Norah Owaraga

Baking bread is therapeutic and humbling

It brought me joy to bake today. The aroma of fresh bread still lingers from my kitchen and I love that too. The results are great. I baked the basic flavor with a bit of sugar and salt. It tasted great with margarine; with jam; and with beef stew. Wow! I am now ready to…

Uganda Police Force male dominated numerically and in character

The 2022 Annual Crime Report by the Uganda Police Force is out. The PDF is available to download from the website of the Uganda Police Force. I have had a cursory read of it, while wearing my gender and gender-based violence lenses. Uganda Police Force leadership male dominated The occupants of the top echelon of…

Land grabbers thought they would scare me with witchcraft, it did not work

“Shocking. Sometimes people engaging in witchcraft are those you least expect to have time for it.” Daily Monitor I am no longer shocked by it. I actually believe that those least expected to believe and practice in witchcraft in Uganda are actually the ones who do so the most. Case in point, on Easter Monday…

Garbage skip removal solution or problem to waste management challenge?

Ordinarily, I would welcome President Museveni’s order, as I read it in Monitor, on the return to more garbage skips in urban centres. The order in which he directs that urban centres should have garbage skips located every 200 metres and emptied every three days or more frequently depending on the volume of the garbage.…