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…

Daudi Ochieng masterpiece on speaking in Parliament

History is indeed a great teacher I wanted to fact-check my thesis that the quality of debate in the Uganda Parliament current is far inferior to that which prevailed in the August House in the 1960s. In the quest for wisdom from our ancestors on how we may reclaim the glory of fact-based, constructive and…

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…

Climate change in Teso

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,…