Norah Owaraga

Uganda needs to redefine who it considers “educated” and decolonize its policies

The nation-state Uganda, from its onset at political independence, is structurally designed to sustain cultural imperialism. The kind of cultural imperialism, in particular, that equates progress or being progressive to knowledge systems of the global-west. This attitude, case in point, is perhaps the real reason that Uganda has failed to move past having only English,…

Engineer George William Obityo Owaraga was a civil servant hero

The month of June for Uganda is one that is packed with activity that celebrates heroes. The controversial Uganda Martyrs’ Day on 3rd June; the equally controversial National Heroes’ Day on 9th June; and the equally controversial Fathers’ Day on 22nd June. I wonder, can my late papa, be defined as heroic in his religious…

Myth of nation-sate sovereignty in Africa

Remember when President Museveni and other leaders, in the name of the African Union, authored a communiqué to ‘world leaders’ that please do not intervene in Libya the way you want to intervene. To the disappointment of many Africans, albeit kind of expected, the ‘world leaders’ just ignored African leasers, went ahead and bombarded Libya.…

What will make Ugandan farmers object legislation passed without consulting them?

Just wondering, what will it take for farmers in Uganda to stop being docile and passive towards legislation and government actions that put their livelihoods and their smallholder farms at risk? Case in point, in Uganda, where, according to the most recent Uganda National Household Survey, 72 percent of households earn a living from agriculture,…