Norah Owaraga

Many smallholder farmers food poor because they cannot afford to buy food

There is an urgent need for Uganda to move the debate away from the fallacy of: “Smallholder farmers in Uganda are subsistence farmers and that is why they are food poor; needing help to move from subsistence farming to modern farming.” Our smallholder farmers feed our nation and beyond and so it can’t be about…

Languages of first nations of Uganda should be among official languages of Uganda

On Kiswahili as an official language of Uganda, I am not game. I would much rather that the languages of the 10 largest first nations of Uganda are taught in school and are included as official languages of Uganda, with provision for translation services for the other 45 languages of the first nations of Uganda.…

Corruption in courts in handling gender-based violence and land grabbing cases

I watch toto, my mother, Mrs. Betty Anne Apio Owaraga, as she endures abuse from those she opened her home to and raised. I watch her as she weighs the options and chooses the ones that serve her children best, even though sometimes it comes with considerable cost to her. But still and with grace…

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,…