Norah Owaraga

Uganda how are we doing?

“We affirm that our liberation has helped and, once we stabilise the situation in Uganda, it will improve the security of the nations in this part of the world and throughout Africa. We extend the hand of friendship to all people who are still engaged in the liberation of their countries. We consider our own…

How wrong assumptions hurt us

It is a good start, but the voice needs to get stronger for detoxification of discourse in key fora and documents of formerly colonized nations. For example, the discourse in such documents as Uganda’s national planning instruments – narrative plans and budgets. It does us no good to rename physical assets, while we accept descriptions…

Our thoughts and prayers …

I first got to know about it, via a video clip doing rounds on social media, in which Mr. Matembe informed of an incursion into his home by men and women in uniform; and thereafter, her disappearance. I felt a wrench on my heart for him, then for her, and then for her children and…

Sankara’s legacy lives

“Against the humiliating bondage of a thousand years, rapacity came from afar to subjugate them for a hundred years. Against the cynical malice in the shape of neo-colonialism and its petty local servants. Many gave in and certain others resisted, but the frustrations, the successes, the sweat, the blood, have fortified our courageous people and…