty are August, September and October. Plenty that…

1960s Prime Minister of Buganda Kingdom, Daudi Ochieng, son of Acholi Chief

Imagine my pleasant conscious awakening, this morning, in learning and realizing that in the 1960s the late Daudi Ochieng was Owekitibwa in the Buganda Lukiiko; a member of the Kabaka Yekka political party; as well as the honourable member of the National Assembly (Parliament of Uganda) representing Mityana; and that he did serve as the…

Why are reusable menstruation pads called Africa?

In characteristic ‘knee-jerk-combative-reaction-discourse’ that has unfortunately become normalised for some social media influencers in Uganda, the backlash has come fast and furious disparaging and denigrating First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni for expressing her preference for menstruating Ugandan women to have access to and to use single-use disposal sanitary pads as opposed to multiple-use re-usable sanitary…

Gregorian calendar and climate change in Teso – October

We are in the month of Osokosokoma, the month of high grass (ema) and the time to cut thatching grass for renovating houses, granaries, etc. Osokosokoma is the name, in Ateso, the language of the Iteso, that our ancestors gave to the month of October. Iteso are currently the fifth largest first nation of Uganda,…